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    2009-10-10  guidod  <guidod@gmx.de>

    	* pfe/exception-sub.c (p4_longjmp_loop): add the
    		PFE.setjmp_fenv_save(& PFE.loop_fenv) call to make
    		it save/restore the fenv state accross a schedule-jmp.
    	* pfe/def-regs.h: fix R>DROP 2>DROP etc.... the macro
    	    was not using the X argument but a hardcoded value.
    	    Thanks to Robert Epprecht for reporting the rdrop bug.

    2009-10-09  guidod  <guidod@gmx.de>
        * autogen.sh: add anstests1 to configure.ac and reconfigure
            which actually updates to the latest libtool (MANY files!)
    	* test/anstests1/Makefile.am added to allow running latest
    	    anstests0.6.zip test harness. There are multiple errors
    	    and failures that should be checked later. You can use
    	    "make anstests" to run them or "make checks" to run both
    	    the old test suite and the new anstests scripts. Consider
    	    to use "make -k" (keep running) to see all errors/failures.

    2009-10-08  guidod  <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* pfe/core-sub.c (p4_accept_line): Josh Grams has reported that
    	  ACCEPT differs from EXPECT in that it should allow the user to
    	  edit a line buffer longer than the maximum string to be stored.
    	  We replace the ARG expect-max with Posix INPUT_MAX to achieve a
    	  compliant behavior with Forth DPANS94 which also refers to a
    	  system edit line buffer maximum that "is not under control" of
    	  the forth box. So we use a scratch buffer that is big enough.

    2009-10-04  guidod  <guidod@gmx.de>

    	* pfe/os-fesetenv.h: implement p4_setjmp_fenv_save/load and
    	  use these around some of the setjmp-calls where a CATCH-domain
    	  is erected that might possibly contain FLOATING elements.
    	* pfe/facility-mix.c: remove obsolete CLK_TCK which was not
    	  actually loaded to the PFE core on load. This is actally a bug
    	  in the word loader but none that is worth to invetigate. Also
    	  updated some docs in the process

    2009-10-03 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
        * ATTENTION: DONE MIGRATTION OF SOURCE CODE FROM CVS TO SUBVERSION!!
        * prepare 0.33.71

    2009-05-31 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* pfe/engine-ext.c: added missing reference to floating_misc wordset.
    	   Thanks to Dick van Oudheusden for reporting this bug. This makes
    	   words like "MS@" and "GETTIMEOFDAY" available to the default PFE.

    2008-12-23 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
        * release 0.33.70

    2008-12-21  guidod  <guidod@gmx.de>

        * various: completely remove bin/pfe-config (conflict with pkgconfig pfe.pc)
            which in turn revealed a number of build bugs (mostly due to pkgconfig
            to prefer pfe-uninstalled.pc when it exists in parallel with pfe.pc)
    	* Makefile.am: add "rpm" target for in-build-directory rpmbuild scheme
    	* test/checkans.fs: fixing tests - need 1000 bytes buffer instead of 500
    	* pfe/term-lib.c (tparm): the tparm call should have all the nine
    	  extra parameters in its prototype (patch by Josh Grams)
    	* pfe/core-ext.c: noname should store-csp otherwise it can make
    	   for "control structure mismatch" when the noname word contains
    	   some "does>" handler. (bug reported and fixed by Josh Grams)

    2008-11-24  guidod  <guidod@gmx.de>
       * pfe.spec - done some testing on the opensuse build service

    2008-11-21  guidod  <guidod@gmx.de>

    	* pfe/misc-ext.c: double-free due to usage of fclose() of glic - it seems that
    	    the glibc does not yield EBADF for a closed file handle but it simply dumps.
    	* bug was reported by Jusha Grams on using "bye" in forth script - however this
    	    is ignored in the current PFE anyway (you need to say "-q" on the commandline)

    20008-10-08 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
        * header-ext.c: move DEFER words to FORTH as specified in forth200x
        * header-ext.c: move SYNONYM to FORTH as specified in forth200x and
            move the ALIAS word from chainlist-ext to header-ext
        * term-ext.c: move ekeys to FORTH as specified in forth200x

    2008-09-12 <david.n.williams@umich.edu>
        * updating dstrings-ext.c as follows...
        * Revised P4_PUSH_STR() to avoid a left/right evaluation
          order side effect in *--SSP assignment, because gcc 4.0.1
          does it differently from earlier versions under Mac OS X
          Leopard.
        * Renamed, adjusted labels and pronunciations:
        old        new
        MPLACE      (M!)
        SM,        M,S
        $S>-COPY    $,S
        CAT        $+
        CAT"        $+"
        CAT`        $+`
        S-CAT        S+
        PARSE-CAT    PARSE-S+
        CAT$@        CAT$P@
        * Deprecated with comments the changing of the count field
          from its default (unsigned long).
        * Revised concatenations so they do nothing on the empty
          string except drop it (in particular, they don't start a cat).
        * Revised DROP-$FRAME to nip the top frame from beneath
          other strings, thus removing the restriction that the
          string depth not be increased between $ARGS{...} and the
          terminating semicolon.
        * Added $EXCHANGE, whose code is a major factor in the new
          DROP-$FRAME.

    2008-09-11  guidod  <guidod@gmx.de>

        * pfe/environ-ext.c: there was a bug in the environment-query search
          such that it was unable to find any ENVIRONMENT word containing
          lowercase characters. This conflicts with forth200x implementation
          environment queries which are by definition lowercase.
    	* pfe/header-ext.c: introduce p4_SHOW and FCode(p4_logmessage_RT) such
    	  that there may be declarations in ENVIRONMENT for the value-less
    	  forth200x/queries.
    	* make up entries for all the forth200x X:queries - other than expected
    	  any query on them will show a notification logmessage pointing to
    	  the implemented version (which would be returned by our own values).
    	* pfe/header-ext.c: make synonym PFA to default to itself - so if the
    	  NAME> on the target name does throw then the resulting word will
    	  yield a bad-synonym-throw on the next call.

    2008-09-10  guidod  <guidod@gmx.de>

    	* pfe/fpnostack-ext.c + pfe/floating-ext.c: cleanup REPRESENT - only
    	  use the new code using C's sprintf("%e") to get the representation.
    	* pfe/fpnostack-ext.c + pfe/floating-ext.c: use signbit(X) and fabs(X)
    	   to seperate sign and value of a floating point representation (this
    	   is needed to handle the different representations of "+0.0" and "-0.0")
    	* pfe/floating-ext.c: use another implementation of REPRESENT that builds
    	   directly on the specifics of sprintf(2) "%e" value representation.
    	* pfe/Makefile.am: install-exec-hook should use "ln -sf" to put renamed
    	   executables into $bindir - that allows reinstall (report from DNW)

    2008-09-01 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
        * pfe/pfe-master.odt - the *.dbk converted to *.odt (not yet packaged)
        * pfe/pfedoc/odtdocument.py - writing pfe-words.odt (not yet merged to master.odt)
        * .... and extend to make pfe-wordsets.odt (again, not yet merged to master.odt)

    2008-08-31 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
        * locals-ext: the p4_word_paren_local functionality would compile the code
           for enter_locals before saving away a locals name. This would conflict with
           "BL WORD COUNT (LOCAL)" where HERE is occupied with the current name buffer.
           Hence the name buffer was trashed and junk bytes saved as the local's name.
        * This was a report from David N. Williams and Anton Ertl based on discussions
           on comp.lang.forth about the questionable "{...}" locals definition syntax.
           Also it became obvious that "(LOCAL)" was immediate which it should not
           have been ever. This is correct as well and the anslocal.fs test works ok.
        * test/anslocal.4th add the test program that had revealed the problem

    2008-05-25 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
        * complex-ext: make actual compilation dependent on PFE_HAVE_ISINF detected (newly added)
        * prep 33.70

    2008-05-12 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
        * hpux cc fixes
        * add test64.ok for x86_64 variants
        * use "testlist:" target along with Makedist.mk for semi-automatic *.ok pickup
        * release 0.33.69 (V_33_69)
        * oops, introduced tests SKIPS = queryapp (does not work, again)

    2008-05-11 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
        * implement "./" local path resolution
        * swap diff order of test/Makefile.am
        * pfe/def-config.h: remove PFE_DECLARE_BLOCK/PFE_DECLARE_END macros
           the actual source files (cdecl-ext.c/signals-ext.c) define direct to { and }
          reason: solaris10 gcc 3.4.1 -std=c99 does not make an error but it still
          issues a "warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code"
        * fix some of those warnigns in other files (via ___/_____)
    	* pfe/option-set.c: static allocated_ only when USE_THREAD_BLOCK
    	* test/*.ok - make all regression tests based on *.ok templates

    2008-05-11 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
        * solaris-10: MAKE=gmake CFLAGS="-lcurses --std=c99" sh configure
        |
        | It is invalid to compile an XPG3, XPG4, XPG4v2, or XPG5 application
        | using c99.  The same is true for POSIX.1-1990, POSIX.2-1992, POSIX.1b,
        | and POSIX.1c applications. Likewise, it is invalid to compile an XPG6
        | or a POSIX.1-2001 application with anything other than a c99 or later
        | compiler.  Therefore, we force an error in both cases.
        |
        and therefore, -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 must be set (removed _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED)
        * in -std=c99 soliris10 build breaks with
        ../../pfe/../pfe/term-lib.c:1130: error: too few arguments to function `tparm'
        the reason: grep tparm.*char /usr/include/*.h
         /usr/include/term.h:    *tparm(char *, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long);
         also documented in solaris10 tparm
          char *tparm(char *str, long int p1, long int p2, long int p3,
                                 long int p4, long int p5, long int p6,
                                 long int p7, long int p8, long int p9);
         as well as in the opengroup Unix98 standard
         http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcurses/tparm.html
       * in -std=c99 soliris10 removes strlcat from its headers if also some XOPEN
         flag has been defined - those Sun managers seem to be really mad these days.
         Try to help it out with -D__EXTENSIONS__.
       * os-setjmp.h: solaris10 defines setjmp as a macro but not sigsetjmp.
       * does not compile testmodules but the ./pfe parts are okay.
       * release 0.33.68 (V_33_38)

    2008-05-10  guidod  <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* pfe/def-regs.h: fix p4RP unused message in sbr-arg-threading
    	... now all variants should compile without any warning message (yeah)
    	* rename forth200x extensions from "EXTENSION:X" to "forth200x/extension"
    	  the lowercase-naming was intentional (documented in the standard)
    	  and the name should easily map to an external file such that an
    	  enviornment query S" x/deferred" ENVIRONMENT? can map to REQUIRED.
    	* make &10 prefix obseletion warning dependent on REDEFINED_MSG as well,
    	  allows to clear out some quirks in the regression testing.

    2008-05-10 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
     * make p4_check_deprecated(xt) -> p4_check_deprecated(nfa) which allows
        again that a SYNONYM an have a deprecation before (the result of
        p4_name_from(nfa) yields the target xt and not the cfa of the nfa).
    	* pfe/forth-83-ext.c: use DEPR-loader for "><" and ">MOVE<" since
    	   the message is a bit longer (not an exact synonyme available)

    2008-05-06
     * the bug ist that isatty(2) does not recognize it is being piped from "cat",
       so it does not only initialize the terminal but QUERY is going to be set
       on get_vkey which finally ends in a curses routine.
     * rebuild tests to use *.ok templates

    2008-05-05
     * add extension-query numbers for Forth200x proposals
     * add THROW codes as mandated by http://www.forth200x.org/throw-iors.html
     * add also SYNONYM:X althought it is just propososed (RfD).
     * add additional backslash-sequences as defined in ESCAPED-STRINGS:X,
        like \l = '\n' and '\m' = '\r\n' ('\n' is either '\n' or '\r\n').
        and \z, \t ... especially \t seems to have been forgotten so far.
     * append the ESCAPED-STRINGS:X to ZCHAR-EXT wordset where S\" is defined.
     * make rpm shows that a *.py had been forgotten
     * the new test/*.ok files were not packaged
     * make rpm has a regression error...
     * prep 0.33.68 (not yet published)

    2008-05-05
     * implement DEFER@ DEFER! and ACTION-OF as specified in
             http://www.forth200x.org/deferred.html
     * during the implemention a bug in BEHAVIOR was found (an alias
          to DEFER@) that indicates that it had not been used before.
          Therefore it can be safely removed.
     * adding http://www.forth200x.org/deferred.fs but use a modified
         variant deferred-x.fs for regression testing
     * a bug was found in deferred-x regression - the p4_defer_RT was
       not working in sbr-threading as it was not using FX_USE_BODY_ADDR
       setup and FX_POP_BODY_ADDR IP-adjustment.
     * done regression across
     * release 0.33.67

    2008-05-04 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
     * introduce log.diff comparison for "make check"
     * switch to test/string.test.ok for a first example
     * adding http://www.forth200x.org/tests/fp-stack.fs ok
     * adding http://www.forth200x.org/tests/test-num-prefixes.fs
     * adding http://www.forth200x.org/tests/test-num-prefixes2.fs
     * introduced PREFIX_DECIMAL_OLD '&' and change PREFIX_DECIMAL '#'
        to match with forth200x number-prefixes proposal
     * adding  http://www.forth200x.org/tests/number-prefixes.fs (modified)
         and updating the test-num-prefixes output templates
     * rename "+FIELD" to "+FIELD:" and make the old one a SYNONYM
     * deprecate "+FIELD" reserved by http://www.forth200x.org/structures.html
     * note: because of the overlap, forth200x structures can not be implemented
         at the moment - only a future version may pick it up.
     * adding K-INSERT and K-DELETE from forth200x.org/ekeys.html
     * rename K1 to K-F1 and S-K1 to K-SHIFT-F1 to be close to forth200x ekeys,
         the old names are provided as SYNONYMs (they are NOT deprecated)
     * adding EKEY>FKEY and K-SHIFT-MASK - the latter is only used to decode
         the K-SHIFT-F1 values to a K-F1 K-SHIFT-MASK OR value
     * rename REQUIRES to REQUIRE - the old is kept as a SYNONYM (not deprecated)
         that renaming conforms to http://www.forth200x.org/required.html
     * rename p4_required/p4_requires to p4_include_required/p4_include_require
         to make its relation p4_included more obvious in code.
     * adding http://www.forth200x.org/tests/parse-name.fs
        with SYNONYM PARSE-NAME PARSE-WORD
     * adding PARSE-NAME with the implementation of PARSE-WORD and adapt the test
     * rename X:FP-STACK to FP-STACK:X to be compatible with
          http://www.forth200x.org/extension-query.html - that proposal will not
          be used but application programmers shall be supported that want to
          test explicitly for a Forth200x extension.

