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From: cameronjames@snoc01.enet.dec.com (James Cameron)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: ANS TC Magnet for Control, ABORT,QUIT..
Message-ID: <1991Jan3.134937@snoc01.enet.dec.com>
Date: 3 Jan 91 02:54:37 GMT
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Reply-To: cameronjames@snoc01.enet.dec.com (James Cameron)
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|>Category 10,  Topic 27
|>Message 28        Mon Dec 31, 1990
|>JAX                          at 20:40 PST
|> 
|> Title: CATCH THROW "post".
|>
|> CATCH 14.1.0875 and THROW 14.1.2275 need the M attribute.
|> Meta-operation on the return stack has multiprogramming impact
|> in the form of a frame pointer that must be preserved through
|> context Switches.

I'm surprised they missed this.  I changed the VARIABLE to USER
when I implemented it a couple of months ago.

While we're at it; are there any standards around the number
that is passed to THROW?  I'd like to separate the numbering between
system and application situations.

(I haven't seen the BASIS document because I gather I can't read
the funny format that it is in; so apologies if it is in there).

James Cameron
cameronjames@snoc01.enet.dec.com