Robert Allan JamesandClaude Opus 5.5
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- Ruling (Captain Bob): per-slot locks, not "own path needs no lock" -- a lock only on the cross-slot side can't exclude an unlocked owner (Hermes release evicting a sender's cell while the sender admits). FABRIC-3.10.0 §3.6 amended. - StadiumVMQuota.lock covers the slot's lists, reservoir, consumed, word row and its cells. Word dispatch holds only its own slot lock for the whole dispatch (*_in_slot forms); peek-then-pull is one step. - g_lock_stadium: grant slot allocation (new slot published with release in_use) and the shared block table (ruled: the one shared-lock Stadium path). Taken before a slot lock. - Bitmap bytes set/cleared atomically (8 cells, possibly 8 slots). - Cross-slot writers moved under the owner's lock: Hermes decay (stadium_cell_decay), Hermes release ledger (stadium_evict_credit), session pin (stadium_cell_set_pin). stadium_conserved() one hold. - Word and block cell lookups check the cell is still this slot's. - Probe (removed), identical on all three ISAs: 10,746,599 of 10,746,616 word dispatches took exactly one lock (own slot), the 17 others all row growths; every live VM conserved; Hermes audit failures 0. - Findings reported: births/USE run a VM's words while another VM is the core's current VM (MC-3 claim must cover it); quota slots never released; owner admission can evict a live message cell (latent, 0). - Standard sequence on amd64/aarch64/riscv64: dict_hash set and G byte-identical, MINT/WIREBIND/USE ok, conservation true, 0 idle growth. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <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.