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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 024f8a84b5 starkernel: Phase 0 acceptance -- three-arch boot + reproducibility (item 0.10)
Adds a one-time boot diagnostic in kernel_main.c, right before sk_repl()
is entered: bounded wait for 3 real heartbeat ticks, then prints tick
count, TIME-TRUST, and variance. Needed because printing immediately
after apic_timer_start() (as first tried) measured 1 tick on amd64 and
0 on riscv64 -- not evidence the heartbeat doesn't work, just that
almost no wall time elapses between arming the timer and that point in
boot; report it honestly rather than let it stand as a false negative.

Verified this session (logs/20260804-001727, -001805, -001850,
-001948, -002021):
- All three architectures boot to ok>.
- Tick count non-zero: amd64 4, riscv64 3, aarch64 3.
- riscv64: trust=Q48_ONE exactly, variance=0 -- architecturally
  invariant counter, as designed.
- amd64: dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f, identical to the pre-item-0.8
  baseline (logs/20260803-231322) -- unchanged output, satisfying the
  GAP-A1 control.
- Two consecutive amd64 boots produced the identical dict hash --
  reproducible, no wall-clock leakage into patron state.

Phase 0 (Substrate) is complete.

Punch list §25 item 0.10 complete.

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.