[PicForth] Compile time questions

[J.C. Wren]

    I'm playing with the timer 1 registers, and can't figure out how to 
express something correctly.  Let's say you're running at 19.6608Mhz.  
At that speed, there are 49152 ($c000) counts in a 10 millisecond 
interval.  The counter counts up, so you load the TMR1H and TMR1L 
registers with the negated value, which would be 16384 ($4000).  I'd 
like to put this as a constant at the top, so '$c000 constant 
tmr1Reload'.  In the handler code, I want to change modes (correct term, 
please?) so that rather than taking the constant and AND'ing it with $ff 
or / 8 at run time, it's done at compile time.  I know (I think) this 
needs to be handled outside of the PicForth compilation because PicForth 
doesn't understand 16 bit values of any kind.

    The other question is sometimes I want to be in decimal mode while 
I'm compiling.  In "normal" Forth, you use 'decimal', and it's done.  
I've tried 'host decimal target', but that's not changing the mode.  I 
think I've been through all the examples, and I can't find anything that 
approximates what I'm trying to do in either case (or I'm not 
recognizing it as such).

    Any ideas?

: timerReload
  [ tmr1Reload $ff and ]  tmr1l !
  [ tmr1Reload $100 / ] tmr1h !
;

    --jc