    2008-05-04 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
     * remove old loader from dict-comp.c
     * requires to make p4_exception_string into a proper runtime-word
       that lives now in exception-ext.
     * kill forth-signal handling from exceptn.4th and move it to forth-signal.4th,
       as a consequence "make check" will now work without any errors.

    2008-05-04 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
     * the segfault at system-exit seems to be introduced by p4_name_from
       being called from outside a Forth VM context. Looking over the source
       it could not be pinpointed - probably hidden somewhere in another function.
       Instead, move out the deprecated/obsoleted checks to a seperate call of
       p4_check_deprecated(xt) and run in inside p4_interpret_find_word. This
       however makes it possible to write your own outer interpreter using
       FIND EXECUTE and COMPLE, that skips over the functionality - but such
       a thing seems to be improbable and deprecated/obsolete message will
       appear.
     * introduced (CHECK-DEPRECATED) to allow user-level code to take
       advantage of this PFE deprecation mechanism.
     * rename "(DEPRECATED" to "(DEPRECATED:" - it looks better.

    2008-05-03 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
     * improve logging - replace some usages of fprintf(stderr with P4_fail
     * introduced "(DEPRECATED word message)" along with dict-comp code.
     * map USING and USING-NEW to the new variant - simply try
          "USING nonexistingfile.blk" and see what it does.
     * oops: a segfault crept in (on BYE in normal forth).
     * bug: using PFE.execute does not work for words using BODY or CODE. The
        simplication of using a direct (*p4_to_code)() was wrong and absolutely
        not needed because p4_call maps to p4_sbr_call which is handling it correct.

    2008-05-01 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
     * fixing DOES> in sbr-threading: gcc 4.2.3 uses arg-register %eax even if it was
       allocated to a local variable. Copy the value early on and everything is ok.
     * use execution-references in code with PFX only

    2008-05-01 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
     * remove char signedness warnigns (in ZNAME-ITC only one is left (deliberately))
     * p4_match goes to str/len on target string (resolves another signedness problem)

    2008-05-01 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
     * allow for -DPFE_WITH_ZNAME that will create word names as zero-terminated strings.
     * In the default mode [PFE_WITH_FFA] all name-pointers will be zstrings, therefore
       `needs zchar-ext   ' dup >name dup zcount type` will yield 'dup'
     * In compatible mode [PFE_WITH_NO_FFA] a hybrid word header is created where the
       name-pointers point to a flag-field that will also have a count-value in the
       lower bits if the name-length is below 32. However in that mode each word is also
       terminated with an additional null byte - so NAME>STRING prefers ZCOUNT instead
       of the COUNT 31 AND. As the latter is possible some old code might get along with
       it while new code could [theoretically] take advantage of dictionary names of
       unlimited length.
     * does not only change header-sub and some macros - especially FIND and the lined
       name-completion needs to be fixed. In some cases we do switch to using a POCKET
       for storing intermediate values. Effectivly this limits the maximum word name
       size to POCKET_SIZE-1 -> by default that is 255 matching the maximum COUNT but
       it is still bigger than either 31 in compat-header-modes or 127 with FFA headers.

    2008-04-30 guidod <guidod@gmx.de>
     * standardize on P4_NAMELEN/P4_NAMEPTR - avoid NFACNT !

    2008-04-25  guidod  <guidod@gmx.de>

    	* pfe/debug-ext.c (is_sbr_compile_call_to):
    	* pfe/def-sbrcode.h: on PPC, expanding the macro twice will result in doubled labels
    	  so we work around that with redefining (a new macro) PFE_SBR_LABEL_(label)

    2008-04-24  guidod  <guidod@pc3>

    	* pfe/floating-ext.c: mark X:FP-STACK (forth200x)

    2008-04-23 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
     * add pfe/os-string.h to bin/pfe-exec.c to help with x86_64

    2008-04-20 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
     * allow pfedoc/forthheader.py to run standalone producing a forthheaderxml document
     * allow pfedoc/forthwordset.py to run standalone producing a forthwordsetxml document
     * create pfedoc/forthmodule.py - if run standalone it produces a forthmodulexml text
     * modify Makefiles for "forthxml" and "forthxmls" targets creating those xml documents

    2008-04-20 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
     * unless SBR-threading, show the recognized compiled words only as comment
     * tested on x86 ITC with a CODE word that calls the DUP execution

    2008-04-20 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
     * switch back and forth between sbr/asm in decompiling
     * Copyright update to 2008

    2008-04-20 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
     * bug report from DNW: multiline-comments do not work anymore.
        Caused by wrong returncode in core-sub p4_parse_word in the
         "empty:" case which should be "return 0" instead of "return 1".
         Introduced in pfe-0.33.63 and corrected for next release
     * release 0.33.66

    2008-04-20 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
     * debug-ext sbr-decompiling can now recognize all compiled words
         which allows to make a normal decompiler in the future.

    2008-04-19 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
     * debug-ext is now able to SEE-decompile sbr-threaded colon-words
     * while working on it, the assembler END-CODE was fixed to do the
        right thing - also the TOOLS-EXT ans ASSEMBLER-EXT words for
        CODE ;CODE END-CODE are similar now.

    2008-04-19 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
     * import to Eclipse
     * fix m4 macro to enable pfe-uninstalled.sh in testmodules
     * reduce warning count in sbr-threading mode

    2008-04-18 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
     * introduce FX_SP_ROOM/FX_SP_DROP in def-macro.h and pull down
    	all the	FX_xDROP/FX_xROOM macros to those base definitions.
     * release 0.33.65

    2008-04-18 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
     *  try   sh configure --with-regs=2 --with-sbr-threading
    	will yield a good result on x86 with GCC 4.1... this is built
    	on a completely different implementation of the sbr RP-handling
    	which is not done with inline-asm anymore but instead all the
    	primitives with an RP-effect will compile the RP-effect machine
    	code before or after the original subroutine. The subroutine
    	does simply do the rest, i.e. without modifying the RP.
     * fixed automatic addition of -fno-builtin required for newer GCC
     * -momit-leaf-framepointer and --with-args make for nice and readable
    	compiled primitive machine code.

    2008-04-15 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
     * nuke -fomit-frame-pointer -DPFE_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER and delete all
    	asm reference to %ebp on i386. It does fit well with modern
    	code optimization and current GCC can not compile proper code
    	when ebp is (ab)used for something different than a stackframe.

    2008-04-07
     * Krishna Myneni - update to fpnostack-ext adding both FLOATING-EXT
    	and FLOATING-STACK environment query results.

    2008-04-07
     * Josh Grams - update exception-sub to print line-numbers starting
    	at 1 (see also MISC-EXT SOURCE_LINE for the same)

    2008-04-04
     * had to disable X11 tests in pfe/configure.ac - on Ubuntu it would
         not only link libpfe to libX11 but upon Forth invokation it would
         open a new X11 terminal - and of course all 'check's failed.

    2007-02-18 _ ref. <wdavison@users.sourceforge.net>
     * http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=665365
       As of 2007-02-08, SourceForge.net Compile Farm service
    	has been officially discontinued.

    2007-02-16 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
      * finally implemented term-x11.c ... tetris is almost working with it
      * Enable at configure --with-x
    	starts automatically in X-Window if DISPLAY found in `env`

    2006-10-08 _<david.n.williams@umich.edu>
     7Oct06 * In complex-ext.c:  Fixed comments for doc autogeneration,
          removed superfluous _Bool, deprecated Z-ROT with P4_xOLD in
          favor of -ZROT, and informally tested ZLITERAL.
        * In dstrings-ext.c:  Fixed comments for doc autogeneration, and
          added $GC-LOCK@ and $GC-LOCK!, with tests in dstrings-test.fs.

    2006-10-05 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* CODE and ASSEMBLER have been given a generic implementation
    	  in ITC (traditional) model.

    2006-09-26 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* change REFILL / NEXT-LINE to return P4_TRUE (-1) instead of +1.
    	* introduce p4_bool_t / p4_cell_t in pfe/def-cells.h

    2006-09-26 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* p4_preload_interpret does work now. You can have a look at the
    	    current definition with SEE (INTERPRET). That routine is being
    	    activated thru INTERPRET-COMPILED ON! - of course there is
    	    hardly any difference to be seen. To make it visual, I did
    	    overload the behavior on "undefined word" which does print
    	    "oops.." just before the 13 THROW. Look for that.
    	* floating-ext does implant itself into (INTERPRET) - even that
    	   the actual implementation is verrrry hackish.
    	* assembler-ext module aded - and tools-ext provides a basic
    	   set of words to fulfill the Forth-Standard requirements.
    	   (fixed some problems a bit later - tested only with "CODE")
    	* krishna myneni (of kForth fame) had been porting the gforth
    	   x86 assembler - one might want to have a look at it:
    	   ftp://ccreweb.org/software/kforth/examples/asm-x86.4th
    	   ftp://ccreweb.org/software/kforth/examples/asm-x86-examples.4th

    2006-09-25 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* add FX_SKIP_BRANCH
    	* experimental compiled outer interpreter:
    	    see INTERPRET-FIND
    	    see INTERPRET-NUMBER
    	       : my-interpreter
    	           begin ." ok! " cr
    	              parse-word nip 0= if \ end of line
    	                 refill 0= if exit then \ end of file
    	                 parse-word nip 0= if exit then \ empty line
    	              then
    	              interpret-find
    	              interpret-number
    	           again
    	        ;
    	    ' my-interpreter interpret-execution !
    	    interpret-compiled on!
    	* hint1: toolbelt-ext knows a word NEXT-WORD with implicit REFILL
    	* hint2: QUERY will only get a line from terminal, REFILL will do
    	         the same but also works on other SOURCEs (files, evaluate)

    2006-09-22 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* complex-ext.c - integrating last version from David N. Williams:
    	* Version 0.8.9
    	* 6Sep06 * Skipped version 0.8.8, to sync with complex-kahan.fs.
    	         * Removed I/, renamed (-I)* as -I*, and renamed minimal
    	           mixed ops, with P4_xOLD for old names.
    	* Version 0.8.7
    	* 15Jan05 * Changed ZBOX to conserve signs for all cases, contrary
    	            to Kahan, p. 198, but in agreement with its use in
    	            ARG, p. 199.
                      * Fixed bug in p4_carg(): x and y stack order reversed
                       in ZBOX call when x or y is infinite.
    	* 16Jan05 * Replaced in complex-ext.c:
                          _extern double
                          p4_cabs
                        by
                          _export double
                          p4_cabs
                      * Reordered and updated complex-ext.h.
            * 21Jan05 * Added optional calls to C99 elementary functions for
                        comparison of results.
    	* 25Jan05 * Reordered exception save in |Z|.
    	* 30Jan05 * Found out that R2P1 and T2P1 were inverted!  Our tests
                        for |Z| were all perfect, and remain so after the fix!
                        More motivation for a table driven test.
    	* 31Jan05 * Understood a discrepancy with complex-kahan.fs as due
                        to compiled x*x + y*y keeping doubles in registers
                        enough to benefit from the G4/PPC guard bit.  Did that
                        with a special version of |Z|^2 and -ffloat-store.
                      * We noticed sometime earlier, and confirmed today, that
                        using the MacOS X complex functions in complex.h
                        requires -lmx, whereas fenv.h does not, although it
                        says it does.
    	* 15Feb05 * Removed Z=0, etc.

    2006-09-22 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* rename p4_if_execution to p4_q_branch_execution
    	* rename p4_else_execution to p4_branch_execution
    	* keep p4_if_execution and p4_else_execution - marked OBSOLETE
    	* modify relevant smart-words to use p4_*branch_execution (if,else)
    	* fix BRANCH / ?BRANCH in system-ext.c - they should be compiling!
    	* fix AHEAD - it was defined as : AHEAD MARK> ORIG# ; but
    	  it should have been : AHEAD BRANCH MARK> ORIG# ; ever since
    	* thanks to David N. Williams for tiptoeing me on this bug. The
    	  code portion had been marked as "fixme: isn't that incorrect ?"
    	  but it is until now that the fixme can be removed, finally.
    	* all usages of FX(p4_ahead) had to be adapted - they were all
    	  wrong leaving the system in a nonfunctional state. Always use
    	  explicit "MARK> ORIG#" instead of the old "AHEAD".

