Robert Allan James cb4326c712 starkernel: item 4.3.3b -- geometry drawing wordset, fixed Q.TO-INT sign bug ...

Adds LINE (Bresenham in raster space, endpoints projected once each --
valid because the cavalier projection is linear), CIRCLE/ELLIPSE
(36-segment polygon approximation), and ARC (18 segments over a caller
radian range) to capsules/fabric.4th (blocks 4903-4912). TO-RASTER
factored out of CART-PLOT (same behavior) so LINE can reuse the
projection+flip for both endpoints.

Found mid-implementation: colon definitions cannot span block boundaries
in this capsule loader -- verified with a throwaway test capsule, the
continuation lands in a [CAPSULE][DEFER] path that never resolves. LINE's
body is split across LINE-SETUP/LINE-DONE?/LINE-STUCK?/LINE-STEP, each
self-contained within its block, rather than one long definition.

A fourth real bug, serious this time: CIRCLE's first live test rendered
only one quadrant, then hung the VM for several minutes on a follow-up
call. Root cause: q48_to_u64() (include/q48_16.h and
include/starkernel/q48_16.h, backing Q.TO-INT) did an unsigned logical
shift, corrupting any negative Q48.16 value into a huge garbage integer
instead of sign-extending -- inevitable once Q.SIN/Q.COS leave the first
quadrant. That garbage became a bogus LINE target with no bound on
LINE-STEP's Bresenham loop. Fixed q48_to_u64 to shift through a signed
int64_t intermediate (bit-identical for the non-negative case). Also added
LINE-STUCK? (LSTEPS vs FB-WIDTH+FB-HEIGHT, the true worst case for an
on-screen line) as a defense-in-depth cap against any future bad target.

Verified live on amd64 after both fixes: -65536 Q.TO-INT . now prints -1;
LINE/CIRCLE/ARC/ELLIPSE all complete without hanging or erroring, and a
combined screendump shows all four rendering correctly and distinctly.

All three architectures boot clean to ok> with the DoE completing;
dict_hash identical across all three and unchanged from 4.3.3a (expected
-- fabric.4th isn't loaded at boot, and the Q.TO-INT fix doesn't change
dictionary structure).

FABRIC.md item 4.3.3b marked done with full acceptance evidence.

2026-08-07 15:20:58 -04:00

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