Re: nForth

["vic plichota" <atsvap@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Myron Plichota [mailto:mplichot@sonic.net] wrote:
>>I think that the minimum return stack size would need to be 32
cells,
>>parameter stack 16 cells. Any comments?
>
>See Koopman's book on the Net
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_computers/index.html
>for size information.  I believe he says that 8 cells is plenty.


It depends on how you handle interrupts.  In my experience, 16 is
barely enough -- rare, but all too possible -- 8 seems too limiting.

Just where do we draw the line between stack-vaiables, and "static
globals", anyways?


cheers   - vic