Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
# TODO
Implementation plan for the Go → C port of `deps/basicinterpret` .
This file is written to be executed by AI agents, not read by humans for inspiration. Every
item names the files it touches, the exact deliverable, and the command that proves it done.
Work the phases in order. Inside a phase, items with no `Depends:` line may be done in
parallel.
---
## 0. Agent protocol
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### 0.1 The Go reference is deprecated. Stop matching it.
**`deps/basicinterpret` is a dead project. It will not be updated, and this interpreter is no
longer required to reproduce its behaviour.** Recorded here first because it silently reverses
the premise several sections of this file were written on, and because an agent that reads them
without this will park work that is no longer blocked.
What it changes:
- **§6 is now an ordinary defect list.** "Port the behaviour first so the port is provably
faithful" is retired. Fix them because they are wrong, not when fidelity permits.
- **§1.8's message-text contract is now a convention.** Improving a message is allowed; it costs
a golden file, which is a cost rather than a veto.
- **§5's bar drops** from "defensible against the golden suite" to defensible on its own merits.
- **`tests/reference/` becomes a regression suite rather than a specification.** Diverging from
it is allowed and must be deliberate and recorded — see its README.
What it does **not ** change:
- The corpus stays and stays green. Forty-one real BASIC programs with known-good output are
worth having whatever their provenance, and an unexplained change there is still a red flag.
- The Go source stays readable as documentation. It remains the best answer to "what did the
original actually do here", which is a question worth being able to answer even once the
answer stops being binding.
- Nothing about the `ak*` house rules, which never came from the reference.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
**Read these before touching anything**, in this order:
1. `CLAUDE.md` in this repository — project goals, the `libakerror` convention, the error-code
range map, and the dependency versions.
2. `deps/libakerror/AGENTS.md` — the `ATTEMPT` /`CLEANUP` /`PROCESS` /`HANDLE` /`FINISH` protocol.
3. `deps/libakerror/UPGRADING.md` — 1.0.0's status registry. Required before writing an error
code; the mechanism it replaced is gone.
4. `deps/libakstdlib/TODO.md` §2.1 — six **confirmed ** defects in the library this port calls
into. §1.9 below says which calls are cleared for use; that section is not optional
reading, it bans a family of functions the port would otherwise reach for by reflex.
5. `deps/libakgl/AGENTS.md` — the no-`malloc` rule and the commit co-author requirement.
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6. `deps/basicinterpret/README.md` — the language reference and the unimplemented list. Still
worth reading for the verb set and the semantics; no longer binding, per §0.1.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
**Rules for working this file:**
- **Do not** mark an item done until its acceptance command passes on a clean out-of-tree
build. "It compiles" is not acceptance.
- **Do** update this file in the same commit as the work: strike the item, or replace it with
the defect it uncovered. This file holds outstanding items only.
- **Do** add the agent program name, model name and version as a commit co-author. That rule
comes from `libakgl` and applies here.
- **Never** hand-edit generated output. `build/` trees and the generated `akerror.h` are
off-limits; change the generator.
- **Never** reformat a file you are not otherwise changing.
- When a step is blocked because `libakgl` cannot supply a capability, **do not work around
it here.** File it in `deps/libakgl/TODO.md` in the numbered prose style of that file's
"Carried over" section and note the block in §7 below.
**Style**, restated so nobody has to go look: C99, 4-space indent, tabs at width 8
(`stroustrup` ), function-body braces in column 0 on their own line, control braces on the same
line, **always brace ** , spaces inside control-flow parens — `if ( x == y ) {` . Pointer star
binds to the identifier: `char *name` . Prefix is `akbasic_` for functions,
`akbasic_TypeName` for types, `AKBASIC_UPPER_SNAKE` for macros. `static` helpers drop the
prefix. Parameter names must match between header and source.
---
## 1. Design decisions already made
These are settled. Do not relitigate them mid-port; if evidence says one is wrong, say so in
a commit that changes it deliberately, and update this section.
### 1.1 Reflection becomes one aligned dispatch table
The Go runtime resolves verbs with `reflect.MethodByName("Command" + NAME)`
(`basicruntime.go:401` ), functions with `"Function" + NAME` , and special parse paths with
`"ParseCommand" + NAME` (`basicparser.go:103` ). C has no reflection and we are not adding
any. Replace all three with **one ** static table in `src/verbs.c` , sorted by name, searched
with `bsearch(3)` :
```c
/* name token type parse handler exec handler */
{ "AUTO", AKBASIC_TOK_CMDIMM, NULL, cmd_auto },
{ "DATA", AKBASIC_TOK_COMMAND, parse_data, cmd_data },
{ "DEF", AKBASIC_TOK_COMMAND, parse_def, cmd_def },
```
A `NULL` parse handler means "parse the rval as a plain expression", which is exactly what
`commandByReflection` returning `(nil, nil)` means today. Adding a verb is adding one row plus
two functions. **Keep the table column-aligned and one row per verb ** — it is a table, so it
gets laid out as one.
This also kills the Go scanner's three separate maps (`reservedwords` , `commands` ,
`functions` , `basicscanner.go:64-67` ): the token type lives in the same row.
### 1.2 Strings are fixed-size and live inline
`libakstdlib` has no string type. `libakgl` has `akgl_String` but it is `PATH_MAX` bytes,
refcounted, and pool-allocated — wrong shape for a value that gets copied on every
assignment, and it would drag a `libakgl` dependency into the core interpreter.
Define in `include/akbasic/types.h` :
```c
#define AKBASIC_MAX_STRING_LENGTH 256 /* matches AKBASIC_MAX_LINE_LENGTH */
```
and give `akbasic_Value` a `char stringval[AKBASIC_MAX_STRING_LENGTH]` **inline ** . `clone()`
becomes a struct assignment. No allocator, no refcount, no lifetime question.
**Tradeoff, stated:** every `akbasic_Value` is ~300 bytes, so one environment's
`values[AKBASIC_MAX_VALUES]` pool is ~19KB, and 32 environments is ~610KB of BSS. That is
fine on a PC and is the price of never calling `malloc` . If it ever isn't fine, the knob is
`AKBASIC_MAX_STRING_LENGTH` , not the allocator.
Truncation is an **error ** , not a silent clamp: `FAIL_RETURN(e, AKBASIC_ERR_VALUE, ...)` .
### 1.3 Maps become fixed-capacity open-addressed tables
Five Go maps need replacing:
| Go site | Purpose | C replacement |
|---|---|---|
| `BasicScanner.reservedwords/commands/functions` | keyword → token type | the §1.1 static table + `bsearch` |
| `BasicEnvironment.variables` | name → `*BasicVariable` | `akbasic_SymbolTable` , capacity `AKBASIC_MAX_VARIABLES` |
| `BasicEnvironment.functions` | name → `*BasicFunctionDef` | `akbasic_SymbolTable` , capacity `AKBASIC_MAX_FUNCTIONS` |
| `BasicEnvironment.labels` | name → line number | `akbasic_SymbolTable` , capacity `AKBASIC_MAX_LABELS` |
One implementation, `src/symtab.c` , keyed by `aksl_strhash_djb2()` (already in
`libakstdlib` ) with linear probing and a fixed slot array. **Use the existing hash; do not
write another one.** Table full is an error, not a resize.
Caveat, from `deps/libakstdlib/TODO.md` §1.6/§2.2.6: the wrapper sign-extends `char` , so a
high-bit byte hashes wrong — `"\xff\xfe"` returns 5859874 where the `unsigned char` answer is
5868578. BASIC identifiers are 7-bit ASCII (the scanner only accepts `IsLetter` /`IsDigit` plus
a type suffix), so this cannot bite the symbol tables. It **would ** bite if anyone later keys
a table on a string literal or a filename. Do not work around it here; it is already filed
upstream.
### 1.4 Environments come from a pool and are released
Go calls `new(BasicEnvironment)` at `basicruntime.go:121` and `basicparser_commands.go:124`
and never frees one. A long-running `GOSUB` or `FOR` in Go leaks; the GC eventually catches
some of it, and nothing in the tests notices.
C gets `HEAP_ENVIRONMENT[AKBASIC_MAX_ENVIRONMENTS]` with
`akbasic_env_acquire()` / `akbasic_env_release()` , in the shape of `akgl_heap_next_*` .
`akbasic_runtime_prev_environment()` **must ** release the environment it pops. Pool
exhaustion is `AKBASIC_ERR_ENVIRONMENT` , reported with the current line number.
Watch the one place this is not a clean stack: `userFunction` (`basicruntime.go:348` ) stores
a `BasicEnvironment` **by value ** inside `BasicFunctionDef` and re-`init()` s it on every call.
In C the funcdef holds an `akbasic_Environment *` acquired at `DEF` time and reset per call —
it is owned by the funcdef, not the pool's free list, until the funcdef dies.
### 1.5 Output goes through a text sink backend
`Write()` and `Println()` (`basicruntime_graphics.go:140,148` ) mirror every line to stdout
*and* to an SDL surface. That mirror is the only reason the golden-file suite works. Do not
reproduce it as a hardcoded pair of calls.
Define a record of function pointers, populated by an initializer — the house pattern:
```c
typedef struct akbasic_TextSink
{
void *self;
akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *(*write)(struct akbasic_TextSink *self, char *text);
akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *(*writeln)(struct akbasic_TextSink *self, char *text);
akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *(*readline)(struct akbasic_TextSink *self, char *dest, size_t len);
akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *(*clear)(struct akbasic_TextSink *self);
} akbasic_TextSink;
```
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`akbasic_sink_init_stdio()` is in the library and `akbasic_sink_init_akgl()` is in the
akgl-backed module. The driver is supposed to pick: a default build selects stdio, while an
`AKBASIC_WITH_AKGL` build selects the SDL text path and mirrors its output to stdout. It does
not do that yet; §3 records the missing standalone frontend. Cursor arithmetic, wrapping and
scrolling belong to the akgl sink, not to the interpreter.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
### 1.6 The interpreter steps; it does not run
Go's `run()` (`basicruntime.go:682` ) is a `for {}` that owns the process until `MODE_QUIT` .
Goal 3 forbids that: a host game must be able to bound execution.
The library exposes:
```c
akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *akbasic_runtime_step(akbasic_Runtime *obj);
akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *akbasic_runtime_run(akbasic_Runtime *obj, int maxsteps);
```
`_step()` does exactly what one iteration of Go's `for {}` body does and returns.
`_run(obj, maxsteps)` loops `_step()` until the mode is `AKBASIC_MODE_QUIT` or `maxsteps`
steps have elapsed; `maxsteps <= 0` means unbounded, which is what the standalone driver
passes. **This is a deliberate restructure, and it must not change a single byte of golden
output.**
`QUIT` sets `AKBASIC_MODE_QUIT` and returns. **Nothing in the library calls `exit()` ,
`abort()` , or `FINISH_NORETURN` .** `FINISH_NORETURN` appears exactly once in the tree, in
`src/main.c` .
### 1.7 Error codes are absolute, reserved from the 1.0.0 registry
`deps/libakerror` is at **1.0.0 ** . Read `deps/libakerror/UPGRADING.md` before writing an error
code; `CLAUDE.md` 's error-code section is the condensed version. Three things this changes
from what you may have seen in an older draft or in `libakgl` :
- `AKERR_MAX_ERR_VALUE` **no longer exists ** . The name registry is sparse and takes any `int` .
There is nothing for a consumer to size, and no compile definition to set. Anywhere you find
one, delete it.
- `__AKERR_ERROR_NAMES` **no longer exists ** . The table is private.
- Codes are **absolute integer constants at 256 or above ** , never `AKERR_LAST_ERRNO_VALUE + N` .
The offset scheme is what produced the live `libakgl` collision documented in `CLAUDE.md` .
`akbasic` owns **512– ** per the range map in `CLAUDE.md` . Declare it as an `enum` , so the
values stay compile-time integer constants (`HANDLE` expands to `case` labels, which require
that) and adding a code does not mean renumbering an offset:
```c
#define AKBASIC_OWNER "akbasic"
enum {
AKBASIC_ERR_BASE = 512, /** Start of akbasic's reserved status range */
AKBASIC_ERR_SYNTAX = AKBASIC_ERR_BASE,
/** Parse-time grammar violation */
AKBASIC_ERR_TYPE, /** Incompatible types in an operation */
AKBASIC_ERR_UNDEFINED, /** Reference to an undefined verb, function or label */
AKBASIC_ERR_BOUNDS, /** Array subscript or pool index out of range */
AKBASIC_ERR_ENVIRONMENT, /** Environment pool exhausted or orphaned environment */
AKBASIC_ERR_VALUE, /** A value was malformed, truncated or unconvertible */
AKBASIC_ERR_STATE, /** A verb ran outside the block structure it requires */
AKBASIC_ERR_LIMIT = AKBASIC_ERR_BASE + 256
};
```
`akbasic_init()` reserves the **whole ** 256 in one call and then names each code. Both
registry calls return `akerr_ErrorContext *` and are `AKERR_NOIGNORE` , so a collision is an
ordinary error — `PASS` it and let it propagate out of init:
```c
akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *akbasic_init(void)
{
PREPARE_ERROR(errctx);
PASS(errctx, akerr_reserve_status_range(AKBASIC_ERR_BASE,
AKBASIC_ERR_LIMIT - AKBASIC_ERR_BASE,
AKBASIC_OWNER));
PASS(errctx, akerr_register_status_name(AKBASIC_OWNER, AKBASIC_ERR_SYNTAX,
"Syntax Error"));
/* ... one per code ... */
SUCCEED_RETURN(errctx);
}
```
Reserve the whole range in **one ** call — a subset or superset of your own range raises
`AKERR_STATUS_RANGE_OVERLAP` , not a no-op. Use `akerr_register_status_name()` , never the
two-argument `akerr_name_for_status(status, name)` set path: the owned form is the one that
catches a component writing into a range that is not its own, and the two-argument form is
what let `libakgl` silently clobber `libakerror` 's names.
There is no startup ceiling to assert any more — the BSS-overflow hazard the old draft
defended against was deleted along with `AKERR_MAX_ERR_VALUE` . What replaces it is the
reservation itself: if `akbasic_init()` returns an error, something else owns part of 512–
and the process must not continue as though it does not.
Do not call `akerr_init()` first. Every registry entry point calls it, and since 1.0.0 it no
longer clears reservations made before it ran.
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### 1.8 Error message text is a convention, no longer a contract
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
`tests/language/array_outofbounds.txt` is, verbatim:
```
? 20 : RUNTIME ERROR Variable index access out of bounds at dimension 0: 4 (max 2)\n\n
```
The trailing double newline is real: `basicError` builds a string ending in `\n` and hands it
2026-07-31 12:52:00 -04:00
to `Println` , which adds another.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
2026-07-31 12:52:00 -04:00
**This used to be a hard contract and is now a default.** The Go implementation is deprecated
and will not be updated, so the two projects are no longer required to match — see §0.1. What
survives is the practical half: these strings and this newline behaviour are what every
expectation in `tests/reference/` was written against, so changing one means changing golden
files, and that is worth doing on purpose rather than by accident. A message that reads
awkwardly * may * now be improved; do it deliberately, move the expectations in the same commit,
and add a line to §5.
Numeric formatting still matches the reference: integers via `%" PRId64 "` , floats via `%f`
(Go's `%f` and C's `%f` both give six decimals — `tests/reference/language/arithmetic/float.txt`
confirms). No reason to change it, which is different from not being allowed to.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
Consume libakgl 0.2.0 and libakstdlib 0.2.0
Rebasing the defect filing onto libakgl's origin/main brought two upstream
commits with it -- "Consume libakstdlib 0.2.0" and "Bump libakgl to 0.2.0" --
and libakgl's sources now use the 0.2.0 akstdlib API. Our CMakeLists declares
akstdlib::akstdlib from our own tree first, so libakgl was compiling 0.2.0-era
code against 0.1.0 headers and failing on aksl_fwrite, aksl_fread and
aksl_realpath. The two have to move together.
The code change is one call site. aksl_fwrite now takes a required size_t
*nmemb_out and reports a short transfer as AKERR_IO rather than a silent
success, so DSAVE onto a full disk is an error a program sees where before it
reported nothing. The count is passed and discarded on purpose: the library does
the noticing now.
The documentation change is larger, because libakstdlib 0.2.0 fixed all six of
the confirmed defects TODO.md section 1.9 was built around. That section was a
table of bans; leaving it would send an agent around a workaround for functions
that now work. The aksl_ato* family raises AKERR_VALUE on no digits or trailing
junk and ERANGE on overflow -- exactly the contract that section demanded --
aksl_list_append no longer truncates, aksl_list_iterate no longer skips the
first half, AKERR_ITERATOR_BREAK stops a tree traversal, and aksl_realpath no
longer reads uninitialised memory. One caveat survives: aksl_strhash_djb2 still
sign-extends char, which section 1.3 already covers and the symbol tables still
cannot reach.
src/convert.c has therefore outlived its reason, and is deliberately left in
place. Its own note said to delete it when libakstdlib grew the contract, and
that condition is now met -- but doing it touches four call sites, changes the
raised status from AKBASIC_ERR_VALUE to AKERR_VALUE where section 1.8 says
message text is part of the acceptance contract, and would silently gut the CI
mutation job, which is bounded to src/convert.c and src/symtab.c. Section 1.9
now lists all of that. Worth doing on purpose rather than as a side effect of a
version bump.
libakgl defect #14 is closed by its own 1066ac7, which bumped it to 0.2.0 while
this was being written. The requirement is no longer pinned by submodule commit
in the README, because AKGL_VERSION_AT_LEAST(0, 2, 0) finally means something.
