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Porting Richard Jones' FORTH to ARM; TAKE A PISS ON GITHUB
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Porting Richard Jones' FORTH to ARM; TAKE A PISS ON GITHUB
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/phf/forth
- Owner: phf
- Created: 2010-05-25T19:07:02.000Z (about 16 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2016-04-12T04:31:28.000Z (about 10 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-05T11:41:24.716Z (about 1 year ago)
- Language: Assembly
- Homepage:
- Size: 154 KB
- Stars: 93
- Watchers: 15
- Forks: 20
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# JONESFORTH/arm: Porting Richard Jones' FORTH to ARM
Back in 2010 I started porting an x86 FORTH to ARM, mostly to learn ARM
assembly. Sadly I never finished the port, I stopped when I felt I had
learned enough. Of course I had meant to come back to it eventually, but
stuff happened, life got in the way. Now it's 2016 and I am going to try
to get back into it. No promises though!
BTW, in the meantime two very interesting ARM-and-FORTH-related things
have made an appearance on github.com:
- https://github.com/M2IHP13-admin/JonesForth-arm
- https://github.com/organix/pijFORTHos
I am currently still in the process of cleaning things up, but most of
the original JONESFORTH words now seem to work. (I'll rewrite this one
more time when I am satisfied enough with the code, until then there's
no real README just this mess.)
## License
Since the original JONESFORTH is in the Public Domain, I figured I should
also put my JONESFORTH/arm port into the Public Domain. And to make sure
that works out (with all the appropriate legalese that's way beyond me),
I decided to go for this:
> [](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
>
> To the extent possible under law,
> [Peter H. Froehlich](https://github.com/phf/)
> has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to
> [JONESFORTH/arm](https://github.com/phf/forth).
> This work is published from: United States.
Obviously this only applies to code I have written, so the code in the
`arm/` directory of the repository. It doesn't apply to the other code
I keep around for reference, check each of those directories for their
respective license.
## Original README (2010)
I need to learn ARM assembly in a hurry, and I figured porting a FORTH might
be a decent way to do that. I came across Richard Jones' wonderful FORTH and
that's what I settled on:
- http://annexia.org/forth
There seem to be ports to both PowerPC and Motorola 68k already, but no ARM
port that I could find:
- http://www.lshift.net/blog/2007/10/04/jonesforth-ported-to-powerpc-and-mac-os-x
- http://www.copypastecode.com/14589/
I've checked all of these into git for my own reference, but the only thing
that's actually "mine" is the ARM version. I'll decide on a license at some
point too. :-D
Update: I found two more clones of Richard Jones' FORTH, here are the links
just for completeness:
- http://code.google.com/p/ruda/source/browse/trunk/jonesforth-macintel.s
- http://subvert-the-dominant-paradigm.net/blog/?p=54