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From: kallaus@leadsv.UUCP (Jerry Kallaus)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth String Handling Words
Summary: Inline assembly code
Keywords: Forth, Strings, Words
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Date: 14 Apr 89 20:16:03 GMT
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Thanks for posting your string package.  Looks good!

I noticed your use of JForth assemlby code.  With JForth's
forward Motorola format assembler, the only way that I've
found to get inline code generation is the following:

ASM 3+
    addq.l  #3,tos
    FORTH{ both }
END-CODE

where "both" is the JForth word that indicates the current word
being defined may compile inline code when referenced if it's
size is no more than specified in the global variable max-inline,
otherwise "call" the word.  Actually, there's more involved, but
that's the basic idea.

Anyway, this seems to work; if any JForth'ers here see anything
questionable about this, I'd like to know about it.
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