Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Scope decided with Captain Bob before implementation: ring buffer + recall on today's full-screen vt100 grid, not also confining REPL text to the 4.4o 640x480 box (that confinement stays open as its own future item, not a third silent deferral). No keyboard input path exists yet (M8 unstarted), so the trigger is two new FORTH words, SCROLL-BACK ( n -- ) / SCROLL-FWD ( n -- ), exercised via serial injection. vt100.c gains a text-only 1000-line ring buffer (kmalloc'd, tens of KB -- not pixel snapshots, which would be ~1000x larger for no benefit) plus a shadow buffer mirroring the current screen. scroll_up() now pushes evicted rows into the ring before the pixel scroll. History is one continuous sequence (ring then shadow); scrolling always redraws from that sequence -- no separate pixel-scroll path for scrollback, decided up front to avoid retrofitting later. New src/word_source/scroll_words.c (Module 31), thin wrappers over console_fb_scroll_back()/_fwd() -> vt100_scroll_back()/_fwd(). Bug caught during live testing: both words initially used an off-by-one underflow check (dsp < 1) copied from a different, older dsp convention elsewhere in this codebase; vm_pop() (which these words actually call) uses dsp as a 0-based top-of-stack index, so the check rejected every legitimate single-argument call. Fixed by removing the separate precheck and relying on vm_pop()'s own guard. Live-verified on all three architectures (exceeds this item's amd64-minimum bar): generated 50+ lines via a FORTH loop, confirmed SCROLL-BACK recovers correctly older content, and on amd64 confirmed SCROLL-FWD returns to genuinely live state (not a frozen snapshot) by showing the injected commands' own echo. Known limitation confirmed by direct pixel measurement: redrawn lines lose their original SGR color (not stored per-cell) -- text recovers exactly, color does not. Three-arch verified: Failed: 0, dict-hashes identical across all three (values changed correctly from prior items -- two new words were added). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
include/
Public headers for the hosted StarForth VM (src/). Kernel-only headers
live under include/starkernel/.
Core VM
vm.h— theVMstruct and all core types (DictEntry,DictPhysics, stacks, dictionary state); the central header most other files include.vm_api.h— external VM API surface.vm_host.h,vm_debug.h,startup.h,version.h— host integration, debug utilities, startup sequencing, version string.cli.h,repl.h,io.h,log.h— CLI parsing, REPL loop, I/O, logging.word_registry.h— word registration system shared by everysrc/word_source/*.cfile.compudynamics.h— the generic compudynamics module: tuning-word/config lookups (cd_tuning_word(),cd_tuning_vm()) consumed byssm_jacquard.c.
Memory / blocks
memory_management.h,dictionary_management.h— dictionary allocator and search.block_subsystem.h,blkcfg.h,blkio.h,blkio_factory.h— logical→ physical block mapper and pluggable block I/O backends (file/RAM).platform_alloc.h,platform_lock.h,platform_time.h— platform abstraction shims (hosted vs. kernel allocation/locking/timing).
Physics-driven adaptive runtime (7 feedback loops)
physics_runtime.h— main physics coordinator.physics_hotwords_cache.h— Loop #1, execution-heat hot-words cache.physics_metadata.h— per-wordDictPhysicsmetadata tracking.physics_pipelining_metrics.h— Loop #4, word-transition prediction.physics_execution_hooks.h— execution instrumentation hook points.rolling_window_of_truth.h,rolling_window_knobs.h— Loop #2 circular execution-history buffer and its tuning knobs.inference_engine.h— Loops #5/#6, window-width and decay-slope statistical inference.dictionary_heat_optimization.h— Loop #1 heat counters.ssm_jacquard.h— L8 Jacquard steady-state mode selector.doe_metrics.h— Design of Experiments (2^7 factorial) metrics.profiler.h— performance profiling hooks.
Arithmetic / codegen
q48_16.h— Q48.16 deterministic fixed-point arithmetic (used instead of IEEE-754 float specifically to keep cross-architecture behavior bit-identical).math_portable.h— portable math helpers.arch_detect.h,starforth_config.h— architecture detection and the build-flag fallback-default layer (used when a.cfile is compiled by hand withoutmake).vm_asm_opt.h,vm_asm_opt_arm64.h,vm_asm_opt_riscv64.h,vm_inner_interp_asm.h,vm_inner_interp_arm64.h,vm_inner_interp_riscv64.h— per-architecture assembler-optimized inner interpreter (USE_ASM_OPT=1).
See include/starkernel/README.md for the bare-metal kernel headers.