Gforth Manual

• GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  • Preamble
  • TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
  • How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
• Preface
• Goals of Gforth
• Other books on ANS Forth
• Invoking Gforth
• Forth Words
  • Notation
  • Arithmetic
    • Single precision
    • Bitwise operations
    • Mixed precision
    • Double precision
    • Floating Point
  • Stack Manipulation
    • Data stack
    • Floating point stack
    • Return stack
    • Locals stack
    • Stack pointer manipulation
  • Memory
    • Memory Access
    • Address arithmetic
    • Memory Blocks
  • Control Structures
    • Selection
    • Simple Loops
    • Counted Loops
    • Arbitrary control structures
      • Programming Style
    • Calls and returns
    • Exception Handling
  • Locals
    • Gforth locals
      • Where are locals visible by name?
      • How long do locals live?
      • Programming Style
      • Implementation
    • ANS Forth locals
  • Defining Words
    • Simple Defining Words
    • Colon Definitions
    • User-defined Defining Words
      • Applications of CREATE..DOES>
      • The gory details of CREATE..DOES>
    • Supplying names for the defined words
    • Interpretation and Compilation Semantics
  • Tokens for Words
  • Wordlists
  • Files
  • Blocks
  • Other I/O
  • Programming Tools
    • Debugging
    • Assertions
  • Assembler and Code words
  • Threading Words
• Tools
  • `ans-report.fs': Report the words used, sorted by wordset
    • Caveats
• ANS conformance
  • The Core Words
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
    • Other system documentation
  • The optional Block word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
    • Other system documentation
  • The optional Double Number word set
    • Ambiguous conditions
  • The optional Exception word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
  • The optional Facility word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
  • The optional File-Access word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
  • The optional Floating-Point word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
  • The optional Locals word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
  • The optional Memory-Allocation word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
  • The optional Programming-Tools word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
  • The optional Search-Order word set
    • Implementation Defined Options
    • Ambiguous conditions
• Model
• Integrating Gforth into C programs
• Emacs and Gforth
• Image Files
  • Image File Background
  • Non-Relocatable Image Files
  • Data-Relocatable Image Files
  • Fully Relocatable Image Files
    • `gforth-makeimage'
    • `cross.fs'
  • Stack and Dictionary Sizes
  • Running Image Files
  • Modifying the Startup Sequence
• Engine
  • Portability
  • Threading
    • Scheduling
    • Direct or Indirect Threaded?
    • DOES>
  • Primitives
    • Automatic Generation
    • TOS Optimization
    • Produced code
  • Performance
• Bugs
• Authors and Ancestors of Gforth
  • Authors and Contributors
  • Pedigree
• Word Index
• Concept and Word Index