fix(v4.0.0): POST leaves nothing, as v3 really does; and what the review of step 6b found

Captain Bob was told that v3 leaves the words POST's cases define in the
dictionary, and ruled that v4 should.  That was false: v3's run_test_suite
puts the dictionary back after each word's cases (test_common.c:333,
:365).  Shown that, he ruled that POST leaves nothing.  The boot now
seals the system, runs POST, and has the node do COLD, whose printing is
not shown; PARITY:V4_SYSTEM is the system as sealed.

A case the node does not come back from ends POST there, named, with how
many were not run: it would have stalled the boot for hours, where the
capsule had ended it.  The runner's test of it now uses a word that
really never ends.

hosted-check also requires that RS1 and T{ are unknown after boot, and
boots a program whose POST has failing cases (tests/post_cases_fail.c):
PARITY:FAIL, POST: FAILED, no prompt, none of a case's printing shown.

Comments and documents that still named the POST capsule or its two
hooks are brought up to date; NUCLEUS.md 6.3 says what v3 does, with the
lines, and how the wrong ruling came about.

make -C v4 test, sanitize and hosted-check pass; amd64, aarch64 and
riscv64 boot, POST 538 of 538, word_count=314, dict_hash
0x220ab283a504a3b3 on all six: logs/20261007-112638, -112901, -113220.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
rajames
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
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UEFI firmware (version 2025.11-3ubuntu7.3 built at 15:40:26 on Sep 23 2026)
[=3hBdsDxe: failed to load Boot0002 "UEFI Misc Device" from PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0): Not Found
BdsDxe: failed to load Boot0003 "UEFI QEMU QEMU USB HARDDRIVE 1-0000:00:04.0-1" from PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x4,0x0)/USB(0x0,0x0): Not Found
BdsDxe: loading Boot0004 "UEFI Misc Device 2" from PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x6,0x0)
BdsDxe: starting Boot0004 "UEFI Misc Device 2" from PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x6,0x0)
[=3hStarKernel UEFI Loader
Loading kernel from ESP...
[CKPT 001] Entered efi_main - ConOut live
Collecting boot information...
[CKPT 004] Command line parsed
[CKPT 005] Kernel stack allocation decided
[CKPT 006] Boot info collected (ACPI table located)
[CKPT 007] GOP: linear framebuffer found
[CKPT 008] About to enter ExitBootServices retry loop
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/ ____| | | |/ / | |
| (___ | |_ __ _ _ __| ' / ___ _ __ _ __ ___| |
\___ \| __/ _` | '__| < / _ \ '__| '_ \ / _ \ |
____) | || (_| | | | . \ __/ | | | | | __/ |
|_____/ \__\__,_|_| |_|\_\___|_| |_| |_|\___|_|
LithosAnanke v2.1.0
Architecture: aarch64
Build: Oct 7 2026 11:28:32
UEFI BootServices: EXITED
=== StarKernel Boot Information ===
Memory map entries: 108
Total memory: 4093 MB
Usable memory: 4054 MB
===================================
PMM initialized.
PMM statistics:
Total pages: 1039356
Free pages : 1037945
Used pages : 1411
Total MB : 4059
Free MB : 4054
Used MB : 5
VMM initialized (mapped RAM, CR3 switched)
VMM initialized (mapped RAM, CR3 switched)
VMM self-test: mapped OK at 0xffff800000000000
VMM self-test complete.
AArch64: running at EL1
IDT installed.
APIC: init...
PSCI: no DTB -- using HVC (QEMU virt-machine default)
GICv2: no DTB GIC node -- using QEMU virt-machine defaults
GICv2: distributor+CPU interface enabled, PPI 30
APIC: init done
Timer: init...
Timer: AArch64 generic timer initialised.
Timer: init done
Kernel heap initialized.
Heap statistics:
Total bytes: 2147483608
Free bytes: 2147483608
Used bytes: 0
Peak bytes: 0
Heap base addr: 1207959552
Heap end addr: 3355443200
Heartbeat: init...
Heartbeat: init done
Kernel initialization complete.
Boot successful!
StarForth v4: one host node, the F18-derived engine
V4: capsule v4:nucleus-64.f18 signature: missing (unsigned)
PARITY:V4_NUCLEUS name=v4:nucleus-64.f18 capsule_id=0x467b3793e193b467 capsule_hash=0x467b3793e193b467 words=308
V4: capsule v4:forth79.4th signature: missing (unsigned)
PARITY:V4_CAPSULE name=v4:forth79.4th capsule_id=0x4055641ee17d176b capsule_hash=0x4055641ee17d176b dict_hash=0xf268e314e12931c4
PARITY:V4_POST tests=538 pass=538 fail=0
PARITY:V4_SYSTEM word_count=314 dict_hash=0x220ab283a504a3b3
PARITY:OK
POST: PASSED
[HADES][INFO ] [KRELTSC: 0] blk: raw device LBN 2048..3071 (1024 blocks)
PCI: init...
virtio-blk: found device
Artemis: virtio-blk attached
[HADES][INFO ] [KRELTSC: 1493527] blk: disk 'StarForth Volume' v2 LBN 3072..789009 (785938 user b
ok> : SQ DUP * ;
ok
ok> 7 SQ . 3 4 U* . .
49 0 12 ok
ok> T{
UNKNOWN WORD: 'T{'
ERROR
ok> RS1
UNKNOWN WORD: 'RS1'
ERROR
ok> COLD
FORTH-79 Cold Start
System initialized.
ok
ok> 3 4 U* . .
0 12 ok
ok> FORGET U*
Protected word
ERROR
ok> 9 KERNEL-WORD ASK9 ASK9
Argument out of range
ERROR
ok> 1 BLOCK C@ . 2047 BLOCK C@ .
0 0 ok
ok> 2100 BLOCK 1024 BLANK 65 2100 BLOCK C! UPDATE SAVE-BUFFERS EMPTY-BUFFERS 2100 BLOCK C@ .
65 ok
ok> 3072 BLOCK C@ .
0 ok
ok> 3072 BLOCK DROP UPDATE SAVE-BUFFERS
Storage refused
ERROR
ok> 9999999 BLOCK
Block out of range
ERROR
ok> HERE .
8300 ok
ok> BYE
BYE: cold restart