Gforth Manual

• GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  • Preamble
  • TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
  • How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
• Preface
• Goals of Gforth
• Other books on ANS Forth
• Invoking Gforth
• Forth Words
  • Notation
  • Arithmetic
    • Single precision
    • Bitwise operations
    • Mixed precision
    • Double precision
    • Floating Point
  • Stack Manipulation
    • Data stack
    • Floating point stack
    • Return stack
    • Locals stack
    • Stack pointer manipulation
  • Memory
    • Memory Access
    • Address arithmetic
    • Memory Blocks
  • Control Structures
    • Selection
    • Simple Loops
    • Counted Loops
    • Arbitrary control structures
      • Programming Style
    • Calls and returns
    • Exception Handling
  • Locals
    • Gforth locals
      • Where are locals visible by name?
      • How long do locals live?
      • Programming Style
      • Implementation
    • ANS Forth locals
  • Defining Words
    • Simple Defining Words
    • Colon Definitions
    • User-defined Defining Words
      • Applications of CREATE..DOES>
      • The gory details of CREATE..DOES>
    • Supplying names for the defined words
    • Interpretation and Compilation Semantics
  • Structures
    • Why explicit structure support?
    • Structure Usage
    • Structure Naming Convention
    • Structure Implementation
    • Structure Glossary
  • Object-oriented Forth
    • Objects
      • Properties of the `objects.fs' model
      • Why object-oriented programming?
      • Object-Oriented Terminology
      • Basic Objects Usage
      • The class object
      • Creating objects
      • Object-Oriented Programming Style
      • Class Binding
      • Method conveniences
      • Classes and Scoping
      • Object Interfaces
      • `objects.fs' Implementation
      • Comparison with other object models
      • `objects.fs' Glossary
    • OOF
      • Properties of the OOF model
      • Basic OOF Usage
      • The base class `object'
      • Class Declaration
      • Class Implementation
    • Mini-OOF
      • Usage
      • Mini-OOF Example
      • Mini-OOF Implementation
  • Tokens for Words
  • Wordlists
  • Files
  • Including Files
    • Words for Including
    • Search Path
    • Changing the Search Path
    • General Search Paths
  • Blocks
  • Other I/O
  • Programming Tools
    • Debugging
    • Assertions
    • Singlestep Debugger
  • Assembler and Code Words
  • Threading Words
• Tools
  • `ans-report.fs': Report the words used, sorted by wordset
    • Caveats
• ANS conformance
  • The Core Words
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
    • Other system documentation
  • The optional Block word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
    • Other system documentation
  • The optional Double Number word set
    • Ambiguous conditions
  • The optional Exception word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
  • The optional Facility word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
  • The optional File-Access word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
  • The optional Floating-Point word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
  • The optional Locals word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
  • The optional Memory-Allocation word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
  • The optional Programming-Tools word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
  • The optional Search-Order word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
• Model
• Integrating Gforth into C programs
• Emacs and Gforth
• Image Files
  • Image Licensing Issues
  • Image File Background
  • Non-Relocatable Image Files
  • Data-Relocatable Image Files
  • Fully Relocatable Image Files
    • `gforthmi'
    • `cross.fs'
  • Stack and Dictionary Sizes
  • Running Image Files
  • Modifying the Startup Sequence
• Engine
  • Portability
  • Threading
    • Scheduling
    • Direct or Indirect Threaded?
    • DOES>
  • Primitives
    • Automatic Generation
    • TOS Optimization
    • Produced code
  • Performance
• Binding to System Library
• Cross Compiler
  • Using the Cross Compiler
  • How the Cross Compiler Works
• Bugs
• Authors and Ancestors of Gforth
  • Authors and Contributors
  • Pedigree
• Word Index
• Concept and Word Index

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