Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!usc!ucsd!ames!amdahl!pyramid!ncc!alberta!idacom!andrew From: andrew@idacom.UUCP (Andrew Scott) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: CELLSIZE Message-ID: <714@idacom.UUCP> Date: 8 Aug 89 20:05:02 GMT References: <664@noe.UUCP> Organization: IDACOM Electronics Ltd., Edmonton, Alta. Lines: 22 In article <664@noe.UUCP>, marc@noe.UUCP (Marc de Groot) writes: > CELLSIZE ( --- n ) > Leaves the number of 8-bit bytes per cell. Returns 2 for a 16-bit > Forth and 4 for a 32-bit Forth. > > How can I get this idea to the ANSI committee? They already know about it. The latest proposed word set I've seen has the following as part of the required word set: CELLS ( n1 -- n2 ) Return the size, in address units, of n1 cells. CELL+ ( a1 -- a2 ) Add the size of a cell, specified in address units, to a1 giving a2. With this, CELLSIZE becomes 1 CELLS. I assume that an "address unit" is a byte. -- Andrew Scott andrew@idacom - or - {att, watmath, ubc-cs}!alberta!idacom!andrew