Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Alexander Graf wrote: > >> OpenBIOS is missing an implementation for local variables. See this >> thread: >> http://www.openfirmware.info/pipermail/openbios/2009-July/003796.html >> >> Alex > > How do local variables work? Are they just substitutions for stack > places?
I seriously am the last person to know anything about Forth :-). But I'm sure Stefan can help out here. He's been looking into that before. > If you can point me towards a specification for this, I can have a > look and see how feasible it would be to add this to OpenBIOS. 1) http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/viewcvs/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gforth/locals.fs?rev=1.8&view=markup 2) http://www.openfirmware.info/FCODE_suite -> see "local value support" -> has an incompatible license -> contains links to documentation IIRC 3) http://www.forthos.org/ -> claims to have local value support, haven't found the sources yet The code BootX executes: http://www.openfirmware.info/pipermail/openbios/2009-July/003812.html Alex
