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From: mlaidlaw@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Mike Laidlaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Help with language writing
Message-ID: <1991May20.134453.15378@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
Date: 20 May 91 13:44:53 GMT
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Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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Help!

I'm writing a Forth-like language and am stuck.My problem is this,when
creating secondarys using the outer interpreter (editor) I am using absolute
memory jumps to primitives or other secondarys.I then save the dictionary to
disk as a straight memory dump.When I next load my language,AllocMem gives
me memory starting at a different address thus when I load my program,all the
absolute calls are incorrect thus my program bombs.My question is this,do I
save my sources as ascii text and compile them everytime I load the text back
in again,or is there some method of using indirect addressing within
secondarys? The problem with ascii text files is if I want to create whole
dictionarys which emulate another language which would take pretty long to
compile.

Does anyone know how JPForth or any other Forth does it?

Please Note : I am using assembly code to produce the language.

Thanks in Advance.

Myron 8->