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You need to remove -Wl,-Text,0 for modern gcc, otherwise it will crash at beginning.

I think the word “be” is missing from “There will quite a few”. I’m willing to make a pull request if that’s preferred.

Also I believe “An” was meant here.

And “haven’t” here.

I apologize if this seems picky. I’m just naturally a slow reader and figure something positive should come out of that.

I've banged my head against the wall for a while. Time to ask for help:

I'd like to get Jonesforth to work on macos Catalina. Now, I can do it in a docker ubuntu image without much trouble, but I want to get it to work as much out of the box as possible.

The major pain points are:

• jonesforth is 32 bit only, catalina now needs 64 bits.
• the toolchain on mac is clang, including an apple assembler, requiring a serious rewrite.

I found jonesforth64 which looks like a good start - I would have pretty much attempted just that., but I still have some issues with the assembler.

I think if I could the Gnu assembler to work, as discussed by nornagon here, I could probably get it to work. But I can't find any decent reference on how to use GCC and gas on a mac starting from homebrew.

Any advice greatly appreciated. Or, if there already is a 64 bit port that 'just works', that would be great, too!

See also the thread at https://stackoverflow.com/q/53685776/14955

For me the suggestion to add includes worked for me, but there seems to be some discussion if that is the right way.
I am running this on the official gcc Docker image.