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From: cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: FORTH and UNIX
Summary: Socket & PD ( Fig-like ) Interfaces
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.202402.27988@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 21 Feb 91 20:24:02 GMT
References: <2384.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
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In article <2384.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>, ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) writes:
> 
>  Date: 02-18-91 (08:37)              Number: 1243 of 1243 (Echo)
>    To: GARY SMITH                    Refer#: 1192
>  From: JACK WOEHR                      Read: NO
>  Subj: FORTH AND UNIX                Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
>  Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)
> 
>  -> From: wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM Subject: Forth calls C
> 
>  -> For instance, the Atari ST has about 5 different system interface
>  -> levels, each with different calling conventions, not to mention the 3
>  -> or 4 different C compilers that have been popular at various times in
>  -> the machines lifetime.
> 
>          Yes, Lattice compilers had a very nice way of dealing with
>  this with the   #pragma   mechanism for defining interfaces, but
>  of course not terribly portable. Besides, I doubt if Don Colburn
>  or the rest of X3J14 would go for it if you and I submitted a
>  proposal to add PRAGMA-MYASS to the language ... :-)
> 
>                  =jax=

HI Guys,
	Am I missing something or could this be easily solved by
a Vendor supplying a standard ( ANS ) system interface that has
built in support ( ie primitives ) for alternate form/sequence parameters?

Then people who need to access a different system level simply
create the alternate form from the Standard primitives.

Authors could share these or FIG could do some work to fill-the-gap,
ala their origina charter and provide the alternate levels as PD stuff.

My main thought is that fundamental system primitive like this
definately belongs in a Standard, not as weeds around the house.

Clyde