    2006-09-21 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* docs - skip over some man3 exports that would not be fine
    	  for a real `make install` in the system
    	* `make` will also `make man1` now just like `make install`
    	  will automatically trigger `make install-man1` - this does
    	  not include `make man3` or `make install-man3` ..
    	  use `make it` to trigger `make all` and `make mans`
    	* pfe.spec - fixup the build and install targets to ensure
    	  full packaging of `bin/lib`, `mans` and `docs`. Finally,
    	  and years after the last full release, pfe can be rebuild
    	  completely in a simple process on a standard (Linux) PC.

    2006-09-20 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* doc-completed - the full sourceforge website can now be rebuild
    	  with a call to "make docs". You may install a local copy by
    	  using "make install-docs DESTDIR=$HOME/pfe". A single-stop
    	  upload to sourceforge can be achieved with "make install-sf".

    2006-09-19 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* doc-chain generates a pfe-wordsets.html document now - note that
    	  some doc parts have a "(no description)" entry which should be
    	  fixed for the next release. Often it is "/*.." instead of "/**.."

    2006-09-16 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* doc/pfedoc/*.py doc/makedocs.py - use "make docu" to build
    	  along the newest doc-build-chain. It's also the default target
    	  in the "doc" subdirectory - and it will be the only one in
    	  the future.

    2006-08-14 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* pfe.spec - making over with rpmbuild --with-options
    	* configure.ac - default --programm-suffix is "-forth" now
    	* make-install will `ln -s pfe-forth pfe` now
    	* rpm-post/postun will `ln -s pfe-$variant pfe` now with
    	     checking variants in forth/call/calls/fast/fastest
    	* so finally a pfe rpm will only contain a single variant
    	   which will be a traditional ITC by default. You need to use
    	   rpmbuild --rebuild --with-call for a call-threaded variant
    	* make-rpms will build pfe-forth-*.rpm and pfe-call-*.rpm that
    	   can be installed in parallel now. The new way for multibuilds.

    2006-08-11 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* compilechecks - it seems that some new gcc does again break
    	  --with-sbr-theading model. It's a plain nuisiance and so I
    	  consider to drop the model. Since sbr-call-threading does not
    	  give an advantage over plain call-threading on modern
    	  superscalar architectures, it can be dropped as well leaving
    	  pfe on a pure portable level. That's the plan for the next
    	  generation of the Portable Forth Environment that will start
    	  off next.
    	* release 33.61

    2006-08-10 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* def-sbrcode.h/def-macro.h change all *((T)X)++ into new P4_xCOMMA
    	   that gets us rid of some warning messages about improper
    	   use of a typecasted item as an lvalue. Arrgh, bad new C99.
    	* def-gcc.h - gcc attribute __malloc__ and _const_ was inappropriate
    	  on debian 3.0 for alpha with gcc 2.95.4 - this compiler does not
    	  allow __attribute__ syntax between function head and body.
    	* term-lib.c:53 - #ifdef (unix && sun) is not enough - the newer
    	  solaris9 features "fixed" headers for putchar / tputs exports
    	* doc/Makefile.am - bsd make calls for duplicate %.html rule in
    	   doc/-subdir which is really %.html : %.xml and %.html : %.htm.
    	   ...guess it does only understand traditional rules .htm.html:
    	* stackhelp-ext.c - add cast to int for 64bit cells on alpha-cpu
    	* WW x86-openbsd1 can not link a shared library for testmodule2
    	* WW x86-solaris1 fails to link remote but does while online(?!)
    	* WW sparc-solaris1 says comple-ext.896 "isinf" is not declared.

    2006-08-09 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* append makefile rules to allow automatic sf compilefarm testing
    	* oops: bsd make does not understand $^ for module-dll rules. In
    	  fact we find UNIX make to only know ($@ $% $? $< $*). The $^ as
    	  all-source is known as $> to bsd make. Sun ccs make does not
    	  know either. We need to resort back to "$?" which is possible
    	  for the module-dll.c rules in pfe/ and testmodule*/
    	* http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/make.html
    	* let autogen.sh run "make autoreconf" - autoreconf is easier
    	* term-lib.c: rename t_puts > c_tputs; reason netbsd:
    	../../pfe/term-lib.c:735: error: conflicting types for `t_puts'
    	/usr/include/termcap.h:62: error: previous declaration of `t_puts'
    	* complex-ext.c: #error no fenv.h seen on openbsd - modify to emit
    	  a gcc warning and continue with dummy functions. For the usual
    	  fmin, fmax, signbit we can approximate with inlines but all the
    	  overflow/underflow checking with fetestexcept is impossible
    	  here.
    	* solaris: the compilefarm did have both /usr/local/bin/gcc and
    	  /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc - but linking -lncurses will fail. It had
    	  mixed the library and headers from different locations with
    	  /usr/local/lib/libncurses from gcc and /usr/include/curses.h
    	  from sunwspro intended for /usr/lib/libcurses. Both sparc and
    	  x86 did show different error messages! Just be sure that the
    	  /usr/local/include/ncurses.h is being found by modifying INCLUDE

    2006-08-08 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* cvs repository archive as pfe-33 on pfe.sourceforge.net
    	* fix minor build issues and "signedness warnings" by gcc 4.1

    2005-01-14 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* prepare x86_64 sbr-threading. It does not work due to the
    	   stack-segment being not executable (the first "exec" will
    	   segfault). However, we can enable registers R12..R15 for the
    	   --with-regs allocation. And remember that x86_64 ABI  uses a
               register-based callframe for the first two args.  Hooray.
    	   Downside: native call-layout is 16byte-aligned instead of the
    	   forthish 8byte (it's optional however, just runtime penalties),
    	   so omitting the frame-pointer push/pop is not that a good plan.

    2005-01-13 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* ax_enable_builddir.m4 was updated to ensure that the *.tar.bz2
    	   is copied as well - the earlier version made for a pre-version
    	   of the tarball to end up at the sourceforge download area.
    	* update pfe/complex-ext.c with the latest DNW changes
    	* redistribute pfe/complex-pfe.log to reflect the latest changes
    	* engine-set ensures to mate each VM_LOAD with a CALLER_SAVE
    	* cut down p4_interpret into p4_interpret_query + p4_interpret_loop
    	    to help us get rid of compiler bugs around.

    2005-01-11 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* move sbr-snippets from def-regmacro to def-sbrcode and
    	     include it as a new header file
    	* start creating sbr decompile support
    	* add option-set/engine-set instead of main-sub includes
    	* make FreeThread/FreeOptions to return a "char" whether a
    	     thread block does still exist. The value is usually ignored.
    	* add PFE_HAS_TLS_SUPPORT to pfe/_config.h
    	* use it in option-set to define static __thread marker
    	     when using gcc/C99
    	* introduce pfe/def-regth to move extern-declarations to
    	    a single header file - use the derived PFE_USE_THREAD_BLOCK
    	    instead of the configured PFE_WITH_STATIC_REGS only.
    	* hmm, __thread"ed seems to be broken

    2005-01-10 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* add CODE/END-CODE for those architectures where we do know
    	     the assembler-snippets for sbr-call-threading.
    	* adapt test/checkans accordingly
    	* move "RAISE" and "SIGNAL" from misc-ext to signals-ext
    	* mark both "RAISE" and "SIGNAL" as obsolete and introduce
    	    RAISE-SIGNAL and FORTH-SIGNAL. Since RAISE-SIGNAL is
    	    defined with a different stack behavior we also introduce
    	    "RAISE-SIGNAL.DROP" as the fallback for the old RAISE.
    	* mark forth-signal callback as FIXME

    2005-01-08 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* add comment blocks to mk/Make-H.* (i.e `make gen` / `make force-gen`)

    2005-01-07 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* serious: p4_Exec calls three parts with an "th"(p4_Thread)
    	    argument but p4_run_script_file has been using PFE before
    	    re-preparing the hardware VM registers. That is no problem
    	    if the register was not used in between but it breaks on
    	    some platforms. Damn it!
    	* modifying test/wordsets.fs to use TOOLS-EXT ... reveals another
    	    buglet: the "-I" adds to the end of the inc-path and any
    	    system script is found first - which does not match the local
    	    test-for-correctnesss *.sh script definitions.

    2005-01-06 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* minor adaptions for x86_64 and gcc3.4 support
    	* add lots of "const" around (include dstrings/floating)
    	* adapt fpnostack for x64 where sizeof(double) == sizeof(cell)
    	* add lots of cast to "int"(printf precision) or "long" (printf
    	    numeric value) or even change global variables to from "p4ucell"
    	    to "unsigned" where there were warnings on LP64 (x86_64). Note
    	    that "unsigned" might be 16bit on some systems (LP32), so this
    	    is only fine for the values being small usally. Otherwise one
    	    would use "unsigned long" instead which is 64bit on LP64.
    	* modify def-config.h with a "sensitive" modification:
    	    if USE_FEEKSO then always set _LARGEFILE_SOURCE
    	    (before we were only setting it when also LARGEFILE_SENSITIVE)
    	    Some squarehead header files do cut out some "usual" exports
    	    when any (!) posix def was seen and fallback to pure posix,
    	    so this modification may lead to "missing function prototype"
    	    warnings in other areas. (may be we need to reverse it later..)
    	* introducing p4celll which is defined as "long" instead of the
    	    traditional p4cell to be defined as "int". However, thinking
    	    it over again we see that "p4cell" should be "long" always
    	    to accomodate with common LP32/ILP32/LP64 systems. The old way
    	    has been (obviously) driven by ILP32 system tests.
    	* lots of DROP/ROOM changes to make fpnostack-ext 64bit-ready,
    	    (and S>F had a bug!)
    	* test/checkans breaks with a parsing-error on x86_64. Not yet fixed.

    2005-01-04 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* testing for -9 and -23 in exceptn (SIGSEGV and SIGBUS).
    	* move INSTALL to INSTALL.TXT - darwin "make install" will
    	  fail because filesystem names are check case-insensitive
    	  and the "install" target does already exist.
    	* The "$<" is not portable in explicit make rules - that's
    	   what "info autoconf" says and which has come up as a
    	   problem on some BSD machines with a non gnu make tool.
    	   Let's try with "$^" as a substitute ("all listed dep targets")
    	* add def-gcc.h for gcc-specific attribute declarations
    	* add gcc function-const declarations to core-sub.c, version-sub.c
    	* rename utils-sub.c to os-delay.c
    	* cut out p4_gettimeofday into p4-gettimeofday.c and
    	     introduce def-cell.h for the basic typedefs.
    	* move some defines from def-xtra.h to _missing.h:
    	     extern acess() and extern close() for vxworks
    	* move the rest out of the way and make the include def-xtra.h
    	    into an include of def-limits.h plus _missing.h

    2005-01-03 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* modify test script to return SKIP on missing floating module
    	* modify toplevel makefile to exit with failure even for the
    	     make check-all case - all pfe.spec variants must be correct now!
    	* correct suffix-transform install of modules and pkgconfig files

    2005-01-03 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* create def-check.c and def-limits.h
    	* change some def-headers to include at most pfe-sub.h
    	* move testmodule to testmodule1 and create a new subdirectory
    	    testmodule2 which shows a non-automake autoconf'ed way to
    	    build and install a pfe binary module
    	* add p4_NEED / P4_NEED code for loader-WordLists
    	* update pfe/complex-ext.c from DNWs site
    	* modify complex_init - use new P4_NEED loader-code

    2005-01-02 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* reworked the asm parts of the header files
    	* both -sbr-call-threading and -sbr-call-arg-threading do work,
    	   atleast for i386 architecture. Perhaps the others are broken
    	   now for the change of p4RP/PFE_SBR_RP by +1 ... where the
    	   corresponding -1 adjustment in other places have been done blindly.

    2004-12-01 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* checking for sbr-call-threading - and found a master bug
    	    that did not hit before since we did use -fomit-frame-pointer
    	    but now we use the #define p4IP (p4RP[PFE_SBR_IP_OFFSET])
    	    and "PFE_SBR_IP_OFFSET = -1". The hardware return-stacks
    	    usually grow downwards, and while the "-1" seems natural it
    	    nethertheless wrong: now changed to "PFE_SBR_IP_OFFSET = +1"
    	* another sbr-threading bug was found in the p4_NEST trampolin
    	* it still leaves us with a series of test/check failures but
    	    there a little less of them.
    	* and a long while little the bug was found:
    	    if not -fomit-frame-pointer then a standard stack frame is
    	    created. However any (newly introduced) PFE_SBR_RP_EXIT
    	    will not restore the parent-ebp since the forth sbr-threading
    	    model does not use a frame-pointer. Therefore, we are going
    	    to backup/restore ebp in p4_sbr_call if that seems reasonable.
    	* that leaves us with just three fails in "make check"

    2004-12-31 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* did check with "gcc -ansi" for maximum compatibility
    	   strictly_ansi requires to set a few -Ddefines since the
    	   linux glibc headers will not export functions that are
    	   otherwise useful and very widespread even across no-unix systems.
    	* move memmove and strlcat definitions to os-string
    	* clean up some of the INC/DEC macro usages
    	* make p4_TIB to be constant - and fix the warning messages that
    	    it provokes - only one is currently left.
    	* move intentional compile-time #warn message in dl-def.c to be
    	    visible now only in the runtime execution of ".STATUS".
    	* remove PFE_MODULE_DIR and add P4_opt.lib_paths that can also
    	    be initialized via PFELIBDIR and add more parts with --lib-path
    	* using --lib-path-string we can set the build-dir module path in
    	    ./test for doing a real `make check` before doing `make install`.
    	* switch pfe.spec rpm to do "make check-all" instead of "make check"
    	    before install/packaging. That is a strong enforcement as it
    	    enables the make-check for all --with-variants and includes
    	    the new fix for the test/exceptn tests including sigbus things.
    	* sbr-threading seems to be broken (rpm test succeeds anyway).

