Re: [OpenBIOS] [Qemu-devel] M68K Or PPC Status Update to Run Mac OS in Qemu

[Alexander Graf]

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.f...

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