diff --git a/docs/lithosananke/hosted-acceptance-test/README.md b/docs/lithosananke/hosted-acceptance-test/README.md
index 993d1da..dabe839 100644
--- a/docs/lithosananke/hosted-acceptance-test/README.md
+++ b/docs/lithosananke/hosted-acceptance-test/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Hosted StarForth — 3-Architecture Acceptance Test
 
-**Date**: 2026-07-24
-**Branch**: `lithosananke`
-**Commit**: `edced063` (block-subsystem buffer-sizing fix that made this pass on all three architectures)
+**Date**: 2026-07-24 (original), corrected 2026-08-02
+**Branch**: `master`
+**Commits**: `edced063` (original block-subsystem fix), this correction pass
 
 ---
 
@@ -20,35 +20,53 @@ This is distinct from the kernel (`Makefile.starkernel`) 3-arch acceptance
 test documented in
 [`../amd64-isr-fix/README.md`](../amd64-isr-fix/README.md), which boots a
 full UEFI bare-metal image under system-mode QEMU. This test only exercises
-the hosted Linux binary, using QEMU **user-mode** emulation
-(`qemu-aarch64-static` / `qemu-riscv64-static`) to run a foreign-architecture
-static binary directly on the x86_64 host — no kernel, no UEFI firmware, no
-system emulation.
+the hosted Linux binary, using QEMU **user-mode** emulation to run a
+foreign-architecture static binary directly on the x86_64 host — no kernel,
+no UEFI firmware, no system emulation.
 
 ---
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-Cross toolchains and QEMU user-mode emulators:
+Cross toolchains, QEMU user-mode emulation, and clang (needed for the
+riscv64 leg — see below):
 
 ```bash
 sudo apt-get install -y \
     gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu \
     gcc-riscv64-linux-gnu \
-    qemu-user qemu-user-static
+    clang-18 lld-18 \
+    qemu-user
 ```
 
+`qemu-user` alone is enough — the binaries built below are statically
+linked (`-static`), so the non-static `qemu-<arch>` emulators run them
+directly with no sysroot. (The `qemu-user-static` package, if you see it
+referenced elsewhere, provides statically-linked *emulators*; it's not
+required just because the *guest* binary is static.)
+
+---
+
+## Invocation note
+
+None of the three binaries accept a `-c "<script>"` flag — earlier
+revisions of this doc showed one, but `src/cli.c`/`src/main.c` have never
+had one in this repo's history. Pipe the script via stdin with `-s`
+(script/silent mode) instead. Startup always runs the full internal POST
+test suite before the REPL takes stdin, so expect substantial test-suite
+output before your script's result appears at the very end.
+
 ---
 
 ## amd64 — native
 
 ```bash
 make clean && make
-./build/amd64/standard/starforth -c "1 2 + . BYE"
+echo "1 2 + . BYE" | ./build/amd64/standard/starforth -s
 ```
 
-Expect `3` printed and a clean exit. No emulation needed — this is the build
-host's native architecture.
+Expect `3 Goodbye!` at the end of the output, then a clean exit. No
+emulation needed — this is the build host's native architecture.
 
 ---
 
@@ -56,12 +74,12 @@ host's native architecture.
 
 ```bash
 make rpi4-cross
-qemu-aarch64-static ./build/raspi/fastest/starforth -c "1 2 + . BYE"
+echo "1 2 + . BYE" | qemu-aarch64 ./build/raspi/fastest/starforth -s
 ```
 
 `make rpi4-cross` cross-compiles with `aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc`
 (`ARCH=raspi`, `TARGET=fastest`, `-static`); see `Makefile:547-554`. The
-output binary is statically linked, so `qemu-aarch64-static` can execute it
+output binary is statically linked, so `qemu-aarch64` can execute it
 directly with no sysroot.
 
 ---
@@ -69,17 +87,25 @@ directly with no sysroot.
 ## riscv64 — cross-compile + QEMU user-mode
 
 There is no dedicated `make` target for this yet (unlike `rpi4-cross` for
-aarch64) — invoke the cross-compile directly:
+aarch64) — invoke the cross-compile directly. **This leg must use clang,
+not GCC**: `riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc` fails to build this tree (`nanosleep`
+visibility failure under `-std=c99`, unrelated to any project change).
 
 ```bash
-make ARCH=riscv64 CC=riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc TARGET=fastest \
-    CFLAGS="-std=c99 -Wall -Werror -Iinclude -Isrc/word_source -Isrc/test_runner/include -DSTRICT_PTR=1 -march=rv64gc -mabi=lp64d -mcmodel=medany -DARCH_RISCV64=1 -O3 -DUSE_ASM_OPT=1 -DUSE_DIRECT_THREADING=1 -DNDEBUG -flto -static" \
-    LDFLAGS="-flto -s -static" \
+make ARCH=riscv64 \
+    CC="clang-18 --target=riscv64-linux-gnu --sysroot=/usr/riscv64-linux-gnu" \
+    TARGET=fastest \
+    CFLAGS="-std=c11 -pthread -Wall -Werror -Iinclude -Isrc/word_source -Isrc/test_runner/include -DSTRICT_PTR=1 -march=rv64gc -mabi=lp64d -mcmodel=medany -DARCH_RISCV64=1 -O3 -DUSE_ASM_OPT=1 -DUSE_DIRECT_THREADING=1 -DNDEBUG -flto -static" \
+    LDFLAGS="-flto -s -static -fuse-ld=lld" \
     all
 
-qemu-riscv64-static ./build/riscv64/fastest/starforth -c "1 2 + . BYE"
+echo "1 2 + . BYE" | qemu-riscv64 ./build/riscv64/fastest/starforth -s
 ```
 
+Note `-fuse-ld=lld` lives in `LDFLAGS`, not folded into `CC` — clang
+rejects it as an unused argument during `-c` (compile-only) invocations
+under `-Werror`.
+
 ---
 
 ## Pass criteria
@@ -90,8 +116,9 @@ For each architecture:
 2. `blk_subsys_init` succeeds — no `"Failed to initialize block subsystem"`
    error. (This was broken on every architecture, including amd64, prior to
    `edced063` — see below.)
-3. `1 2 + . BYE` prints `3` and exits cleanly, or an interactive run reaches
-   the `ok>` prompt.
+3. The internal POST suite runs (substantial log output — expected, not a
+   failure by itself) and the piped `1 2 + . BYE` script prints `3 Goodbye!`
+   at the end.
 