    2004-12-31 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* introduce os-string.h and os-ctype.h and
    	  replace all memcpy/strcpy/isprint functions with p4_-prefixed ones
    	* replace P4_INC/P4_ADD with __extension__ macros when using
    	      gcc 3.3 --with-regs since addressof does not work then
    	* replace COPY / ZERO macros with _p4_copy/_p4_zero macros which
    	      do now use the p4_-prefixed ones from os-string.h
    	* all those gcc 3.3.x depractation warnings have been silenced down
    	     includes an change in def-macro relating to increment/decrement
    	     pointer values (including p4SP,p4IP) where will also need to
    	     globally replace all usage of P4_INC(P,T) with P4_INC_(T*,P)
    	     and all usages of P4_VAR(T,V) = X with (V = (T) X).
    	* yes, say a big thankyou to the gcc developers who try to be
     	     aggressivly ansi-C compliant while making the life of the
    	     common C-programmer somewhat harder including places where
    	     it is really really dubious. Sorry for all the inconveniences.

    2004-12-30 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* fix autoconf/automake issues in configure.ac
    	* fix make-check problems related to loadm
    	      we now have p4_loadm_test everywhere

    2004-12-24 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* last merge with Tek
    	* adding all the latest of dnw

    2003-07-03 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* the last merge with Tek was wrong, SORRY.
    	* NVRAM stuff is now included, finally
    	* need to fix a few doc things

    2003-07-01 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* adding a new header-fields.dbk
    	* reordering docbook entries in doc-index.dbk
    	* changing all parts into xincludes - need to copynpaste the
    	   entities like PFE and Tek.

    2003-06-30 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* need two_constant_RT declared through DEF_RUNTIME to make it
    	   visible to option-ext.c in some variant modes. The file
    	   changed however is def-comp.h
    	* fixing a few bugs in uppercasing.dbk

    2003-06-30 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* dnw did try on darwin, need to add <sys/time.h> include
    	    alongside of <sys/resource.h> on most bsd systems.
    	* adding -no-cpp-precomp to bin/configure.ac example

    2003-06-30 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	* merging with latest Tek changes to introduce nvram-style
    	    option processing.
    	* fixing minor problem for build on solaris
    	* add doc/uppercasing.dbk

    2003-06-27 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* modified configure and pfe/configure.ac to pick up a few
    	   of the newer ax macros
    	* we do generate pfe/pfe.pc and pfe/pfe-uninstalled.pc now
    	   via an ax macro
    	* we use the newer ax_set_version_info now which makes for
    	   better computations of stuff
    	* lib/Makefile.am is a new file, the lib directory shall
    	   hold a few examples now to test external module generation.
    	* the resp. files have moved from ./Makefile.am to lib/Makefile.am
    	* no changes to the source code, awaiting merge with Tek changes
    	* ooops, adding sys/resource.h detection and a call in main-stdc.c
    	    for setrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK) to guard against infinite recursions.
    	* a bug in pfe/Makefile.am - change incorrect @DYNALINK@ ... -lm
    	    into -lm @DYNALINK@ for each of the three math modules
    	* need to fix in bug def-restore.h (already in Tek tree?)
    	* adding installation of pfe.pc
    	* move to automake 1.5 always and add dist-bzip2
    	* modify pfe.spec, use bzip2 as main package format, and bundle
    	     the new pfe.pc along...

    2003-04-25 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* create bin/ subdirectory
    	* modify main-sub.* to export C API interface for PFE thread
    	   on hold - for internal scripting.
    	* create bin/pfe-exec example binary
    	* try bin/pfe-exec ".s" or bin/pfe-exec "1" "0" "/"

    2003-04-26 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* no time lately, the changes from earlier this month have
    	  been done in the tek archive for quite a time.
    	* update with ac-archive 5.51 macros, esp. subdir build

    2003-04-09 _
    	* added to selftests
    	* merged with complex-ext (manual editing was needed here)
    	* the queryapp selftest did not work: we need to setup the
       	  PFE.term always and the APPLICATION-mainloop setting should be
    	  tested before going into stdio-mainloop (and both are set before
    	  the default query-mainloop).

    2003-03-23
    	* automatically adding -no-cpp-precomp on darwin
    	* introduce DLLFLAGS / DYNALINK separation to accomodate with darwin
    2003-03-22 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* add two new ac-macros
    	   PATCH_LIBTOOL_ON_DARWIN_PASS_ALL - fix a libtool-1.4 darwin problem
               PATCH_LIBTOOL_CHANGING_CMDS_IFS - fix a libtool-1.4 continuus prob
    	* rename @libpfe_LIBADD@ into @DYNALINK@ and make the ldso
    	   dependencies of structs.la and complex.la only available
    	   if it is does work on this platform - or even required through
    	   no-undefined like on windows. Create a "--enable-option" for it?

    2003-03-20 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* finally - invent a variant that walks the registered wordsets
    	   looking for decompiler routines.
    	* enhance with emitting the wordset name for a word that was
    	   decompiled with a wordset-lookup for RTCOs
    	* distribute all RT_SEE codes to their respective P4RUNTIMEs,
    	   this includes builds_RT (core-ext), constant_RT (core-ext),
    	   value_RT (core-ext), two_constant (double-ext),
    	   offset_RT (useful-ext) - only colon_RT and does_RT are left
    	   since they decompile the "rest".
    	* add knowledge about p4_FXO and p4_SXCO words
    	* misc-ext is called "Compatibility" now
    	* in CTC, we compile p4code, in ITC, it is p4xt, and there is
    	   a typedef that covers the right thing: p4xcode. Let's pick
    	   that up in lit_SEE routines in debug-ext and wherever it
    	   has been used so far, esp. for aliases of "ip". Note that
    	   we have global define P4_REGIP_T to make it easier for us.
    	* oops, usage of P4_TO_CODE in p4_decompile_word was utterly
    	   wrong - it already is a "p4code*".
    	* the "rest" part of p4_decompile must be a p4xcode* as well.
    	    This changes the global definition of P4_CODE_RUN and
    	    P4_CODE_SEE as well which must return this type.
    	* we can now decompile CTC code! well, just some minor quirks
    	   are left. E.g. "ENDCASE" did compile an execution-code
    	   being "DROP" (p4_drop) which made each "DROP" to be
    	   decompiled as "ENDCASE". gee... and same for opening
    	   "CASE" which did compile p4_noop.

    2003-03-20 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* add code in debug-ext to walk the list of registered runtimes.
    	* use new macros to register floating-decompiles for FCONSTANT
    	    and FVARIABLE in floating-ext
    	* remove vocabulary_RT-decompile and use the default visualization.
    	    in the process, I've noticed that vocabulary was errornously
    	    exported as FXco instead of RTco, oops.
    	* default decompiling is now done for MARKER, DEFER, VOCABULARY,
    	    VARIABLE, 2VARIABLE, FVARIABLE
    	* again, MARKER was exported errornously as FXco instead of RTco
    	* adding decompile-routine for ZCONSTANT in complex-ext
    	* complex.la not rebuild - rewrite pfe/*.am to pick automake syntax
    	    of complex_la_DEPENDENCIES to register renamed-rule. HTH.

    2003-03-19 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* the XXCO shall be registered in atexit_wl
    	* implement P4RUNTIME(p4_runtime) and register RTCOs
    	     to the atexit_wl with that runtime. It allows us
    	     to find all Runtime words later in debug-ext parts.
    	* MAJOR BUG seen: the test for redefined-word in header_comma
    	     should be on the argument-wordlist, not the CURRENT wordlist.
    	     In the normal case, both are the same which is the reason
    	     there were no problems so far, but the RTco-loading with the
    	     new model did work on the arg-wordlist w/o setting CURRENT.

    2003-03-19 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* clean NFA2FF and _FFA from sources
    	* update obsolete_RT and make some words obsolete now.
    	* some other minor changes, e.g. t_putchar in term-lib

    2003-03-18 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* get rid of term-lib warnings
    	* get rid of trigraph warning in debug-ext
    	* remove DVaH wordset-code and execution.
    	* remove DSeT wordset-code and execution.
    	* putchar is defined as int putchar(int) - fix wrapper t_putc
    	   in term-lib and get rid of a warning message over there.
    	* re-indent term-lib

    2003-03-18 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	* minor fixes to compile without warnings on vxworks
    	* solaris compiler problem (alignment error): we need to
    	   defeat solaris gcc 2.95 about unrolling memcpy in save_input

    2003-03-18 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* rename pfe-words to engine-ext
    	* forgot to remove debug-error-out in file-sub, fixed now.
    	* killing some warnings in dict-comp and environ-ext
    	* do not call cold_system from boot_system, and replace all
    	    references to boot_system with a pair of both functions
    	* rename to FX (p4_cold_system) and FX (p4_boot_system)
    	* move wordset-loads of extension-modules from cold_system
    	    into boot_system. Only WORDS(forth) is kept in COLD.
    	* move greeting messages after cold_system and place
    	   init_accept_lined also past cold_system
    	* fixup complex.la dependencies for renamed magic
    	* change SHOW-STATUS from SYNONYM into OBSOLETE
    	* change WSIZE from SYNONYM into OBSOLETE
    	* save catch-frame on C-stack alone, save-restore RP now,
    	     therefore extend p4_Except with ->rpp
    	* rename cAtch to catchframe
    	* make engine-sub use p4_Except instead of custom jumpbuf,
    	    even that not all parts are used for this one.
    	* rename p4_run_forth to p4_call_loop and p4_jump into p4_call_stop
    	* fixing P4_OFF_T_MAX

    2003-03-17 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* forgot to remove debug-error-out in file-sub, fixed now.
    	* killing some warnings in dict-comp and environ-ext
    	* split off cold_system() from boot_system() and call it
    	    explicitly in each corner where boot_system is used
    	    now. We prepare for two-stage boot-order here.
    	* move wordset-loads of extension-modules from cold_system
    	    into boot_system. Only WORDS(forth) is kept in COLD.
    	* make p4_cold_system and p4_boot_system FCodes
    	* register the interpret_loop as APPLICATION - before
    	    processing the boot_system.
    	* redefine p4_HERE to be (void**)
    	* rename pfe-words.c into engine-ext.c
    	* start using p4_Except as jumpbuf in engine-sub
    	* put the Except buffer of p4_catch on the C-stack too.
    	* rename p4_run_forth into p4_catch_call to flag similarity.
    	* rename p4_jump to p4_catch_call_exit
    	* SORRY - this does not work, all things deleted, and
    	    starting over with the prior version now.

    2003-03-17 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* start off with an alternative wordset-loader that goes
    	   through calling FX(code) instead of duplicating behavior
    	   in dict-comp.c - the new mode can be enabled using a
    	   commandline-option "--walk-on". Later in the pfe devel
    	   tree it will be the default that needs to be disabled
    	   with "--walk-off" to double-check on loader-errors.
    	* the alternative wordset-loader pushes the arg on to the
    	   SP-stack, puts the name-string as new TIB to be picked
    	   up with WORD/FX_HEADER calls. The save_input does use
    	   the SP-stack which is just a great idea methings.
    	* speedup processing with giving _parseword a quick path
    	   to return the static string from the wordset table.
    	* interesting: the new mode will reduce the CTC trampoline
    	   code to only select RTCO/ITEM pieces. The type-codes
    	   for loader-table and RT-header may even be differently
    	   in the future, atleast for non-RTCOs.
    	* introduce the "___"/"____" as known from my other works
    	   which simulates the hadny C99 variable declaration style
     	   for pre-C99 compilers.
    	* the `make check` succeeds! therefore, we set the new mode
    	   as the default. Please disable with --walk-off to check
    	   whether it actually is the source of a problem when
    	   you experience some in other corners.
    	* a user-config USE_NEW_LOADER is added to deselect the
    	   default for the new loader-mode. It is 1 by default.
    	* let `make clean` work again (removal of doc/src problem)
    	* work on local lib-renamed philosophy

    2003-03-16 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* replace _CHECKDLL with a runtime option "--dlerror-on"
    	* there seems to be a bug about p4_next_line .vs. p4_read_line!
    	* add AC_TYPE_OFF_T to configure.ac - and get _pfe_off_t in
    	    consequence to be used in file-ext.c
    	* rename fsize into p4_file_size and let it return _pfe_off_t
    	* make UL2UDC superflous in file-ext, and put the double-cell
    	   directly on the stack. Also make the system clean for
    	   long-off_t in these parts: FILE-POSITION, FILE-SIZE
    	* the inverse is UDC2UL in RESIZE-FILE REPOSITION-FILE
    	* the _is_nullfile alternative did often not do the same
    	    stack effect - which is an error of course.
    	* mark all locals as registers, possibly killing a localsframe
    	    on the C stack for these.
    	* rename fn_size to file_size and make it static
    	* truncate() needs to be static
    	* fn_resize becomes p4_file_resize
    	* fn_move becomes p4_file_move
    	* fn_copy becomes p4_file_copy
    	* configure.ac checking for fseeko / ftello
    	* introduce def-config defines for _p4_off_t p4_ftello p4_fseeko
    	* replace all fseek/ftell references..
    	* replace long with p4_off_t where apropriate, including
    	     _fextend, file_extend, p4_file_copy, file_size, p4_file_size,
    	     truncate, p4_file_resize, p4_resize_file,
    	     p4_reposition_file,
    	* p4_File and p4_Input contains an "off_t pos" position now.
    	    (note: File->size is left as is, it is in blocks)
    	* the PFE should now be largefile clean, adding ac-macro
    	    ac_sys_largefile_sensitive right in there.
    	* glibc fseeko bug found - bug report sent - making a fixup in
    	    def-config.h about it.
    	* luckily, we do already have a test/file.4th - which did allow
    	    to find a bug introduced during that hunt for the glibc bug.
    	* introducing P4_OFF_T_MAX to help with p4_file_copy argument.

