types and operators

[Captain Napalm]

A long long time ago on a network far far away, Eric W. Biederman thus said:
> 
> One comment about frames & GC etc.  I'm frustrated because I found a
> solution to a lot of things that wouldn't inconvinience a programmer
> in any other language but forth.  Arrgh, we're working in forth!
> 
  Could you go into more detail about this?

>       Yeah. C might be most useful if we can use it "as is", in an OTOP
>    environment. But as we intend to do runtime code generation,
>    GCC is out of question. And as utsl says, GCC isn't something you can
>    extract a part from: by the time you manage to get something running,
>    you could have rewritten it twice.
> 
> Actually the innards of GCC aren't all that bad.  The outards are
> terrible though. 

  Yes, but how do you extract the innards of GCC from the gunk that makes up
the outards? 8-)

> I'm willing to writa a GC routine that will handle everyhard case
> except trying to use DWIM to find the pointers.
> 
  Well, do the DWIM in the HLL then <duck>

  -spc (Finally catching up on some email ... )