(71B) FORTH questions

[J-F Garnier]

(06-21-2023 12:03 AM)Sylvain Cote Wrote:  From the Software Developer Handbook, assembly code for the FORTH word → TIME

Usage: (in FORTH environment)

Code:

TIME  F.  [endline]

Great!

For 1BBBB users, you can avoid the bug reported above by adding a P= 5 instruction just before the call to CMPT:

Code:


       WORD 'TIME'
       GOSBVL SAVEFP
       GOSBVL STKLFT
       P=     5              *** workaround for bug 1084
       GOSBVL CMPT           C(W) = Time in hex 512ths of a second
...

J-F