Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Closes the block-subsystem punch-list item -- built exactly to §F.11's already-decided algorithm after re-verifying it against current blk_meta_t (a 2026-09-03 re-scoping note had wrongly claimed the chain fields no longer existed; they do, untouched by BMAPFMT). blk_firsttouch_claim(): one linear scan of Artemis's own device (new blk_get_first_disk_range(), correctly bounding the scan instead of the global multi-device LBN space), scattered-chain claim via prev_block/next_block/chain_length, owner_fp stamped on every member devblock, fails outright with no partial claim. blk_meta_relocate_devblock(): the real migration primitive -- bridges the existing FORTH-block-granularity blk_subsys_relocate_block() up to devblock granularity (BLK_PACK_RATIO=3, corrected mid-design), running it 3x and transferring blk_meta_t ownership fields. The "migration state machine" turned out to be just the 2 states BLK_FLAG_MIGRATING already reserved; the real design work was the trigger. Two were scoped in conversation (overflow onto Artemis; heat-based wear leveling); heat/wear-leveling is built and wired into sk_repl_idle() via blk_meta_t.write_count. Overflow is deliberately left open, precisely scoped (needs a slot-lookup-by-device-pointer call site threaded from WIREBIND) rather than guessed at. Also flagged, not fixed: BMAPFMT's owner_fp/CLAIMED and the pre-existing BAM allocator are two parallel, unreconciled accounting systems -- FIRSTTOUCH/relocate only touch the former. Verified 3-arch boot to ok> (amd64/aarch64/riscv64, each in the foreground); logs and DoE CSVs from this session's verification runs included per this repo's own audit-artifact convention. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
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.