 ---
 
@@ -112,6 +139,34 @@ remaining hardcoded holdout. The fix:
 static uint8_t blk_ram[BLK_RAM_BLOCKS * BLK_FORTH_SIZE];   /* was: blk_ram[1024 * 1024] */
 ```
 
-This is why the acceptance test above is meaningful on `lithosananke`
+This is why the acceptance test above is meaningful on this branch
 specifically: it did not pass before this fix, on any of the three
 architectures.
+
+---
+
+## Background: the riscv64 clang build (2026-08-02 correction)
+
+The riscv64 command above was broken in this doc from 2026-07-24 until this
+correction — `docs/working/archive/session-logs/2026-07-24-punch-list.md`
+(item #2) recorded that the working clang invocation had been found and
+fixed in the old pre-split monorepo's `master` branch's `.claude/CLAUDE.md`,
+but the correction was never copied into this doc. Verifying it end-to-end
+for this correction surfaced that the clang build also needs three small
+source fixes from that same punch list (item #1), previously ported to the
+old monorepo's `master` but not to this line:
+
+- `src/math_portable.c` — `-100LL << 16` is UB (shifting a negative value)
+  under `-Wshift-negative-value`; changed to `-(100LL << 16)`.
+- `src/physics_pipelining_metrics.c` — removed dead `q48_mul_q48()`
+  (`-Wunused-function` under clang; GCC doesn't catch this by default).
+- `src/word_source/editor_words.c` — removed dead `set_scr()` (same reason).
+
+The punch list's highest-priority item — a genuine SIGSEGV-causing
+register-reuse hazard in `include/vm_asm_opt_riscv64.h`'s `vm_pop_asm`/
+`vm_rpop_asm` (clang's register allocator can pick the same register for a
+memory operand referenced both before and after a write-back, corrupting
+the result; GCC happens not to hit it) — is a separate, not-yet-ported fix
+and is **not** required just to get this acceptance test's `-O3` build to
+compile and pass; it's a latent runtime risk specifically under clang,
+tracked separately, not resolved by this correction.
diff --git a/src/math_portable.c b/src/math_portable.c
index f681606..581b697 100644
--- a/src/math_portable.c
+++ b/src/math_portable.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static int64_t exp_q48(int64_t x) {
     /* Handle extremes */
     if (x == 0) return Q48;
     if (x > (20LL << 16)) return Q48 << 8;  /* Approximate e^20 */
-    if (x < (-100LL << 16)) return 0;       /* Underflow to zero */
+    if (x < -(100LL << 16)) return 0;       /* Underflow to zero */
 
     /* Taylor series: exp(x) = Σ x^n / n! (in fixed-point) */
     int64_t result = Q48;  /* Start with 1 */
diff --git a/src/physics_pipelining_metrics.c b/src/physics_pipelining_metrics.c
index 30a33cf..7310d24 100644
--- a/src/physics_pipelining_metrics.c
+++ b/src/physics_pipelining_metrics.c
@@ -116,28 +116,6 @@ static inline int64_t q48_div_u64(int64_t a_q48, uint64_t b) {
     return a_q48 / (int64_t)b;
 }
 
-/**
- * @brief Multiply two Q48.16 values, returning a Q48.16 result.
- *
- * Computes @p a × @p b and right-shifts by 16 to cancel the extra scaling
- * factor introduced by multiplying two Q48.16 numbers:
- * @code
- *   (a × b) >> 16  →  Q48.16
- * @endcode
- * This is the standard fixed-point multiply for the same format on both
- * operands. Overflow is possible if both operands are large (the intermediate
- * product can reach 2^(48+48+16) = 2^112 in the worst case, which overflows
- * @c int64_t). In practice the operands are probabilities (0.0–1.0) or
- * latency fractions that keep the product well within int64 range.
- *
- * @param a  First Q48.16 operand.
- * @param b  Second Q48.16 operand.
- * @return   @p a × @p b in Q48.16.
- */
-static inline int64_t q48_mul_q48(int64_t a, int64_t b) {
-    return (a * b) >> 16;
-}
-
 /* ============================================================================
  * Transition Metrics Implementation
  * ============================================================================
diff --git a/src/word_source/editor_words.c b/src/word_source/editor_words.c
index 072cc1c..675100a 100644
--- a/src/word_source/editor_words.c
+++ b/src/word_source/editor_words.c
@@ -59,14 +59,6 @@ static inline cell_t current_scr(VM *vm) {
     return vm_load_cell(vm, vm->scr_addr);
 }
 
-/** @brief Set current screen number in VM
- *  @param vm Pointer to VM instance
- *  @param blk Screen number to set
- */
-static inline void set_scr(VM *vm, cell_t blk) {
-    vm_store_cell(vm, vm->scr_addr, blk);
-}
-
 /** @brief Get pointer to specific line in a screen
  *  @param vm Pointer to VM instance
  *  @param scr Screen number (1-based)