feat(v4.0.0): a node asks its kernel by a blocking write to its port

ENGINE.md step 2, the carrier.  Ruled 2026-10-05 (V3-PARITY.md 1i), on
DECOMPOSITION.md section 6: a write to a port blocks until the neighbour
reads.

- node: v4_node_port_attach, v4_node_port_served; a store to the port keeps
  the value as the request and blocks the node
- exec: a blocked node executes nothing; served, it goes on from the opcode
  after the store, in the same instruction word; a fault meanwhile abandons
  the rest of the word
- compile.v4: n KERNEL-WORD name makes a word whose body writes n to the
  port; its arguments and results are on the data stack
- boot: the kernel's words are made by handing the node text, and requests
  are served between the node's opcodes; one no one serves is error 12
- BYE, the first kernel word: hosted it leaves the program, as hosted v3;
  on the lone node it is v3's cold restart
- ENGINE.md 3a: multiuser, multitasking, preemptive and cooperative, and
  what that asks of the engine

Verified: make -C v4 test passes at both widths, with tests/test_port.c;
hosted-check passes on three ISAs; clean qemu with STARFORTH_V4=1 on amd64,
aarch64 and riscv64 passes POST with the same hashes as hosted, and a
kernel word no one serves and BYE typed at each prompt are answered
(logs/20261005-185506, -185734, -190101; -185234 is an amd64 run in which
those two lines were not typed).

Not done: v3's own C functions serving a node.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
#define EMIT_HOOK (BUF0_W - 7) /* the xt of a word EMIT gives its character to, or 0: the console */
#define CATCH (BUF0_W - 8) /* non-zero: a line's error is recorded here, -1, and the line ends " ok" */
#define LINE_STATUS (BUF0_W - 9) /* how the last line ended: 0 QUIT, 1 completed, 2 an error */
#define PORT (BUF0_W - 10) /* the node's port: a write to it blocks until its neighbour, the kernel, has served it */
#define LOG_LEVEL (BUF0_W - 5) /* the level at or below which a message is printed */
#define BOOT_CELLS (BVARS + 14) /* (BOOT): DP and LATEST as the loader left them, 2 cells */
#define BUF0_W (BVARS - 2 * 256) /* the two block buffers, 256 cells each */
@@ -144,6 +145,7 @@ static int host_load(v4_text *tx, v4_node *n, const char *const *files, unsigned
v4_text_constant(tx, "(EMIT-HOOK)", EMIT_HOOK);
v4_text_constant(tx, "(CATCH)", CATCH);
v4_text_constant(tx, "(LINE-STATUS)", LINE_STATUS);
v4_text_constant(tx, "(PORT)", PORT);
v4_text_constant(tx, "BLOCK-NUMBER", STORAGE_REG);
v4_text_constant(tx, "BLOCK-ADDRESS", STORAGE_REG + 1);
v4_text_constant(tx, "BLOCK-COMMAND", STORAGE_REG + 2);