70/70 core, 71/71 with libakgl, 70/70 under ASan+UBSan, clean under
-Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 09:53:41 -04:00
### 1.9 Which `libakstdlib` calls are cleared for use — **the bans are lifted**
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
Consume libakgl 0.2.0 and libakstdlib 0.2.0
Rebasing the defect filing onto libakgl's origin/main brought two upstream
commits with it -- "Consume libakstdlib 0.2.0" and "Bump libakgl to 0.2.0" --
and libakgl's sources now use the 0.2.0 akstdlib API. Our CMakeLists declares
akstdlib::akstdlib from our own tree first, so libakgl was compiling 0.2.0-era
code against 0.1.0 headers and failing on aksl_fwrite, aksl_fread and
aksl_realpath. The two have to move together.
The code change is one call site. aksl_fwrite now takes a required size_t
*nmemb_out and reports a short transfer as AKERR_IO rather than a silent
success, so DSAVE onto a full disk is an error a program sees where before it
reported nothing. The count is passed and discarded on purpose: the library does
the noticing now.
The documentation change is larger, because libakstdlib 0.2.0 fixed all six of
the confirmed defects TODO.md section 1.9 was built around. That section was a
table of bans; leaving it would send an agent around a workaround for functions
that now work. The aksl_ato* family raises AKERR_VALUE on no digits or trailing
junk and ERANGE on overflow -- exactly the contract that section demanded --
aksl_list_append no longer truncates, aksl_list_iterate no longer skips the
first half, AKERR_ITERATOR_BREAK stops a tree traversal, and aksl_realpath no
longer reads uninitialised memory. One caveat survives: aksl_strhash_djb2 still
sign-extends char, which section 1.3 already covers and the symbol tables still
cannot reach.
src/convert.c has therefore outlived its reason, and is deliberately left in
place. Its own note said to delete it when libakstdlib grew the contract, and
that condition is now met -- but doing it touches four call sites, changes the
raised status from AKBASIC_ERR_VALUE to AKERR_VALUE where section 1.8 says
message text is part of the acceptance contract, and would silently gut the CI
mutation job, which is bounded to src/convert.c and src/symtab.c. Section 1.9
now lists all of that. Worth doing on purpose rather than as a side effect of a
version bump.
libakgl defect #14 is closed by its own 1066ac7, which bumped it to 0.2.0 while
this was being written. The requirement is no longer pinned by submodule commit
in the README, because AKGL_VERSION_AT_LEAST(0, 2, 0) finally means something.
70/70 core, 71/71 with libakgl, 70/70 under ASan+UBSan, clean under
-Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 09:53:41 -04:00
`deps/libakstdlib` is at **0.2.0 ** , and that release * fixed all six * of the confirmed defects
this section was built around, plus seventeen contract gaps. The table of bans that used to
live here is gone because it is no longer true, and leaving it would send an agent around a
workaround for a function that now works.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
Consume libakgl 0.2.0 and libakstdlib 0.2.0
Rebasing the defect filing onto libakgl's origin/main brought two upstream
commits with it -- "Consume libakstdlib 0.2.0" and "Bump libakgl to 0.2.0" --
and libakgl's sources now use the 0.2.0 akstdlib API. Our CMakeLists declares
akstdlib::akstdlib from our own tree first, so libakgl was compiling 0.2.0-era
code against 0.1.0 headers and failing on aksl_fwrite, aksl_fread and
aksl_realpath. The two have to move together.
The code change is one call site. aksl_fwrite now takes a required size_t
*nmemb_out and reports a short transfer as AKERR_IO rather than a silent
success, so DSAVE onto a full disk is an error a program sees where before it
reported nothing. The count is passed and discarded on purpose: the library does
the noticing now.
The documentation change is larger, because libakstdlib 0.2.0 fixed all six of
the confirmed defects TODO.md section 1.9 was built around. That section was a
table of bans; leaving it would send an agent around a workaround for functions
that now work. The aksl_ato* family raises AKERR_VALUE on no digits or trailing
junk and ERANGE on overflow -- exactly the contract that section demanded --
aksl_list_append no longer truncates, aksl_list_iterate no longer skips the
first half, AKERR_ITERATOR_BREAK stops a tree traversal, and aksl_realpath no
longer reads uninitialised memory. One caveat survives: aksl_strhash_djb2 still
sign-extends char, which section 1.3 already covers and the symbol tables still
cannot reach.
src/convert.c has therefore outlived its reason, and is deliberately left in
place. Its own note said to delete it when libakstdlib grew the contract, and
that condition is now met -- but doing it touches four call sites, changes the
raised status from AKBASIC_ERR_VALUE to AKERR_VALUE where section 1.8 says
message text is part of the acceptance contract, and would silently gut the CI
mutation job, which is bounded to src/convert.c and src/symtab.c. Section 1.9
now lists all of that. Worth doing on purpose rather than as a side effect of a
version bump.
libakgl defect #14 is closed by its own 1066ac7, which bumped it to 0.2.0 while
this was being written. The requirement is no longer pinned by submodule commit
in the README, because AKGL_VERSION_AT_LEAST(0, 2, 0) finally means something.
70/70 core, 71/71 with libakgl, 70/70 under ASan+UBSan, clean under
-Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 09:53:41 -04:00
What changed, in the four that mattered to this port:
| Was banned | Now |
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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|---|---|
Consume libakgl 0.2.0 and libakstdlib 0.2.0
Rebasing the defect filing onto libakgl's origin/main brought two upstream
commits with it -- "Consume libakstdlib 0.2.0" and "Bump libakgl to 0.2.0" --
and libakgl's sources now use the 0.2.0 akstdlib API. Our CMakeLists declares
akstdlib::akstdlib from our own tree first, so libakgl was compiling 0.2.0-era
code against 0.1.0 headers and failing on aksl_fwrite, aksl_fread and
aksl_realpath. The two have to move together.
The code change is one call site. aksl_fwrite now takes a required size_t
*nmemb_out and reports a short transfer as AKERR_IO rather than a silent
success, so DSAVE onto a full disk is an error a program sees where before it
reported nothing. The count is passed and discarded on purpose: the library does
the noticing now.
The documentation change is larger, because libakstdlib 0.2.0 fixed all six of
the confirmed defects TODO.md section 1.9 was built around. That section was a
table of bans; leaving it would send an agent around a workaround for functions
that now work. The aksl_ato* family raises AKERR_VALUE on no digits or trailing
junk and ERANGE on overflow -- exactly the contract that section demanded --
aksl_list_append no longer truncates, aksl_list_iterate no longer skips the
first half, AKERR_ITERATOR_BREAK stops a tree traversal, and aksl_realpath no
longer reads uninitialised memory. One caveat survives: aksl_strhash_djb2 still
sign-extends char, which section 1.3 already covers and the symbol tables still
cannot reach.
src/convert.c has therefore outlived its reason, and is deliberately left in
place. Its own note said to delete it when libakstdlib grew the contract, and
that condition is now met -- but doing it touches four call sites, changes the
raised status from AKBASIC_ERR_VALUE to AKERR_VALUE where section 1.8 says
message text is part of the acceptance contract, and would silently gut the CI
mutation job, which is bounded to src/convert.c and src/symtab.c. Section 1.9
now lists all of that. Worth doing on purpose rather than as a side effect of a
version bump.
libakgl defect #14 is closed by its own 1066ac7, which bumped it to 0.2.0 while
this was being written. The requirement is no longer pinned by submodule commit
in the README, because AKGL_VERSION_AT_LEAST(0, 2, 0) finally means something.
70/70 core, 71/71 with libakgl, 70/70 under ASan+UBSan, clean under
-Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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| `aksl_atoi` / `_atol` / `_atoll` / `_atof` | Every one takes a `dest` pointer and raises `AKERR_VALUE` on no digits or trailing junk, `ERANGE` on overflow — exactly the contract this section demanded |
| `aksl_list_append` / `_iterate` | Append no longer truncates to two nodes; iterate no longer skips the first half |
| `aksl_tree_iterate` | `AKERR_ITERATOR_BREAK` stops the traversal |
| `aksl_realpath` | Rewritten; no longer reads uninitialised memory on its error path |
Two signature changes reach this repository. `aksl_fread` and `aksl_fwrite` now take a
required `size_t *nmemb_out` and report a short transfer as `AKERR_IO` instead of a silent
success — so a `DSAVE` onto a full disk is now an error a program sees, where before it
reported nothing. `src/runtime_commands.c` passes the count and discards it, which is correct:
the library does the noticing now.
Delete src/convert.c: libakstdlib 0.2.0 grew the contract it existed for
That file wrapped strtoll and strtod because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family
could not report a conversion failure at all -- atoi("not a number") returned
success with 0, turning four diagnosable errors into wrong answers. Its own note
said what to do when that changed: "When it grows it, delete src/convert.c and
switch the call sites over." 0.2.0 grew it, so it is gone.
Six call sites go straight to the library now: both literal constructors in
src/grammar.c, the line number in src/scanner.c, FunctionVAL in
src/runtime_functions.c, INPUT in src/runtime_commands.c, and GSHAPE's handle in
src/runtime_graphics.c. aksl_strtoll(str, NULL, base, &dest) rather than
aksl_atoll wherever a base is involved, because the ato* forms are base 10 and
grammar.c picks base 8 or 16 off the lexeme's prefix; the NULL endptr is what
makes trailing junk an error rather than a stopping point.
The raised status changed from AKBASIC_ERR_VALUE to AKERR_VALUE, and the message
with it -- VAL("garbage") now says `no digits in "garbage"`. Section 1.8 makes
message text part of the acceptance contract, so that was checked against the
corpus before touching anything: no golden file contained a conversion message,
which is also why section 1.9 had been asking for one. Two exist now, so the next
change to that text has to move a golden file, and one of them pins the
reference's octal-literal defect (section 6 item 10) while it is still
deliberately reproduced.
tests/convert.c became tests/numeric_contract.c rather than being deleted with
the code. The assertions did not stop being worth making when the wrapper went
away -- they became assertions about a contract this port depends on and no
longer owns, and a regression in it would make four things quietly return zero.
Repoints the CI mutation job, which was bounded to src/convert.c and
src/symtab.c. src/symtab.c alone measures 74.1% against the gate of 65.
src/audio_tables.c was measured as a replacement second file and scored 64.7%:
that is a real gap rather than a reason to skip it, since almost every survivor
is in akbasic_audio_state_init, where nothing asserts a freshly initialised audio
state is actually zeroed -- the same gap this job's history records closing for
symtab. Recorded in TODO.md so the file can earn its place back.
One thing worth knowing before reading any score here, and now written down: the
harness's ICR operator only rewrites the constants 0 and 1, so a lookup table of
other values produces no mutants and a high score over one says nothing about
whether its entries are right. tests/audio_verbs.c now asserts all 32 ADSR
entries against the datasheet anyway, because a hand-edit typo is the real
failure mode there -- but that could not and did not move the mutation number,
and claiming otherwise would be the kind of thing this file exists to stop.
72/72 core, 73/73 with libakgl, 72/72 under ASan+UBSan, coverage 93.6% line and
97.8% function, clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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**`src/convert.c` is gone.** It existed only because `aksl_ato*` could not report a conversion
failure, and its own note said what to do when that changed: *"When it grows it, delete
`src/convert.c` and switch the call sites over."* That is done. Six call sites now go straight
to the library — `newLiteralInt` and `newLiteralFloat` in `src/grammar.c` , the line number in
`src/scanner.c` , `FunctionVAL` in `src/runtime_functions.c` , `INPUT` in
`src/runtime_commands.c` , and `GSHAPE` 's handle in `src/runtime_graphics.c` .
Three things that fell out of it, recorded because each was checked rather than assumed:
- **`aksl_strtoll(str, NULL, base, &dest)` is the exact replacement**, not `aksl_atoll` , wherever
a base is involved. The `ato*` forms are base 10; `src/grammar.c` picks base 8 or 16 from the
lexeme's prefix. A `NULL` endptr is what makes trailing junk an error rather than a stopping
point, and that is the whole contract this port needs.
- **The raised status changed** from `AKBASIC_ERR_VALUE` to `AKERR_VALUE` , and the message text
with it — `VAL("garbage")` now says `no digits in "garbage"` . §1.8 makes message text part of
the acceptance contract, so this was checked against the corpus first: **no golden file
contained a conversion message**, which is also why §1.9 used to ask for one. Two now exist,
`tests/language/numeric/val_refuses_garbage` and `octal_literal` , so the next change to that
text has to move a golden file.
- **`tests/convert.c` became `tests/numeric_contract.c` .** The assertions did not become
worthless when the wrapper went away — they became assertions about a contract this port
depends on and no longer owns, which is worth pinning exactly because a regression in it would
make `VAL("garbage")` return 0 silently. Same reasoning `libakstdlib` 's own
`tests/test_status_registry.c` gives for pinning that it reserves no status range.
Consume libakgl 0.2.0 and libakstdlib 0.2.0
Rebasing the defect filing onto libakgl's origin/main brought two upstream
commits with it -- "Consume libakstdlib 0.2.0" and "Bump libakgl to 0.2.0" --
and libakgl's sources now use the 0.2.0 akstdlib API. Our CMakeLists declares
akstdlib::akstdlib from our own tree first, so libakgl was compiling 0.2.0-era
code against 0.1.0 headers and failing on aksl_fwrite, aksl_fread and
aksl_realpath. The two have to move together.
The code change is one call site. aksl_fwrite now takes a required size_t
*nmemb_out and reports a short transfer as AKERR_IO rather than a silent
success, so DSAVE onto a full disk is an error a program sees where before it
reported nothing. The count is passed and discarded on purpose: the library does
the noticing now.
The documentation change is larger, because libakstdlib 0.2.0 fixed all six of
the confirmed defects TODO.md section 1.9 was built around. That section was a
table of bans; leaving it would send an agent around a workaround for functions
that now work. The aksl_ato* family raises AKERR_VALUE on no digits or trailing
junk and ERANGE on overflow -- exactly the contract that section demanded --
aksl_list_append no longer truncates, aksl_list_iterate no longer skips the
first half, AKERR_ITERATOR_BREAK stops a tree traversal, and aksl_realpath no
longer reads uninitialised memory. One caveat survives: aksl_strhash_djb2 still
sign-extends char, which section 1.3 already covers and the symbol tables still
cannot reach.
src/convert.c has therefore outlived its reason, and is deliberately left in
place. Its own note said to delete it when libakstdlib grew the contract, and
that condition is now met -- but doing it touches four call sites, changes the
raised status from AKBASIC_ERR_VALUE to AKERR_VALUE where section 1.8 says
message text is part of the acceptance contract, and would silently gut the CI
mutation job, which is bounded to src/convert.c and src/symtab.c. Section 1.9
now lists all of that. Worth doing on purpose rather than as a side effect of a
version bump.
libakgl defect #14 is closed by its own 1066ac7, which bumped it to 0.2.0 while
this was being written. The requirement is no longer pinned by submodule commit
in the README, because AKGL_VERSION_AT_LEAST(0, 2, 0) finally means something.
70/70 core, 71/71 with libakgl, 70/70 under ASan+UBSan, clean under
-Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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2026-07-31 09:53:41 -04:00
One caveat survives the upgrade unchanged: `aksl_strhash_djb2` still sign-extends `char` , so a
high-bit byte hashes differently from the `unsigned char` answer. BASIC identifiers are 7-bit
ASCII so the symbol tables cannot reach it — see §1.3, which is still accurate.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
---
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## 2. What exists — **the core port is complete and green**
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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Phases 0 through 6 of the original plan are done. The interpreter builds clean under
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`-Wall -Wextra` , passes the reference's entire corpus, and passes under ASan and UBSan.
It * did * reproduce the reference byte for byte, and that claim is retired rather than broken:
§0.1 released it, and one case has since diverged deliberately (§6 item 16, listed in
`tests/reference/README.md` ). Everything else still matches, which is worth knowing but is no
longer a gate.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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```sh
cmake -S . -B build && cmake --build build --parallel
ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure # 59/59
cmake -S . -B build-asan -DAKBASIC_SANITIZE=ON # 59/59
cmake -S . -B build-cov -DAKBASIC_COVERAGE=ON # 92.3% line, 96.9% function
```
| Module | Source | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Symbol table | `src/symtab.c` | the five Go maps |
| Value | `src/value.c` | `basicvalue.go` |
| Variable | `src/variable.c` | `basicvariable.go` |
| Tokens and AST leaves | `src/grammar.c` | `basicgrammar.go` + `basicparser.go` |
| Dispatch table | `src/verbs.c` | the three reflection lookups |
| Scanner | `src/scanner.c` | `basicscanner.go` |
| Parser | `src/parser.c` , `src/parser_commands.c` | `basicparser*.go` |
| Environment | `src/environment.c` | `basicenvironment.go` |
| Runtime | `src/runtime.c` | `basicruntime.go` minus SDL |
| Verbs and functions | `src/runtime_commands.c` , `src/runtime_functions.c` | `basicruntime_{commands,functions}.go` |
| Text sink | `src/sink_stdio.c` | `basicruntime_graphics.go` 's stdout mirror |
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| Stdio driver | `src/main.c` | `main.go` minus its SDL frontend |
Document host/script variable exchange, and file the scope hazard it exposes
The host can expose variables to a BASIC program, in both directions and for
every type, with no marshalling layer -- akbasic_environment_get() finds or
creates by name, the type comes from the suffix as it does for BASIC code, and
host and script share the same akbasic_Value. Nothing new was needed to make
that work.
Testing it before writing it up turned up a hazard worth stating plainly, so the
README documents the pattern and section 6 item 17 records the gap.
Seeding before akbasic_runtime_start() and reading after the script stops is
safe, and so is updating an existing global at any time, because the parent
chain is searched. Creating one mid-run is not, in two ways, and both are
silent. A script suspended part-way through a bounded run() is usually inside a
FOR or GOSUB scope, so a variable created through obj->environment lands in that
scope and dies when it pops -- the script reads it correctly inside the loop and
gets 0 immediately after. And reaching for the root explicitly does not help:
akbasic_environment_get only auto-creates when the environment it is given is
the active one, so with a child active it returns NULL through dest without
raising, and an unchecked host dereferences it.
