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   Krishna Myneni to All   
   obsoleting old structures package in kFo   
   21 Feb 24 21:50:12   
   
   From: krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org   
      
   I've decided to obsolete the older structures package in kForth, in   
   favor of using Forth-200x standardized data structures. The older   
   structures package is provided in   
      
   struct.4th   
      
   and the Forth-200x standard structures are provided in   
      
   struct-200x.4th   
      
   IIRC the origin of the older package is from Gforth.   
      
   Forth source programs in the kForth repos currently make use of one or   
   the other type of structures. Neither one is complete, in a practical   
   sense, making it necessary to add additional field specifiers for   
   unaligned fields, which is important for creating data structures   
   compatible with those used in external libraries. Thus, the kForth repos   
   also provide   
      
   struct-ext.4th   
      
   and   
      
   struct-200x-ext.4th   
      
   Over the coming months my aim is to modify existing code so that both   
   struct.4th and struct-ext.4th are no longer needed in the source code   
   provided in the kForth repos. The use of both kinds of structures, often   
   in the same program, is leading to confusion and difficulty in following   
   the source code.   
      
   --   
   Krishna Myneni   
      
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