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Subject: Experimental Ideas
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Date: 25 Nov 90 03:07:47 GMT
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Message 50        Fri Nov 23, 1990
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 01:50 EST
 
Re: ELLIOTT CHAPIN

 > Are there any single-segment 8086 Forths with relocatable compiled
 > code?  I've started to write one and will post to GEnie if there's
 > call for it.

Elliott, how do you mean "relocatable"?  If you are only in one segment, and
you do something at powerup to adjust this segment pointer to where you are
currently (as every Forth must do), isn't that relocatable?  I think almost
all of the 64K Forth's we have in the library do at least this much.  Am I
missing something or are you working on doing something more?  Perhaps making
the code relocatable within the 64K.  That would be a good trick if you can do
it without too much overhead.  I think LMI has something like that in their
binary overlay support.  If I remember right, they do the re-linking when the
module is loaded in, but I never did investigate it much.

Tell us more about what you are doing.

DaR
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