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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 d55ec3241b starkernel: item 3.1 -- the Stadium cell and header
Punch list §25 item 3.1 complete.

Defines StadiumPatronHeader and StadiumContinuationCell in new
include/starkernel/vm/stadium.h, unioned as StadiumCell per §3's
closed two-valued union. src/starkernel/vm/stadium.c added to
Makefile.starkernel's LOADER_EXTRA_SRCS/KERNEL_EXTRA_SRCS so the
header's compile-time size checks are actually compiled, not merely
included by something that never builds.

Discriminator ruled an external side bitmap (Captain Bob), not a
header field -- amended into §3 and §23.3 before this code was
written. Item 3.1 declares the bitmap's purpose/indexing in a comment
only; allocating it is item 3.2's scope.

Both cell shapes counted for real at exactly 64 bytes with zero
compiler-inserted padding (three C99-portable negative-array-size
assertions -- no _Static_assert, this project targets C99). Header
matches §23.3's original 32+32 split unchanged, since the
discriminator moving outside the cell left nothing to compete for that
space. Continuation cell matches item 1.12's 4+60 figure unchanged for
the same reason.

Verified the size assertion is actually live: broke it to 63,
confirmed the build failed with the expected negative-array-size
error, restored it, confirmed a clean compile.

Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64, aarch64, riscv64), all
reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the
item-2.2 baseline. Confirmed stadium.o present in both obj/loader/vm
and obj/kernel/vm post-build on amd64, closing the gap the item-2.2 WIP
exposed (an uncompiled header proves nothing).

Left open, not fabricated: §23.4 #2 ("does a typical message fit in
one cell") is unanswerable today -- no message patron struct exists
anywhere in this tree yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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 the vm_*.c files, not part of the public include/vm_api.h surface.
  • 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; consumes compudynamics.c for 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 in ssm_jacquard.c.
  • heartbeat_export.c — heartbeat metrics export (CSV export function itself not yet implemented — see docs/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.