<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Programmingkid wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Is there a reason that you're not using the in-built debugger for this? <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I'm fairly sure it would make your life much easier.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I'm making code that will associate a value with a function name and will store both in a table. Thank you Mark and Stefan for helping.<br></blockquote><br>It sounds as if you're working with Forth at quite a low level. Perhaps <br>you should consider breaking the task down into small chunks and then <br>posting patches to the list for feedback? Then people can offer more <br>guidance to help you.<br><br><br>ATB,<br><br>Mark.<br></span></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>This is what I am trying to do. I am making a word called '{' that will read each symbol after it and load it into memory. Here is my code so far:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">variable currentWordAddr</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">variable currentWordLen</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; min-height: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">/ copies the current words name</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">/ must be called at beginning of '{' word</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">: copyWordName ( - addr len)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">ib >in @</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">dup</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">alloc-mem</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">swap</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; "><span style="color: rgb(40, 50, 207); ">2</span>dup</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">>r</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">>r</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">move</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">r></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">r></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">currentWordLen !</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">currentWordAddr !</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; min-height: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; min-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">: {<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>copyWordName</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>begin</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>parse-word dup <span style="color: rgb(40, 50, 207); ">0</span>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; color: rgb(191, 46, 157); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span>while</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span style="color: rgb(40, 50, 207); ">2</span>dup drop <span style="color: rgb(214, 43, 36); ">" }"</span> comp <span style="color: rgb(40, 50, 207); ">0</span>=</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span style="color: rgb(191, 46, 157); ">if</span> exit then</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span style="color: rgb(40, 50, 207); ">2</span>dup drop <span style="color: rgb(214, 43, 36); ">" ;"</span> comp <span style="color: rgb(40, 50, 207); ">0</span>=</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span style="color: rgb(191, 46, 157); ">if</span> false useTopStackValue !</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span style="color: rgb(191, 46, 157); ">else</span> currentWordAddr @ currentWordLen @ loadLocalVariable </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>then</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>repeat</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; min-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>does> copyWordName</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Menlo; ">; immediate<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Menlo" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br></span></font></div></div><br><div>copyWordName simply copies the word name that comes before the '{' and after the ':'. I am trying to make the '{' word have a compile-time behavior of loading each symbol after the '{'. It stops when '}' is encountered. So if this word is being compiled <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>: hi { dog cat hamster }</div><div>the '{' word will send dog, cat, and hamster to loadLocalVariable. At run-time, it should only call copyWordName to load the current word being ran. </div><div><br></div><div>I simply don't know how to do both compile and run-time behaviors that I want. Anyone know how to do this? This is my starting point for local variable support in OpenBIOS. </div></div></body></html>