rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5
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- The golden model's host node gets a block storage device: four memory-mapped registers (number, address, command, status), 1024-byte blocks as 256 cells. tests/test_node.c. - capsule/blocks.v4: BLOCK BUFFER UPDATE SAVE-BUFFERS EMPTY-BUFFERS LIST LOAD SCR BLK (FORTH-79) and v3's FLUSH THRU and -->, over two buffers. - The text being interpreted is at the address in (SRC), which QUERY makes the terminal's buffer and LOAD a block's; LOAD saves and restores it, so blocks nest and the rest of LOAD's line runs afterwards. WORD makes sure a loading block is still in a buffer before it reads. - In a block, \ skips to the next 64-character line. - A block number that does not exist, and --> at the terminal, are errors with messages (D-18). - tests/test_host_quit.c: ten transcripts of the v3 binary; nesting three deep on two buffers; what reaches the device and when. v3's LOAD drops the rest of its line, and v3 has no BLK. 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.