Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Maintainability sweep (prompted by "this is getting hard to maintain"): fixed the remaining three warning classes after the missing-field- initializers commit -- 2x -Wsign-compare (control_words.c, cast at the comparison site rather than changing cf_last_mode's type, which deliberately holds a -999 sentinel outside vm_mode_t's valid range), 2x -Wstringop-truncation (mkcapsule.c, strncpy+manual-null-terminate replaced with the idiomatic snprintf equivalent), and 26x -Wunused-parameter (mostly documented stubs, silenced with the repo's existing (void)param; idiom). One of the unused-parameter warnings was not a deliberate stub -- a real bug. restore_vm_state() (test_common.c) is named, documented, and called by nine real call sites (acl_words_test.c x8 plus its own internal use) as "restore saved VM state", but ignored all four of its parameters and hard-reset to a fixed baseline instead, silently not restoring what any caller actually saved. Fixed to actually assign the passed-in dsp/rsp/error/mode. Found while fixing warnings, reported before touching it, fixed/tested/documented/committed on explicit instruction. Verified: all three architectures build with zero C-compiler warnings (amd64: 3040 -> 0; aarch64's one remaining note is lld-link's own unrelated linker warning, not a C warning). Full amd64 acceptance boot post-fix: POST 1003/965/0/0/38 (total/passed/failed/errors/stubs), "ALL IMPLEMENTED TESTS PASSED!", contract checks (A4'/A1) all passed, dict_hash=0x24b4279f0670aa3a -- an exact match to this document's own previously-recorded baseline hash. .claude/CLAUDE.md corrected to describe the real -Wno-error= exemption list instead of the "-Wall -Werror" oversimplification. FABRIC-2.md Section J records the full sweep, including doc-tree staleness findings flagged but not fixed this pass (docs/lithosananke/ROADMAP.md branch topology, docs/03-architecture/word-acl/DESIGN.md's Phase 7 claim contradicting CLAUDE.md, top-level ROADMAP.md's stale StarForth-era status, the Isabelle pipeline-metrics model mismatch). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
capsules/
FORTH personality files loaded by the VM at boot. A capsule is an immutable, content-addressed payload; its XXHash64 hash is its identity. Any mutation changes the hash and the birth protocol rejects the image.
Key files
| File | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
init.4th |
(m) MAMA_INIT |
Default Mama VM personality — loaded at LBN 2048 |
ACL.4th |
user | Word-level ACL system; self-activating at boot |
zuse.4th |
user | Bootstrap superuser; loaded by ACL.4th |
doe.4th |
user | DoE workload words (EXEC-DOE) — opt-in |
init-0.4th … init-9.4th |
(p) |
Numbered personality variants |
init-l8-*.4th |
(p) |
L8 Jacquard mode variants (stable/volatile/diverse/temporal/transition/omni) |
hermes/init.4th |
(p) |
Hermes baby VM personality |
artemis/init.4th |
(p) |
Artemis baby VM personality |
Block namespace
Block ranges are shared across all loaded capsules — collisions cause silent word-definition overwrites.
| Range | Owner |
|---|---|
| 2048–2099 | init.4th |
| 2100–2199 | doe.4th |
| 3000–3999 | workload capsules |
| 4000+ | user-defined (ACL.4th, zuse.4th, …) |
Each block is limited to 1024 bytes. Verify with wc -c before committing.
See also
experiments/bare_metal/README.md— DoE protocols and block namespace rulesdocs/03-architecture/word-acl/DESIGN.md— ACL system designtools/mkcapsule.c— assembles capsules intocapsule_generated.c- Project root