Re: Cross compiling

[Carsten Strotmann]

Hi Francesco,

On 28 Feb 2021, at 19:06, Bernd Paysan wrote:

> > > For such older hardware, you need to port an assembler and the 
> > > primitives
> > > (which is exactly what Klaus Kohl-Schöpe did for the 8086).
> >
> > Pardon the naïvete, but what does «port an assembler» mean? Write 
> > (on
> > my host machine) an assembler that works on the target machine?
>
> You don't have to write one, because for Z80, there already are 
> existing Forth
> assemblers out there.  The problem nowadays is more to find this old 
> code ;-).

does not need to be old code, this one was worked on 22 days ago ...

<https://github.com/mattsteeldue/vforth-next>

<https://github.com/mattsteeldue/vforth-next/blob/master/src/Z80N-asm.f>

Greetings

Carsten