Robert Allan James
cb4326c712
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.
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.