    2003-03-15 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* signal-ext does have problems when SIG_DFL is #define'd
    	     as (void(*)())0 which isn't a proper function prototype.
    	     I can not do more than document the problem in a comment.
    	* it seems to have been a problem related to a bad implementation
    	    of the new variant of ax_cflags_strict_prototypes. With a
    	    new one it just works as it does suppress this option on
    	    platforms where signal.h is not done correctly.

    2003-03-14 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	* merge oss changes
    	* double-mix /DCELL and DCELLS did never exist
    	* header-ext HIDE was never exported
    	* shell-os-ext "CD" clashes with "HEX CD" actually - remove it
    	* shell-os-ext "$$" was also obsolete for some time, remove it now
    	* adjust toplevel Makefile.mk to allow auto: target to
    	   reconfigure autotools within tek environment

    2003-03-13 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* integrate complex-ext by David N. Williams
    	* extends PFE/type with two variables
    	* need to rename include_HEADERS to include_DATA to ensure
    	    that pfe-config.h is _not_ distributed
    	* oops - instead rename pfe-config.h and pfe-target.h into
    	    _config.h and _target.h - add -I.. along, and modify the
    	    sourcefiles to #include pfe/conf.h and pfe/target.h now

    2003-03-13 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* forgot install -> install-all in pfe.spec
    	* clean subdir-build macro and pfe.spec to do the right thing

    2003-03-12 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* try to simulate --enable-all with a series of --with-variant
    	     calls interpreted by the toplevel configure part
    	* now we need Makefile.ax snippet to add the `make rpm` target
    	* add `make check` to spec file - hopefully it works like this
    	* forgot incl-mix.h
    	* move pfe-config.1 into doc
    	* move install-man into doc
    	* doc/Makefile.am needs some top_srcdir and srcdir references
    	* doc/Makefile.am cleaning references to src/Makefile and xm-tool

    2003-03-12 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* move test-scripts into test/Makefile.am
    	* move doc-target to doc/Makefile.am - actually just a removal

    2003-03-12 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* automatic subdir build with a new ac-macro
    	* tweak pfe/configure to get rid of acinclude warnings
    	* using TARGET_H macro now to create uppercase host/target defs.
    	* using modern AC_PREFIX_CONFIG macro as well.

    2003-03-11 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* start off generation 33

    2003-03-11 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* forgot a "const" in fmt of to_float (floating-ext/fpnostack-ext)
    	* show REGFP when REGLP not available (".STATUS" in misc-ext)

    2003-03-10 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* USE_STRTOD and USE_SSCANF should be USER-CONFIGs in both
    	    floating-ext and fpnostack-ext
    	* change the default for these to 1 - should be the better
    	    option according to David N. Williams and Krishna Myneni
    	* slightly reformat in fpnostack-ext and floating-ext, esp. use
    	    #warning with GCC and an error-halt for other compilers.
    	* add some headroom for F-stack in floating-ext, can be set
    	    with USER-CONFIG FLOATING_HEADROOM

    2003-03-07 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* through error-checking, add #ifdef _CHECKDLL in dl-ext.c to
    	    allow refined testing.
    	* badly named new functions, needed s/p4_ftrunc/p4_f_trunc/ etc.

    2003-03-07 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* after long discussions with Krishna Myneni and David N. Williams
    	    the following compromise regarding F>S behavior was found:
    	* FTRUNC>S and FROUND>S added to both of floating-mix and fpnostack-ext
    	* F>S is a synonym of FTRUNC>S in both floating implementations.
    	* FTRUNC is added to both floating implemenations as a complement
    	    for the FTRUNC>S function (note: we do have now FROUND and FLOOR
    	    from ANS Forth plus FTRUNC extra but no FCEIL as in math.h)
    	* "F-ROT" is added as a synonym of "-FROT"
    	* in fpnostack-ext, adding CELL-FALIGNED environment hint that can
    	    be checked in implementations on hardware that would SIGBUS
    	    when a floating-point is not self-aligned in memory including
    	    the stacks.
    	* modify test/fpnostack to succeed on all systems that are not
    	    cell-faligned - to make it easier to detect real errors.
    	* add NEEDS / (ENVIRONMENT?) magic to autoload forth files when
    	     NEEDS -<filename> is given. Also strengthen the requirement
    	     for now that the filename _must_ contain a dot or slash and
    	     also starts off with isalnum character. Remember: NEEDS items
    	     must have a length between 4..25 for compatibility reasons,
    	     which is a limit not applicable to REQUIRES as such.
    	* change p4_required - prepend atexit-wl name with "-" in front and
    	     append ".*" if neither of "." or "/" exist in the filename.
    	     This is an incompatible change - hopefully no one did use the
    	     file:<filename> auto-named functionality so far (e.g. for some
    	     reload scripts). I do expect that to be the case and the change
    	     to be safe - but who knows for certain :-/

    2003-03-05 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* dbk/pfe-fth.mk - oops, s/pfe-fth.htm/pfe-fth.html/
    	* remove dbk/Makefile - wrong idea
    	* adding HPPA to fpnostack-ext section for DOUBLE_ALIGNED
    	* floating-mix s/F-ROT/-FROT/
    	* add some comments in floating-mix, esp. F>S

    2003-03-05 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* merge fpnostack-* changes from krishna Myneni
    	* add doc/changes generated from ChangeLog

    2003-03-05 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* need to modify wordset2words.pl for dpans-reading
    	* add --nofileref option and use it in doc/Makefile right away.
    	* merge floating-* changes from David N. Williams

    2003-03-04 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* add body.htm and htm->html generation to doc/Makefile just
    	     as known from some of my other projects - an easy way to
    	     add a common navigation bar to website files.
    	* remove SFHOST install-sf target in doc/Makefile - it is
    	     superfluous from my own system having a scp-groups script
    	* remove PERLXM rule dbk->xml in doc/Makefile - they do not
    	     belong here anymore, same for c->xml, only xml->html
    	     is kept for the sake of $(SRCS).tar generation and the
    	     various index-lists of old-style doc generation toolchain.
    	* rename sfbasics -> htmfiles, and build it from body.htm chain.
    	* invent $(DBKS).tar as dbk.tar and filling dbk/*
    	* make dbk/pfe-fth.mk index.html target to do `xmlto html`
    	      instead of `xmlto html-nochunks` of the htm target
    	* pack dbk.tar and unpack with install-docs
    	* add *.htm to DISTFINDFILES in toplevel Makefile
    	* split sf-index.dbk into body.htm, index.htm, resources.htm,
    	        authors.htm and derive license.htm and lgpl-license.htm
    	* remove dbk.tar - it is too big (7.7M) and should not be in
    	        a source tarball of pfe - instead reference ../dbk/index.html
    	        directly and copy the files as they are.
    	* instead of "dbk/" subdirectory, use a different scheme
    	* rename resources.htm into documentation.htm
    	* rework the frontpage
    	* oops, need to add dpans.ar and 4thtutor.ar again

    2003-03-03 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* final fixes for aix-cc (thanks Gary!)
    	* five new words in floating-mix as wished for.

    2003-02-29 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	* adapt dbk/pfe-fth.mk for local install with some external
    	    xml-c-pfe-doc binary. (fix: pfe sources are local now).
    	* fix wordsets2words.pl: HOLD -> hold:core: instead of hold::core
    	* fix wordsets2words.pl: slightly different behaviour for
    	    some s/...//gsex - returns ALL in my version but NOTHING
    	    in the tek version. Use s/...//gsx instead.
    	* target "htm" to create pfe-fth.html as `xmlto html-nochunks`

    2003-02-28 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
            * the AIX 4.1 cc compiler is especially stupid regarding
    	  lvalue propagation across type-casts. We introduce a new
    	  def-macro P4_VAR that will cast to target type. In the
    	  normal case, that is ((_TYPE)(_VAR)) but in the aix-cc
    	  case we do use now (*((_TYPE*)&(_VAR))) instead to
    	  make it an lvalue of the given type. We throw in the
    	  WATCOMC as well, btw...
    	* modified files to pick up P4_VAR:
      	      header-ext.c:198, option-ext.c:141,143
    	      forth-usual-ext.c:p4_fetch_plus_plus,p4_store_plus_plus
    	      zchar-ext.c:67,69,74,78
    	      dstrings-ext:111,371,371,373,
    	      dstrings-ext:1222,1225,1227,1299,1300,1301,1302,1304
    	      dstrings-ext:1318,1319,1328,1367,1368,1370,1392

    	* fix P4COMPILES/FX_COMPILE in chainlist-ext.c
    	* disable volatile in signals-ext.c
    	* adding include<termio.h> near include<sys/termio.h> to get
    	    away with aix term.h to require struct termio but not
    	    including the header file itself (similar to solaris).

    2003-02-28 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ merge with Tektronix CMS..........
    	* core-ext.c
    	-   many doc updates
    	-   COUNT changed slightly in behaviour for values 0..255
    	* def-const.h
    	-   introduced P4_NEGATIVE to be seperate from P4_TRUE,
    	    modified core-ext.c FIND accordingly to use now the
    	        P4_NEGATIVE and P4_POSITIVE defines.
    	* main-k12.h
    	-    typedef for msc_strings 2-dimensional (bugfix).
    	* misc-ext.c
    	-   doc updates
    	-   UNDER+ renamed to (UNDER+) and the term UNDER+ provided
    	    with it as an obsolete name - bug report from Anton Ertl
    	    that PFE does use an UNDER+ being different from eveyone
    	    else. The UNDER+ is comus. We introduce a word +UNDER that
    	    has the behavior of comus UNDER+. At some later point in
    	    time we may make a synonym of UNDER+ and +UNDER.
    	* double-ext.c dstrings-ext.c environ-ext.c header-ext.c
    	               host-k12.c locals-ext.c useful-ext.c zchar-ext.c
    	-   just doc updates

    2002-10-20 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ update FROUND with latest version from Krishna Myneni
    	_ this includes an extra configure.ac check for rint() in libm
    	_ adding F= and friends to floating-mix as proposed by Krishna
    	_ added NEEDS as self-parsing variant of ENVIRONMENT?
    	_ modified logging.h prefix-strings to be better suited in a
    	  hosted environment with a terminal to show both the forth
    	  terminal strings and the stderr fail/warn log messages

    2002-10-16 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ added integration steps for fpnostack - including user-config
    	  defines for the interpret-slots
    	_ added user-config for FROUND_FLOOR - changing the default of
    	  floating-ext to that of fpnostack-ext as being the correct but
    	  slower implementation. The old behaviour is retained as a user-conf
    2002-10-12 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ added fpnostack-ext courtesy of Krishna Myneni of kForth fame
    2002-10-01 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ added a few gcc 3.2 fixes - still buggy however for many cases
    2002-09-10 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ initial support for sparc sbr-threading - incomplete.
    	_ partly fixed ia32 sbr-threading - the include-file does not yet go

    2002-09-09 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ various small fixes up to here
    	_ including a ">name" bug to be fixed
    	_ adding another doc page
    	_ reworking the toplevel configure/makefile to work smoother than ever
    	_ removing some missing's
    	_ and cleaning the kitchen ;-)

    2002-08-14 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ bug report, win32 compile problem reports, and other valuable
    	  comments by Joonas Pihlaja jpihlaja-at-cc-helsinki-fi
    	_ removed _image functions
    	_ tek-related small changes that should not pop up in sf-versions.

    2002-07-17 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ found a little bug about uppercase match
    	_ made provisions to live with uppercase and lowercase feature
    	  for a long time - added a bunch of new options for them
    	_ the wordl_flags have got expanded here
    	_ implemented getenv-style for getoptions
    	_ some tek-specific additions in term-k12 and host-k12
    	_ found out that complete_word was horribly broken, possibly
    	  for quite some time, just noticed by testing in the new world
    	  of uppercase matching. Added a complete new implementation.

    2002-07-16 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ found a bug in main-sub near -I copying routines +1 -> +2
    	_ postpone.fs is not newstyle caselessmatch ready - fixed it.

    2002-07-15 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ prepare uppercase-caselessmatch feature
    	_ search_wordlist and find_local will print a warning message
    	_ search_incomplete and do_match do not match with oldstyle ones
    	_ search_option does already use newstyle, without warning
    	_ no configure option has been added to shut off the warning
    	  messages in this version to gain the speed that is intended
    	  to be there when all p4_strncmpi occurences get deleted

    2002-07-10 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ did try with a chain-ext implementation and dumped it. It is
    	  however shipped along for reference or future implementation.
    	_ implemented chainlist-ext instead and bound two wordlists
    	  into the outer interpreter: prompt-wordlist and abort-wordlist
    	_ likewise, atexist-wordlist is now officially exported and an
    	  extended do-all-words-while has been implement to cover similar
    	  executions as for `forget`
    	_ in the course, the normal_execute was slightly touched and
    	  modified, hopefully no bugs did get it.
    	_ added dstrings patch from DNW as show below (ccm version 0.6.28).

