Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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kernel_main on riscv64 ran directly on EDK2's UEFI boot-time stack, with no dedicated stack switch — amd64 has always had a kernel_entry.S trampoline for exactly this reason (its own comment: "the FORTH interpreter + DOE experiment loop can easily exceed that depth"). aarch64 happens to get away without one because its firmware's default stack is apparently larger, but that was never a guarantee. On riscv64 the VM bootstrap's call depth (27 word-registration modules -> physics/SSM init -> Tripod capsule birth) overflowed that small stack, corrupting a return address and producing a wild jump / page fault right after vm_init_with_host() returned — reproduced consistently across the 2026-08-01 DoE campaign logs. - src/starkernel/arch/riscv64/kernel_entry.S (new): RISC-V stack-switch trampoline mirroring amd64's, giving the kernel a dedicated 2 MiB BSS stack before anything deep runs. - kernel_main.c: riscv64 now builds kernel_main_impl (invoked via the trampoline) instead of kernel_main directly, same pattern as amd64. - Makefile.starkernel: wires the new file into the riscv64 build. - uefi_loader.c: RAW_LOG() was silently a no-op on every non-amd64 arch; added a real raw-UART writer for riscv64 (QEMU virt's uart8250 at MMIO 0x10000000) so existing loader diagnostics actually produce output. Verified: all three architectures boot clean to [Hera] ok> in the required order (amd64, aarch64, riscv64); logs and DoE CSVs from these runs included. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
src/
Hosted StarForth VM implementation (compiled by the root Makefile).
Bare-metal kernel sources live in src/starkernel/; FORTH word
implementations in src/word_source/; the test harness in
src/test_runner/; platform shims in src/platform/.
Entry point / interpreter core
main.c— CLI entry point, VM init, DoE mode dispatch.vm.c— interpreter loop, stacks, dictionary state (the central runtime file).vm_api.c— external VM API implementation.vm_bootstrap.c— VM bootstrap initialization.vm_debug.c— debugging utilities.vm_time.c— time-related VM operations.vm_internal.h— internal-only declarations shared across thevm_*.cfiles, not part of the publicinclude/vm_api.hsurface.repl.c— REPL read-eval-print loop.cli.c— CLI argument parsing.io.c— I/O operations.log.c— logging infrastructure.
Memory / dictionary / blocks
memory_management.c— dictionary allocator.dictionary_management.c— dictionary allocation and search.dictionary_heat_optimization.c— Loop #1 execution-heat tracking.word_registry.c— word registration system.block_subsystem.c— logical→physical block mapper.blkio_file.c,blkio_ram.c,blkio_factory.c— block I/O backends (file-backed, RAM-backed) and the factory that selects between them.stack_management.c— stack operations.
Physics-driven adaptive runtime (7 feedback loops)
physics_runtime.c— main physics coordinator.physics_hotwords_cache.c— Loop #1 hot-words caching.physics_metadata.c— per-word metadata tracking.physics_pipelining_metrics.c— Loop #4 word-transition prediction.physics_execution_hooks.c— execution instrumentation.rolling_window_of_truth.c— Loop #2 circular execution-history buffer.inference_engine.c— Loops #5/#6, statistical inference (window-width, decay-slope).ssm_jacquard.c— L8 Jacquard steady-state mode selector; consumescompudynamics.cfor tuning-word/config lookups.compudynamics.c— generic compudynamics module (cd_tuning_word(),cd_tuning_vm()); the score/UCB/reward/weight constants for the L8 adaptive table live here, not inssm_jacquard.c.heartbeat_export.c— heartbeat metrics export (CSV export function itself not yet implemented — seedocs/working/architecture/heartbeat_csv_export.md).
Math / measurement
math_portable.c— portable math functions.profiler.c— performance profiling.doe_metrics.c— Design of Experiments metrics (2^7 factorial).
Any .bak file alongside a .c file here (doe_metrics.c.bak,
inference_engine.c.bak, vm.c.bak) is a pre-edit backup left by a past
maintenance script (see scripts/remove_loop_conditionals.sh), not a
build input.