CVS commit: doc

[Jason Beegan <jtb%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    doc
Committed By:   jtb
Date:           Wed Jun 20 06:55:42 UTC 2001

Modified Files:
        doc: pkg-CHANGES

Log Message:
Note update of pforth to version 21.

V20
    - Expand PAD for ConvertNumberToText so "-1 binary .s" doesn't crash.
      Thank you Michael Connor of Vancouver for reporting this bug.

    - Removed FDROP in REPRESENT to fix stack underflow after "0.0 F.".
      Thank you Jim Rosenow of Minnesota for reporting this bug.
        - Changed pfCharToLower to function to prevent macro expansion
        bugs under VXWORKS
      Thank you Jim Rosenow of Minnesota for reporting this bug.

        - "0.0 F~" now checks actual binary encoding of floats. Before
          this it used to just compare value which was incorrect. Now
          "0.0 -0.0 0.0 F~" returns FALSE.

        - Fixed definition of INPUT$ in tutorial.
      Thank you Hampton Miller of California for reporting this bug.

        - Added support for producing a target dictionary with a different
          Endian-ness than the host CPU.  See PF_BIG_ENDIAN_DIC and
          PF_LITTLE_ENDIAN_DIC.

        - PForth kernel now comes up in a mode that uses BASE for
          numeric input when started with "-i" option.  It used to
          always consider numeric input as HEX. Initial BASE is decimal.

V21
        - Fixed some compiler warnings.


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