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rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5 2c16183788 feat(v4.0.0): CONSOLE-RX and CONSOLE-STATUS on the single-node model
The console's receive side, standing in for the console node until the
mesh exists, as CONSOLE-TX does for output.  A data fetch (@, @+, @b)
from CONSOLE-STATUS gives -1 when a character is pending and 0 when
not; from CONSOLE-RX it gives the next character and takes it, or -1
with none pending.  The characters come from a queue the test feeds.

Instruction words and literals are still fetched with v4_node_load, so
code at a register's address is never taken for the register.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 20:53:56 -04:00

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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. 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.