Re: What with `` BL WORD ''

In article <2024Dec15.170833@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:

In view of Gigabyte memories, a lot of interference could also be
avoided, if BL WORD were entitled to ALLOT the space.
A permanent region could serve as a transient region, so
from the users of WORD there is no problem.
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: WORD WORD DUP COUNT ALLOT ALIGN ; \ Or some such.
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Is this in conflict with the standard?

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Yes.  In
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create foo bl word bar drop 1234 ,
foo @ .
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the standard specifies that this prints "1234", but with your
redefinition of WORD, it does not.
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More formally, the standard specifies that the memory allocated by ,
is contiguous with the data space of FOO, and WORD is not one of the
words that terminates a contiguous region.

Thanks. So if you are worried about transient storage interfering with
each other, the solution is to have a static buffer reserved for WORD.
I'll do that.

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- anton

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