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- VOCABULARY DEFINITIONS CONTEXT CURRENT FORTH, and v3's ORDER. A name is looked up in the CONTEXT vocabulary and then in FORTH; a new entry goes into the CURRENT vocabulary; : makes the CURRENT vocabulary CONTEXT; FORTH is immediate. - WORDS lists the CONTEXT vocabulary. FORGET takes what was defined later out of every vocabulary, and a vocabulary that goes gives way to FORTH. - v3's vocabularies separate nothing: a word defined in one is found from every other, and one redefined in a vocabulary replaces FORTH's for good. - tests/test_host_quit.c: isolation, chaining to FORTH, two vocabularies with the same names, FORGET across them; and DUMP is now checked to put BASE back. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
v4/
StarForth v4: the 32-instruction F18-derived core. The design lives in
docs/v4.0.0/JUSTIFICATION.md (why) and docs/v4.0.0/DECOMPOSITION.md
(every v3 word mapped to a v4 fate).
The first deliverable is the hosted C99 golden model (JUSTIFICATION.md §10,
step 1). It must pass POST and hold K≡1.0 with 32- and 64-bit cells on all
three host ISAs.
Acceptance (JUSTIFICATION.md §16): v4 must be equivalent to v3 at any point
in time, with the same vocabularies and behaviour, on the F18-derived engine;
and every ISA, hosted and bare metal, must still reach its ok prompt.
make -C v4 test passing is a development check, not acceptance.
What exists so far is the single node: registers, circular stacks, memory, all
32 opcodes, per-opcode and per-call-target heat, and three console
registers (CONSOLE-TX, which captures output, and CONSOLE-RX and CONSOLE-STATUS, which hand out
input a test feeds) standing in for the console node until the mesh exists. The tests load definitions
onto a node either opcode by opcode (v4/include/v4/asm.h) or as text in the notation DECOMPOSITION.md
uses (v4/include/v4/text.h). make -C v4 test builds
and runs the tests at both cell widths; make -C v4 sanitize repeats them
under ASan and UBSan. There is no compiler capsule, no POST and no K
measurement yet.