2022-02-11 15:42:34 <joe9        > s" , c" and " cannot have strings longer than 255 bytes, correct?
2022-02-11 15:56:36 <Zarutian_HTC> joe9 depends on the forth
2022-02-11 15:57:42 <Zarutian_HTC> in some cell addessed forths you can have 64Kibi cells or bytes
2022-02-11 15:58:27 <Zarutian_HTC> or even 16 Gibi of those units
2022-02-11 15:59:19 <Zarutian_HTC> depends on how much is alloted for the length field of a counted string
2022-02-11 16:01:53 <joe9        > It seems that having a cell addressed count is the saner option.
2022-02-11 16:02:08 <joe9        > instead of having the count in a byte
2022-02-11 16:02:21 <joe9        > when the cell size is greater than a byte.
2022-02-11 16:02:59 <joe9        > if you were doing a forth, which would you choose for counted strings? byte count or cell count?
2022-02-11 16:03:43 <Zarutian_HTC> cell count in an eForth I ported many years ago to the DCPU-16
2022-02-11 16:04:09 <joe9        > it keeps things simple too.
2022-02-11 16:04:25 <Zarutian_HTC> why? because I was lazy and the thing was machine-word / cell addressed
2022-02-11 16:06:05 <Zarutian_HTC> even implemented an extended variation of Infocoms ZSCII for lengthy strings of prose
2022-02-11 16:07:39 <Zarutian_HTC> https://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point0/sect03.html
2022-02-11 16:10:52 <joe9        > let me check what polyforth and f83 do too.
2022-02-11 16:11:41 <Zarutian_HTC> basically used one of the unused ZSCII codes to escape to utf-8 and another code to reasign other codes to utf-8 encoded unicode codepoint
2022-02-11 18:01:36 <lispmacs[work]> I was just curious if anybody here has done assembly with a forth assembler? I've read that an assembler is supposed to be a standard part of forths but it doesn't usually seem to be available in the forths I've worked with
2022-02-11 18:02:13 <f-a         > there was an article by Brad (forgot surname) about doing a simple assembler with forth
2022-02-11 18:02:23 <f-a         > it was very easy to follow and very nice to read
2022-02-11 18:02:24 <lispmacs[work]> been learning x86-64 assembly with Gnu Assembler and was curious how a forth assembler would handle things like labels
2022-02-11 18:04:01 <lispmacs[work]> I just found the chapter in Moving Forth
2022-02-11 18:08:18 <lispmacs[work]> he says that labels are problematic in Forth but lists several different options to deal with them
2022-02-11 18:09:21 <lispmacs[work]> though without fleshing out the details
2022-02-11 20:44:13 <lagash      > lispmacs[work]: Forth Dimensions, Volume XXI, Number 1,2, "A Call to Assembly" is a nice article you might want to read.
2022-02-11 22:57:52 <remexre     > f-a: thinking of http://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/tcjassem.txt ?