This one is ours rather than inherited. It falls out of the environment pool
meeting the bounded run(), a combination the reference never had because its
run() never returned.
examples/hostvars.c demonstrates both hazards rather than describing them, and
prints what it observes, so the day this is fixed that output changes and the
example needs revisiting. Like examples/embed.c it is built and run by every
build. Both README snippets were extracted and compiled as a check.
Not fixed here: akbasic_runtime_global() would close it in about fifteen lines,
but what it should do when the script is suspended inside a user function's
scope is a design question worth settling deliberately rather than discovering.
Filed with the proposed signature and the tests it wants.
ctest 61/61; ASan+UBSan 61/61; no warnings under -Wall -Wextra.
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| Embedding examples | `examples/embed.c` , `examples/hostvars.c` | * (new) * |
Port the README from the Go version and document embedding
Carries the reference README across, adjusted where C changes the answer: cmake
instead of make, the ak* libraries instead of the go-sdl2 bindings, and the
limits table now includes the three ceilings the Go version did not need because
it called make().
The new "Embedding the interpreter" section is the point of the rewrite, so it
states the four rules the library holds to -- nothing terminates the process,
nothing calls malloc, no file-scope mutable state, the host owns the loop -- and
each was checked against the tree rather than asserted.
Adds akbasic_runtime_load(). Writing the section turned up a real gap: a host
usually already holds its script as a string and wants the sink reserved for
output, and the only path that existed was AKBASIC_MODE_RUNSTREAM reading the
program through the sink's readline, which forces a game to point its output
device at its source text. The alternative was reaching into the header's
"internal API" block for store_line. Neither is something to put in a README.
Adds examples/embed.c, which is the code the README quotes -- a custom sink, a
bounded per-frame run, and the PASS-not-CATCH rule for a loop inside an ATTEMPT.
It is built by every build and registered as a CTest case, so a signature change
breaks the build instead of rotting the document. The README's own snippet is
compiled separately as a check; both were run before committing.
The "What Isn't Implemented / Isn't Working" section leads with the eleven
inherited defects rather than burying them, because five of them were found by
this port and a reader deserves to know that 1 - 2 - 3 computes 1 - 2 before
they hit it. Corrected two claims while verifying: the runtime is 10.1MB rather
than the ~8MB first written, and its largest single cost is the environment pool
at 4.1MB, not the source table.
ctest 60/60; ASan+UBSan 60/60; no warnings under -Wall -Wextra.
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`akbasic_runtime_load(rt, source)` was added while writing the README's embedding
section: a host usually holds its script as a string and wants the sink reserved for output,
and the only path that existed — `AKBASIC_MODE_RUNSTREAM` reading through the sink's
`readline` — forces a game to point its output device at its source text. `examples/embed.c`
is the code the README quotes, built by every build and registered as a CTest case so a
signature change breaks the build rather than rotting the document.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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**The acceptance suite is the reference's own corpus, checked in at `tests/reference/` .** All
41 `.bas` files are registered as individual CTest cases and byte-compared against their `.txt`
— including the trailing double newline on an error line (§1.8).
It was driven * in place * out of `deps/basicinterpret` until 2026-07-31, on the reasoning that
copying a submodule's corpus guarantees drift. That reasoning was sound and was overruled
deliberately: the Go dependency is being deprecated, and a build that cannot run its own
acceptance suite without cloning the implementation it replaced is not finished. The copy is
byte-identical to `basicinterpreter@d76162c` , and `tests/reference/README.md` records the
provenance, the cost of the drift nobody is watching for now, and the rule that those
expectations are never edited to suit this interpreter.
**Nothing in the build or the suite needs `deps/basicinterpret` any more**, and that is checked
rather than assumed — both configurations were configured, built and run from scratch with the
submodule moved out of the tree. The Commodore font moved too, to `assets/fonts/` , which was the
other thing tying the build to it; `assets/fonts/PROVENANCE.md` carries the licence question that
came with it.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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Eighteen unit tests cover the modules the corpus cannot reach on its own.
`tests/known_reference_defects.c` is registered in `AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS` and asserts
the **correct ** contract for six of the defects in §6; when one is fixed CTest reports
"unexpectedly passed", which is the cue to split that assertion out and strike the item.
Two budget numbers moved during implementation and are worth knowing:
`AKBASIC_MAX_ARRAY_ELEMENTS` (1024) caps one array and `AKBASIC_MAX_ARRAY_VALUES` (4096) caps
all of them together, drawn from an `akbasic_ValuePool` the runtime owns. The reference had no
such ceiling because it called `make()` .
---
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## 3. The akgl-backed sink, devices and standalone frontend — **done**
Wire the sink and the three devices to libakgl
src/sink_akgl.c, src/graphics_akgl.c, src/audio_akgl.c and src/input_akgl.c, in
the akbasic_akgl target, which is the only thing here that links SDL.
-DAKBASIC_WITH_AKGL=ON had never been configured in this repository before, and
it now builds and passes.
The sink is what section 3 has been waiting on. Its character grid comes from
akgl_text_measure(font, "A", &w, &h), the direct equivalent of the reference's
font.SizeUTF8("A") and the call that did not exist until 42b60f7. Wrapping is
done on the character grid rather than by handing SDL_ttf a wraplength, because
the cursor has to land somewhere definite: a program that PRINTs a long string
and then PRINTs again expects the second to start on the row after the first
ended, and only the code that placed the characters knows which row that is.
tests/akgl_backends.c draws into a 128x128 software renderer under the dummy
video driver and reads the pixels back -- the pattern deps/libakgl/tests/draw.c
established, which needs no display and no offscreen harness. It asserts the
seam rather than libakgl's own behaviour: a BASIC line in, a lit pixel of the
right colour out.
Four things in libakgl had to be worked around to get here. All four are
commented at their site with "filed upstream" and recorded in TODO.md section 3:
- An embedded libakgl requires SDL, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf and jansson to
be *installed*. It builds its own vendored copies only when it is top-level,
and they are sitting right there in deps/libakgl/deps. Every lookup is guarded
with if(NOT TARGET ...), so this adds those five subdirectories before
add_subdirectory(deps/libakgl) -- the same trick and the same ordering
requirement akerror::akerror and akstdlib::akstdlib already need.
- akgl/controller.h does not compile on its own: it declares handlers taking an
akgl_Actor * and includes nothing that declares the type.
- There is no way to attach a 2D backend to a renderer you already have.
akgl_render_init2d() installs the vtable but also creates its own window and
writes the camera global, so it belongs to the akgl_game_init() path -- which
is exactly the path an embedding host is not on. The test assigns the six
pointers by hand.
- akgl_text_rendertextat() segfaults on a backend whose vtable is empty; it
reaches through renderer->draw_texture without checking it. Same class of
defect 42b60f7's own commit added a draw test for.
The sink's readline reports end of input rather than reading: a drawn text layer
is not a source of lines, and INPUT through one wants a line editor built on the
keystroke ring. EOF rather than an error is the contract sink.h states, so INPUT
already handles it. That editor is the next piece of work there.
70/70 core ctest with no SDL on the include path, 71/71 with the akgl suite,
clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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`-DAKBASIC_WITH_AKGL=ON` builds and its suite passes, and the build option now changes what
the executable * does * : an AKGL build of `basic` opens a window, draws BASIC output into it,
pumps SDL events, lets you type at it, and still puts every byte on stdout. Four adaptors in
the `akbasic_akgl` target, which is the only thing here that links SDL, are complete and
tested:
Wire the sink and the three devices to libakgl
src/sink_akgl.c, src/graphics_akgl.c, src/audio_akgl.c and src/input_akgl.c, in
the akbasic_akgl target, which is the only thing here that links SDL.
-DAKBASIC_WITH_AKGL=ON had never been configured in this repository before, and
it now builds and passes.
The sink is what section 3 has been waiting on. Its character grid comes from
akgl_text_measure(font, "A", &w, &h), the direct equivalent of the reference's
font.SizeUTF8("A") and the call that did not exist until 42b60f7. Wrapping is
done on the character grid rather than by handing SDL_ttf a wraplength, because
the cursor has to land somewhere definite: a program that PRINTs a long string
and then PRINTs again expects the second to start on the row after the first
ended, and only the code that placed the characters knows which row that is.
tests/akgl_backends.c draws into a 128x128 software renderer under the dummy
video driver and reads the pixels back -- the pattern deps/libakgl/tests/draw.c
established, which needs no display and no offscreen harness. It asserts the
seam rather than libakgl's own behaviour: a BASIC line in, a lit pixel of the
right colour out.
Four things in libakgl had to be worked around to get here. All four are
commented at their site with "filed upstream" and recorded in TODO.md section 3:
- An embedded libakgl requires SDL, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf and jansson to
be *installed*. It builds its own vendored copies only when it is top-level,
and they are sitting right there in deps/libakgl/deps. Every lookup is guarded
with if(NOT TARGET ...), so this adds those five subdirectories before
add_subdirectory(deps/libakgl) -- the same trick and the same ordering
requirement akerror::akerror and akstdlib::akstdlib already need.
- akgl/controller.h does not compile on its own: it declares handlers taking an
akgl_Actor * and includes nothing that declares the type.
- There is no way to attach a 2D backend to a renderer you already have.
akgl_render_init2d() installs the vtable but also creates its own window and
writes the camera global, so it belongs to the akgl_game_init() path -- which
is exactly the path an embedding host is not on. The test assigns the six
pointers by hand.
- akgl_text_rendertextat() segfaults on a backend whose vtable is empty; it
reaches through renderer->draw_texture without checking it. Same class of
defect 42b60f7's own commit added a draw test for.
The sink's readline reports end of input rather than reading: a drawn text layer
is not a source of lines, and INPUT through one wants a line editor built on the
keystroke ring. EOF rather than an error is the contract sink.h states, so INPUT
already handles it. That editor is the next piece of work there.
70/70 core ctest with no SDL on the include path, 71/71 with the akgl suite,
clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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| File | Backs |
|---|---|
| `src/sink_akgl.c` | the §1.5 text sink, over `akgl_text_measure` and `akgl_text_rendertextat` |
| `src/graphics_akgl.c` | `akbasic_GraphicsBackend` , over `akgl_draw_*` , and the SSHAPE surface pool |
| `src/audio_akgl.c` | `akbasic_AudioBackend` , over `akgl_audio_*` |
| `src/input_akgl.c` | `akbasic_InputBackend` , over `akgl_controller_poll_key` |
The character grid comes from `akgl_text_measure(font, "A", &w, &h)` — the direct equivalent of
the `font.SizeUTF8("A")` at `basicruntime.go:96` , and the call this was blocked on until
42b60f7. Wrapping is done on the character grid rather than by handing SDL_ttf a `wraplength` ,
because the cursor has to land somewhere definite: a program that `PRINT` s a long string and
then `PRINT` s again expects the second to start on the row after the first ended, and only the
code that placed the characters knows which row that is.
**The interpreter owns no window, renderer or event loop.** Every initializer takes something
the host already made. Each calls `akgl_error_init()` first: `akgl_game_init()` would have,
but we drive subsystems directly and never call it, and a code raised before that registration
carries no name into its stack trace. It is idempotent.
*Acceptance:* `tests/akgl_backends.c` , a 128x128 software renderer under the dummy video
driver read back with `SDL_RenderReadPixels` — the pattern `deps/libakgl/tests/draw.c`
established, which needs no display and no offscreen harness. Registered as the `akgl_backends`
CTest case, and only when `AKBASIC_WITH_AKGL` is on.
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### The standalone frontend
The standalone executable is itself a host, and that half of the Go frontend is now ported —
`src/frontend_akgl.c` , in its own `akbasic_frontend` target. **The separation is in the build
graph and not only in a comment**: `akbasic` is the interpreter, `akbasic_akgl` is the four
adaptors that draw through somebody else's renderer, and `akbasic_frontend` is the one thing in
the repository that creates a window. A game embedding the interpreter links the first two and
not the third.
Wire the sink and the three devices to libakgl
src/sink_akgl.c, src/graphics_akgl.c, src/audio_akgl.c and src/input_akgl.c, in
the akbasic_akgl target, which is the only thing here that links SDL.
-DAKBASIC_WITH_AKGL=ON had never been configured in this repository before, and
it now builds and passes.
The sink is what section 3 has been waiting on. Its character grid comes from
akgl_text_measure(font, "A", &w, &h), the direct equivalent of the reference's
font.SizeUTF8("A") and the call that did not exist until 42b60f7. Wrapping is
done on the character grid rather than by handing SDL_ttf a wraplength, because
the cursor has to land somewhere definite: a program that PRINTs a long string
and then PRINTs again expects the second to start on the row after the first
ended, and only the code that placed the characters knows which row that is.
tests/akgl_backends.c draws into a 128x128 software renderer under the dummy
video driver and reads the pixels back -- the pattern deps/libakgl/tests/draw.c
established, which needs no display and no offscreen harness. It asserts the
seam rather than libakgl's own behaviour: a BASIC line in, a lit pixel of the
right colour out.
Four things in libakgl had to be worked around to get here. All four are
commented at their site with "filed upstream" and recorded in TODO.md section 3:
- An embedded libakgl requires SDL, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf and jansson to
be *installed*. It builds its own vendored copies only when it is top-level,
and they are sitting right there in deps/libakgl/deps. Every lookup is guarded
with if(NOT TARGET ...), so this adds those five subdirectories before
add_subdirectory(deps/libakgl) -- the same trick and the same ordering
requirement akerror::akerror and akstdlib::akstdlib already need.
- akgl/controller.h does not compile on its own: it declares handlers taking an
akgl_Actor * and includes nothing that declares the type.
- There is no way to attach a 2D backend to a renderer you already have.
akgl_render_init2d() installs the vtable but also creates its own window and
writes the camera global, so it belongs to the akgl_game_init() path -- which
is exactly the path an embedding host is not on. The test assigns the six
pointers by hand.
- akgl_text_rendertextat() segfaults on a backend whose vtable is empty; it
reaches through renderer->draw_texture without checking it. Same class of
defect 42b60f7's own commit added a draw test for.
The sink's readline reports end of input rather than reading: a drawn text layer
is not a source of lines, and INPUT through one wants a line editor built on the
keystroke ring. EOF rather than an error is the contract sink.h states, so INPUT
already handles it. That editor is the next piece of work there.
70/70 core ctest with no SDL on the include path, 71/71 with the akgl suite,
clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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| Piece | Where |
|---|---|
| Window, renderer, font, the four adaptors | `akbasic_frontend_akgl_init()` |
| Sink and devices onto a runtime | `akbasic_frontend_akgl_attach()` |
| One frame: pump events, draw the text layer, present | `akbasic_frontend_akgl_pump()` |
| The bounded frame loop | `akbasic_frontend_akgl_drive()` |
| stdout mirror | `src/sink_tee.c` , in the * core * library |
Four things are worth knowing about how it came out.
1. **The stdout mirror is a sink, not a second write. ** §1.5 made the sink boundary precisely
so the interpreter would never carry the reference's hardcoded pair of calls, and §3 item 5
said it again. `akbasic_sink_init_tee()` composes two sinks into one and takes `readline`
from whichever of the two was named as the reader — which is the whole difference between
the two modes: a program read from a file comes in through the stdio half, and typed lines
come in through the akgl half's line editor. It lives in the core library and is tested
there (`tests/sink_tee.c` ), because composing two function-pointer records needs no SDL.
2. **The line editor borrows the host's loop a frame at a time. ** `readline` has to wait for a
typed line, and §1.6 forbids the library blocking — and a sink that sat on the keyboard with
no way to pump events would deadlock the process on its first `INPUT` . So the host installs
an `akbasic_AkglPump` with `akbasic_sink_akgl_set_pump()` , and the editor calls it between
keystrokes. The loop is still the host's. `akbasic_frontend_akgl_pump()` has that exact
signature and is installed as-is. Without a pump the sink reports EOF, which is what it did
before and what a host that wants no editor still gets.
3. **The frame loop is bounded, and that is what makes the close button work. ** 256 steps per
frame (`AKBASIC_FRONTEND_STEPS_PER_FRAME` ), then pump and present. `10 GOTO 10` under an
unbounded `run()` would own the process forever; `tests/akgl_frontend.c` runs exactly that
and asserts the window close ends it.
4. **The frame is not cleared. ** The graphics verbs draw straight to the renderer rather than
into a display list, so clearing would wipe every `DRAW` at the end of the frame it was
issued in. The text layer is drawn over whatever is there, which is also how a C128 stacks
its text plane on its bitmap plane.
*Acceptance:* two things, and the second one is the stronger.
- `tests/akgl_frontend.c` , registered as the `akgl_frontend` CTest case: a program run through
the frontend under the dummy driver, asserting the mirrored stdout **byte for byte ** and
reading the renderer back to prove the same characters were drawn in the Commodore font;
synthetic key events pushed into SDL's own queue and read back through the frontend's input
backend, so every link the host owns is in the path; the line editor's fold to upper case,
its backspace and its escape; a whole REPL session typed at the window and ended with a typed
`QUIT` ; and the window-close path.
- **The entire golden corpus is driven through the AKGL binary.** A `-DAKBASIC_WITH_AKGL=ON`
build registers the same 41 upstream cases against the same executable, which now opens a
window to run them, and all 41 still match byte for byte. That is a much broader statement
than any hand-written frontend test: the SDL path changes no observable output anywhere in
the corpus.
Three `no_device.bas` local cases are **deliberately not registered ** in an AKGL build. Their
premise is a driver that was given no devices, which is true of the stdio driver and
deliberately false of this one. The refusal path they cover is asserted directly against the
backend records in `tests/devices.c` , which both configurations build.
**Manual check against a real display, 2026-07-31.** The dummy driver cannot prove presentation,
so `build-akgl/basic` was run against X display `:0` on a program that prints a line, draws a
`BOX` and then loops. `xwininfo` found a real 800x600 window titled `BASIC` ; the window was
captured with `import` and measured: the first text row carries glyph pixels (mean 65/255), the
box's left edge at x=100 is a solid white line (mean 255), the box interior is black — it
outlines rather than fills — and an empty corner is black. stdout carried `HELLO WORLD` at the
same time. `QUIT` exits cleanly with status 0.
