[OpenBIOS] Adding to a definition

Stephen Ehring stephen.ehring at oracle.com
Fri Apr 13 18:06:39 CEST 2012


On Apr 13, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> On 22/03/12 12:16, Stephen Ehring wrote:
> 
>>> On 2012-Mar-22 00:09 , Programmingkid wrote:
>>>> Is there a way to add words to the end of a definition? If my word is declared like this:
>>>> 
>>>> : myword
>>>> 	firstWord
>>>> 	secondWord
>>>> ;
>>>> 
>>>> is there a way to append a word to the end of this word so it looks like this:
>>>> 
>>>> : myword
>>>> 	firstWord
>>>> 	secondWord	
>>>> 	thirdWord
>>>> ;
>>> 
>>> The usual way I'd do something like that if I had to patch a live system would be as follows:
>>> 
>>> ok : anotherWord secondWord thirdWord ;
>>> ok patch anotherWord secondWord myword
>>> ok
>>> 
>> 
>> You can also use (patch) with the XT's if the words are not externally visible.
>> 
>> Steve
> 
> I'm fairly sure that OpenBIOS don't implement either patch or (patch) at the moment. If it's just a case of replacing one XT with another within a word definition, then it shouldn't be too hard - or does it do something more clever?
> 


I'm surprised this isn't implemented. From the IEEE 1275 spec:

patch	( "new-name< >old-name< >word-to-patch< >" -- ) Change contents of word-to-patch.
In the compiled definition of word-to-patch, change the first occurrence of old-name to new-name. Works properly even if old-name and/or new-name are numbers.
Used as: ok patch 555 test patch-me to edit the definition of patch-me, replacing the command test with the literal value 555. Implementation note:
When replacing a command with a number, an implementation might need to automatically create a named constant value for the replacement number. (The reason is that Forth commands often compile into a smaller memory space than literal numbers, so patching a number in place of an existing command is a problem.) A suggested name format is h#---, i.e., the number 555 (hex) would be named “h#555” . A name containing only digits (i.e., 555 constant 555) is not recommended, since changing base would cause incorrect evaluation of subsequent uses of that named value.

(patch)	( new-n1 num1? old-n2 num2? xt -- ) Change contents of command indicated by xt.
In the compiled definition of the command indicated by xt, change the first occurrence of old-n2 to new-n1. n1 and n2 can each be either an execution token or a literal number. The flag num1?, if true, indicates that new-n1 is a literal number. If false, it indicates that new-n1 is an execution token. The flag num2? is interpreted similarly.
Used as: ['] new-name false 555 true ['] patch-me (patch) to edit the definition of patch-me, replacing the value 555 with the command new-name. See: patch for more information.
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