hello! i'm just getting into forth, i'm very enthusiastic about it at the moment. i think it's the language i should have got into when i was a kid in the 80s. :) i have this pretty little ibook i like to use sometimes. its hard drive is dead now, so i use an ancient linux live cd, from 2004. i was happy to find the latest stable version of gforth compiles and runs on this system, which has kernel 2.6.9, libc-2.3.3.so and gcc 3.4.3.
i like messing about with pixels and framebuffers, so i've made that my first little project with the language. i ran into trouble as soon as i tried to use reposition-file. its stack comment in prim indicates it takes two elements from the stack: reposition-file ( ud wfileid -- wior ) file reposition_file if i try to use it that way on the ibook, i get an underflow message: 10 fbid .s <2> 10 268779816 ok reposition-file :16: Stack underflow >>>reposition-file<<< Backtrace: there's nothing after "Backtrace:". fbid refers to an open framebuffer file which can be written to to display stuff. oh, now i see file-position returns 0 0 even after filling the screen. that can't be right either. screenshot for file-position attached. i've made more than my share of bad bug reports in my time, so it could be me, but i'm guessing it could be an incompatibility with this ancient kernel and libc. i almost hope it's me, but i've used linux for over 20 years and got quite pessimistic about it. -- The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer
