PlanckForth: Bootstrapping a Forth Interpreter from a 1KB Hand-Written ELF Binary
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Summary
PlanckForth is a personal project that demonstrates bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from a hand-written 1KB ELF binary. The project is described as being 'just for fun' with no practical use intended. It includes details on how to build the interpreter using only xxd, shows example code including a Hello World program, and documents built-in words with their stack effects and semantics.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledThis project aims to bootstrap a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny (1KB) ELF binary.
This is just for fun. No practical use.
Only xxd is needed to build PlanckForth.
The hello world program at the beginning looks like this.
Builtin Words
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