Module Name:	pkgsrc
Committed By:	uebayasi
Date:		Fri Dec  5 00:26:38 UTC 2003

Modified Files:
	pkgsrc/doc: CHANGES
	pkgsrc/lang/gforth: Makefile PLIST distinfo
	pkgsrc/lang/gforth/patches: patch-aa

Log Message:
Update from 0.5.0 to 0.6.2.  From Jorge Ramon Acereda Macia <al004046 at anubis
dot uji dot es> in PR 23635.

User-visible changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:

Bug fixes (in particular, gforth-0.6.2 compiles with gcc-3.3)
New words: LATEST, LATESTXT (LASTXT deprecated)
Operating environment: Added optional support for a C interface built
  on the ffcall libraries (more portable and powerful than the old
  one, but still not documented).  To use it, the ffcall libraries
  have to be installed before building Gforth (see INSTALL).
Miscellaneous: Gforth-fast now uses static superinstructions (some
  speedup on some platforms); generally this is transparent (apart
  from the speedup), but there are lots of command-line options for
  controlling the static superinstruction generation.

User-visible changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:

Bug fixes (installation on big-endian machines sometimes did not work)

User-visible changes between 0.5.0 and 0.6.0:

Changes in behaviour:

S": interpreted use now ALLOCATEs the string (they live until BYE).
Long word names (512MB on 32-bit systems) are now supported (change to
  the header format).
New threaded code execution method: primitive-centric (allows the
  following), hybrid direct/indirect threaded (easier portability),
  with dynamic superinstructions (typical speedup on Athlon: factor
  2).  New engine gforth-itc for dealing with some potential
  backwards-compatibility problems (see "Direct or Indirect Threaded?"
  in the manual).

Operating environment:

Default dictionary size is now 4MB.
Large file support on OSs that support them (i.e., files with more
  than 2GB on 32-bit machines).
Gforth can now deal well with broken pipes in most situations.
vi tags files can be built with tags.fs (usage like etags.fs).
gforth.el mostly rewritten.
New image file format.

New words:

Keyboard input: EDIT-LINE K-PRIOR K-NEXT K-DELETE
File input: SLURP-FILE SLURP-FID
Programming tools: ID. .ID WORDLIST-WORDS SIMPLE-SEE
Conditional execution: [DEFINED] [UNDEFINED]
Defining Words: CONST-DOES> ]]
Input stream: PARSE-WORD EXECUTE-PARSING EXECUTE-PARSING-FILE
String comparison: STR= STR< STRING-PREFIX?
String literals: S\" .\" \"-PARSE
Floating point output: F.RDP F>STR-RDP F>BUF-RDP

Miscellaneous:

Generalized prims2x.fs into Vmgen (see README.vmgen etc.); used the
  new capabilities in prims (e.g., automatic handling of the return
  stack and instruction stream).


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -r1.3975 -r1.3976 pkgsrc/doc/CHANGES
cvs rdiff -r1.15 -r1.16 pkgsrc/lang/gforth/Makefile
cvs rdiff -r1.6 -r1.7 pkgsrc/lang/gforth/PLIST
cvs rdiff -r1.2 -r1.3 pkgsrc/lang/gforth/distinfo
cvs rdiff -r1.2 -r1.3 pkgsrc/lang/gforth/patches/patch-aa

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