Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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vm_find_word() and dict_find_word_heat_aware() reference the same extern globals (sf_fc_list/sf_fc_count/sf_fc_cap) but GCC compiled cross-TU references to them with GOT-indirect addressing (R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX) under -fPIC. This freestanding, statically-linked UEFI PE image has no dynamic linker to populate a GOT, so those reads silently returned NULL instead of the array's real address -- amd64-only, and exquisitely sensitive to unrelated code-size changes since the choice between direct and GOT-indirect addressing is a per-call-site GCC heuristic. Fix: -fno-pic -fno-pie for amd64 only (ARCH_CFLAGS, overriding COMMON_CFLAGS's -fPIC, which riscv64's -shared loader link still needs). Also removes -DPLATFORM_TIME_NO_INLINE, a prior one-off workaround for the identical bug applied to sf_monotonic_ns() specifically, now redundant. Adds R_X86_64_PC32/R_X86_64_PLT32 handling to elf_apply_relocations() as a robustness fix for the non-monolithic split-build path (dead code for the current monolithic boot, where OVMF's own PE loader relocates the image, not this loader). Verified: all three architectures boot clean and pass the full item-4.2 Hermes self-test, including MSG-DELIVER-ALL, which previously triggered the corruption on amd64 only. Write-up in FABRIC.md under item 4.2. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
src/
Hosted StarForth VM implementation (compiled by the root Makefile).
Bare-metal kernel sources live in src/starkernel/; FORTH word
implementations in src/word_source/; the test harness in
src/test_runner/; platform shims in src/platform/.
Entry point / interpreter core
main.c— CLI entry point, VM init, DoE mode dispatch.vm.c— interpreter loop, stacks, dictionary state (the central runtime file).vm_api.c— external VM API implementation.vm_bootstrap.c— VM bootstrap initialization.vm_debug.c— debugging utilities.vm_time.c— time-related VM operations.vm_internal.h— internal-only declarations shared across thevm_*.cfiles, not part of the publicinclude/vm_api.hsurface.repl.c— REPL read-eval-print loop.cli.c— CLI argument parsing.io.c— I/O operations.log.c— logging infrastructure.
Memory / dictionary / blocks
memory_management.c— dictionary allocator.dictionary_management.c— dictionary allocation and search.dictionary_heat_optimization.c— Loop #1 execution-heat tracking.word_registry.c— word registration system.block_subsystem.c— logical→physical block mapper.blkio_file.c,blkio_ram.c,blkio_factory.c— block I/O backends (file-backed, RAM-backed) and the factory that selects between them.stack_management.c— stack operations.
Physics-driven adaptive runtime (7 feedback loops)
physics_runtime.c— main physics coordinator.physics_hotwords_cache.c— Loop #1 hot-words caching.physics_metadata.c— per-word metadata tracking.physics_pipelining_metrics.c— Loop #4 word-transition prediction.physics_execution_hooks.c— execution instrumentation.rolling_window_of_truth.c— Loop #2 circular execution-history buffer.inference_engine.c— Loops #5/#6, statistical inference (window-width, decay-slope).ssm_jacquard.c— L8 Jacquard steady-state mode selector; consumescompudynamics.cfor tuning-word/config lookups.compudynamics.c— generic compudynamics module (cd_tuning_word(),cd_tuning_vm()); the score/UCB/reward/weight constants for the L8 adaptive table live here, not inssm_jacquard.c.heartbeat_export.c— heartbeat metrics export (CSV export function itself not yet implemented — seedocs/working/architecture/heartbeat_csv_export.md).
Math / measurement
math_portable.c— portable math functions.profiler.c— performance profiling.doe_metrics.c— Design of Experiments metrics (2^7 factorial).
Any .bak file alongside a .c file here (doe_metrics.c.bak,
inference_engine.c.bak, vm.c.bak) is a pre-edit backup left by a past
maintenance script (see scripts/remove_loop_conditionals.sh), not a
build input.