**What that check does not cover, and could not here:** typing at a real focused window. No key
synthesis tool (`xdotool` , `xte` , python-xlib) is installed on this machine, so the keyboard
path is proved only through SDL's own event queue in `tests/akgl_frontend.c` — which is the
same queue a real keyboard delivers into, but not the same as a window manager giving the
window focus. Somebody should type at it once.
### Five things that had to be worked around to get there
All five are `libakgl` 's and all five are filed in `deps/libakgl/TODO.md` . Each workaround is
Wire the sink and the three devices to libakgl
src/sink_akgl.c, src/graphics_akgl.c, src/audio_akgl.c and src/input_akgl.c, in
the akbasic_akgl target, which is the only thing here that links SDL.
-DAKBASIC_WITH_AKGL=ON had never been configured in this repository before, and
it now builds and passes.
The sink is what section 3 has been waiting on. Its character grid comes from
akgl_text_measure(font, "A", &w, &h), the direct equivalent of the reference's
font.SizeUTF8("A") and the call that did not exist until 42b60f7. Wrapping is
done on the character grid rather than by handing SDL_ttf a wraplength, because
the cursor has to land somewhere definite: a program that PRINTs a long string
and then PRINTs again expects the second to start on the row after the first
ended, and only the code that placed the characters knows which row that is.
tests/akgl_backends.c draws into a 128x128 software renderer under the dummy
video driver and reads the pixels back -- the pattern deps/libakgl/tests/draw.c
established, which needs no display and no offscreen harness. It asserts the
seam rather than libakgl's own behaviour: a BASIC line in, a lit pixel of the
right colour out.
Four things in libakgl had to be worked around to get here. All four are
commented at their site with "filed upstream" and recorded in TODO.md section 3:
- An embedded libakgl requires SDL, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf and jansson to
be *installed*. It builds its own vendored copies only when it is top-level,
and they are sitting right there in deps/libakgl/deps. Every lookup is guarded
with if(NOT TARGET ...), so this adds those five subdirectories before
add_subdirectory(deps/libakgl) -- the same trick and the same ordering
requirement akerror::akerror and akstdlib::akstdlib already need.
- akgl/controller.h does not compile on its own: it declares handlers taking an
akgl_Actor * and includes nothing that declares the type.
- There is no way to attach a 2D backend to a renderer you already have.
akgl_render_init2d() installs the vtable but also creates its own window and
writes the camera global, so it belongs to the akgl_game_init() path -- which
is exactly the path an embedding host is not on. The test assigns the six
pointers by hand.
- akgl_text_rendertextat() segfaults on a backend whose vtable is empty; it
reaches through renderer->draw_texture without checking it. Same class of
defect 42b60f7's own commit added a draw test for.
The sink's readline reports end of input rather than reading: a drawn text layer
is not a source of lines, and INPUT through one wants a line editor built on the
keystroke ring. EOF rather than an error is the contract sink.h states, so INPUT
already handles it. That editor is the next piece of work there.
70/70 core ctest with no SDL on the include path, 71/71 with the akgl suite,
clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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commented at its site with the words "filed upstream" so it can be found and deleted later.
1. **An embedded `libakgl` demands its dependencies be *installed*. ** It builds its vendored
SDL, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf and jansson only when it is top-level; embedded, it goes
down a `find_package` path and fails on a machine that has none of them — while the
submodules sit right there in `deps/libakgl/deps` . Every lookup is guarded with
`if(NOT TARGET ...)` , so our `CMakeLists.txt` adds those five subdirectories * before *
`add_subdirectory(deps/libakgl)` and the vendored copies get used after all. Same trick and
same ordering requirement `akerror::akerror` and `akstdlib::akstdlib` already need.
2. * * `akgl/controller.h` does not compile on its own.** It declares two handler function
pointers taking an `akgl_Actor *` and includes nothing that declares the type.
`src/input_akgl.c` includes `akgl/actor.h` ahead of it.
3. **There is no way to attach a 2D backend to a renderer you already have. **
`akgl_render_init2d()` installs the six vtable pointers, but it also creates its own window
from the game properties and writes to the `camera` global, so it belongs to the
`akgl_game_init()` path — which is exactly the path an embedding host is not on.
`tests/akgl_backends.c` assigns the six pointers by hand. What is wanted upstream is the
vtable half of `init2d` on its own.
4. * * `akgl_text_rendertextat()` segfaults on a backend whose vtable is empty.** It reaches
through `renderer->draw_texture` without checking it, so the first `PRINT` through the sink
dereferences NULL. That is the same class of defect 42b60f7's own commit added a draw test
for — "a backend that exists but was never given an `SDL_Renderer` " — and the text path
still has it.
### Still missing from the sink
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Nothing that blocks a verb. The line editor exists (see above), so `INPUT` and the REPL work in
the window. Two limits are worth stating because a program can reach both:
- **No shifted character can be typed.** The keystroke ring carries a keycode and no modifier
state, so `"` , `!` , `(` , `)` , `:` and `;` are unreachable and a string literal cannot be typed
at the window at all. Letters are folded to upper case, which is a C128 doing what a C128 does
rather than a workaround, but punctuation has no such excuse. Filed upstream as `libakgl`
item 10; until it lands, the way to run a program with a string literal in it is to pass the
file on the command line, which is unaffected.
- **No cursor movement within a line.** Backspace and escape only. The arrow keys stay in the
ring for a script's own `GET` loop, which is the more valuable use of them.
`WINDOW` and `KEY` in group E want a text-window rectangle and a function-key table on top of
this, which is ordinary work here rather than anything blocked.
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Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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---
## 4. Remaining work: language completion (goal 2)
The work queue is the "What Isn't Implemented" list in `deps/basicinterpret/README.md` .
Each verb is: table row (§1.1) → parse handler if it needs one → exec handler → unit test →
a new `.bas` /`.txt` pair. **Both ** kinds of test; they answer different questions.
Order by what unblocks the most, and by what does not need `libakgl` to grow first:
| Group | Verbs | Blocked on |
|---|---|---|
| A. Structure | `DO` , `LOOP` , `WHILE` , `UNTIL` , `ON` , `BEGIN` , `BEND` , `END` | nothing — reuses `waitingForCommand` |
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| ~~B. Housekeeping~~ | ~~`NEW`, `CLR`, `CONT`, `SWAP`, `TRON`, `TROFF`, `HELP`~~ | **done ** — `src/runtime_housekeeping.c` , `tests/housekeeping_verbs.c` |
| B′ `RESTORE` , `RENUMBER` | neither is small; see below |
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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| C. Errors | `TRAP` , `RESUME` , `ER` , `ERR` | needs a BASIC-visible error object |
| D. Strings/format | `USING` , `PUDEF` , `WIDTH` , `CHAR` | nothing |
Read the keyboard: implement GET, GETKEY and SCNCLR
The poll_key half of group E, against the akbasic_InputBackend record. The
libakgl implementation behind it is akgl_controller_poll_key(), which drains a
ring the library fills from SDL events the host pumps -- so the interpreter can
answer "is there a key waiting" without owning an event loop, which is what goal
3 requires.
GET and GETKEY differ in one way and it is the interesting one. GET takes
whatever is there including nothing, and an empty buffer is success with the
empty string rather than an error -- that is what happens on most iterations of
every GET loop ever written, and upstream is explicit that its poll reports it
the same way. GETKEY waits, and since the library may not block, waiting is
spelled as holding the step loop: the verb sets a flag and akbasic_runtime_step()
declines to advance until a key arrives. Every step still returns and a bounded
run() still comes back, so a host keeps its frame rate; the program simply does
not move past the GETKEY.
The PLAY queue is serviced before that check on purpose -- music should keep
playing while a program waits for a keypress. Withdrawing the input device while
a GETKEY is holding releases it rather than wedging the script on a device that
no longer exists.
Both verbs accept an integer variable as well as a string one and give it the raw
key code, which is what a program testing for cursor or function keys needs. No
key is code zero, matching what a C128 reports. A float variable is refused: it
is neither a character nor a code.
SCNCLR goes through the text sink rather than a device, because the sink is where
PRINT already goes and is the only thing that knows what a screen means for this
host. The stdio sink treats it as a no-op; clearing a pipe means nothing.
One thing worth knowing before writing any bounded-run test, and now commented in
tests/input_verbs.c: source lines are stored indexed by line number and the
cursor starts at zero, so a step is spent on each empty slot along the way. A
program at line 10 needs eleven steps before it has run anything.
70/70 ctest, clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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| E. Console | `WINDOW` , `KEY` , `SLEEP` , `WAIT` , `TI` | the sink, or the clock `akbasic_runtime_settime()` now carries |
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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| F. Disk | `DOPEN` , `DCLOSE` , `APPEND` , `RECORD` , `HEADER` , `COLLECT` , `BACKUP` , `COPY` , `CONCAT` , `RENAME` , `SCRATCH` , `DIRECTORY` , `CATALOG` , `DCLEAR` , `DVERIFY` , `SAVE` , `LOAD` , `VERIFY` , `BLOAD` , `BSAVE` , `BOOT` | `aksl_f*` only; no new akgl |
Read the keyboard: implement GET, GETKEY and SCNCLR
The poll_key half of group E, against the akbasic_InputBackend record. The
libakgl implementation behind it is akgl_controller_poll_key(), which drains a
ring the library fills from SDL events the host pumps -- so the interpreter can
answer "is there a key waiting" without owning an event loop, which is what goal
3 requires.
GET and GETKEY differ in one way and it is the interesting one. GET takes
whatever is there including nothing, and an empty buffer is success with the
empty string rather than an error -- that is what happens on most iterations of
every GET loop ever written, and upstream is explicit that its poll reports it
the same way. GETKEY waits, and since the library may not block, waiting is
spelled as holding the step loop: the verb sets a flag and akbasic_runtime_step()
declines to advance until a key arrives. Every step still returns and a bounded
run() still comes back, so a host keeps its frame rate; the program simply does
not move past the GETKEY.
The PLAY queue is serviced before that check on purpose -- music should keep
playing while a program waits for a keypress. Withdrawing the input device while
a GETKEY is holding releases it rather than wedging the script on a device that
no longer exists.
Both verbs accept an integer variable as well as a string one and give it the raw
key code, which is what a program testing for cursor or function keys needs. No
key is code zero, matching what a C128 reports. A float variable is refused: it
is neither a character nor a code.
SCNCLR goes through the text sink rather than a device, because the sink is where
PRINT already goes and is the only thing that knows what a screen means for this
host. The stdio sink treats it as a no-op; clearing a pipe means nothing.
One thing worth knowing before writing any bounded-run test, and now commented in
tests/input_verbs.c: source lines are stored indexed by line number and the
cursor starts at zero, so a step is spent on each empty slot along the way. A
program at line 10 needs eleven steps before it has run anything.
70/70 ctest, clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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| ~~G. Graphics~~ | ~~`GRAPHIC`, `DRAW`, `BOX`, `CIRCLE`, `PAINT`, `COLOR`, `SCALE`, `SSHAPE`, `GSHAPE`, `LOCATE`~~ | **done ** — `src/runtime_graphics.c` , `tests/graphics_verbs.c` |
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
| H. Sprites | `SPRITE` , `MOVSPR` , `SPRCOLOR` , `SPRDEF` , `SPRSAV` , `COLLISION` | `libakgl` sprite/actor API — check before filing |
Read the keyboard: implement GET, GETKEY and SCNCLR
The poll_key half of group E, against the akbasic_InputBackend record. The
libakgl implementation behind it is akgl_controller_poll_key(), which drains a
ring the library fills from SDL events the host pumps -- so the interpreter can
answer "is there a key waiting" without owning an event loop, which is what goal
3 requires.
GET and GETKEY differ in one way and it is the interesting one. GET takes
whatever is there including nothing, and an empty buffer is success with the
empty string rather than an error -- that is what happens on most iterations of
every GET loop ever written, and upstream is explicit that its poll reports it
the same way. GETKEY waits, and since the library may not block, waiting is
spelled as holding the step loop: the verb sets a flag and akbasic_runtime_step()
declines to advance until a key arrives. Every step still returns and a bounded
run() still comes back, so a host keeps its frame rate; the program simply does
not move past the GETKEY.
The PLAY queue is serviced before that check on purpose -- music should keep
playing while a program waits for a keypress. Withdrawing the input device while
a GETKEY is holding releases it rather than wedging the script on a device that
no longer exists.
Both verbs accept an integer variable as well as a string one and give it the raw
key code, which is what a program testing for cursor or function keys needs. No
key is code zero, matching what a C128 reports. A float variable is refused: it
is neither a character nor a code.
SCNCLR goes through the text sink rather than a device, because the sink is where
PRINT already goes and is the only thing that knows what a screen means for this
host. The stdio sink treats it as a no-op; clearing a pipe means nothing.
One thing worth knowing before writing any bounded-run test, and now commented in
tests/input_verbs.c: source lines are stored indexed by line number and the
cursor starts at zero, so a step is spent on each empty slot along the way. A
program at line 10 needs eleven steps before it has run anything.
70/70 ctest, clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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2026-07-31 08:35:05 -04:00
| ~~I. Audio~~ | ~~`PLAY`, `SOUND`, `ENVELOPE`, `VOL`, `TEMPO`~~ | **done ** — `src/runtime_audio.c` , `src/play.c` , `tests/audio_verbs.c` |
| I′ `FILTER` , `SOUND` 's sweep arguments | `libakgl` has neither; both refused with `AKBASIC_ERR_DEVICE` , both filed in §7 |
| ~~E′ | ~~`GET`, `GETKEY`, `SCNCLR`~~ | **done ** — `src/runtime_input.c` , `tests/input_verbs.c` |
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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| J. Machine | `SYS` , `FETCH` , `STASH` , `POKE` /`PEEK` variants | nothing |
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**`RESTORE` and `RENUMBER` are deferred, and neither is a small job.**
- **`RESTORE` needs a DATA pointer, and there isn't one.** `READ` does not read: it declares
that the * next * `DATA` line reached in execution order should fill its identifiers, and skips
forward until one turns up (`akbasic_cmd_read` , ported faithfully). There is no cursor into a
list of `DATA` items, so there is nothing for `RESTORE` to reset. Implementing it honestly
means implementing the pointer, which is worth doing on its own merits, because the current
arrangement has a defect the corpus does not catch: **a `DATA` line that appears * before * its
`READ` is never found**, so `10 DATA 1,2` / `20 READ A#` runs off the end of the program in
silence, and a second `READ` re-reads the same line rather than continuing. The fix is a
pre-scan of every `DATA` statement into a flat list plus a read cursor, at which point
`RESTORE [line]` is three lines. Its own commit, with the golden cases the change would need.
- **`RENUMBER` has to rewrite references or it is worse than useless.** Moving lines is easy —
source is filed under its line number in `source[]` . Rewriting every `GOTO` , `GOSUB` , `THEN` ,
`ELSE` , `RUN` and `LIST` target to match is the job, and doing it on source text means
distinguishing a line number from a digit inside a string literal. Refusing it is better than
a `RENUMBER` that silently breaks every branch in the program.
Re-sequence the language queue now that libakgl closed the gaps
The bump in 7f16337 updated sections 3, 7 and 8 but left the section 4 work
queue still marking groups G and I "file it", which is no longer true.
Groups G and I are unblocked outright. Group E splits: GET, GETKEY and SCNCLR
need nothing further, while WINDOW, KEY, SLEEP, WAIT and TI still want the sink
or a clock. LOCATE was listed in both E and G; it belongs to G alone, because in
BASIC 7.0 it moves the graphics pixel cursor DRAW starts from and the text
cursor verb is CHAR, already in group D.
One gap is genuinely outstanding and upstream named it in the same commit that
added the audio API: FILTER has no SDL3 primitive behind it. It is recorded in
section 7 with the behaviour to apply until an akgl_audio_filter() exists --
refuse at execution rather than silently ignore, since a program that asks for a
low-pass and gets an unfiltered square wave has been lied to.
Also records why the libakgl requirement is pinned by commit rather than by
version: 42b60f7 added 22 public symbols across four headers and left both
VERSION 0.1.0 and the libakgl.so.0.1 soname alone, so AKGL_VERSION_AT_LEAST
cannot tell the two trees apart and a binary built against the new headers
resolves against an old .so without complaint.
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`LOCATE` used to appear in both E and G. It belongs to G alone: in BASIC 7.0 `LOCATE` moves the
*graphics* pixel cursor that `DRAW` starts from, and the text cursor verb is `CHAR` , which is
already in group D.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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**Out of scope, and staying that way** — the reference marks these as incompatible with a
modern PC and that reasoning stands: `BANK` (no bank switching), `FAST` (irrelevant CPU speed
control), `MONITOR` (no machine-language monitor).
Also on the queue, from the reference's own defect list:
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- ~~**Multiple statements per line**~~ **Done. ** `akbasic_parser_parse()` consumes a run of
`COLON` tokens before each statement and hands the caller a NULL leaf when nothing followed
them, which is how an empty statement — a trailing separator, or `::` — stays legal rather
than becoming an error. `tests/parser_commands.c` counts statements per line;
`tests/language/statements/multiple_per_line.bas` asserts what actually runs.
**One thing about it needed a decision rather than a transcription ** , and it is recorded as
deviation 29 in §5: BASIC 7.0 scopes everything after `THEN` to the condition, so
`IF C THEN A : B` must run neither `A` nor `B` when `C` is false. The parser takes exactly one
statement per arm, so the rest of the line reaches the statement loop as ordinary statements
and the branch has to tell the loop whether to run them.
**A known limitation, not a defect: ** a whole `FOR` /`NEXT` on one line
(`FOR I# = 1 TO 3 : PRINT I# : NEXT I#` ) does not loop. The block structure is the
reference's `waitingForCommand` model (§1.6), which skips forward * by source line * to the verb
it is waiting for, so a `NEXT` on the same line as its `FOR` is never reached. Fixing it means
restructuring control flow to work on statements rather than lines, which is a deliberate
piece of work and wants its own commit. Group A's `DO` /`LOOP` will meet the same wall.
