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Increment 2: WIREBIND user VMs (the ones that actually run FORTH work; console VMs are pure REPL proxies and never participate) register as Stage 3 switch-signal participants at attach, unregister at teardown. Slot table bumped 8 -> 16, matching messaging.4th's own VM-MAX -- a real, already-agreed ceiling, not an invented number. Added sk_vm_switch_signal_unregister() (compaction-based; Tripod VMs never needed removal, WIREBIND VMs cycle constantly and would otherwise exhaust the bounded table). Increment 3: implements the plan's own ratified option (A) for the async-detach UAF risk -- mark-and-defer via a new pending_reap flag on VMRegistryEntry, deliberately not a new VMState (capsule_vm_kill() already treats VM_STATE_DEAD as idempotent success, which would silently swallow a reap attempt; SWITCHED_OUT still accurately describes a tombstoned VM until the moment it's actually freed). unclean_detach() sets it when capsule_vm_kill() refuses a SWITCHED_OUT target; the Stage 3 checkpoint (vm_core.c) checks it before ever attempting to resume a pending switch target, and calls the new capsule_vm_force_reap() instead -- the one caller allowed to bypass capsule_vm_kill()'s own refusal, because it runs at the exact safe cooperative point the switcher itself controls. A new idle-tick sweep cleans up the WIREBIND live-table entry once the reap has actually happened. Verified clean on all 3 architectures (baseline regression -- no WIREBIND attach happens in a plain boot). The reap mechanism's own correctness under a genuinely parked context is verified separately, next, via a temporary deterministic probe. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K
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.