Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Punch list §25 item 3.7 complete. Added to §25.4 after starting item 4.1 surfaced it as an unbuilt prerequisite -- 3.6's earlier "Phase 3 core complete" claim is corrected in this same commit. StadiumVMQuota table (size STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT, linearly searched by vm_id -- capsule_birth.c's vm_id is monotonic and never reused, so it cannot index a table directly, and a 4-entry scan costs nothing). New per-cell stadium_owner byte array records which quota a cell belongs to, needed so eviction returns a freed cell to the correct VM's list and so eviction search stays scoped to the evicting VM's own residents (quota isolation). Free-list linkage reuses each cell's `link` field as a next-free pointer while unresident -- link is documented only as generic "index into the Stadium, not a pointer," so this is a repurposing, not a header change. Does not answer the separate, still-open question of which field carries a multi-cell patron's first continuation-cell index; item 3.5's mass != 1 refusal stands exactly as it was. Boot-time: every cell chained into one list in ascending index order, granted whole to vm_id 0 (Hera), the only VM that exists. Ascending order preserves item 3.6's "Hera is patron zero" invariant once real birth-wiring lands. stadium_admit()'s signature changed to take vm_id -- a change to code shipped in item 3.5, amended there. Pops the calling VM's free-list head first (O(1)); only falls back to a same-VM-scoped eviction search if empty. Caught a real bug before the boot run: the header zero-fill on eviction (and the initial free-list build) both left contains == 0, but 0 is Hera's valid index -- the same collision item 3.1's STADIUM_CONTAINS_NONE fix addressed, recurring at a new site. Fixed by explicitly setting contains = STADIUM_CONTAINS_NONE at both free-list sites. Explicitly out of scope, reported not invented: granting quota to any VM other than Hera is capacity arbitration (item 1.3 left "how much moves per transfer" open). stadium_owner is set once at boot and never rewritten, so quota_slot_for_vm() refuses every vm_id != 0 permanently until item 4.2 adds the grant path and owner-array writes. Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64, aarch64, riscv64), all reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the item-3.6 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.