rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5
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Both run exactly as written in DECOMPOSITION.md 5.3 and need no change: four bytes to a cell, little-endian, byte address = 4 * word address + byte index, at either cell width. Checked at 32- and 64-bit cells, optimised and ASan+UBSan (`make test`, `make sanitize`): every byte of two adjacent words, eight values including ones wider than a byte, with the other bytes of the word, the upper half of a 64-bit cell and the neighbouring words left untouched. Breaking C!'s mask or C@'s mask fails. Headroom (data under args / return): C@ 6/4, C! 5/4. Test results on the amd64 host only. This is a development check, not acceptance (JUSTIFICATION.md section 16). 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, and per-opcode and per-call-target heat. 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.