[OpenBIOS] FCode on an embedded Leon-Sparc system

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Sep 19 22:34:49 CEST 2006


> For the development phase I would like to have a real Forth system,
> interpreting ascii source.
> For flight the number & size of telecommands is limited, therefore it
> would be nice to have bytecodes
> with a bytecode compiler/decompiler to be used on ground. That's  
> why I'm
> thinking about FCode.

FCode isn't full-featured Forth though, it's more like a
scripting-language subset.  In particular, it doesn't
have DOES> .  FCode isn't much smaller than (compressed)
source text either, btw.


Segher




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