Name

forward-mark:system — ordinary primitive

Synopsis

FORTH
MARK> ( -- DP-mark )compile-only(); 
 ;

Description

makes room for a pointer in the dictionary to be resolved through RESOLVE> and does therefore memorize that cell's address on the CS-STACK Mostly used after BRANCH or ?BRANCH in compiling words like IF or ELSE

 simulate:
   : MARK> ?COMP  HERE 0 , ;