html documentation with references between related words.
If you want to modify and rebuild it from assembler source,
for 32 bits you may use at your discretion the gas format, fasm or nasm.
The excellent
nasm assembler version .98 has been used to generate the binary
in the distribution.
Since the gnu Intel assembler supports the directive .Intel_syntax prefix,
which forces Intel's non-standard destination-source order of operands,
it became feasible to supply a .s file that can be assembled on any
system equipped with a gcc compiler.
This too is supplied in the archive. Use the instructions contained in the
file to assemble it.
For the moment the gas format is the only one that works for the 64 bits
version.
Use the generic system for more important changes.
Apart from above source and documentation, the wc program is
included in this archive.
The
wordcount program is an example of how to use lina as a scripting
language.
The only environmental dependancy is using Linux system calls.
It has become a bit of a disgrace since the later version have much better
facilities for scripting.
Experimental coloring version
You can also download the experimental (unstable) version
called 4.1.22.
It has a number of small improvements over the stable version.
Most important, it allows color high lighting using the
stack effect analyser and a drop-in
replacement for the kernel: lina+a.
It shows the words with color high lighting, as follows.
lina+a -r
"analyserconfig.frt" INCLUDED
"color.frt" INCLUDED
DO-COLOR WORDS
The file smallanalyser.frt can be used to add the stack effect for
new words.
For more information see the supplied sources.
lina release 5, 64 bit version
New in release 5 is the 64 bit version.
The 64-bit version is called lina64, such that it is possible to have
the two versions installed at the same time.
The 64 bit version has threading activated.
lina release 5 changes
Some substantial changes are made with respect to the introspective properties
of the Forth, which in the end should make a good optimiser possible.
Like in the above 4.22 snapshot version, a mechanism is in place to
allow to derive (semi-)automatically the stack effect of words.
On top of that there are numerous small improvements and additions to the
library.
An important change is the rename of REQUIRE to WANT
such that the Forth doesn't become incompatible with upcoming additions
to the Forth standard.
So the -r option is replaced by a -w option.
All code published on this site is still based on 4.0.6.
It should run on a release 5 ciforth after WANT -legacy-. ,
but testing is still in progress.
The 64-bit lina has a few issues, not present in the latest 32-bit release.
You may alleviate this by
downloading the latest snapshot of the generic system for version 5 .
You have to build lina64 from ci86.lina.s
in the file, and replace your old lina64.
ci86.lina.fas results in a working executable, but the assumptions
made in -c and other options only apply to headers as generated
by gas.
Then replace your old forth64.lab
with forth.lab.lina from the snapshot.
If this is too hard, you probably shouldn't be using a snapshot version.
I thank mr. Ken Wilson for contributing true 64 bit system calls.
There is a list of current defects .
See also the list of defects of the generic system. .
This binary distribution is based on a
generic Intel Forth system that is available too.
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