- **Array references in parameter lists** (`READ A$(0), B#` ) currently fail to parse. This is
the * same collision * §6 item 13 was, one field along: an identifier keeps its subscript list
on `.right` , which is also where an argument list chains its arguments. That item was fixed by
moving a unary leaf's operand to `.left` ; the same move very likely works here, since an
identifier leaf has no other use for the field either. Fix in `akbasic_parser_primary` and
`akbasic_leaf_first_subscript` .
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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---
## 5. Deliberate deviations from the reference
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Keep this list current. Most of these change structure without changing observable output;
the ones that * do * change output say so and carry the golden file they moved.
The bar has dropped since this list was started. It used to be "defensible against the golden
suite", because matching the Go implementation byte for byte was goal 1's headline claim. That
implementation is now deprecated (§0.1), so the bar is the ordinary one: defensible on its own
merits, recorded here, and tested.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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1. Reflection → static dispatch table (§1.1).
2. Go maps → fixed open-addressed tables (§1.3).
3. Unbounded `new(BasicEnvironment)` → pool with release (§1.4).
4. Hardcoded stdout+SDL mirror → text sink backend (§1.5).
5. `run()` owns the process → `step()` / bounded `run()` (§1.6).
6. `panic()` → `FAIL_RETURN` ; no library call terminates the process (§1.6).
7. `debug.PrintStack()` on parse error → the `akerr` stack trace only (§3.1 of the original plan).
8. `BasicEnvironment.eval_clone_identifiers` deleted as dead state (§4.2 of the original plan).
9. `BasicValue.name` and `BasicEnvironment.update()` deleted as dead: nothing ever writes the
field a non-empty string, and `update()` — its only reader — has no callers.
10. The `DEF` -statement bootstrap is gone. The reference declares every builtin by *running a
BASIC program of `DEF` lines through the interpreter* at startup and then nulling out the
expressions (`basicruntime_functions.go:14` ); here a builtin's name, arity and handler are
a row in the dispatch table, and `MOD` , `SPC` and `STR` are ordinary native handlers. This
removes the need to run the interpreter before the interpreter is ready.
11. Undefined behaviour the reference reaches by a defined route is refused rather than
inherited: a shift count outside 0..63, a negative string multiplier, and integer division
by zero all raise. Go defines all three (or panics); C does not. No golden case exercises
any of them, so observable behaviour is unchanged.
12. `CommandEXIT` clears the pending `NEXT` wait before popping. The reference does not, which
leaves the parent waiting for a `NEXT` that never arrives (§6 item 8) — in C that is a hang
rather than a misbehaviour, and no golden case depends on it.
Draw: implement the BASIC 7.0 graphics verbs
GRAPHIC, COLOR, DRAW, BOX, CIRCLE, PAINT, SCALE, SSHAPE, GSHAPE and LOCATE, all
against the akbasic_GraphicsBackend record rather than akgl_draw_* directly, so
src/runtime_graphics.c includes no SDL and the whole group is testable in a build
with no SDL on the machine.
The reference lists every one of these as unimplemented, so the semantics come
from Commodore BASIC 7.0 rather than from a port, and four places where a modern
renderer cannot do what a C128 did are recorded in TODO.md section 5 rather than
silently substituted:
- CIRCLE is drawn as a polygon of inc-degree segments and akgl_draw_circle is
deliberately unused. 7.0's CIRCLE takes two radii, an arc range and a rotation,
so the primitive could serve only the fully-defaulted call, and a shape that
changed character depending on whether the radii happened to be equal would be
worse than one uniformly a polygon.
- SSHAPE puts a SHAPE:<n> handle in the string variable rather than the pixels,
because a value's string is a fixed 256 bytes and a region is a device surface.
GSHAPE refuses a string without that prefix instead of parsing whatever digits
it finds and pasting an unrelated slot.
- BOX fills on a negative angle; 7.0 puts the fill flag after the rotation, which
would make a filled box a seventh argument.
- GRAPHIC stores its mode and honours only the one consequence that means
anything here -- mode 0 is text -- while still refusing an out-of-range mode,
since that is a typo worth catching.
PAINT surfaces the flood fill's AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS as an error rather than
success. The device gives up when its span stack runs out having filled *part* of
the region, and a program that cannot tell that happened cannot recover from it.
Note the shape of that handler: HANDLE sets handled = true on the context, so a
FAIL_RETURN from inside the HANDLE block hands the caller something already
marked handled, whose FINISH_LOGIC then declines to pass it up and releases it --
the error disappears and PAINT reports success. Flag inside the block, raise
after FINISH.
COLOR, LOCATE and SCALE need no device on purpose, so a program can set itself up
before a host has lent it a renderer.
Adds a second golden corpus under tests/language/. The corpus in
deps/basicinterpret is a submodule and nothing here may add files to it, but
goal 2's new verbs still need the .bas/.txt half of their coverage. Registered
under local_ so a failure names which corpus it came from. What it can cover is
limited -- these verbs draw rather than print -- so the behaviour that reaches a
device is asserted against tests/mockdevice.h instead.
65/65 ctest, clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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### Deviations in the verbs the reference never implemented
Items 1– * from ported code * . These are deviations from **Commodore
BASIC 7.0**, in verbs the reference lists as unimplemented and which therefore had no Go
behaviour to port. They matter to somebody typing in a listing out of a C128 manual.
13. **Hardware verbs reach a device through a backend record, and refuse when there is none. **
`akbasic_GraphicsBackend` , `_AudioBackend` and `_InputBackend` are records of function
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pointers on the runtime; all three may be `NULL` , which is what the current stdio-only
standalone driver gives them. That is correct for a default build and unfinished for an
`AKBASIC_WITH_AKGL` build; see §3. A verb that needs a device it was not given raises
`AKBASIC_ERR_DEVICE` naming itself. `COLOR` , `LOCATE` , `SCALE` , `ENVELOPE` , `TEMPO` and
`VOL` deliberately do * not * require one — they change interpreter state, so a program can
configure itself before the host lends it a renderer.
Draw: implement the BASIC 7.0 graphics verbs
GRAPHIC, COLOR, DRAW, BOX, CIRCLE, PAINT, SCALE, SSHAPE, GSHAPE and LOCATE, all
against the akbasic_GraphicsBackend record rather than akgl_draw_* directly, so
src/runtime_graphics.c includes no SDL and the whole group is testable in a build
with no SDL on the machine.
The reference lists every one of these as unimplemented, so the semantics come
from Commodore BASIC 7.0 rather than from a port, and four places where a modern
renderer cannot do what a C128 did are recorded in TODO.md section 5 rather than
silently substituted:
- CIRCLE is drawn as a polygon of inc-degree segments and akgl_draw_circle is
deliberately unused. 7.0's CIRCLE takes two radii, an arc range and a rotation,
so the primitive could serve only the fully-defaulted call, and a shape that
changed character depending on whether the radii happened to be equal would be
worse than one uniformly a polygon.
- SSHAPE puts a SHAPE:<n> handle in the string variable rather than the pixels,
because a value's string is a fixed 256 bytes and a region is a device surface.
GSHAPE refuses a string without that prefix instead of parsing whatever digits
it finds and pasting an unrelated slot.
- BOX fills on a negative angle; 7.0 puts the fill flag after the rotation, which
would make a filled box a seventh argument.
- GRAPHIC stores its mode and honours only the one consequence that means
anything here -- mode 0 is text -- while still refusing an out-of-range mode,
since that is a typo worth catching.
PAINT surfaces the flood fill's AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS as an error rather than
success. The device gives up when its span stack runs out having filled *part* of
the region, and a program that cannot tell that happened cannot recover from it.
Note the shape of that handler: HANDLE sets handled = true on the context, so a
FAIL_RETURN from inside the HANDLE block hands the caller something already
marked handled, whose FINISH_LOGIC then declines to pass it up and releases it --
the error disappears and PAINT reports success. Flag inside the block, raise
after FINISH.
COLOR, LOCATE and SCALE need no device on purpose, so a program can set itself up
before a host has lent it a renderer.
Adds a second golden corpus under tests/language/. The corpus in
deps/basicinterpret is a submodule and nothing here may add files to it, but
goal 2's new verbs still need the .bas/.txt half of their coverage. Registered
under local_ so a failure names which corpus it came from. What it can cover is
limited -- these verbs draw rather than print -- so the behaviour that reaches a
device is asserted against tests/mockdevice.h instead.
65/65 ctest, clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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14. * * `CIRCLE` is a polygon, always.** BASIC 7.0's `CIRCLE` takes two radii, a start and end
angle, a rotation and a degree increment, which makes it an inc-degree polygon by
definition. `akgl_draw_circle` exists and is deliberately **not ** used: it draws one
radius, full sweep, unrotated, so it could serve only the case where every optional
argument is defaulted — and a shape that changed character depending on whether the two
radii happened to be equal is worse than one that is uniformly a polygon.
15. * * `SSHAPE` stores a handle in the string, not the pixels.** A real C128 packs the
region's bitmap into the string variable. Here a value's string is a fixed 256 bytes
(§1.2) and a saved region is a device surface, so the variable gets `SHAPE:<n>` and the
surface stays in a fixed pool on the backend. `GSHAPE` accepts only a string carrying that
prefix, so a hand-written one is refused rather than pasting an unrelated slot. **What
this costs:** a shape cannot be written to disk, cannot be concatenated, and `LEN` of it
is not its size. Nothing in BASIC does any of those to a shape string except a program
deliberately poking at it.
16. * * `BOX` fills on a negative angle rather than on a seventh argument.** 7.0's last
argument selects outline or fill and sits * after * the rotation, which would make a filled
box a seven-argument call. That is filed rather than implemented; today a rotation of zero
outlines through the renderer's rectangle and any other rotation draws four lines.
17. * * `GRAPHIC` records its mode but honours only one consequence of it.** 7.0's five modes
differ in bitmap resolution and in whether the bottom of the screen stays text. Neither
means anything against a host's renderer, whose size the interpreter does not know and
does not own. The mode is stored, an out-of-range one is refused because that is a typo
worth catching, and the one observable rule is that mode 0 is text.
18. **Coordinates reaching a backend are BASIC's 320x200 space, and scaling to the window is
the host's job.** The interpreter cannot ask the renderer how big it is without owning it.
`SCALE` maps user coordinates onto that space; with `SCALE` off they pass through.
Sound: implement the BASIC 7.0 sound verbs and the PLAY parser
SOUND, ENVELOPE, VOL, PLAY and TEMPO against the akbasic_AudioBackend record,
plus FILTER, which is in the table only so that it can be refused with a reason.
The PLAY note-string parser and TEMPO are here rather than in libakgl because
that is where its audio commit says they belong: a tone generator synthesises
pitches, but deciding that O4CDEFG is five quarter notes starting at middle C is
a language question.
PLAY does not block. On a C128 it holds the program until the last note ends,
which section 1.6 forbids outright, so it parses the string into a fixed queue
and returns; akbasic_runtime_step() releases one note at a time against whatever
time the host last passed to akbasic_runtime_settime(). The driver now steps one
at a time with the clock refreshed in between rather than making a single
unbounded run() call -- a tune whose notes all measured themselves against a
frozen zero would rush out at once. That loop is its own function because CATCH
expands to a break and PASS expands to a return of the context, and main()
returns an int; wrapping the loop is what the protocol prescribes for that shape.
src/audio_tables.c holds the three conversions, laid out as tables because each
is somewhere a wrong constant produces a plausible wrong pitch rather than an
error anybody would notice. Two are transcriptions -- the SID frequency formula
and its non-linear ADSR rate tables, where decay is exactly three times attack.
The third is not: BASIC 7.0 never published what a whole note lasts at a given
TEMPO, so 16000 ms at TEMPO 1 is a calibration choice putting a default quarter
note at 120 bpm, and it is labelled as a choice where it is made.
SOUND's frequency sweep is refused rather than faked, and filed upstream as
akgl_audio_sweep. The only way to fake it here is to re-issue tones from step(),
which ties audible pitch to how often the host calls us -- a tune that changes
key with the frame rate. FILTER is refused for the reason upstream already gave:
there is no filter stage and SDL3 has no primitive to build one from.
The PLAY parser is tested through akbasic_play_parse() directly rather than
through a program, because running one also runs the queue service -- and with
the clock at zero every duration has already expired, so the queue empties before
an assertion can look at it. Draining is correct behaviour and is tested on its
own; the parse tests ask a different question.
68/68 ctest, clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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19. * * `PLAY` does not block.** On a C128 `PLAY` holds the program until the last note ends.
§1.6 forbids that outright, so `PLAY` parses the string into a fixed queue and returns;
`akbasic_runtime_step()` releases one note at a time against whatever time the host last
passed to `akbasic_runtime_settime()` . **What this changes for a program: ** the statement
after a `PLAY` runs immediately rather than a bar later, so a listing that relied on `PLAY`
for timing will race ahead. A program that wants to wait should test the queue rather than
assume the verb waits for it.
20. **The host owns the clock, and an unset clock rushes the music. ** The library reads no
clock — it owns no loop and must not block. A host calls `akbasic_runtime_settime()` once a
frame; the standalone driver calls it every step off `CLOCK_MONOTONIC` . Left unset it reads
zero forever, so every duration has already expired and the queue drains as fast as
`step()` is called. Audible, deterministic, and never a hang, which is the right way for
that to fail.
21. * * `PLAY` 's `M` (measure) is a no-op and `SOUND` 's frequency sweep is refused.** `M`
synchronises the three voices on a C128; with one sequential queue there is nothing to
synchronise, and a listing full of them should still play, so it is accepted and ignored.
The sweep is the opposite call: `SOUND` 's `dir` /`min` /`step` arguments have no
`akgl_audio_*` equivalent, and the only way to fake one is to re-issue tones from
`step()` — which would tie audible pitch to how often the host happens to call us, a tune
that changes key with the frame rate. Filed upstream as `akgl_audio_sweep` ; see §7.
22. * * `TEMPO` 's constant is a calibration choice, not a transcription.** BASIC 7.0 documents
`TEMPO` as a relative duration from 1 to 255 defaulting to 8, and does not publish what a
whole note actually lasts. `src/audio_tables.c` uses 16000 ms at `TEMPO` 1, which puts a
default-tempo quarter note at 500 ms — 120 beats per minute. If the real constant turns
up, that is the one line to change.
Read the keyboard: implement GET, GETKEY and SCNCLR
The poll_key half of group E, against the akbasic_InputBackend record. The
libakgl implementation behind it is akgl_controller_poll_key(), which drains a
ring the library fills from SDL events the host pumps -- so the interpreter can
answer "is there a key waiting" without owning an event loop, which is what goal
3 requires.
GET and GETKEY differ in one way and it is the interesting one. GET takes
whatever is there including nothing, and an empty buffer is success with the
empty string rather than an error -- that is what happens on most iterations of
every GET loop ever written, and upstream is explicit that its poll reports it
the same way. GETKEY waits, and since the library may not block, waiting is
spelled as holding the step loop: the verb sets a flag and akbasic_runtime_step()
declines to advance until a key arrives. Every step still returns and a bounded
run() still comes back, so a host keeps its frame rate; the program simply does
not move past the GETKEY.
The PLAY queue is serviced before that check on purpose -- music should keep
playing while a program waits for a keypress. Withdrawing the input device while
a GETKEY is holding releases it rather than wedging the script on a device that
no longer exists.
Both verbs accept an integer variable as well as a string one and give it the raw
key code, which is what a program testing for cursor or function keys needs. No
key is code zero, matching what a C128 reports. A float variable is refused: it
is neither a character nor a code.
SCNCLR goes through the text sink rather than a device, because the sink is where
PRINT already goes and is the only thing that knows what a screen means for this
host. The stdio sink treats it as a no-op; clearing a pipe means nothing.
One thing worth knowing before writing any bounded-run test, and now commented in
tests/input_verbs.c: source lines are stored indexed by line number and the
cursor starts at zero, so a step is spent on each empty slot along the way. A
program at line 10 needs eleven steps before it has run anything.
70/70 ctest, clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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23. * * `GETKEY` holds the step loop rather than blocking.** A C128 sits on the keyboard inside
`GETKEY` until somebody types. §1.6 forbids the library blocking, so the verb sets a flag
and `akbasic_runtime_step()` declines to advance the program until a key arrives. Every
step still returns and a bounded `akbasic_runtime_run()` still comes back, so a host keeps
its frame rate; the program simply does not move past the `GETKEY` , which is the part a
program author cares about. The `PLAY` queue is serviced * before * this check on purpose —
music should keep playing while a program waits for a keypress. Withdrawing the input
device while a `GETKEY` is holding releases it rather than wedging the script forever.
24. * * `GET` and `GETKEY` into a numeric variable yield the key code.** BASIC 7.0's `GET` takes
a string variable. Accepting an integer one as well, and giving it the raw code, is what a
program testing for cursor or function keys needs and costs nothing. No key is code zero,
matching what a C128 reports. A float variable is refused: it is neither a character nor a
code.
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### Deviations in the standalone frontend
Items 1– –
deviations from the reference's * program * : `main.go` and the SDL half of
`basicruntime_graphics.go` .
25. **The frame loop is bounded and the reference's is not. ** Go's `run()` is a `for {}` that
owns the process until `MODE_QUIT` (`basicruntime.go:682` ), which is why the reference's
window never answers its close button. Here the driver runs
`AKBASIC_FRONTEND_STEPS_PER_FRAME` steps, pumps, presents, and goes round again. **What
this changes for a program:** nothing observable — a bounded run reproduces an unbounded one
exactly, and the whole golden corpus is driven through this loop to prove it. What it
changes for a * user * is that the window closes when asked.
