PFE Documentation (for Release 0.32.x)

Make A New Dist

how to create a new tarball or series of RPM packages, or to recreate the autoref documentation.

Tuning The Forth VM

explains steps to enhance the speed of the Forth VM

How To Write A PFE Module

explains the steps to create a dynamically loadable pfe extension module

WordSets in External Modules

explains the steps to activate external modules including those pre-linked to .

Some Internal Decisions

explains the structure of the headers of forth words and the reasons for its differences over FIG-forth

StateSmart words

PFE has made many compile-only words statesmart to make life of a regular forth user easier. However, it can mean trouble if used with postpone . Here are the details.

Locals in PFE

PFE uses the return-stack to store local values and enables you to get even alloca()-like buffer areas there, furthering creation of reentrant words even for the case of words handling strings.

Special Implementation Strategies

explains the solutions that were take to common problems in the implementation of an ansiforth'94 compatible system and the means to extend such a system.

a side note on quote-parse

experimental

a side note on sbr-threading

experimental

Dirk Zoller's README

the README from PFE version 0.9.10

Known Problems

there are some features that people sometimes wonder about.

the License

is the LGPL - the Lesser GNU Public License

Literature

references to (online) literature