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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:53:11 -0500
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Subject: Another todo: Forth as compiler
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From: d...@sidhe.org (Dan Sugalski)

While the actual compiler code is evil, doing all sorts of things it 
ought not do with absolute addresses (and therefore non-JITtable), 
the forth compiler does work, and will compile things. It ought, 
actually, to be able to be integrated in as a compiler.

Your task, if you're interested, is to thump it such that forth.pasm 
*can* be loaded in as a compiler module such that you can do:

   compile P5, ForthCompiler, "1 2 + ."

and have 3 print out. Should be easy, relatively speaking.
-- 
                                         Dan

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