feat(v4.0.0): every error is raised and ends the line (D-18)

Ruled 2026-10-04: guard all errors.  The errors that set NODE-ERROR and
let the line run on now stop it at once, with a message.

- A store of a non-zero code to NODE-ERROR is a trap, a sixth kind of
  fault: nothing after it executes, the return stack is emptied, and the
  data stack is left as the word left it.  Not attached, NODE-ERROR is
  plain memory, as the tests below the prompt use it.
- The capsule's words store a code where they stored -1, and the prompt's
  (RAISED) prints its message: Negative count, Not a number, Number too
  long, Not a character, Dictionary full, Name missing, Control structure
  mismatch, Control structures too deep.
- ' and COMPILE and [COMPILE] of a word that is not there say
  UNKNOWN WORD: 'xxx', as the interpreter does.
- tests: the trap in test_exec.c; every message from the prompt, with the
  rest of the line not run and the stack kept, in test_host_quit.c.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
rajames
2026-10-04 20:13:23 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 644bfc0a25
commit dc7e37ba5c
12 changed files with 181 additions and 38 deletions
+2 -1
View File
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ definition below depends on one, it says so.
| **D-15** | Division by zero in `/` `MOD` `/MOD` `*/` `*/MOD` `M/MOD` (ruled 2026-10-04). | **Guarded: the word reports it and the line ends.** Each of these words tests its divisor before anything else. If it is zero the word prints v3's message, its own name and `: Division by zero`, takes its operands off the stack as v3 does, ends any definition that was open, prints ` ERROR` and returns to the prompt, from however deep; its caller is not returned to. `M/MOD` says so too, where v3 printed ` ERROR` alone. Source in `v4/capsule/forth.v4`; executed on the golden model's host node (2026-10-04), including transcripts of the v3 binary. `Q./` keeps D-11 (saturate and flag). `UM/MOD` and `SM/REM` are internal and unguarded: their callers have checked. What a mesh node, with no console, does on a zero divisor comes with the mesh (step 2); §4's definitions, which the mesh-node tests execute, still leave it unspecified. |
| **D-16** | Stack overflow and underflow; `DEPTH`, `PICK`, `ROLL` (ruled 2026-10-04; revises D-2). | **Guarded: a stack fault.** Each stack counts what it holds. Before every opcode the node checks that the stacks hold what the opcode takes — including a `T` or `S` it only reads — and have room for what it leaves. If not, the opcode does nothing and the node faults exactly as for a bad address (D-14), to that kind's handler: `Stack overflow`, `Stack underflow`, `Return stack overflow`, `Return stack underflow`, then ` ERROR` and the prompt. **Every fault, D-14's included, empties both stacks**: the handler does not return, and what a word stopped part-way has left on the data stack is of no use to its caller. (v3 keeps what the failing word had not taken, and names the word: `DROP: Stack underflow`.) The fault handler is a table of five words, one per kind, each a jump (`(FAULTS)` in `v4/capsule/quit.v4`). Two registers (§7) are all a programme sees of the stacks: `DSTACK-DEPTH` and `RSTACK-DEPTH` read as the depth, and a store to one empties that stack. There is still no stack pointer and no address for a stack cell, so `SP@` and `SP!` stay retired; `.S` waits for number output to reach the capsule. The sizes were unchanged by this ruling, 10 and 9 (D-17 then deepens the host node's): one more value, or one more level of call, is now an error message where it used to be silent corruption. Executed on the golden model (2026-10-04): `tests/test_exec.c` for every opcode at every depth of both stacks, `tests/test_host_quit.c` from the prompt. |
| **D-17** | Stack sizes on the host node (2026-10-04, following D-16). | **32 values and 32 return entries on the host node; a mesh node keeps the F18's 10 and 9.** Once the stacks are counted (D-16) their size is a parameter of the node, like its memory, and the host node is the one that runs the interpreter and the compiler underneath the user's programme: at 10 and 9 the prompt left a programme about six values, and `/` could be used only four words deep. The mechanism is the same at both sizes — top registers over a ring — and so is every word's definition. v3's stacks are deeper still. In the golden model the sizes are `V4_DATA_RING` and `V4_RET_RING` (`stack.h`), set for the host-node tests in `v4/Makefile`. |
