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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk>
Cc: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@coresystems.de>,
	The OpenBIOS Mailinglist <openbios@openbios.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] M68K Or PPC Status Update to Run Mac OS in 	Qemu
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:56:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B30D022.6050400@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B30CD18.7050401@siriusit.co.uk>

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Alexander Graf wrote:
>
>> OpenBIOS is missing an implementation for local variables. See this
>> thread:
>> http://www.openfirmware.info/pipermail/openbios/2009-July/003796.html
>>
>> Alex
>
> How do local variables work? Are they just substitutions for stack
> places?

I seriously am the last person to know anything about Forth :-). But I'm
sure Stefan can help out here. He's been looking into that before.

> If you can point me towards a specification for this, I can have a
> look and see how feasible it would be to add this to OpenBIOS.

1)
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/viewcvs/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gforth/locals.fs?rev=1.8&view=markup

2) http://www.openfirmware.info/FCODE_suite
-> see "local value support"
-> has an incompatible license
-> contains links to documentation IIRC

3) http://www.forthos.org/
-> claims to have local value support, haven't found the sources yet


The code BootX executes:

http://www.openfirmware.info/pipermail/openbios/2009-July/003812.html


Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-22 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4b2f2099.9d53f10a.2eb2.4a1dSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com>
2009-12-21 17:37 ` [Qemu-devel] M68K Or PPC Status Update to Run Mac OS in Qemu G 3
2009-12-21 17:59   ` Alexander Graf
2009-12-22 13:43     ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2009-12-22 13:56       ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2009-12-20 20:32 Leo B
2009-12-20 22:23 ` Alexander Graf

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