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EMIT is a device service: a character sent to the console node. The mesh and its ports are development step 2 and the memory map is open (D-4), so the single-node model now stands in for the console with one memory-mapped register, so that printing words can be run and their output compared with v3's. v4_node_console_attach(n, addr): after it, a store to word address `addr` appends the low 8 bits of the value to a buffer on the node (V4_CONSOLE_CAP characters, 4096 by default) and does not write memory; a load from `addr` reads the memory word as before. Characters past the capacity are counted in console_dropped and discarded. The hook is in v4_node_store, which all four store opcodes use. It is off by default: v4_node_reset detaches the console (address -1) and empties the capture, so the ISA's behaviour and every existing test are unchanged unless a console is attached. The address is the caller's choice. New test v4/tests/test_console.c, 22 checks per width: direct stores, !b, ! and !+ through the executor printing "Hi!", memory at and around the register untouched, the low byte only, overflow, detach, a console at word 0, and reset. At 32- and 64-bit cells, optimised and ASan+UBSan (`make test`, `make sanitize`); all other v4 tests still pass. Four mutations of the hook each fail. DECOMPOSITION.md section 7 gains the CONSOLE-TX row. No printing word is defined here; EMIT and the words on it are still to do. 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>
StarForth / LithosAnanke Documentation
This is the lithosananke branch: the bare-metal StarKernel side of the project
(contrast master, which is the hosted-VM-only side). Documentation follows the
two-tier model described in docs/CLAUDE.md: formal/ is the polished,
citable LaTeX tier; working/ is living design notes and drafts that feed it.
Everything else in this directory is branch- or subsystem-specific material that
doesn't fit either tier.
Layout
- formal/ — Three-volume LaTeX documentation set (research volumes,
practitioner books, standalone reports) plus the
scraps/fragment library it's assembled from. Audience: patent counsel, SSRN reviewers, licensees, hobbyists with hardware in hand. Seeformal/CLAUDE.mdfor authoring conventions. - working/ — Living documents: architecture design notes, DoE
experiment logs, hardware/platform notes, draft specs, academic-paper source
material, and an archive of superseded docs. Source material for
formal/. - 03-architecture/ — Tripod VM architecture constraints (Hera/Hermes/Artemis) and the word-level ACL system design.
- lithosananke/ — LithosAnanke kernel branch documentation: milestone roadmap, system architecture, HAL reference, kernel command-line argument design, and the amd64 APIC-timer ISR postmortem.
- birthing/ — VM birthing plan and status for the Hera-spawns- Hermes/Artemis constellation, plus three-architecture QEMU acceptance logs.
- patent/ — Provisional patent application source. Legal hold — ask Bob before touching anything in this directory.
- api/ — Generated Doxygen tag file and warnings log (gitignored; not part of the tracked doc tree).
- pptx/ — Elevator-pitch and deep-dive slide decks for different audiences (technical, non-technical, academic, PhD-level).
Current Active Work
- LithosAnanke M7/M7.1 — VM parity validation and init capsule architecture.
See
lithosananke/README.mdandlithosananke/M7.1.md. - Word-level ACL system — Phase 6 complete on
master; Phase 7 (LithosAnanke parity) is the next step. See03-architecture/word-acl/README.md. - Tripod VMs — Hera (governor), Hermes (messenger), Artemis (memory/block
storage). See
03-architecture/tripod/README.mdandbirthing/.
Contributing
- Place new material in
working/first; promote toformal/only when it's ready to be cited (seeformal/CLAUDE.mdfor promotion criteria). - Never touch
patent/,formal/patent/,formal/scraps/legal/, orworking/legal/without Bob's explicit instruction. - Add a
README.mdto any new category-level subdirectory, following the format used throughout this tree: orientation paragraph + bullet list of real files with one-line descriptions.