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Escaped Strings (Version 6.1)

Message #240 of 425 |

Re: [forth200x] Escaped Strings (Version 6.1)

Will there be problems if the string to be modified is in ROM, as with a
string compiled into a colon definition in a ROM dictionary?

Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:48 pm

Mitch Bradley <wmb@...>

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Ed raised an interesting point in his comments. In that the reference implementation uses the PAD. The standard makes a point of stating that the PAD is for...	Peter Knaggs pknaggs	Jan 20, 2009 11:42 pm
Will there be problems if the string to be modified is in ROM, as with a string compiled into a colon definition in a ROM dictionary?...	Mitch Bradley wmb@...	Jan 20, 2009 11:48 pm
... It shouldn't do, as S\" returns a string, which is then copied into the ROM space at compile time, the same as for S". -- Peter Knaggs...	Peter Knaggs pknaggs	Jan 21, 2009 12:17 am
... This fine for hosted systems running in RAM. PARSE\" requires a writable destination area. In embedded systems, it is not unusual to store text such as web...	Stephen Pelc sfprem	Jan 21, 2009 2:06 pm
... That's very clear, to me at least. Neither a standard program nor a standard system may modify the input buffer while it is still valid. There is even an...	Anton Ertl anton@...	Jan 21, 2009 5:56 pm