26. **The frame is not cleared between frames. ** The reference blits a text surface onto the
window surface and calls `UpdateSurface` . Here the graphics verbs draw straight to the
renderer rather than into a display list, so a `SDL_RenderClear` at the top of each frame
would erase every `DRAW` at the end of the frame it was issued in. The text layer is drawn
over whatever is already there. **What this costs: ** text that has scrolled away leaves its
pixels behind wherever a graphics verb has drawn, because nothing repaints that region. A
`SCNCLR` does not repaint it either — it clears the text grid, not the bitmap. `GRAPHIC 0`
is the verb that wipes the drawing surface.
27. **The window is closed by the host, and that is not `QUIT`. ** Closing the window stops the
frontend and leaves `obj->mode` alone; it does not set `AKBASIC_MODE_QUIT` . The distinction
is invisible to the standalone program, which exits either way, and load-bearing for an
embedding host: a game that closes its own window has not decided that the script is
finished, and a script that ran `QUIT` has. `tests/akgl_frontend.c` asserts both halves.
28. **Piped input still works in an AKGL build. ** With a terminal on stdin the window is the
console and lines come from its editor; piped or redirected, they come from the pipe. This
is not in the reference, which always reads `os.Stdin` in REPL mode. It exists so
`basic < program.bas` behaves the same in both builds — and so the golden corpus can be
driven through the SDL binary, which is where most of the frontend's real coverage comes
from.
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### Deviations that change what a program is allowed to do
30. **A verb name with a type suffix is not a variable name. ** `PRINT$ = 1` is refused where
the reference accepts it, because its reserved-word check searched the keyword tables with
the suffix still attached and therefore never matched (§6 item 16). A real C128 refuses it
too, so this is the reference being wrong rather than this interpreter being strict.
**What it costs a program: ** a listing that used `INPUT$` , `LEN#` or `GOTO%` as a variable
stops parsing, and the fix is to rename the variable. One case in the reference's own corpus
did exactly that; see `tests/reference/README.md` .
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### Deviations in statement separation
29. **A branch decides who owns the rest of its line. ** BASIC 7.0 scopes every statement after
`THEN` to the condition, and the reference has no opinion on the matter because it never
consumed the `COLON` token at all. The parser here takes exactly one statement for each arm,
so the rest of the line arrives at the statement loop as ordinary top-level statements and
something has to say whether to run them. The `BRANCH` case in
`akbasic_runtime_evaluate()` sets `runtime->skiprestofline` , and the two statement loops
stop on it.
**The rule is not "skip when false" ** , which is the reason this is written down:
| Line | Condition | What runs |
|---|---|---|
| `IF C THEN A : B` | true | `A` , `B` |
| `IF C THEN A : B` | false | nothing |
| `IF C THEN A ELSE B : D` | true | `A` |
| `IF C THEN A ELSE B : D` | false | `B` , `D` |
The remainder always belongs to whichever arm was written * last * , so it is skipped exactly
when that arm is the one not taken — with an `ELSE` the last arm is `ELSE` , without one it
is `THEN` . That is one line of code and it reads as an oddity without the table above it.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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---
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## 6. Reference defects — **fix them; fidelity is no longer a reason not to**
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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These are real bugs in `deps/basicinterpret` , reproduced faithfully during the port.
**The rule that governed this section is gone.** It used to read "port the behaviour first so
the golden suite passes and the port is provably faithful, then fix each one deliberately" —
and faithfulness was the reason several of these are still here. The Go implementation is
deprecated and will not be updated (§0.1), so there is no longer anything to be faithful * to * .
Each of these is now an ordinary defect, to be judged on whether the fix is right rather than on
whether it matches.
What has not changed is the working method: one fix per commit, with a test that asserts the
correct contract, and a golden file moved in the same commit if the fix changes output.
`AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS` is empty now and is kept declared for the next defect that has to
be reproduced before it can be fixed.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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1. * * `basicvariable.go:176` ** — `toString()` tests `len(self.values) == 0` and then indexes
`self.values[0]` . Inverted condition; on an empty variable it panics, and on a non-empty one
it returns the "not implemented for arrays" string. * Consequence: * `PRINT` of a scalar
through this path is wrong. Fix: `if ( count == 1 )` .
2. * * `basicvariable.go:108` ** — `setBoolean` builds a value with `valuetype: TYPE_STRING` .
* Consequence: * a boolean stored in a variable reads back as a string with an empty
`stringval` . Fix: `TYPE_BOOLEAN` .
3. * * `basicenvironment.go:157` ** — `stopWaiting(command)` ignores `command` and clears the
wait unconditionally. * Consequence: * an inner block can clear an outer block's wait. Fix:
compare before clearing, and error on a mismatch.
4. * * `basicvalue.go:181` ** — `mathPlus` mutates `self` in place when `self.mutable` is true,
while every other operator always clones. * Consequence: * `A# + 1` can modify `A#` depending
on where the value came from. This one is high blast radius; it interacts with
`eval_clone_identifiers` and with `CommandNEXT` 's increment
(`basicruntime_commands.go:663` ), which **relies ** on the mutation. Do not fix it before
`FOR` /`NEXT` has full test coverage.
5. * * `basicvalue.go:191` and siblings** — every binary operator adds both of the right-hand
operand's numeric fields: `rval.intval + int64(rval.floatval)` . Works only because the
unused field is always zero. * Consequence: * none today; it is a landmine for any future
value that carries both.
6. * * `basicvalue.go` , all comparisons** — `dest` is cloned from `self` , so the resulting
boolean inherits `self.name` . * Consequence: * a comparison result can be written back to the
wrong variable through `environment.update()` .
7. * * `basicruntime_commands.go:484` ** — `CommandIF` walks `expr.right` to the end of the chain
looking for a `THEN` command, then dereferences `expr.right` after the loop guaranteed it
is `nil` . * Consequence: * the "Malformed IF statement" check is unreachable and nested
`IF ... THEN ... ELSE` is unverified.
8. * * `basicruntime_commands.go:669` ** — `CommandEXIT` pops the environment without
`stopWaiting` , leaving the parent waiting on a `NEXT` that will never come.
9. * * `basicruntime.go:149` ** — `newVariable()` and `BasicRuntime.variables[MAX_VARIABLES]` are
dead; variables live in the environment's map. Do not port them.
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10. ~~**`basicgrammar.go:224` ** — `newLiteralInt` selects base 8 whenever the lexeme starts
with `0` .~~ **Fixed. ** Base 10 unless prefixed `0x` ; a leading zero in a listing is padding,
not a radix. `PRINT 010` prints 10 and `PRINT 08` parses. Nothing in the upstream corpus
had a leading-zero literal, which is why nothing there noticed. Regression tests in
`tests/grammar_leaves.c` and `tests/language/numeric/octal_literal.bas` , which was rewritten
from pinning the defect to pinning the fix.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
11. * * `basicruntime.go:121` / `basicparser_commands.go:124` ** — environments are never freed.
Addressed structurally by §1.4; no separate fix needed, but the C pool **will ** exhaust
where Go merely leaked, so `tests/environment_scope.c` 's exhaustion assertion matters.
### Found during the port
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Five more, none of which the reference's own corpus catches. **Four are now fixed ** , each with
a regression test in the suite that pinned it; the fifth is described below and is not a coding
question.
12. ~~**`basicparser.go:329` — `subtraction()` returns after one operator where `addition()`
loops.**~~ **Fixed. ** `1 - 2 - 3` computed `1 - 2` and abandoned the rest of the line; the
remaining `- 3` was left in the token stream, picked up by the statement loop as a second
statement, evaluated and discarded. A wrong answer, silently, which made this the
highest-impact item on the list. `exponent()` has the identical shape — a `for` loop with a
`return` inside it, in both the reference and the port — so `2 ^ 3 ^ 2` had it too. Both
now fold left, which is what a C128 does with a run of same-precedence operators.
Regression tests in `tests/parser_expressions.c` .
Worth recording for whoever reads the reference next: `exponent()` there is
`for self.match(CARAT) { ... return expr, nil }` (`basicparser.go:519-539` ), so the loop is
a loop in shape only. `subtraction()` is the same at `:357-377` . Neither is a
transcription slip in the port.
13. ~~**`basicparser.go:565` — a unary-minus argument inflates a function's arity count.**~~
**Fixed ** , and the fix is structural rather than a smarter counter. The counter walked
`.right` , which is where a unary leaf keeps its operand * and * where an argument list chains
its arguments; the two meanings were indistinguishable, so `ABS(-9)` counted as two
arguments and was refused with "function ABS takes 1 arguments, received 2". No builtin
could be called with a negative literal at all. The corpus hid it — `sgn.bas` assigns `-1`
to a variable first.
**A unary leaf's operand now hangs off `.left`. ** A unary leaf had no other use for that
field, so the two meanings separate for the cost of one nobody was using — and counting
then needs no special case at all. That also fixes the half of the defect the original
entry did not mention: chaining the * next * argument through `.right` overwrote the operand,
so `MOD(-7, 3)` destroyed its own first argument. Three readers moved (`src/runtime.c` ,
`src/grammar.c` 's renderer, `src/runtime_commands.c` 's `LIST` range parser) and that is the
whole change. Regression tests in `tests/runtime_evaluate.c` , both halves.
**The same collision remains for array subscripts ** , which is why §4 still lists
"array references in parameter lists" as outstanding: an identifier keeps its subscript
list on `.right` too. The same move — onto `.left` — is very likely the fix, and it is not
made here because it wants its own commit and its own tests.
14. ~~**`basicscanner.go:272` — `matchNextChar` returns without setting a token type when it
cannot peek past the end of the line.**~~ **Fixed. ** A comparison operator in the final
column was silently dropped: `A# =` produced one token, not two, and the parse error that
followed pointed somewhere else entirely. `falsetype` is now set before returning on the
peek failure. Regression tests in `tests/scanner_tokens.c` , for `=` , `<` and `>` .
15. ~~**`basicscanner.go:318` — hex literals do not survive the scanner.**~~ **Fixed. **
`matchNumber` let `x` through but not the hex digits after it, so `0xff` lexed as `0x`
followed by an identifier `ff` , the base-16 branch in `newLiteralInt` was unreachable, and
the README's hex support did not exist. Once the `x` is seen the run continues over hex
digits. Accepted anywhere in a number run rather than only after a leading `0` , which is
the reference's rule and is worth keeping: it is what makes `1x2` one malformed token that
the line-number conversion diagnoses by name. Regression tests in `tests/scanner_tokens.c`
and `tests/language/numeric/octal_literal.bas` .
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
2026-07-31 12:52:00 -04:00
16. ~~**`basicscanner.go:349` — the "Reserved word in variable name" check never fires.**~~
**Fixed ** , and it is the item §0.1 unblocked. The keyword tables are now searched on the
* base * name with any type suffix stripped, so `PRINT$` , `LEN#` and `GOTO%` are refused as
variable names and the reference's own diagnostic stops being dead code. A name that merely
contains a verb — `PRINTER$` — is still fine, which is what says the check compares the
whole base name rather than a prefix. Regression tests in `tests/scanner_tokens.c` .
**It cost one golden case, exactly as predicted, and the cost turned out to be nothing. **
The reference's `examples/strreverse.bas` names a variable `INPUT$` ; the variable is renamed
to `SOURCE$` in `tests/reference/` , the expectation is byte-for-byte unchanged — the program
still prints `REVERSED: OLLEH` — and the case keeps every bit of its coverage. Recorded in
`tests/reference/README.md` 's divergence table, which this is the first entry in.
This item sat parked because the corpus was the acceptance contract and lived in a submodule
this repository could not edit. Both premises are gone: the corpus is checked in, and
matching the Go implementation is no longer a goal. Worth keeping the history, because it is
a clean example of a fix that was correct all along and blocked entirely by a constraint
that has since expired.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
Document host/script variable exchange, and file the scope hazard it exposes
The host can expose variables to a BASIC program, in both directions and for
every type, with no marshalling layer -- akbasic_environment_get() finds or
creates by name, the type comes from the suffix as it does for BASIC code, and
host and script share the same akbasic_Value. Nothing new was needed to make
that work.
Testing it before writing it up turned up a hazard worth stating plainly, so the
README documents the pattern and section 6 item 17 records the gap.
Seeding before akbasic_runtime_start() and reading after the script stops is
safe, and so is updating an existing global at any time, because the parent
chain is searched. Creating one mid-run is not, in two ways, and both are
silent. A script suspended part-way through a bounded run() is usually inside a
FOR or GOSUB scope, so a variable created through obj->environment lands in that
scope and dies when it pops -- the script reads it correctly inside the loop and
gets 0 immediately after. And reaching for the root explicitly does not help:
akbasic_environment_get only auto-creates when the environment it is given is
the active one, so with a child active it returns NULL through dest without
raising, and an unchecked host dereferences it.
This one is ours rather than inherited. It falls out of the environment pool
meeting the bounded run(), a combination the reference never had because its
run() never returned.
examples/hostvars.c demonstrates both hazards rather than describing them, and
prints what it observes, so the day this is fixed that output changes and the
example needs revisiting. Like examples/embed.c it is built and run by every
build. Both README snippets were extracted and compiled as a check.
Not fixed here: akbasic_runtime_global() would close it in about fifteen lines,
but what it should do when the script is suspended inside a user function's
scope is a design question worth settling deliberately rather than discovering.
Filed with the proposed signature and the tests it wants.
ctest 61/61; ASan+UBSan 61/61; no warnings under -Wall -Wextra.
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2026-07-31 06:50:55 -04:00
### Ours, not the reference's
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17. ~~**A host cannot reliably create a script variable while a script is suspended.**~~
**Fixed. ** `akbasic_runtime_global(obj, name, dest)` walks `obj->environment` to the root
and finds or creates there unconditionally. `README.md` and `examples/hostvars.c` both point
at it now, and `tests/hostvars.c` asserts it: a global created from inside a `FOR` body and
from inside a `GOSUB` , still readable by the script after the body pops, plus the
seed-before / read-after path that always worked.
This one was not inherited — it fell out of §1.4's environment pool meeting §1.6's bounded
`run()` , a combination the reference never had because its `run()` never returned. Both
failure modes were silent: a variable created through `akbasic_environment_get()` landed in
the loop's scope and died with it, so the script read it correctly inside the loop and got
`0` immediately after; and reaching for the root explicitly returned `NULL` through `dest`
**without raising ** , because that function only auto-creates when
`obj->runtime->environment == obj` .
Three things settled while doing it, each worth keeping:
- **The design question §6 named has an answer.** Suspended inside a * user function's *
scope, the root is still right and the walk still gets there: a funcdef's environment is
initialized with the caller's as its parent (`akbasic_runtime_user_function` ), so the
chain terminates at the same root as any other.
- **`akbasic_environment_create()` is the new half**, and it searches * only * the scope it
is given — no walk in either direction. Walking up would find an outer variable and put
the value somewhere other than where the caller asked for it.
- **`akbasic_environment_get()` is unchanged.** Declining to create in a non-active scope is
the right behaviour for what the interpreter uses it for; it is only wrong as a * host *
API, which is why the answer was a new entry point rather than a change to that one.
`tests/hostvars.c` asserts the old behaviour too, so a later "tidy-up" has to argue with a
test.
Document host/script variable exchange, and file the scope hazard it exposes
The host can expose variables to a BASIC program, in both directions and for
every type, with no marshalling layer -- akbasic_environment_get() finds or
creates by name, the type comes from the suffix as it does for BASIC code, and
host and script share the same akbasic_Value. Nothing new was needed to make
that work.
Testing it before writing it up turned up a hazard worth stating plainly, so the
README documents the pattern and section 6 item 17 records the gap.
Seeding before akbasic_runtime_start() and reading after the script stops is
safe, and so is updating an existing global at any time, because the parent
chain is searched. Creating one mid-run is not, in two ways, and both are
silent. A script suspended part-way through a bounded run() is usually inside a
FOR or GOSUB scope, so a variable created through obj->environment lands in that
scope and dies when it pops -- the script reads it correctly inside the loop and
gets 0 immediately after. And reaching for the root explicitly does not help:
akbasic_environment_get only auto-creates when the environment it is given is
the active one, so with a child active it returns NULL through dest without
raising, and an unchecked host dereferences it.
This one is ours rather than inherited. It falls out of the environment pool
meeting the bounded run(), a combination the reference never had because its
run() never returned.
examples/hostvars.c demonstrates both hazards rather than describing them, and
prints what it observes, so the day this is fixed that output changes and the
example needs revisiting. Like examples/embed.c it is built and run by every
build. Both README snippets were extracted and compiled as a check.
Not fixed here: akbasic_runtime_global() would close it in about fifteen lines,
but what it should do when the script is suspended inside a user function's
scope is a design question worth settling deliberately rather than discovering.
Filed with the proposed signature and the tests it wants.
ctest 61/61; ASan+UBSan 61/61; no warnings under -Wall -Wextra.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 06:50:55 -04:00
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
---
## 7. Filing gaps against `libakgl`
When phase 7 or phase 8 needs something `libakgl` does not have, **stop and file it ** in
`deps/libakgl/TODO.md` in that file's numbered prose style: what the BASIC verb requires, what
the `akgl_*` entry point should look like, and what tests would cover it. Growing `libakgl` to
serve the interpreter is a wanted outcome, not a detour.
Bump libakgl to 42b60f7: every gap this port filed is now closed
All four capability gaps filed against libakgl have landed upstream, so nothing
in this repository is waiting on that library any more.
text measurement -> akgl_text_measure, akgl_text_measure_wrapped
immediate drawing -> akgl_draw_point/_line/_rect/_filled_rect/_circle/
_flood_fill/_copy_region/_paste_region
audio -> akgl_audio_init/_tone/_envelope/_waveform/_volume/
_stop/_voice_active/_mix
console input -> akgl_controller_poll_key, akgl_controller_flush_keys
The signatures came back close to what was filed, and two details are worth
recording for whoever writes src/sink_akgl.c next. The draw calls take an
akgl_RenderBackend * as their first argument rather than reaching for a global
renderer, which fits goal 3's rule that the interpreter draws through whatever
renderer the host already initialized. And the audio API is a synthesised-voice
one -- a tone on a numbered voice plus a separate ADSR envelope -- which is the
shape PLAY and ENVELOPE actually need, rather than the sample playback
SDL3_mixer would have offered.