    2002-06-27 _ <david.n.williams@umich.edu> Version 0.6.26
            _ Fixed bug in ENDCAT so it properly leaves EMPTY$ when
              there is no concatenation in progress.  Also fixed
              ENDCAT specification in dstrings-ext.c, as well as in
              dstrings.html (not in pfe distribution).
    2002-06-18 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ move test/* into install-subdirectory share/pfe/test/ so we
    	  can have them installed along always without cluttering the
    	  space needed. In unixish systems, the test/ directory might
    	  also just be a symlink to the pfe test/ directory, so it is
    	  always up to date.
    	_ rework self-checking of pfe, to make it easier to get along
    	  with hundreds of test scripts.
    	_ implement chain-ext.c
    	_ normal_execute will not go through p4_call/p4_run_forth anymore.
    	_ create a macro FX_EXECUTE to make room for optimizations.
    2002-06-17 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ add a small fixup for win32 sig handling.
    	_ add `make installs` into pfe/Makefile.am, and add an sed-subst
    	  for a series of `make install-it` forward-rules to handle some
    	  cases easier where make jumps on dirs and filenames of similar
    	  name of a phony target.
    2002-06-11 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ add _NULLFILE_ROBUST in file-ext.c, just problematic in win32 api
    	_ SPY-ENTER and SPY-DEFER for with-spy.c, partial call-threadin support
    2002-06-05 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ merge latest changes made for Tek's upd-pfe.exe
    	_ test for different variants
    2002-06-04 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ fix build issue for i386 -calls and -fast variant
    	_ make-check-all still a bit broken
    2002-06-04 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ integrate dstrings-ext updates at version 0.6.27
    	_ place come_back onto main-sub throw-exit
    	_ invert semicolon-hook in core-ext as suggested by DNW

    2002-05-29 _ <david.n.williams@umich.edu> Version 0.6.25
            _ Fixed bug in SEE-handling for ARGS{ words.
            _ Promoted $GARBAGE? to the regular dstrings word list.
            _ Renamed M" and M` to CAT" and CAT`.  Much more
              descriptive, and Guido's SYNONYM uninhibits the user
              from defining shorter synonyms.
            _ Changed C names and labels to reflect mstring
              (measured string) replacement for pstring (packed
              string) terminology.
            _ Added conditional throw compiles (#if mcount size less
              than cell size) for mcount overflow on cats and Forth
              string copies into the string buffer.  Cleaned up and
              consolidated USER-CONFIG's for mcount size.
            _ Reviewed and updated in-source documentation, updated
              prototypes.
            _ Revised dstrings.html and smodel.html.
            _ Changed the default USER-CONFIG from short-counted
              (nominally 16-bits) to long-counted strings (nominally
              32-bits).
            _ Added $FRAME-DEPTH to debugging section.
            _ Fixed a bug in ENDCAT revealed by testing with
              char-size counts.  Tests with char, short, and long
              all work, as far as they go...

    2002-05-13 _ <david.n.williams@umich.edu> Version 0.6.24
            _ Fixed bug in p4_collect_garbage() where a string stack
              scan to update forward links was omitted for dynamic
              strings bound to variables.  Also made the link update
              code more efficient.
            _ Fixed another bug in p4_collect_garbage() by moving
              "target = next;" at top of do-loop from inside to
              outside the loop.
            _ Added $GARBAGE? in the debugging section.  Maybe it
              should be promoted to the regular dstrings word list.
            _ Improved trystrings.fs and renamed as trydstrings.fs.

    2002-05-24 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ lots of small changes in between which led to sbr-threading
    	  support for PowerPC architecture. Sadly, only a speedup of
    	  factor 2 was detected, so we decided to not develop this
    	  part further than it is. Note that the portable call-threading
    	  does already provide a speedup of 50%, and this should be
    	  much more stable. Anyone with a powerpc computer should
    	  probably check for bugs in powerpc-sbr-threading support.
    	  Personally, I think that the real problem is the shortness of
    	  forth words - the proc-entry code for each native-code
    	  function is 16 bytes (4 opcodes), and the exit-code is 8 bytes
    	  (2 opcodes), a body-arg is encoded in 8 bytes (2 opcodes).
    	  If we could do code-inlining, the proc-overhead would be
    	  reduced drastically, but without it, only factor of 2 (or
    	  100% execution speedup) is achieved at the expense of
    	  having no debugger, no decompiler, no patch facilities.
    	_ this will probably the last 32.x version as I'll turn towards
    	  other areas of the internal system to add speedups or new
    	  features, and it is quite likely that it breaks backward
    	  compatibility - the whole sbr-threading and call-threading
    	  parts was mostly #ifdefs and change of macros in many places,
    	  the ITC-type objectcode should be touched significantly.

    2002-04-03 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ wrong sbrx-ac_define in configure.ac
    	_ split dict-sub.c into dict-sub.c and dict-comp.c where the
    	  latter includes the loader and compiling words while the first
    	  is for dict wordlist build and search and forget.
    	_ _missing.c should be linked to libpfe, even that it does not
    	  contain anything so far but for a few embedded platforms.
    	_ the change from p4_header to p4_header_comma did sometimes
    	  forget to place a P4RUNTIME1 - in dict-comp it broke loader vocs.

    2002-04-01 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ change saved_input mechanics to allow it to be done in
    	  _included and _evaluate that took RP so far but that's not
    	  allowed in sbr-threaded mode. Reduces the test/-series to
    	  just two partial-fail and one fatal-knock-out.
    	_ sbr-fix +LOOP ... and go back to standard DO behaviour
    	_ sbr-fix DOES>
    	_ make optimization for sbr-arg-variant - do not need to make
    	  a copy of RP to modify it, just save IP value of top-of-RP.
    	_ only test/exceptn is left to fail
    	_ dont forget saved_input in unnest_input...
    	_ DONE !!! --with-sbrx-threadings works best!!
    	_ finally: change the names of it:
    	  --with-sbr-threading => --with-sbr-call-threading
    	  --with-sbrx-threading => --with-sbr-threading
    	  PFE_SBR_THREADING -> PFE_SBR_CALL_THREADING
    	  PFE_SBRX_THREADING -> PFE_SBR_CALL_ARG_THREADING
    	  and adjust the toplevel configure
    2002-03-31 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ sbr-fix for DO / LOOP - the implementation uses the other
    	  variant now with RP[0,1] set to SP[0,1] directly - otherwise
    	  the implementation was too complex to fit everyting into the
    	  i386 registers which did lead to RP overlap in SBR-threading.
    	_ loop-test does now succeed.
    	_ sbr-fix for fx_skip_string, a.k.a. s" xx" and friends - it
    	  does however need a complete ifdef-series and a set of new
    	  macros called the NEW_IP macros now.
    	_ 2/3 of the test/-checks do work now
    	  missing are: coretest postpone search-order wordsets
    	  (probably due to problems around postpone and friends.)
    2002-03-30 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ add --with-sbrx-threading that pushes the body_addr/code_addr
    	  via an argument to the runtime/execution routines. Add some new
    	  macros for that, compile_xcode_BODY and compile_xcode_DATA are
    	  used throughout, and FX_POP_RT_BODY is changed into the two
    	  parts of FX_USE_BODY_ADDR + FX_POP_BODY_ADDR.
    	_ the _XE routines must be changed later with FX_USE_CODE_ADDR
    	_ dont forget to add to all _RT and _XE routines their USE-arg
    	  declaration - one can use a macro for that by changing the
    	  FCode into FCode_RT and FCode_XE resp.
    	_ make all RP-accessing words into compiling words that will
    	  compile an execution. This is needed for passing them RP / IP
    	  these words include: >R R> R@ >2R 2R> 2R@ I J LEAVE UNLOOP (core-ext)
    	  plus K (forth-83-ext) ?LEAVE RP@ (forth-usual-ext)
    	  R'@ R'! R"@ R"! R! 2R! DUP>R R>DROP 2R>2DROP (misc-ext)
    	_ note: THROW / CATCH are just ifdef'd out
    	_ modify mk/Make-H.pl to actually see FCode_XE and FCode_RT
    	_ let sbrx IP do at RP[-1] - which actually works
    	_ the speedwhile.fs on my 800MHz P3 results in:
    	    ITC: 38s   CTC: 35s SBR-CTC: 29s SBR-ARG-CTC: 21s
    	    ITC: 100%  CTC: 92% SBR-CTC: 76% SBR-ARG-CTC: 55%
    	_ renaming things a bit for --enable-all and the rpm.spec
    	  --with-call-threading => --program-suffix=-call
    	  --with-sbr-threading  => --program-suffix=-calls
    	  --with-sbrx-threading => --program-suffix=-fast
    	_ add some complex i386 register-selection stuff in def-regs.h
    2002-03-30 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ add -fast to pfe.spec file representing --with-sbr-threading
    	_ FX_COMPILE should use FX_COMPILE_COMMA_XE instead of FX_COMMA on XE
    	_ speedwhile.fs says that pfe-fast is 3/4 time of pfe-call
    	  note that this is *with* -fframe-pointer
    2002-03-30 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ add toplevel configure meta-tions --use-call-threading and
    	  --use-sbr-threading that will add a --program-suffix as well.
    	_ fix p4_call for 386 - the CALL-NEAR needs an offset target
    2002-03-29 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ added test/postpone.sh
    	_ added test/search-order.sh and forth script
    	_ modify all .sh files to use a $testcase variable
    	_ prepare sbr-threading
    	_ fix [COMPILE] - p4_comma -> p4_compile_comma
    	_ fix DVaL type in dict-sub (e.g. FORTH-WORDLIST)
    	_ ifdef _SBR_THREADING where needed
    	_ --with-sbr-threading variant compiles and boots
    2002-03-29 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ fix destroyer-functionality in forget
    	_ fix missig pop_rt_body in floating-deinit
    	_ `make check` does succeed 100% now --with-call-threading
    	_ add FX_RUNTIME1_RT optimization
    	_ `make check` does again succeed --without-call-threading
    2002-03-29 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ vocabulary-rt did not use POP_RT
    	_ rename p4_var_RT to p4_variable_RT to be good for _DEF_RUNTIME1
    2002-03-29 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ omit another signal/raise test/*
    	_ bug in test/loop-test.sh (wrong temp file)
    	_ fix call-threading POSTPONE
    	_ fix DOES and option-ext - these did modify the xt with an xcode.
    	_ make-check runs now through (well, just LOADM floating fails)
    	_ warning-free core-ext
    	_ header-sub / header-ext - here some did modify the xt with an xcode
    	_ debug-ext - here some did modify the xt with an xcode
    	_ invent the optimization FX_GET_RT in place of FX_GET_RUNTIME1
    	_ apply to debug-ext, core-ext, option-ext, header-sub
    	_ p4_obsoleted_synonym -> p4_obsoleted
    	_ p4_create_does -> p4_builds
    	_ export def_runtime in def-comp - including some weak variants
    	_ add a "-call" variant to pfe.spec to test the variant as system pfe
    2002-03-29 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ delete p4_make_header and p4_header - this did need in turn to
    	  create a few dummy symbols to attach P4RUNTIMES to. This makes
    	  the test/wordsets to run now through. hoorray.
    	_ make-check error-count down to 39.
    2002-03-28 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ call-threading!!! - it works for many things now, if not all...
    2002-03-28 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ add three configure options
    	  --with-nosmart ... the code exists for a long time
    	  --with-call-threading ... next step to be implemented
    	  --with-sbr-threading ... add some asm snippets on top call-threading
    	_ start adding defines in the headers to prepare for call-threading
    	_ often change p4xt into new p4xcode - which are the same in ITC
    	_ often change *xt into *P4_TO_CODE(xt) - in ITC, the macro is a noop
    	_ sometimes change (**ip)() into (*ip)()
    	_ in debug-ext, have to disable some sections...
    	_ --with-call-threading, compiles, and boots. But that's it.
    	_ because the loading-table has been turned into saving the
    	  words-entries directly in the cfa of the words, so how to find
    	  and execute them. well, that's the task for the next version.
    2002-03-27 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ add SOURCE-NAME to misc-ext in parallel of SOURCE-LINE
    	_ change P4RUNTIME into P4RUNTIMES to add a flag for ONLY-CODE
    	  to prepare the use of call-threading
    2002-03-25 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ add RESET-ORDER-IS exporting PFE.reset_order (search-order-ext)
    	  and make an if() around RESET-ORDER within abort_inits and
    	  set the default to TRUE in boot_system (engine-sub), so that
    	  the default behaviour of PFE is not touched but a user can
    	  disable the implicit RESET-ORDER ON ABORT.
    	_ let DEFAULT-ORDER save CURRENT too, and let RESET-ORDER do
    	  also reset the CURRENT definitions-wordlist.
    	_ add --with-static-regs, and modify a few headers and main-sub
    	  to use a memory area for the complete ForthVM instead of just
    	  a single pointer for single-threaded non-cpur-regs mode. This
    	  can speed up the execution for a statically-linked program as
    	  the C compiler / Linker can precompute the final address of
    	  each ForthVM register and system-variable. Just like the case
    	  of the regTH in memory, it allows to compile this PFE also
    	  with non-gcc compilers or machines that do not yet have a good
    	  register allocation for the ForthVM in hardware registers.
    	_ in the course, use main-def.c now, add main-alloc.c, and
    	  modify .STATUS to report the two regTH/regVM modes. From
    	  main-sub, four new functions are exported and two extern
    	  references for the two global static memory areas called
    	  p4_reg (static p4_Thread) and p4_opt (static p4_Session).
    	_ note that you probably don't want to use shared-modules with
    	  static-regs but it is left up to the packager to decide.
    	_ modify the boot-order a bit - after --boot-file, do an
    	  implicit DEFAULT-ORDER that includes the FORTH-WORDLIST in
    	  DEFINITIONS, then let main-sub load the include_file. Cut
    	  out the CURRENT=FORTH_WL in abort_inits, and let it load
    	  through RESET-ORDER which might have been modified by the
    	  include-script. This fixes some annoyences with includescripts.

