[OpenBIOS] compile vs runtime

Tarl Neustaedter tarl-b2 at tarl.net
Wed Mar 31 22:20:03 CEST 2010


On 2010-3-31 4:07 PM, Programmingkid wrote:
> I am trying to make a word that does one thing at compile time, and does another thing at runtime. I think this is how you do it:
>
> : myword
> ." one"
> does>   ." two"
> cr ;
>
> When I first use this word, I see "one". Then when I use this word again, I see "two", but it causes OpenBIOS to panic because of a segmentation violation at 3. Is this an OpenBIOS bug, or did I do something wrong?
>    

That's not how you want to be using does> (in my opinion, you don't want 
to be using does> at all, but that's just my dislike of the construct).

If you want to play games with what's done at compile vs runtime, you 
should be using the "compile" and "[compile]" tokens.




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