Checked rather than assumed: libakgl's status band is still 256-260, so the
coordinated range map in CLAUDE.md is unaffected and akbasic's 512-767 does not
move.
Documentation that described these as open is corrected in the same commit --
section 7's gap list, section 3's "known gap" note, the priority list, the
dependency table, and the README's unimplemented-verbs section all said blocked
and no longer are. Section 3 also gains the thing that replaced the gap: the
character grid comes from akgl_text_measure(font, "A", &w, &h), the direct
equivalent of the font.SizeUTF8("A") at basicruntime.go:96, and
akgl_text_measure_wrapped takes the same wraplength argument
akgl_text_rendertextat does so the measurement and the draw cannot disagree
about where a line breaks.
One caveat recorded rather than papered over: -DAKBASIC_WITH_AKGL=ON has never
been configured in this repository, because until now there was nothing to build
against. The akbasic_akgl target is unproven and needs libakgl's own submodules
present. Expect to fix something there on the first attempt.
Default build unaffected: ctest 61/61, doxygen exits 0, no warnings.
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2026-07-31 07:56:02 -04:00
**All four gaps filed so far are now closed upstream**, at `libakgl` 42b60f7. Nothing here is
blocked on `libakgl` any more; what remains is akbasic-side work.
| Was blocking | Closed by |
|---|---|
| Text measurement (§3, the akgl sink) | `akgl_text_measure` , `akgl_text_measure_wrapped` |
| Immediate-mode drawing (§4 group G) | `akgl_draw_point` /`_line` /`_rect` /`_filled_rect` /`_circle` /`_flood_fill` /`_copy_region` /`_paste_region` |
| Audio (§4 group I) | `akgl_audio_init` /`_tone` /`_envelope` /`_waveform` /`_volume` /`_stop` /`_voice_active` /`_mix` |
| Console input (§4 group E) | `akgl_controller_poll_key` , `akgl_controller_flush_keys` |
Two notes for whoever picks up §3 next. The draw calls take an `akgl_RenderBackend *` as their
first argument rather than reaching for a global renderer, which fits the rule that the
interpreter draws through whatever renderer the host already initialized. And the audio API is
a synthesised-voice one — `akgl_audio_tone(voice, hz, ms)` with a separate ADSR envelope —
which is the shape `PLAY` and `ENVELOPE` need, rather than the sample playback SDL3_mixer
would have given.
Building against any of it needs `-DAKBASIC_WITH_AKGL=ON` , which pulls in `libakgl` 's own
submodules (SDL and friends). Those are not initialized in a default clone; `git submodule
update --init --recursive` gets them.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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**Seven items are filed upstream and outstanding**, at `deps/libakgl/TODO.md` items 5-10 of "API
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gaps blocking akbasic" and item 14 of "Defects". Four are workarounds this repository carries
today, each commented at its site with the words "filed upstream" so it can be found and
deleted: the embedded-dependency CMake trick in our `CMakeLists.txt` , the `akgl/actor.h`
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include in `src/input_akgl.c` and `src/sink_akgl.c` , and the hand-populated vtable and its
NULL-deref hazard in `tests/akgl_backends.c` and `src/frontend_akgl.c` . §3 describes all four.
The fifth is `SOUND` 's frequency sweep, the sixth is the missing version bump recorded in §8,
and the seventh is new:
- **The keystroke ring carries a keycode and no modifier state**, so the line editor cannot see
Shift. Every shifted character — `"` , `!` , `(` , `)` , `:` , `;` — is unreachable, which means a
string literal cannot be typed at the window at all, and lower case is unreachable too.
Letters are folded to upper case, which is what a C128 does and is therefore the right answer
for letters rather than merely the available one; punctuation has no such excuse. It is not
fixable from here: by the time a caller could ask `SDL_GetModState()` the key is long
released, and decoupling reads from events is the entire point of a ring. The wanted API is
an `akgl_controller_poll_keystroke()` returning keycode, modifiers and the composed UTF-8
text SDL already computes from `SDL_EVENT_TEXT_INPUT` — which is also the only way a keyboard
layout, a compose key or a dead key can ever work. Filed as item 10, alongside the existing
`akgl_controller_poll_key()` , which stays exactly as it is: a game asking "was the up arrow
pressed" wants precisely what it already gets.
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**One further gap is outstanding, and upstream named it itself.** The commit that added the audio API
Re-sequence the language queue now that libakgl closed the gaps
The bump in 7f16337 updated sections 3, 7 and 8 but left the section 4 work
queue still marking groups G and I "file it", which is no longer true.
Groups G and I are unblocked outright. Group E splits: GET, GETKEY and SCNCLR
need nothing further, while WINDOW, KEY, SLEEP, WAIT and TI still want the sink
or a clock. LOCATE was listed in both E and G; it belongs to G alone, because in
BASIC 7.0 it moves the graphics pixel cursor DRAW starts from and the text
cursor verb is CHAR, already in group D.
One gap is genuinely outstanding and upstream named it in the same commit that
added the audio API: FILTER has no SDL3 primitive behind it. It is recorded in
section 7 with the behaviour to apply until an akgl_audio_filter() exists --
refuse at execution rather than silently ignore, since a program that asks for a
low-pass and gets an unfiltered square wave has been lied to.
Also records why the libakgl requirement is pinned by commit rather than by
version: 42b60f7 added 22 public symbols across four headers and left both
VERSION 0.1.0 and the libakgl.so.0.1 soname alone, so AKGL_VERSION_AT_LEAST
cannot tell the two trees apart and a binary built against the new headers
resolves against an old .so without complaint.
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says plainly what it does not cover: *"Still missing for a complete BASIC sound vocabulary:
`FILTER` (SDL3 has no filter primitive; this would need writing), `TEMPO` and the `PLAY`
note-string parser, both of which belong in the interpreter rather than here."*
- **`TEMPO` and the `PLAY` parser are ours**, not a gap. They are group I work in this
repository and nothing upstream is waiting on.
- **`FILTER` is a real gap.** BASIC 7.0's `FILTER freq, lp, bp, hp, res` sets the SID's
filter cutoff, the three band-pass switches and the resonance. `akgl_audio_*` synthesises
raw waveforms and mixes them; there is no filter stage to configure and SDL3 supplies no
primitive to build one from. Until an `akgl_audio_filter()` exists, `FILTER` is accepted by
the parser and refused at execution with `AKBASIC_ERR_DEVICE` rather than silently ignored —
a program that asks for a low-pass and gets an unfiltered square wave has been lied to.
Sound: implement the BASIC 7.0 sound verbs and the PLAY parser
SOUND, ENVELOPE, VOL, PLAY and TEMPO against the akbasic_AudioBackend record,
plus FILTER, which is in the table only so that it can be refused with a reason.
The PLAY note-string parser and TEMPO are here rather than in libakgl because
that is where its audio commit says they belong: a tone generator synthesises
pitches, but deciding that O4CDEFG is five quarter notes starting at middle C is
a language question.
PLAY does not block. On a C128 it holds the program until the last note ends,
which section 1.6 forbids outright, so it parses the string into a fixed queue
and returns; akbasic_runtime_step() releases one note at a time against whatever
time the host last passed to akbasic_runtime_settime(). The driver now steps one
at a time with the clock refreshed in between rather than making a single
unbounded run() call -- a tune whose notes all measured themselves against a
frozen zero would rush out at once. That loop is its own function because CATCH
expands to a break and PASS expands to a return of the context, and main()
returns an int; wrapping the loop is what the protocol prescribes for that shape.
src/audio_tables.c holds the three conversions, laid out as tables because each
is somewhere a wrong constant produces a plausible wrong pitch rather than an
error anybody would notice. Two are transcriptions -- the SID frequency formula
and its non-linear ADSR rate tables, where decay is exactly three times attack.
The third is not: BASIC 7.0 never published what a whole note lasts at a given
TEMPO, so 16000 ms at TEMPO 1 is a calibration choice putting a default quarter
note at 120 bpm, and it is labelled as a choice where it is made.
SOUND's frequency sweep is refused rather than faked, and filed upstream as
akgl_audio_sweep. The only way to fake it here is to re-issue tones from step(),
which ties audible pitch to how often the host calls us -- a tune that changes
key with the frame rate. FILTER is refused for the reason upstream already gave:
there is no filter stage and SDL3 has no primitive to build one from.
The PLAY parser is tested through akbasic_play_parse() directly rather than
through a program, because running one also runs the queue service -- and with
the clock at zero every duration has already expired, so the queue empties before
an assertion can look at it. Draining is correct behaviour and is tested on its
own; the parse tests ask a different question.
68/68 ctest, clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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A second gap turned up while implementing group I, and is filed alongside it:
- **`SOUND` has no frequency sweep.** BASIC 7.0's `SOUND voice, freq, dur, dir, min, step`
ramps the pitch from `freq` toward `min` in `step` increments per tick, in the direction
`dir` selects. `akgl_audio_tone(voice, hz, ms)` holds one pitch for one duration and there
is no entry point that changes pitch over the life of a note. The wanted API is roughly
`akgl_audio_sweep(int voice, float32_t from_hz, float32_t to_hz, float32_t step_hz, uint32_t ms)` ,
advanced on the mixer's own frame counter — the same place the phase is already derived
from, and the reason it belongs there rather than here. Faking it in the interpreter means
re-issuing tones from `akbasic_runtime_step()` , which ties audible pitch to how often a host
calls us: a tune that changes key with the frame rate. Refused with `AKBASIC_ERR_DEVICE`
until it lands. Tests would drive `akgl_audio_mix` by hand and assert the frame at which the
pitch has moved, exactly as `tests/audio.c` already does for the envelope.
Re-sequence the language queue now that libakgl closed the gaps
The bump in 7f16337 updated sections 3, 7 and 8 but left the section 4 work
queue still marking groups G and I "file it", which is no longer true.
Groups G and I are unblocked outright. Group E splits: GET, GETKEY and SCNCLR
need nothing further, while WINDOW, KEY, SLEEP, WAIT and TI still want the sink
or a clock. LOCATE was listed in both E and G; it belongs to G alone, because in
BASIC 7.0 it moves the graphics pixel cursor DRAW starts from and the text
cursor verb is CHAR, already in group D.
One gap is genuinely outstanding and upstream named it in the same commit that
added the audio API: FILTER has no SDL3 primitive behind it. It is recorded in
section 7 with the behaviour to apply until an akgl_audio_filter() exists --
refuse at execution rather than silently ignore, since a program that asks for a
low-pass and gets an unfiltered square wave has been lied to.
Also records why the libakgl requirement is pinned by commit rather than by
version: 42b60f7 added 22 public symbols across four headers and left both
VERSION 0.1.0 and the libakgl.so.0.1 soname alone, so AKGL_VERSION_AT_LEAST
cannot tell the two trees apart and a binary built against the new headers
resolves against an old .so without complaint.
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When the next gap turns up, file it there rather than working around it here.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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---
## 8. Status
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**The port is done.** The C interpreter passes the Go reference's entire corpus and passes clean
under ASan and UBSan. It reproduced that corpus byte for byte until §0.1 retired the
requirement; exactly one case has diverged on purpose since, and
`tests/reference/README.md` lists it.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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| Gate | Result |
|---|---|
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| `ctest` | 77/77 — 41 reference golden cases, 9 local ones, 25 unit tests, 2 embedding examples. No known-failing tests: the list is empty |
| `ctest` with `-DAKBASIC_WITH_AKGL=ON` | 76/76 — the same, minus the three `no_device` cases the SDL driver contradicts, plus `akgl_backends` and `akgl_frontend` ; the `akgl_build` CI job |
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| Golden corpus | 41/41 byte-exact from `tests/reference/` — **and 41/41 again through the SDL binary ** , which is most of what proves the frontend changes no output |
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| ASan + UBSan | 77/77 |
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| Line coverage | 94.6% (3857/4076) — above the 90% gate |
| Function coverage | 98.6% (287/291) |
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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| Warnings | none under `-Wall -Wextra` |
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| `doxygen Doxyfile` | clean |
Delete src/convert.c: libakstdlib 0.2.0 grew the contract it existed for
That file wrapped strtoll and strtod because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family
could not report a conversion failure at all -- atoi("not a number") returned
success with 0, turning four diagnosable errors into wrong answers. Its own note
said what to do when that changed: "When it grows it, delete src/convert.c and
switch the call sites over." 0.2.0 grew it, so it is gone.
Six call sites go straight to the library now: both literal constructors in
src/grammar.c, the line number in src/scanner.c, FunctionVAL in
src/runtime_functions.c, INPUT in src/runtime_commands.c, and GSHAPE's handle in
src/runtime_graphics.c. aksl_strtoll(str, NULL, base, &dest) rather than
aksl_atoll wherever a base is involved, because the ato* forms are base 10 and
grammar.c picks base 8 or 16 off the lexeme's prefix; the NULL endptr is what
makes trailing junk an error rather than a stopping point.
The raised status changed from AKBASIC_ERR_VALUE to AKERR_VALUE, and the message
with it -- VAL("garbage") now says `no digits in "garbage"`. Section 1.8 makes
message text part of the acceptance contract, so that was checked against the
corpus before touching anything: no golden file contained a conversion message,
which is also why section 1.9 had been asking for one. Two exist now, so the next
change to that text has to move a golden file, and one of them pins the
reference's octal-literal defect (section 6 item 10) while it is still
deliberately reproduced.
tests/convert.c became tests/numeric_contract.c rather than being deleted with
the code. The assertions did not stop being worth making when the wrapper went
away -- they became assertions about a contract this port depends on and no
longer owns, and a regression in it would make four things quietly return zero.
Repoints the CI mutation job, which was bounded to src/convert.c and
src/symtab.c. src/symtab.c alone measures 74.1% against the gate of 65.
src/audio_tables.c was measured as a replacement second file and scored 64.7%:
that is a real gap rather than a reason to skip it, since almost every survivor
is in akbasic_audio_state_init, where nothing asserts a freshly initialised audio
state is actually zeroed -- the same gap this job's history records closing for
symtab. Recorded in TODO.md so the file can earn its place back.
One thing worth knowing before reading any score here, and now written down: the
harness's ICR operator only rewrites the constants 0 and 1, so a lookup table of
other values produces no mutants and a high score over one says nothing about
whether its entries are right. tests/audio_verbs.c now asserts all 32 ADSR
entries against the datasheet anyway, because a hand-edit typo is the real
failure mode there -- but that could not and did not move the mutation number,
and claiming otherwise would be the kind of thing this file exists to stop.
72/72 core, 73/73 with libakgl, 72/72 under ASan+UBSan, coverage 93.6% line and
97.8% function, clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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2026-07-31 10:28:04 -04:00
| Mutation (`src/symtab.c` ) | 74.1%, against a gate of 65 — see `.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml` |
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
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Coverage of the verb groups added for goal 2, since they are the new surface: `src/audio_tables.c`
and `src/graphics_tables.c` 100%, `src/runtime_input.c` 100%, `src/runtime_graphics.c` and
`src/runtime_audio.c` 98%, `src/play.c` 87%. The `akbasic_akgl` target is not in the coverage
figure — it is not built in a default configuration.
**A note on reading that number, because it was misread once while producing it.** A stale
`build-cov/` left in the source directory from an earlier session was silently folded into the
report by `gcovr --root .` , which produced the * previous * run's 92.3% for a tree that had grown
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by 800 lines. The number above was produced from a coverage tree outside the source directory
entirely, after a `find . -name '*.gcda'` came back empty. That is `libakgl` defect #13 happening here rather than there, and `build*/` being
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gitignored is exactly what makes it invisible. **Keep build trees out of the source directory ** ,
and if a coverage number looks suspiciously unchanged, `find . -name '*.gcda'` before believing
it.
Branch coverage reads 18.0% and is not a target, for the reason `libakgl/TODO.md` and
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
`libakstdlib/TODO.md` both give: the akerror control-flow macros expand into large branch trees
at every call site, most of them unreachable in normal operation. Track line and function
coverage.
Dependency baseline:
| Submodule | Version | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `deps/libakerror` | 1.0.0 | Private ownership-enforced status registry. akbasic reserves 512– `akbasic_error_register()` . Does not namespace its `coverage` target when embedded — worked around in our `CMakeLists.txt` . |
Consume libakgl 0.2.0 and libakstdlib 0.2.0
Rebasing the defect filing onto libakgl's origin/main brought two upstream
commits with it -- "Consume libakstdlib 0.2.0" and "Bump libakgl to 0.2.0" --
and libakgl's sources now use the 0.2.0 akstdlib API. Our CMakeLists declares
akstdlib::akstdlib from our own tree first, so libakgl was compiling 0.2.0-era
code against 0.1.0 headers and failing on aksl_fwrite, aksl_fread and
aksl_realpath. The two have to move together.
The code change is one call site. aksl_fwrite now takes a required size_t
*nmemb_out and reports a short transfer as AKERR_IO rather than a silent
success, so DSAVE onto a full disk is an error a program sees where before it
reported nothing. The count is passed and discarded on purpose: the library does
the noticing now.
The documentation change is larger, because libakstdlib 0.2.0 fixed all six of
the confirmed defects TODO.md section 1.9 was built around. That section was a
table of bans; leaving it would send an agent around a workaround for functions
that now work. The aksl_ato* family raises AKERR_VALUE on no digits or trailing
junk and ERANGE on overflow -- exactly the contract that section demanded --
aksl_list_append no longer truncates, aksl_list_iterate no longer skips the
first half, AKERR_ITERATOR_BREAK stops a tree traversal, and aksl_realpath no
longer reads uninitialised memory. One caveat survives: aksl_strhash_djb2 still
sign-extends char, which section 1.3 already covers and the symbol tables still
cannot reach.
src/convert.c has therefore outlived its reason, and is deliberately left in
place. Its own note said to delete it when libakstdlib grew the contract, and
that condition is now met -- but doing it touches four call sites, changes the
raised status from AKBASIC_ERR_VALUE to AKERR_VALUE where section 1.8 says
message text is part of the acceptance contract, and would silently gut the CI
mutation job, which is bounded to src/convert.c and src/symtab.c. Section 1.9
now lists all of that. Worth doing on purpose rather than as a side effect of a
version bump.
libakgl defect #14 is closed by its own 1066ac7, which bumped it to 0.2.0 while
this was being written. The requirement is no longer pinned by submodule commit
in the README, because AKGL_VERSION_AT_LEAST(0, 2, 0) finally means something.
