Re: Sections and section types (was Re: Data storage in paged memory (was DOES>Woes))

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Ron Oliver wrote:

 Each section keeps track of its own "HERE", so you don't have to.
> In chipFORTH, by contrast, if you wanted to have a font table
> somewhere in ROM, you'd have to have something to keep track of how
> much of the table is used up, and you couldn't use , (comma), ALLOT,
> etc. Here, you can.

Well, actually, that's not quite true. Apologies...it's been a long
time since I've used chipFORTH.

In chipFORTH, you could ORG to a new location in ROM, then GAP or
,(comma) from there. Then you'd have to ORG back to the previous
HERE. I don't recall a "nice" way to re-ORG RAM. With properly
defined SwiftX sections, you don't even have to do that, as each
section has its own HERE pointer.

-- 
Ron Oliver <roliver_at_openesque.com>
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