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From: bartho@obs.unige.ch (PAUL BARTHOLDI)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: TILEforth problems
Message-ID: <577@obs.unige.ch>
Date: 12 Mar 90 10:14:44 GMT
References: <35009@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <35009@watmath.waterloo.edu>, mwnewman@watmsg.waterloo.edu (mike newman) writes:
> I just started playing around with TILEforth a little while ago, and I can't
> seem to get it quite running.  The problem seems to be occur when defining
> new words.  After the third definition of any word whose name is longer than
> three characters, I get:
> 
> 	foreground#250880: signal#11: segmentation violation
> 
> I know it sounds rather strange, but
> 	: word-a 1 2 3 .s ;
> 	: word-b 4 5 6 .s ;
> 	: word-c 7 8 9 .s ;
> causes the error while
> 	: a 1 2 3 .s ;
> 	: b 1 2 3 .s ;
> 	: c 1 2 3 .s ;
> does not.  There can be an arbitrary number of words with three or less
> character names interspersed: as soon as the third one with more than three
> is defined, I get the error.  The words can be constants or variables as well.
> 
> ...
> 
> I'm on a microVAX running 4.3 bsd unix.
> 
> mike
> mwnewman@watmsg.waterloo.edu

I put Tile on my sun3.60, os4.2, and tryed the examples above without any
error.  For me, Tile works correctly for all tests of my own, but is quite
slow (about 5* slower than Forthmacs from Mike Bradley), so testing was not
very deep.  I also tryed to compile Tile on other machines like Alliant Fx-1,
but coud'nt get it (wrongly defined variables ?).

                          Paul Bartholdi,    Observatory of Geneva, Switzerland