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  • gforth floating-stack undefined?

    From Buzz McCool@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 4 10:31:23 2022
    https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Floating-point-stack.html
    says:

    "... just say that your program has an environmental dependency on a
    separate floating-point stack.

    floating-stack – n environment “floating-stack”

    n is non-zero, showing that Gforth maintains a separate floating-point
    stack of depth n."


    When I tried using this word, gforth didn't seem to like it. What am I
    doing wrong?

    $ gforth
    Gforth 0.7.3, Copyright (C) 1995-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    Gforth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `license'
    Type `bye' to exit
    ok
    floating-stack
    :2: Undefined word
    floating-stack<<<
    Backtrace:
    $7F3632708A68 throw
    $7F363271EDB0 no.extensions
    $7F3632708D28 interpreter-notfound1

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  • From Anton Ertl@21:1/5 to Buzz McCool on Wed May 4 21:23:57 2022
    Buzz McCool <buzz_mccool@yahoo.com> writes: >https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Floating-point-stack.html
    says:

    "... just say that your program has an environmental dependency on a
    separate floating-point stack.

    floating-stack – n environment “floating-stack”

    n is non-zero, showing that Gforth maintains a separate floating-point
    stack of depth n."


    When I tried using this word, gforth didn't seem to like it. What am I
    doing wrong?

    $ gforth
    Gforth 0.7.3, Copyright (C) 1995-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    Gforth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `license'
    Type `bye' to exit
    ok
    floating-stack
    :2: Undefined word
    floating-stack<<<

    S" floating-stack" environment? .s

    - anton
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  • From Buzz McCool@21:1/5 to Anton Ertl on Wed May 4 15:09:05 2022
    On 5/4/2022 2:23 PM, Anton Ertl wrote:
    S" floating-stack" environment? .s

    $ gforth
    Gforth 0.7.3, Copyright (C) 1995-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    Gforth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `license'
    Type `bye' to exit
    S" floating-stack" environment? .s <2> 2048 -1 ok



    Thanks Anton!

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