feat(v4.0.0): a node looks before it writes; two neighbours no longer stop each other

MESH.md step 4, the fault found there, as ruled (section 7a): a node
writes only to a neighbour that is reading, keeps what it takes in
meanwhile, and loses and counts what it has no room for.

Engine: two more addresses after a node's ports -- which ports have a
neighbour waiting to write to it, which to read from it. Nucleus: (GATE)
before every message; the messages waiting, a ring of 400 cells, dealt
with when the node is idle. Of two neighbours the lower number may wait
to write (ruled after it was built); NEIGHBOUR tells a node who is on
each port.

test_host_mesh.c, 44 checks: the case that stopped the nodes passes; six
messages from each node to each at once all arrive; 800 at once, the
nodes come to rest and every message arrived or was counted (287 arrived,
714 of all kinds let go). test_fabric.c: the two looks. Both widths,
ASan+UBSan.

POST: twelve cases handed HERE, a cell address on v4, to words that take
a byte address, and so wrote into or read from the nucleus's code at cell
HERE/4. Ruled: left out, marked OPEN, until HERE and the byte words are
made to agree as its own step. POST is 538 cases.

hosted-check on three ISAs, 538/538. Bare metal: logs/20261006-134817
(amd64), -135044 (aarch64), -135440 (riscv64).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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rajames
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@@ -128,6 +128,98 @@ header CMOVE
NONE: drop drop (ROUTE-DEFAULT) a! @ ;
HIT: drop drop @+ pop drop ;
\ LOOKING BEFORE WRITING (MESH.md section 7a). A write waits until the
\ neighbour reads, and a node that is waiting to write reads nothing: two
\ neighbours that each began to write to the other would wait for ever. So
\ a node does not begin a message until it has looked, (GATE):
\ - while any neighbour is waiting to write to it, it takes that message
\ in and keeps it with the messages waiting, to deal with when it has
\ nothing else to do;
\ - then, if the neighbour it means to write to is waiting to read, it
\ writes;
\ - and if that neighbour is not, it writes all the same when the
\ neighbour's number is the higher of the two, and otherwise looks
\ again. Of two neighbours one only may wait to write to the other, and
\ it is the lower: so those that wait are waiting on ever higher
\ numbers, and the highest of them is not waiting to write; it is
\ looking, and takes in what is being written to it.
\ (WRITERS) and (READERS) are the node's two looks at its neighbours, a bit
\ for each port. (NEAR) is the number of the node on each port, told by
\ whoever wires it (NEIGHBOUR, quit.v4); a port not told of -- a device's
\ -- is written to only when what is there is waiting to read.
\
\ THE MESSAGES WAITING are kept in (MQ) .. (MQ-END), one after another,
\ going round: for each its seven words, the port it came on, and its text.
\ (MQ-HEAD) is where the oldest begins, (MQ-TAIL) where the next will go,
\ (MQ#) how many cells are taken. One that there is no room for is read to
\ its end and let go, and (LOST) counts it.
\ ( mask index -- bit )
: (BIT)
if Z -1 + FOR 2/ NEXT 1 and ;
Z: drop 1 and ;
\ ( mask -- index ) the lowest port in it; the mask is not zero
: (LOW)
0 push
L: dup 1 and if UP drop drop pop ;
UP: drop 2/ pop 1 + push jump L
\ ( w -- ) one more cell of the messages waiting. B is kept.
: (MQ!)
(MQ-TAIL) a! @ a! !+
a (MQ-END) xor if WRAP drop a jump SET
WRAP: drop (MQ)
SET: (MQ-TAIL) a! !
(MQ#) a! @ 1 + ! ;
\ ( -- w ) the oldest cell of the messages waiting, which goes
: (MQ@)
(MQ-HEAD) a! @ a! @+
a (MQ-END) xor if WRAP drop a jump SET
WRAP: drop (MQ)
SET: (MQ-HEAD) a! !
(MQ#) a! @ -1 + ! ;
\ ( port to -- ) take in a message. B is at the port, by its address,
\ and `to` is the message's first word, already read from it. A length
\ below zero, or above what a message carries, is kept as -1 with no text:
\ a longer one is read to its end first, so that what follows it is not
\ taken for a message.
: (TAKE)
(MQ-HDR) a! !+ 5 FOR @b !+ UNEXT ! \ its seven words, and the port
(MQ-HDR)+6 a! @ -if SIZED
drop -1 (MQ-HDR)+6 a! ! 0 jump COUNTED
SIZED: dup -1025 + -if LONG drop 3 + 2/ 2/ jump COUNTED
LONG: drop 3 + 2/ 2/ -1 + FOR @b drop UNEXT -1 (MQ-HDR)+6 a! ! 0
COUNTED: \ ( n ) how many words of text follow
dup (MQ#) a! @ + -MQ-ROOM + -if FULL
drop push
(MQ-HDR) a! @ (MQ!) (MQ-HDR)+1 a! @ (MQ!) (MQ-HDR)+2 a! @ (MQ!) (MQ-HDR)+3 a! @ (MQ!)
(MQ-HDR)+4 a! @ (MQ!) (MQ-HDR)+5 a! @ (MQ!) (MQ-HDR)+6 a! @ (MQ!) (MQ-HDR)+7 a! @ (MQ!)
pop if NOTEXT -1 + FOR @b (MQ!) NEXT ;
NOTEXT: drop ;
FULL: drop if GONE -1 + FOR @b drop UNEXT jump LOSE
GONE: drop
LOSE: (LOST) a! @ 1 + ! ;
\ ( port -- ) wait until a message may be begun on the port, by its
\ address, taking in whatever is being written to this node meanwhile; and
\ leave B at the port. The port is kept in (GATE-PORT), not on the stack:
\ this is run with the stack as full as EMIT may be.
: (GATE)
(GATE-PORT) a! !
L: (WRITERS) b! @b if QUIET
(LOW) (PORT) + dup b! @b (TAKE) jump L
QUIET: drop
(GATE-PORT) a! @ (PORT) - (NEAR) + a! @ if ASK
(ME) a! @ - -if GO jump ASK \ its number less this node's
GO: drop (GATE-PORT) a! @ b! ; \ the neighbour's is the higher
ASK: drop
(READERS) b! @b (GATE-PORT) a! @ (PORT) - (BIT) if NOTYET
drop (GATE-PORT) a! @ b! ; \ it is waiting to read
NOTYET: drop jump L
\ ( type -- ) words 1 to 5 of a message this node sends: from, type, and
\ the three that are carried and not used yet. Its caller has put B at the
\ port and sent word 0, whom it is to, and sends the length and the text.
@@ -142,7 +234,7 @@ header CMOVE
\ lowest. quit.v4 sets those two when text for this node arrives.
: (FLUSH-OUT)
(OUT^) a! @ (OUT) xor if NONE drop
(PRINT-PORT) a! @ b! (PRINT-TO) a! @ !b
(PRINT-PORT) a! @ (GATE) (PRINT-TO) a! @ !b
2 (HDR)
(OUT^) a! @ (OUT) - dup !b
3 + 2/ 2/ -1 + (OUT) a!