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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co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
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@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
}
fprintf(out, "};\n\nconst v4_image v4_capsule_image = {\n cells, %uu,\n %uu, %uu, %uu, %uu,\n", count,
(unsigned)V4_CELL_BITS, (unsigned)V4_NODE_WORDS, (unsigned)V4_DATA_RING, (unsigned)V4_RET_RING);
fprintf(out, " %ld, %ld, %ld,\n %ld, %uu, %ld,\n %ld,\n %ld, %ld,\n", (long)line, (long)idle, (long)LINE_STATUS,
(long)TIB, 1025u, (long)SPAN, (long)faults, (long)w_key, (long)w_key_end);
fprintf(out, " %ld, %ld, %ld,\n %ld, %uu, %ld,\n %ld, %ld,\n %ld, %ld,\n", (long)line, (long)idle, (long)LINE_STATUS,
(long)TIB, 1025u, (long)SPAN, (long)faults, (long)PORT, (long)w_key, (long)w_key_end);
fprintf(out, " %ld, %ld, %ld,\n %ld, %ld,\n %ld,\n %ld,\n %ld, %ld\n};\n", (long)CONSOLE_TX, (long)CONSOLE_RX, (long)CONSOLE_ST,
(long)DSTACK_REG, (long)RSTACK_REG, (long)NODE_ERROR, (long)STORAGE_REG, (long)DP, (long)LATEST);
if (fclose(out) != 0) die("cannot write", argv[1]);