    2002-03-19 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ remove PFE.query_hook, add PFE.lined_accept.intercept
    2002-03-15 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ new style had a bug for without-modules, detected on darwin os.
    2002-03-14 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ change dl-internal.c loading. Instead of linking the symbol
    	  into dl-ext.c, there is now an external call through main-sub.c
    	  that sets a new PFE.set->modules pointer in our option area,
    	  usually before booting the pfe thread. The problem came up since
    	  for win32/darwin we did need to let resolve all symbols, however
    	  libpfemodules needs symbols from libpfe, and libpfe needs the
    	  p4Words(internal) symbol from libpfemodules. At the same time,
    	  this interdependency might violate LGPL rule [2d] when the
    	  libpfemodule contains code not under LGPL, as it is a static
    	  interdependency not given through an optional argument nor
    	  through a declaration in the headers. After all, the dl-internal.c
    	  should get linked to libpfemodule.la, not libpfe.la, and our
    	  main-def gets linked with both libpfe.la and libpfemodule.la,
    	  and main-def uses a call to declare the address of the table
    	  in dl-internal.c to the loader in dl-ext.c : in the course we
    	  rename the feature to set->modules standing for set-prelinked-
    	  modules-table. Theoretically, they might not be prelinked but
    	  dynalinked but that does not make much sense since in that case
    	  we could probably dynaload each module on its own through dl-ext.
    	_ in the course of changes, I had to note that the zchar-ext was
    	  never compiled in the autotool'ed pfe - dear me ;-) - now it's
    	  an extra module and put into libpfemodule.la
    	_ extend .spec to build -fig,-regs,_forth variants and prepare
    	  toplevel-configure to accept --enable-all to configure them
    	  all in one rush.
    	_ disable the annoying warning in dict-sub - it's about pop_rt_body
    2002-03-13 _ <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ added doc/known-problems.dbk
    2002-03-12 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ some more generated docs added
    	_ fix 0x0xFEFF decompiling error
    2002-03-11 _ <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ more generated docs and fixes
    	_ fix dl-hpux.c error for hpux version
    2002-03-10 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ forgot to add wordset-modules.dbk to doc/Makefile
    	_ forgot to add 2DROP to end of definition of "(MARKER)".
    2002-03-09 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ fix MARKER - missing VOC_LINK during store
    	_ add new doc page
    	_ modify doc/src/Makefile to use libpfemodule_la_SOURCES
    2002-03-07 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ add a new doc page
    	_ modify sf-index page and upload
    2002-03-05 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ updated documentation files
    	_ release as 0.32.46

    2002-03-05 - <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ here's a loooong list of changes in the last year, where this
    	  list takes its descriptions from the change-ids at Tektronix.
    	  Sometimes I did mark home work, sometimes I did just try an
    	  idea at home, and did put it in here the next day from memory,
    	  and in quite some places the ideas help just better compatibility
    	  anywhere, while in other the changes are only useful on k12xx.
    	_ 5182 k12xx specifc, abort and windowtofront
    	_ 5171 enable multi build again
    	_ 5165 make check, cleanups
    2002-02-xx
    	_ 5070 msc, emu_connect, debugged
    	_ 5065 msc, emu_connect, new syntax
    	_ 5057 move some compat words
    	_ 5029 tm, arbitrary number of tm-states
    	_ 5024 msc specific
    	_ 5008 / 5010 fix typos
    	_ 4994 tm specific, htonl in emu_tx related
    	_ 4991 bug, history buffer has no empty line
    	_ 4758 bootfile load order change, k12xx request
    	_ 4679 msc specific, poolprep
    2002-01-xx
    	_ 4634 adapt save_thread / load_thread to new module in
    	  def-restore.h
    	_ 4633 k12xx specific, paint red on error
    	_ 4626 new external tek modules
    	_ 4314 msc specific
    	_ 4482 after-merge testing fixes
    	_ 4481 can not TYPE more than 255 (k12xx only?)
    	_ 4607 tm specific
    2001-12-xx
    	_ 4104 big home work : prepare call-threading / sbr-threading
    	_ 4011 make order-size settable via option-ext
    	_ 3170 xm-tool doc generation update (december 2001)
    	_ 3062 msc specific
    2001-11-xx
    	_ 2819 / 2820 terminal-to-front, k12xx specific
    	_ 2809 / 2815 / 2819 updec
    	_ 2777 updec internal descriptions
    	_ 2547 updec enroll and fixups ...
    	_ 2538 some fixes...
    	_ 2312 cpu-regs save&restore, new format, sane format
    	_ 2302 tm specific
    	_ 2536 libtool 1.4.2 upgrade
    	_ 2535 november 2001, the october-release is shipping, so we can
    	  start over with a new baseline cycle
    	_ 2296 msc specific
    	_ 2291 32.34 cleanups (yes, this is beta stage)
    2001-10-xx
    	_ 2023 another point release
    	_ 2017 msc specific
    	_ 1999 DLSYM implementation
    	_ 1994 NTOHL added
    	_ 1588 updec changes
    	_ 1430 point release 32.30 for tek internal beta builds
    	_ 1407 updec with 32.x generation
    	_ 1375 pfe-all version, including realemul (pfe tek offline vers)
    	_ 1284 k12xx padding
    	_ 1276 goto_state / random / totalmem-optionext changes
    	_ 1222 /1227 / 1228 /1229 / 1230 / 1231 / 1233 /1236
    	  slowly merge work done @home into the tek tree. The change-ids
    	  are for 32.17 up to 32.27 version numbers. The private work did
    	  start off at 32.14 in the tek tree code. Have to check later
    	  what was done there at home.
    	_ 1133 modify lined.c
    	_ 1132 tm specific
    	_ 1111 create header-ext, assembling related words there, and
    	  cleaning up some things
    	_ 1046 / 1089 floating.so, added also for tek - the tek tree had
    	  been built without float support since some cpus did not have a
    	  fpu anyway. Here we add a floating module for the ones who
    	  have it, and install it on the device. The desktop pfe does
    	  now always have a floating.so module, but it must always be
    	  loaded via " floating-ext" environent? call. Before that it
    	  is not available, so the startup pfe binary has a small
    	  footprint unless floating-ext is needed for an application.
    	_ 1045 small fixes
    	_ 1039 k12 gui problem
    	_ 1038 meas problem
    	_ 1019 to_body non-const - BIG CHANGE!! the additional does-field
    	  (called aux in the sources) is killed from the word header in
    	  forth. Instead, we put the does-field *after* the cfa-field in
    	  the respective words created, where it was *preceding* the cfa
    	  until now. Now we don't want to waste memory unnecessarily, and
    	  even more, quite some program make the assumption that the PFA
    	  is CELL+ from CFA, atleast in the old fig sources. However,
    	  these old fig sources do also expect a "<BUILDS" field for the
    	  does-words to exist in PFA[0], and therefore add another CELL+
    	  to get at the first real value. Here we change the style, the
    	  ">BODY" has been an offsetword so far, just adding CELL+ to all
    	  values given to it (i.e. like a "->BODY" word). Now the input
    	  argument to ">BODY" must be a valid CFA address (or null) since
    	  we fetch the value from the CFA, and then check if that CFA
    	  value is the runtime of BUILDS or DOES. If yes, we add two
    	  cells, if no we add just one cell, and that makes the outer
    	  behaviour ANS Forth compatible. I did check with comp.lang.forth
    	  that this is a possible mode, and in fact, by theory, a native
    	  code colon word does not have any PFA (parameter field) but a
    	  very long CFA (code field) where the latter has a size much
    	  longer than the CFA call code. In the end, after all this long
    	  text, we did achieve another effect: the --with-fig mode and
    	  the ans mode of pfe are simply identical for the internal
    	  header layout of all words, including variables, colon words
    	  and does words. People making assumptions about the internal
    	  layout being other than fig or ans asserts will however see
    	  their programs to be broken. That's why, 32.x starts here.
    2001-09-xx
    	_ 898 create comus ANEW
    	_ 886 msc specific
    	_ 793 more --with-k12=offline-msc
    	_ 792 full typed comma support, part 1 (for explicit reloc info)
    	_ 778 create "LITERAL," as the non-immediate variant of
    	  "LITERAL". Follows a discussion on comp.lang.forth about
    	  state-smart words and the need to provide a non-statesmart
    	  variant for compiling words, in order to clean postpone problems
    	  about these.
    	_ 773 change internal voc names to bracket-style, including
    	  helper words, the bracket-style indicates that they are
    	  immediate vocabularies. Hang the base wordlist into a
    	  VALUE FORTH-WORDLIST and make FORTH to use this value.
    	_ 765 meas makefiles adaption, tek internal
    	_ 678 create CONTEXT? as the count for the context wordlist,
    	  this is used to add glue code so that a wordlist is only be
    	  put once into the search-order, used to prevent order overflow
    	_ 675 add NAME>STRING to forth, as discussed on comp.lang.forth
    	_ 12291 database transition prepare - new change ids after here
    	_ 12131 offline msc, eventcall @ win
    	_ 12076 offline msc, k12-real @ win, client side
    	_ 12053 mforth, init_fkey, kill_key
    	_ 12048 offline msc, k12-real @ win, server side
    	_ 12029 msc default chart
    2001-08-xx
    	_ 12028 offline-msc, k12-emul @ term-widow
    	_ 11899 vx-start sym-lkup option-ext feature
    	_ 11875 validation req, no timeout fallthrough
    	_ 11874 RANDOM bug, RAND_MAX is 15bit on vxworks
    	_ 11821 auto-mingw32-build
    	_ 11663 msc, default-state-return
    	_ 11576 offline msc, k12-emul @ term-wincon
    	_ 11574 msc specific
    	_ 11570 add def-pth.h
    	_ 11518 emu_tx word adapations (new classic adaption)
    	_ 11453 msc timer adaptions
    	_ 11447 key support
    	_ 11358 k12xx specific
    	_ 11341 sparc with-regs, makes a lot of speedup during execution
    	_ 11322 offline pfe, solaris
    	_ 11317 offlne pfe.exe with modules, and dll
    	_ 11165 tm updates
    2001-07-xx
    	_ 11133 offline pfe.exe with modules
    	_ 11129 bugfix - EXTENSIONS voc not found
    	_ 11122 implement [POSSIBLY] and DEF'
    	_ 11105 test-dir and scripts for k12xx specifica
    	_ 10951 point release 31.51
    	_ 10950 zchar-ext should use FORTH as the wordlist base
    	_ 10947 clocks_per_sec_bug
    	_ 10946 split environment_Q to make it callable as a helper func
    	_ 10944 CS-DROP / CS-SWAP implementations
    	_ 10941 add R"@ and friends, this proposition was seen and
    	  discussed on comp.lang.forth, which I see as a lightweight
    	  alternative to LOCALS.
    	_ 10936 in C, a "=" is no sequence point, therefore some code
    	  like FX_PUSH(SP[1]) leaves undefined behaviour. Avoid it.
    	_ 10928 replace all OUT by p4_OUT, and remove OUT-#define,
    	  same for SPAN, add p4_COLS and use it. Some short defines are
    	  no good with win32 headers by the way.
    	_ 10927 forth_wl is default for CURRENT
    	_ 10924 forget vs vocs in search-order
    	_ 10907 merge msc-string changes
    	_ 10902 make modules for tek system
    	_ 10895 msc specific
    	_ 10868 create terminal-output logfile facility
    	_ 10731 fix DEFER
    	_ 10726 fix builds (July 2001)
    	_ 10713 31.45 point release
    	_ 10709 meas makefiles
    	_ 10703 newest autotools update
    	_ 10697 k12xx, fxt changes for more SAPs
    	_ 10645 fix host_cpu for pfe_modules
    2001-06-xx
    	_ 10335 make a fat vxworks binary, w/ dl-internal
    	_ 10334 remove openstring remainings, use zstrings!
    	_ 10324 eliminate p4_Head, remove make_head, header_from
    	  and use p4_create_from in all places
    	_ 10320 msc-default integration
    	_ 10299 31.41 point release
    	_ 10281 all-version, make multibuild system more clever,
    	  use build subdirs for the source subdirs (June 2001)
    	_ 10280 some mergers around version-offspring
    	_ 10137 uppercase HOST_ defines instead of lowercase variants
    	_ 10130 mbs, msc, table-remove
    	_ 10124 mforth autotool'd, build mforth.so for offline-pfe
    	_ 10121 modules via configure, change style
    2001-05-xx
    	_ 9975 / 9988 patch points
    	_ 9907 fix env/option problem on win32
    	_ 9902 zero-terminated strings and support for backslash strings,
    	  fixes prior home work models
    	_ 9885 create dl-win32 dlopen interface
    	_ 9883 make pfe/term-k12.c/outbuf_ring configurable
    	_ 9873 portability fixes (see next entries below...)

