On Saturday 24 December 2005 07:16, Leonard Zettel wrote: > This undoubtedly is of no importance whatsoever, > natheless this inquiring mind would like to know. > > The FreeBSD boot loader is written in Forth, which > I happen to be able to read (sort of, anyway). > EXCEPT the word "include" occurs in a number > of places. I grant it is fair to middling obvious what it > does. At the same time, I have not been able to find a definition > for include in any of the reference materials I have on > Forth. It is defninetly NOT ANS (or ISO) Forth (which specifies the > words INCLUDE-FILE and INCLUDED). > > So 1) Can anybody give a stack picture for include ? > 2) What version/dialect of Forth does FreeBSD use > and is there any place I can get documentation on it?
Looking through the source it appears it's not stricly speaking Forth, but rather FICL. http://ficl.sourceforge.net/ FWIW I have seen include in older, pre-ansi, versions of forth. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
