This duplicated feature existed because of bootstrapping issues
with LIT", but again, with careful threading, we can clean things
up.
We can now have a proper "Collapse OS" prompt :)
When writing the xcomp documentation, I realized that with careful
threading and by accepting a bit of code duplication in the xcomp
toolset, I could de-stabilize a couple of words.
(n) and EXIT are a bit trickier, but I think it can be done. It
would be nice to get rid of stable wordrefs...
Among random "better safe than sorry" changes, the real fix is in
changing "4" for "5" above _find declaration. This off-by-one error
had that word, which is the root word in z80, have a 0x01 prev field
instead of a 0x00 one.
When all memory was initialized to zero, it didn't matter, we ended
up hitting 0 prev and considered ourselves properly at the end of
dict.
When memory wasn't initialized, however, we would end up jumping at
all kinds of places, leading to random behavior.
Instead of having wordref point to core word routines, I made them
into word 4 word types. It liberates space into the stable ABI and
should make porting to other arches easier.
I'm also thinking of combining word type with the namelen field
for precious bytes saving, but not now...
It was useful when we still had the relinker, but now it has no use.
I was waiting a bit to see if the distinction would be useful again,
but it seems like it won't.
This allows us to move words like ABORT" to xcomp-core, which is
I think the last roadblock before being able to unify all drivers
into a single xcomp layer.
Virgil Dupras