    2001-05-21 - <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ cleanup some problems about cygwin and mingw targets
    	_ create dl-win32.c

    2001-05-20 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ watcom-c-10 changes. Project-files/Target-files are now
    	  included along with a dummy pfe-config.h/pfe-target.h
    	  The dos32-pfe32.exe does work great.
    	  The dos16-pfe16.exe will fail on startup with out-of-memory
    	  and if you use an option to lower memory consumption it
    	  will FREEZE WIN-95 !!! Beware of FAT-filesystem corruption !!!
    	_ add *.tgt *.wpj to distfindfiles

    2001-05-19 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ add another way to detect destroyers: check for a destroyer_RT
    	  in the XT if the name is immediate, pretty easy and portable
    	  to a configuration without an FFA. Actually, I hope to delete
    	  the default for FFA to no, and make it again as fig-compatible
    	  as possible.
    	_ need to replace all references to the DESTROY-bit, mostly
    	  checks are changed to the new word PFE_IS_DESTROYER.
    	_ add destroyer_RT near forget_word API in dict-sub.
    	_ change DEFER/IS/DOER/MAKE to use PFA[1] always. In non-fig
    	  mode, simpel leave PFA[0] blank.... and warn about usage.
    	_ add a test/check for defer/make
    	_ add fixup for darwin, add fixup for newest crossmingw compiles.
    	_ add manpage generation rule for pfe-config ... a debian requirement

    2001-05-18 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ replace all HAVE_ defines by PFE_HAVE_ defines
    	  (except: HAVE_VERSION_H HAVE_CONFIG_H)
    	  hopefully all config.h defs are now changed to pfe-config.h defs.
    	_ merge with pfe-30/README
    	_ dnw found a superfluous ifdef in dstrings-ext, thanks.
    	_ on darwin-1.3, a patch to generated libtool can build
    	  a .so-sharedlib of pfe, but the main-exe pfe is bound
    	  statically, "otool -L pfe" does not reveal a dependency
    	  on libpfe. Actually, the darwin-native sharedlibs are
    	  called ".dylib", not ".so". Same for the loadm-functionality
    	  of pfe - the configuration did not find any known unix'ish
    	  dlopen functions, so the pfe can not dynaload the created
    	  external modules anyway. Therefore, ATM, just use a
    	  configure --without-modules --disable-shared ... and if
    	  you really want to look at the upcoming sharedlib of pfe
    	  on darwin, then patch the libtool after configure with
               mv libtool libtool.gen
               sed -e '/archive_cmds=/s:\\\\":\\":g' libtool.gen > libtool

    2001-05-17 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ fix some issues that come from error-messages
    	  from the borland 5.5 compiler.
    	_ strncmpi was still used in some places, instead
    	  let them all use p4_strncmpi and have it defined
    	  in core-sub.h : core-sub.c dict-sub.c dl-ext.c
    	  environ-ext.c locals-ext.c option-ext.c
    	_ remove check for HAVE_CONFIG_H from _missing.h
    	  and let the HAVE_-checks become PFE_HAVE_-checks.
    	_ change _missing.c HAVE_ to PFE_HAVE_-checks.
    	_ Borland does not use __FUNCTION__, so we have to
    	  change logging.h
    	_ main-sub.c: locale.h/unistd.h HAVE_ -> PFE_HAVE_
    	_ memory-sub.c: P4_ADD does not work in here with bcc.
    	_ some void*-calculation must become char*-calculations.
    	  p4_to_link paren_dict_limit_
    	_ real windows has timeval in winsock.h ... need to
    	  include it in posix-ext.c
    	_ real windows does not have unistd.h ... instead it
    	  uses io.h for the basic file functions.
    	_ fix p4_compiles/fx_compile issues in shell-os-ext
    	_ add <io.h> to _missing.h
    	_ posix-ext.c needs PFE_HAVE_WINBASE...
    	_ need direct.h in shell-os-ext
    	_ use pocket_filename in p4_chdir (shell-os-ext)
    	_ use PFE_RETSIGTYPE instead of RETSIGTYPE in signals-ext
    	_ look for an env-option to suppress install_signals
    	_ a few borland-c-55/Makefile fixes
    	_ the bcc32 pfe.exe is now there, but it is wrong
    	  and throws before one can get to the line-ed.

    2001-05-16 - <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ fixup cygwin32/NT compilation (not yet through)
    	_ fixup vxworks/CD bug

    2001-05-16 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ dstrings becomes an external that is compiled and
    	  installed by default. Remove --with-dstrings-ext
    	_ apply some fixups for dstrings that I did not yet
    	  been able to do with the last week or so.

    2001-05-15 - <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ test round 1: hook --str-buffer-size as generic and
    	  let dstrings-ext use it. dstrings-ext becomes fully
    	  decoupled, no external module yet. (31.22)
    	_ test round 2: hook into k12xx system
    	_ make offline pfe.exe a possibility.

    2001-05-14 - <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ complete the option-ext system, hook it into the
    	  stdc arg-scanning to do generic option-recognition,
    	  test it, and make the "map"-facilities to use it.
    	_ start off dl-internal.c, extend paren_loadm to see
    	  the internal module-wordsets in that table, and
    	  hook into environment_Q to try to load a module if
    	  an "-ext"-question is seen and not fullfilled by
    	  the first run over environ_wl.
    	  (move environment_Q implementation to environ-ext.c)

    2001-05-12 - <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ start option-ext system.
    	_ tests to make it seemingly work
    	_ hook it into environment-wl

    2001-05-10 - <guidod@exgate.tek.com>
    	_ pfe.h changed, for new SWIG version as of .31.x
    	_ tests for vxworks environment - need to recompile everything
    	  since LOADLIST-feature has been removed.

    2001-05-09 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ remove all references to p4_tick and replace with their
    	  respective calls to p4_tick_nfa or p4_tick_cfa - files:
    	  core-ext debug-ext misc-ext module-ext struct-ext
    	  toolbelt-ext tools-ext useful-ext your-ext

    2001-05-08 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ change exception system - a wordset can now declare an entry
    	  that sets a pair of exception-number and descriptive string.
    	_ the pfe-specific (memstack/dstrings) exception-numbers are
    	  rewritten as wordset-entries, the old secondardy-table in
    	  excpetion-sub is removed and replaced by a linked-list search.
    	_ found a severe bug introduced at dict_allocate-changes (.12-.15)
    	  where I forgot declare the memory section of the TIB. The
    	  "make check" did not jump on this bug but the first interactive
    	  tests (from above, a "-2049 throw" test) did reveal it. All
    	  versions since atleast .15 (.14?) are affected.

    2001-05-08 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ some cleanups in debug-ext and main-sub
    	_ clean mis-changes in dstrings-ext
    	_ clean some calls in dstrings-ext that should read 'FX(func)'.
    	_ add enable_stackthreaded declaration in def-comp to point
    	  into the direction that I like to go with the fcode-declarators.
    	_ clean up Semant/Semant2 and compile/compile1/compile2 which
    	  did create error-hell with the free-borland compiles on windows.
    	  ... using option --with-user-config=_debug_borland_ansi_compilers=1
    	  and declaring the semant-structures in def-comp.h
    	  ... mostly changing some FX_COMPILE1 to FX_COMPILE in:
    	  core-ext double-ext exception-ext engine-sub locals-ext
    	  string-ext forth-83-ext forth-usual-ext misc-ext useful-ext
    	  your-ext dstrings-ext toolbelt-ext
    	_ remove WITHDEF_REGS from $(OPTIM) in Makefile.am
    	_ add depcomp to DISTFILES in toplevel-Makefile

    2001-05-07 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ change dict_allocate - use a new helper routine in memory-sub
    	  that carves the stacks from dictlimit down. The dict_allocate
    	  of the floating-stack is now moved to the floating_init
    	  routine. The main-sub dict_allocate routine does not contain
    	  a series of function-calls to our helper routine.
    	_ can we make dstrings-ext to use p4_dict_allocate ?? and is it
    	  better to have an implicit destroyer.
    	_ when to move the other dict_allocate parts to their respective
    	  wordset' init-routines ??

    2001-05-06 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ change struct p4_Decomp dot skips from an integer to a
    	  function pointer of a type that had been introduced in
    	  the decomp-split. The old integer-enum is changed to
    	  a series of defines of those integers with the correct
    	  types so that the old macros still work.
    	_ make the default to call the skips member if it is set.
    	_ remove a few skips-ids, move the defintions to their
    	  files where they are used, and let the corresponding
    	  compiles-struct reference the functions directly there:
    	  P4_SKIPS_FLOAT -> p4_lit_float_SEE -> floating-ext.c
    	  P4_SKIPS_PSTRING -> p4_lit_pstring_SEE -> dstring-ext.c
    	  P4_SKIPS_PSTRING_BACK_TICK -> p4_lit_pstring_back_tick -> ..
    	_ marg_execution and make_str_frame_execution go from
    	  debug-ext to dstrings-ext where they belong. As a real
    	  novelty - the execution gets its own CS which gets
    	  compiled by its execution-maker that is not actually
    	  named in that CS. Let's see if that works...
    	_ move engine-sub interpret helpers to their wordsets,
    	  these are interpret_float to floating-ext
    	  and interpret_dstrings to dstrings-ext
    	  ... and of course, now we need init/deinit routines
    	  in these wordsets to register the interpret-routines.
    	_ introduce abort-vectorize-field, so engine-sub can get
    	  rid of references to floating-ext and dstrings-ext.
    	  Again, the vector-fields must be inited/deinited in
    	  their corresponding prim-wordsets.
    	_ move the semicolon-execution of dstrings's margs to
    	  its wordset. Use a nesting-routine for the semicolon
    	  functional-vector that calls the outer semicolon-routine.
    	  May be this defines margs even within a DOES> code part.
    	_ move xalloc routine for PFE.dstrings from main-sub to
    	  the init-routine in dstrings-ext. The dstrings-ext
    	  wordset is now largely ready to be compiled as an
    	  external module - the only exception is for the option
    	  processing and the exception-ids. As mac-os-x support
    	  is not fully tested with external modules, I'll keep
    	  it as it is.

    2001-05-05 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ found a severe bug in load_llist routine but we wanted to
    	  replace the functionality by load_words anyway. The func
    	  load_llist is removed, and the module-p4_MODULE helper-func
    	  (compiled by P4_MODULE_LIST) does return a P4WORDS-adress
    	  instead of a P4_LOADSTRUCT. The definition of a LOADSTRUCT
    	  is now obsolete and the def-words macros will be removed RSN.

    2001-05-04 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ p4_dlopen to p4_dlopenext int api change, dlfcn-ext is now
    	  renamed to dl-ext completly. next step will be to adapt
    	  to the ltdl-api which requires testing a dlfindsym operation
    	  on vxworks first.

    2001-05-03 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ start make generation 31
    	_ dlfcn-sub.c is no more, and so is dlfcn-sub.h, generated until
    	  now and used only in dlfcn-ext.c.
    	_ debugged the debug-decomp-split style.

    2001-04-27 - <guidod@gmx.de>
    	_ starting off generation 31
    	_ rename Changelog to ChangeLog - which is the recommended name.
    	_ split dlfcn-sub.c into pieces that are loaded by a -def file.
    	  the new fileset is dl-def.c dl-none.c dl-dlfcn.c dl-hpux.c
    	  and of course dl-vxworks.c. The dlfcn-ext.c will be aligned
    	  in its naming as soon as the dlfcn-sub api is dismissed.
    	_ add a main-def.c - currently it just includes main-stdc.c
    	  but it offers us the possibility to set the main-type
    	  with a configure-call.
    	_ rename configure.in to configure.ac - we will strictly
    	  rely on the 2001-year series of autoconf (2.49/2.50+)
    	_ add *.ac to the top-level Makefile distexts.
    	_ sourceforge download-server for pfe-packages is now
    	  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pfe/pfe-%version.tar.gz
    	_ the mark>/resolve> change in misc-ext.c

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------

    2000-04-24 - <guidod@gmx.de>
      * dstrings patch by david.n.williams - applied.
      * tag v96

    2000-04-23 - <guidod@gmx.de>
      * did a lot of test with the various autoconf automake libtool
        version. Sadly, libtool does not contain the libsdl patches
        to crosscompile to mingw32, so I have to stick to the old
        libtool. Automake 1.4e cvs-version has quite a few bugs, so
        we update to automake 1.4d release. Autoconf cvs prerelease
        is quite fine, however some macros in the aclocal-archive
        had to be updated. Now we have the chance to test with the
        features from newer autoconf/automake atleast. And to use
        enhanced features from next autoconf-generation atleast.
      * --with-modules ... because we can not anymore just try to
        build the modules for crosscompile mingw32 target.
      * add `pocket-pad` where there is `th'pocket`
      * tag v95

    2000-04-01 - <guidod@gmx.de>
      * well, with the ltmain.sh/ltconfig libsdl, it works now,
        but it does not seem to be able to resolve the module's symbols
        with the pfe.dll - and that's needed for making module dlls.

    2000-03-31 - <guidod@gmx.de>
      * lots of tests to build a pfe.dll, and quite a few changes to
        pfe/Makefile.am and pfe/configure.in
      * these are now dependent on $host cygwin/mingw, let's see later
        if that assumption is correct.

    2000-03-30 - <guidod@gmx.de>
      * use AC_SPEC_PACKAGE_VERSION - changes to pfe/configure.in and pfe.spec
      * new experience with rpm.spec files made me do a major rewrite of pfe.spec
      * change usage of CFLAGS/INCLUDES in pfe/Makefile.am ... an experience
        from Makefile.am files for external-built pfe-modules.
      * start using AC_PROG_CC_WARNINGS
      * clean out optlevel defines
      * factor out gcc -pipe check.
      * delete comments for -Wshadow and -Waggregate-return
      * remove -g addon, and set -Wl,-S at LDFLAGS

    2000-03-26 - <guidod@gmx.de>
      * update forthprimer.pdf
      * coldboot module section in engine-sub has still not updated
        to load_words for MODULE2 MODULE3