hiebeler@cs.rpi.edu (Dave Hiebeler) (03/12/90)
Hi there.. I'm looking for some information about F83. Namely, I'd
like to know how words are stored in the dictionary. I've got a
decent book called "The Complete Forth", by Alan Winfield, which
summarizes this info very well for Forth-79. But I need this info for
F83. Can someone point me to either a book or something on-line?
(Brodie's "Starting Forth" book is based on F-79 too, it seems).
In F-79, a word is apparently stored as follows:
_________________
precedence bit --> |_|_7___|___E___|
|___X___|___A___|
name field ----> |___M___|___P___|
|___L___|___E___|
link field ----> |_______________|
code field ----> |_______________|
| |
parameter field -> | |
| |
|_______________|
So if someone knows where I can get this information for F83 (and some
of the other semi-low-level details about F83), I'd really appreciate
it. I need to learn this fairly soon, too.
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