Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Punch list §25 item 3.5 complete. stadium_admit(candidate) places into an unused cell if one exists (no comparison needed), otherwise finds the least-dense resident -- skipping pinned and contains-gated patrons, which are never eviction candidates -- and evicts it only if the candidate is strictly denser, per §19.3. stadium_evict(cell_index) dispatches the departing patron's behaviour before clearing its slot, per §17.2. Caught a real bug before it ran: the first draft used contains == 0 to mean "holds nothing," but cell index 0 is a valid index (Hera, item 3.6). Fixed with a proper sentinel, STADIUM_CONTAINS_NONE (UINT32_MAX). A second-pass review found mass was not accounted for: both functions handled exactly one cell regardless of the candidate's stated mass, which leaks cells on eviction of any mass > 1 patron and breaks capacity conservation. Fixed by refusing any candidate with mass != 1 -- multi-cell patrons need the per-VM free lists item 3.2 already deferred (§22.3), not built here. Documented, not fixed: the discriminator bitmap can't distinguish free from continuation cells, so the free-cell scan reads continuation-cell payload bytes under the header layout -- latent since nothing creates continuation cells yet, and the mass != 1 refusal keeps it provably latent. Superseded by the free list when it exists. Unexercised at runtime: nothing calls either function yet (no real patron kind is wired to the Stadium). No self-test added -- filling ~74,000+ cells to reach the eviction-on-full branch was judged impractical, following item 2.2's own precedent for its unexercised fleet-full path. Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64, aarch64, riscv64), all reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the item-3.4 baseline. 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.