Files
LithosAnanake/v4
rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5 ab272cc2ad feat(v4.0.0): the Q48.16 words and DUMP at the prompt
- capsule/qmath.v4: Q.FROM-INT Q.TO-INT Q.1 Q.0 Q.SCALE Q.+ Q.- Q.* Q./
  Q.ABS Q.NEG Q.= Q.< Q.> Q.0= Q.MAX Q.MIN Q.EXP Q.SQRT Q.LOG Q.SIN Q.COS
  Q.PRINT -- the definitions test_foundation.c executes on the mesh node,
  now in the host node's vocabulary.
- numout.v4: DUMP.
- Q./ by zero, and Q.SQRT and Q.LOG outside their domain, leave the
  result D-11 and D-12 give and then raise an error (D-18): "Division by
  zero", "Argument out of range".  v3 returns 0 silently.
- tests/test_host_quit.c: 122 results printed by Q.PRINT are transcripts
  of the v3 binary, the same at both cell widths; signed values, the
  errors and DUMP's layout besides.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 07:00:27 -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. 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.