[OpenBIOS] [RFC v2] Pretty-print reg property

Tarl Neustaedter tarl-b2 at tarl.net
Fri Nov 5 19:05:12 CET 2010


> Yeah, my problem in particular was your use of a number of unknown-to-me 
> words combined with a lack of inline stack diagrams. Starting with, Leo 
> Brodie doesn't cover ?do, just do. It might've manipulated the stack, who 
> knows. The `grep -r ": ?do" forth/` hit in OpenBIOS wasn't too helpful, and 
> Google doesn't distinguish between "do" and "?do" so you get too many 
> unrelated "do" hits. I got along by hoping it doesn't place anything on the 
> stack. Similar issues for <# etc., still no clue there but it works.
> Do you happen to know a suitable reference for looking up the meaning of 
> such words?

The IEEE 1275 spec describes anything you can use in this code. ?do doesn't 
start the loop if the limits won't allow it.





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