Description

Copy the external string value whose body address and count are on the parameter stack into the string buffer and push it onto the string stack. Errors are thrown if the count is larger than MAX_MCOUNT, if there is not enough room in string space, even after garbage collection, or if there is an unterminated string concatenation. The input external string need not exist as a measured string. <ansref>"to-string-s-copy"</ansref>

NOTE: MAX_MCOUNT is the largest size the count field of a measured string can hold, e.g., 255, 64K-1, or 4,096M-1. It is returned by: S" /DYNAMIC-STRING" ENVIRONMENT?

WARNING: This word should not be used when the input string is a bound string because the copy operation may generate a garbage collection which invalidates its MSA.