yforth in slink

[Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>]

Has anyone managed to get yforth working? Someone apparently got 0.1beta-8
compiled, but did they test the result after the dozens of warnings the
compile produced... (all "pointer / int" conversion warnings). I get an
instant sigsegv, and upon inspection of the code the reason is clear
enough; the code expects that a data type "Cell" is big enough to contain
a pointer. Additionally, it *demands* that another data type "DCell" is
double the size of "Cell", so simply defining "Cell" to be long doesn't
help (I tried :-).

So, my suggestion is to blackmail this package as non-alpha material,
demand its removal from the archive and then forget all about it :-)
Any protests?

Paul Slootman