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From: olorin@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: CELLSIZE
Summary: Unit and Cell
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Date: 5 Aug 89 18:38:07 GMT
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In article <664@noe.UUCP> marc@noe.UUCP (Marc de Groot) writes:
>I would like to propose the inclusion of the word CELLSIZE in new
>Forth interpreters.
>
>CELLSIZE	( --- n )
>Leaves the number of 8-bit bytes per cell.  Returns 2 for a 16-bit
>Forth and 4 for a 32-bit Forth.

	The words UNIT ( -- n ), which leaves the size in bits of the smallest
object the processor can directly address, and CELL ( -- n) which leaves the
size in units of the stack cell, were proposed on GEnie, and I believe they
have been forwarded to the ANSI standardization team.

--Dave

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