| **D-18** | Every other error (ruled 2026-10-04: "guard all errors"). | **A word that finds an error raises it, and the line ends there.** The word takes its own arguments off the stack and stores an error code in `NODE-ERROR` (§7). On a node with a prompt that store is a trap, a sixth kind of fault beside D-14's and D-16's: nothing after it executes, the return stack is emptied, and the prompt prints the code's message, ends any definition that was open, prints ` ERROR` and waits for the next line. Unlike the other faults it leaves the data stack as the word left it. The codes: 1 `Negative count` (`CMOVE`, `TYPE`), 2 `Not a number` (`NUMBER`), 3 `Number too long` (`HOLD` into a full buffer), 4 `Not a character` (`HOLD`), 5 `Dictionary full` (`,` `C,` `ALLOT`, any defining word), 6 `Name missing` (a defining word with nothing after it), 7 `Control structure mismatch`, 8 `Control structures too deep`; −1 means the word printed its own message (`UNKNOWN WORD: 'xxx'`, `xxx: compile-only`). Before this ruling these set the flag and the line ran on to its end. v3 stops at once too; its messages name the word (`LOOP: missing DO`) where v4's name the fault. With the trap not attached `NODE-ERROR` is plain memory and the word returns, which is how the words are tested below the prompt. D-11, D-12 and D-13 said "set `NODE-ERROR`"; on a node with a prompt that now means this. Executed on the golden model (2026-10-04): `tests/test_exec.c`, `tests/test_host_quit.c`. |
**Consequences of D-2 that every definition must respect.** The data stack holds 10 items and the
return stack 9, and every `call`, `FOR`, `DO` loop frame and `push` uses return-stack slots. Nesting
@@ -1047,7 +1048,7 @@ Addresses are assigned in the node memory map (D-4). Names only here.
| `GOV-*` | R/W | Governor parameters and Jacquard selector state (`L8-*`, decay rate). |
| `REC-ENABLE` | R/W | DoE recorder on/off (`HB-ON` / `HB-OFF`). |
| `PORT-STATUS` | R | Per-port ready flags, for non-blocking polls. |
| `NODE-ERROR` | R/W | Arithmetic error flag: set to −1 by `Q./` on division by zero (D-11), by `Q.SQRT` / `Q.LOG` outside their domain (D-12) and by `HOLD` on a bad character or a full buffer (D-13), cleared by writing 0. `VM-ERROR?` reads it. |
| `NODE-ERROR` | R/W | Error register (D-18): a store of a non-zero code raises an error — on a node with a prompt it is a trap that ends the line with the code's message; a store of zero clears it. Originally the arithmetic error flag: set to −1 by `Q./` on division by zero (D-11), by `Q.SQRT` / `Q.LOG` outside their domain (D-12) and by `HOLD` on a bad character or a full buffer (D-13), cleared by writing 0. `VM-ERROR?` reads it. |
| `CONSOLE-TX` | W | Console transmit: a store sends the low 8 bits of the value as one character. This is what `EMIT` writes to. On the single-node golden model it is a capture register: the character is appended to a buffer on the node and memory is not written (`v4_node_console_attach`, `v4/include/v4/node.h`), so printing words can be run and their output compared with v3's. With the mesh (step 2) it becomes the port to the console node. |
| `CONSOLE-RX` | R | Console receive: a fetch gives the next pending character, 0–255, and takes it; with none pending it gives −1 and takes nothing. This is what `KEY` reads. On the single-node golden model the characters come from a queue the test feeds (`v4_node_console_input_attach`, `v4_node_console_feed`, `v4/include/v4/node.h`). Only the data fetches `@`, `@+` and `@b` see the register; instruction words and literals at the same address are read as memory. With the mesh (step 2) it becomes the port from the console node, and a read with nothing pending will block instead. |
| `CONSOLE-STATUS` | R | Console receive status: a fetch gives −1 when a character is pending and 0 when not, and changes nothing. `?TERMINAL` reads it, and `KEY` polls it. On the mesh it is the console port's bit of `PORT-STATUS`. |