70/70 core, 71/71 with libakgl, 70/70 under ASan+UBSan, clean under
-Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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2026-07-31 09:53:41 -04:00
| `deps/libakstdlib` | 0.2.0 | soname `libakstdlib.so.0.2` . `AKSL_VERSION_CHECK()` asserted in `tests/version_check.c` . This release fixed all six confirmed defects the port was working around — see §1.9, where the bans are now lifted. |
| `deps/libakgl` | 0.2.0 | soname `libakgl.so.0.2` . Owns status codes 256– `-DAKBASIC_WITH_AKGL=ON` , which still defaults OFF so the core library and its whole suite build on a machine with no SDL. It requires `libakstdlib` 0.2, which is why the two moved together. |
**The `libakgl` requirement used to be pinned by commit, and no longer is.** 42b60f7 added 22
public symbols across four headers and left `project(akgl VERSION 0.1.0)` and the
`libakgl.so.0.1` soname unchanged, so nothing here could feature-test for the new API and the
submodule pointer was the only thing expressing the requirement. That was filed upstream as
`libakgl` defect #14 and fixed by its commit 1066ac7 — the two crossed rather than one
following the other. `libakgl` is 0.2.0 with an `libakgl.so.0.2` soname, so
`AKGL_VERSION_AT_LEAST(0, 2, 0)` now means something and an ABI mismatch is refused at load
time. Kept here because the * reason * is the reusable part: an additive release under an
unchanged soname costs its consumers the ability to detect it at all.
Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:53:56 -04:00
Add mutation testing, and split the release gates into their own workflow
Ports libakstdlib's mutation harness (the newest of the three) to scripts/
mutation_test.py, adds the namespaced `mutation` CMake target the sibling
libraries have, and splits CI in two.
.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml keeps the push path: suite, ASan+UBSan, coverage, and a
mutation run bounded to src/convert.c and src/symtab.c -- about four minutes,
scoring 77.8% against a gate of 65.
.gitea/workflows/release.yaml is new and manual (workflow_dispatch). It carries
the doxygen gate, moved out of ci.yaml, and a whole-tree mutation run: 3675
mutants and hours of runner time, which is a release cost rather than a
per-commit one. Both artifacts a release wants -- api-documentation and
mutation-report -- come out of it. Two optional inputs narrow the run or change
the threshold; they arrive through the environment rather than being
interpolated into the shell, because ${{ }} substitution happens before the
shell sees the line.
The harness paid for itself immediately, which is the point of it. Three real
gaps, each checked to be a genuine bug rather than an equivalent mutant:
- errno was never asserted clear before a strtoll. Confirmed with a standalone
probe that strtoll leaves a stale errno untouched on success, so without the
`errno = 0` a valid conversion raises ERANGE.
- Nothing exercised a maximum-length symbol-table key, so every MAX_KEY - 1
off-by-one in a strncpy and its NUL terminator survived. The same hole exists
for strings in src/value.c and is filed.
- Nothing asserted a freshly initialised table was actually zeroed.
Closing the first two took the measured score from 73.1% to 77.8%.
I set the push-path threshold to 75 first, on an estimate. Measuring gave 73.1%
and the job would have failed on its first run -- the earlier per-file figure was
too high because the captured output had been truncated to its last lines and I
counted fewer survivors than there were. It is 65 now, and the gate was run as
written and confirmed to exit 0.
src/value.c is the file most worth mutating and is deliberately off the push
path: 368 mutants at ~11s each is about 70 minutes, because almost everything
links against it. A partial run over it found the same maximum-length-string
hole plus two genuinely equivalent mutants that only exist because of reference
defect section 6 item 5 -- adding both of the right operand's numeric fields
works only while the unused one is zero, so + and - are interchangeable there.
Recorded in TODO.md.
ctest 61/61; doxygen exits 0; both workflows' steps were executed locally, both
input paths included.
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2026-07-31 07:46:53 -04:00
CI is split in two. `.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml` runs on push -- the suite, ASan+UBSan, coverage
and a two-file mutation run -- and `.gitea/workflows/release.yaml` is manual
(`workflow_dispatch` ), carrying the doxygen gate and the whole-tree mutation run. The split is
about cost: the full mutation set is 3675 mutants and hours of runner time, which is a release
gate rather than a per-commit one, and the docs are wanted at release time. Three notes worth
keeping:
Add a Gitea workflow
Fills the gap TODO.md recorded last commit: the sibling libraries all carry
.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml and this one did not, so every gate was run by hand.
Four jobs, in the shape libakerror and libakstdlib use, down to the JUnit
reporting and the annotate_only note about Gitea 404ing on the Checks API.
cmake_build configures, builds and runs the 61-case suite with JUnit output.
docs runs `doxygen Doxyfile` -- a real gate, since WARN_AS_ERROR is set -- and
uploads build/docs/html as the api-documentation artifact. sanitizers runs the
whole suite under ASan and UBSan, which libakstdlib's TODO.md calls its own
highest-value missing item and which matters here because this library is all
fixed pools and manual buffer arithmetic. coverage gates at 90% of lines against
an actual 92.3% and uploads the html report.
Two things worth knowing, both checked rather than assumed.
The checkout is submodules: true, not recursive. The build needs libakerror,
libakstdlib and basicinterpret; it does not need libakgl, which is guarded
behind AKBASIC_WITH_AKGL and defaults OFF, and recursing would clone SDL,
SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf and jansson for a target that is never configured.
The nested submodules are uninitialized in this working tree today and the build
is green, which is the proof. The docs job takes no submodules at all -- verified
by running doxygen against a tree with deps/ absent.
There is no branch-coverage gate. Branch coverage reads 17.3% and is not a
meaningful number here, for the reason libakgl's and libakstdlib's TODO.md both
record: the akerror control-flow macros expand into large branch trees at every
call site, most unreachable in normal operation. Gating on it would mean writing
tests for libakerror's macros.
All four jobs were executed locally end to end before committing, not just
eyeballed: 61/61 plain, 61/61 under ASan+UBSan, doxygen exit 0 producing 441
files, and gcovr exit 0 at the 90 gate. The gate was also confirmed to bite by
raising it to 99.
Not added: a mutation-testing job, which all three siblings have. There is no
scripts/mutation_test.py in this repository to run, and porting libakerror's is
its own piece of work -- filed in TODO.md, where it matters more than usual
because the akerror macros expand at their call sites and coverage cannot see
them.
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2026-07-31 07:09:38 -04:00
- The checkout is `submodules: true` , **not ** `recursive` . The build needs `libakerror` ,
`libakstdlib` and `basicinterpret` ; it does not need `libakgl` , which is guarded behind
`AKBASIC_WITH_AKGL` and defaults OFF — and recursing into it would clone SDL, SDL_image,
SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf and jansson for a target that is never configured. The `docs` job needs
no submodules at all.
Delete src/convert.c: libakstdlib 0.2.0 grew the contract it existed for
That file wrapped strtoll and strtod because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family
could not report a conversion failure at all -- atoi("not a number") returned
success with 0, turning four diagnosable errors into wrong answers. Its own note
said what to do when that changed: "When it grows it, delete src/convert.c and
switch the call sites over." 0.2.0 grew it, so it is gone.
Six call sites go straight to the library now: both literal constructors in
src/grammar.c, the line number in src/scanner.c, FunctionVAL in
src/runtime_functions.c, INPUT in src/runtime_commands.c, and GSHAPE's handle in
src/runtime_graphics.c. aksl_strtoll(str, NULL, base, &dest) rather than
aksl_atoll wherever a base is involved, because the ato* forms are base 10 and
grammar.c picks base 8 or 16 off the lexeme's prefix; the NULL endptr is what
makes trailing junk an error rather than a stopping point.
The raised status changed from AKBASIC_ERR_VALUE to AKERR_VALUE, and the message
with it -- VAL("garbage") now says `no digits in "garbage"`. Section 1.8 makes
message text part of the acceptance contract, so that was checked against the
corpus before touching anything: no golden file contained a conversion message,
which is also why section 1.9 had been asking for one. Two exist now, so the next
change to that text has to move a golden file, and one of them pins the
reference's octal-literal defect (section 6 item 10) while it is still
deliberately reproduced.
tests/convert.c became tests/numeric_contract.c rather than being deleted with
the code. The assertions did not stop being worth making when the wrapper went
away -- they became assertions about a contract this port depends on and no
longer owns, and a regression in it would make four things quietly return zero.
Repoints the CI mutation job, which was bounded to src/convert.c and
src/symtab.c. src/symtab.c alone measures 74.1% against the gate of 65.
src/audio_tables.c was measured as a replacement second file and scored 64.7%:
that is a real gap rather than a reason to skip it, since almost every survivor
is in akbasic_audio_state_init, where nothing asserts a freshly initialised audio
state is actually zeroed -- the same gap this job's history records closing for
symtab. Recorded in TODO.md so the file can earn its place back.
One thing worth knowing before reading any score here, and now written down: the
harness's ICR operator only rewrites the constants 0 and 1, so a lookup table of
other values produces no mutants and a high score over one says nothing about
whether its entries are right. tests/audio_verbs.c now asserts all 32 ADSR
entries against the datasheet anyway, because a hand-edit typo is the real
failure mode there -- but that could not and did not move the mutation number,
and claiming otherwise would be the kind of thing this file exists to stop.
72/72 core, 73/73 with libakgl, 72/72 under ASan+UBSan, coverage 93.6% line and
97.8% function, clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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2026-07-31 10:28:04 -04:00
- The push-path `mutation_test` job is bounded to `src/symtab.c` , scoring 74.1% against a gate
of 65. It was two files until `src/convert.c` was deleted. `src/audio_tables.c` was measured
as a replacement and scored 64.7%, below the gate — a real gap rather than a reason to skip
the file: almost every survivor is in `akbasic_audio_state_init` , where nothing asserts that
a freshly initialised audio state is actually zeroed and defaulted. That is the same gap this
job's history records closing for `src/symtab.c` , and closing it is what earns the file its
place back in CI.
Worth knowing before reading a score: the harness's `ICR` operator only rewrites the
constants `0` and `1` , so a lookup table of other values produces no mutants at all and a
high score over one says nothing about whether its entries are right. `tests/audio_verbs.c`
asserts all 32 ADSR entries anyway — that catches a hand-edit typo, which is the real failure
mode, but it did not and could not move the mutation number. `src/value.c` is the file most
Add mutation testing, and split the release gates into their own workflow
Ports libakstdlib's mutation harness (the newest of the three) to scripts/
mutation_test.py, adds the namespaced `mutation` CMake target the sibling
libraries have, and splits CI in two.
.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml keeps the push path: suite, ASan+UBSan, coverage, and a
mutation run bounded to src/convert.c and src/symtab.c -- about four minutes,
scoring 77.8% against a gate of 65.
.gitea/workflows/release.yaml is new and manual (workflow_dispatch). It carries
the doxygen gate, moved out of ci.yaml, and a whole-tree mutation run: 3675
mutants and hours of runner time, which is a release cost rather than a
per-commit one. Both artifacts a release wants -- api-documentation and
mutation-report -- come out of it. Two optional inputs narrow the run or change
the threshold; they arrive through the environment rather than being
interpolated into the shell, because ${{ }} substitution happens before the
shell sees the line.
The harness paid for itself immediately, which is the point of it. Three real
gaps, each checked to be a genuine bug rather than an equivalent mutant:
- errno was never asserted clear before a strtoll. Confirmed with a standalone
probe that strtoll leaves a stale errno untouched on success, so without the
`errno = 0` a valid conversion raises ERANGE.
- Nothing exercised a maximum-length symbol-table key, so every MAX_KEY - 1
off-by-one in a strncpy and its NUL terminator survived. The same hole exists
for strings in src/value.c and is filed.
- Nothing asserted a freshly initialised table was actually zeroed.
Closing the first two took the measured score from 73.1% to 77.8%.
I set the push-path threshold to 75 first, on an estimate. Measuring gave 73.1%
and the job would have failed on its first run -- the earlier per-file figure was
too high because the captured output had been truncated to its last lines and I
counted fewer survivors than there were. It is 65 now, and the gate was run as
written and confirmed to exit 0.
src/value.c is the file most worth mutating and is deliberately off the push
path: 368 mutants at ~11s each is about 70 minutes, because almost everything
links against it. A partial run over it found the same maximum-length-string
hole plus two genuinely equivalent mutants that only exist because of reference
defect section 6 item 5 -- adding both of the right operand's numeric fields
works only while the unused one is zero, so + and - are interchangeable there.
Recorded in TODO.md.
ctest 61/61; doxygen exits 0; both workflows' steps were executed locally, both
input paths included.
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worth mutating and is deliberately not on that path: 368 mutants at roughly 11 seconds each
is about 70 minutes, because almost everything links against it. It is covered by
`release.yaml` , or locally with `cmake --build build --target mutation` .
- `release.yaml` 's threshold defaults to 65, the same as the push path, rather than something
stricter. Only two files have ever been measured; a tighter whole-tree number would be a
guess until a full run establishes a baseline. Raise it through the workflow input once one
has.
Document the public API in libakgl's Doxygen style
Adds a Doxyfile in the shape libakgl uses -- fifteen deliberate lines, including
WARN_IF_UNDOCUMENTED and WARN_AS_ERROR=FAIL_ON_WARNINGS -- and fills in the 70
public declarations that had no doc block, bringing include/akbasic to 114 of
114.
libakgl is the model rather than libakstdlib. Measured before starting: libakgl
documents 122 of 122 public declarations and libakstdlib 3 of 25, and
libakstdlib's Doxyfile is the unedited doxygen default, PROJECT_NAME = "My
Project" and an empty INPUT. So the house standard is libakgl's, down to the
boilerplate phrasing for the recurring parameters -- "Object to initialize,
inspect, or modify", "Output destination populated by the function", "`NULL` on
success, otherwise an error context owned by the caller".
Worth knowing what the gate actually gates. EXTRACT_ALL=YES suppresses
doxygen's undocumented-entity warnings, so the rule it enforces is that a
*partial* block is an error: document one @param and you must document them all.
Verified by deleting a @param and confirming a non-zero exit, then restoring it.
Full coverage is therefore a convention this commit adopts rather than something
the tool made me do.
Where a contract is non-obvious the block says so rather than restating the
signature: math_plus explains why it alone mutates its left operand, new_unary
notes that hanging the operand on .right is what makes the parser miscount a
negative literal argument, leaf_to_string warns that an assignment renders with
an empty operator, and stop_waiting records that a verb nobody is waiting for is
tolerated. Each cross-references its TODO.md section 6 item.
Also records in TODO.md that this repository has no CI, which libakgl and
libakstdlib both have -- so ctest, the sanitizer build, coverage and this new
doxygen gate are all run by hand today.
ctest 61/61; doxygen Doxyfile exits 0; no warnings under -Wall -Wextra.
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Port the BASIC interpreter from Go to C
Reproduces deps/basicinterpret in C, in the idiom of the ak* libraries. All 41
.bas files in the reference's corpus produce byte-identical stdout, including
the trailing double newline on an error line -- that comes from basicError
building a string ending in \n and handing it to Println, and
array_outofbounds.txt encodes it.
The corpus is driven in place from the submodule as 41 individual CTest cases
rather than copied, so it cannot drift from upstream. Eighteen unit tests cover
what the corpus cannot reach.
Three structural changes carry most of the work. Go's three reflection lookups
(Command*, Function*, ParseCommand*) become one sorted dispatch table in
src/verbs.c searched with bsearch; adding a verb is a row and two functions. The
five Go maps become one fixed open-addressed table over aksl_strhash_djb2. And
run(), which owned the process until MODE_QUIT, splits into step() plus a
bounded run() -- goal 3 requires a host game to be able to bound execution, and
nothing in the library now terminates the process or touches SDL.
Output goes through an akbasic_TextSink vtable. src/sink_stdio.c is what makes
the corpus runnable with no SDL present; the akgl-backed sink is still to come
and is blocked on libakgl having no text-measurement call.
src/convert.c exists because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family cannot report a
conversion failure (its TODO.md 2.1.5). The reference checks strconv's error at
four sites and turns it into a BASIC error; routing those through aksl_atoi
would have turned four diagnosable errors into wrong answers, with VAL("garbage")
quietly returning 0. TODO.md 1.9 records which libakstdlib calls are cleared for
use here and which are not.
Reference defects are reproduced, not fixed: the golden files encode the observed
behaviour and a silent correction is a behaviour change. TODO.md section 6 lists
sixteen, and tests/known_reference_defects.c asserts the *correct* contract for
six of them under AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS, so a fix shows up as
"unexpectedly passed". Five of the sixteen were found by this port and are new:
subtraction stops after one operator so 1-2-3 computes 1-2 and abandons the rest
of the line (a wrong answer, not a refused one); a unary-minus argument inflates
a function's arity so ABS(-9) is rejected; a comparison operator in a line's
final column is dropped; hex literals never survive the scanner; and the
"Reserved word in variable name" check is dead code.
Where the reference reaches undefined behaviour by a route that is defined in Go
-- an out-of-range shift, a negative string multiplier, integer division by zero
-- this raises instead of inheriting the UB. No golden case exercises any of
them.
The top-level CMakeLists shadows add_test, set_tests_properties and
add_custom_target around all three add_subdirectory calls. Without it libakerror's
tests land in our suite as Not Run, and its un-namespaced `coverage` target stops
a coverage build from configuring at all. Test targets are akbasic_test_<name>:
bare test_<name> collides with libakstdlib's, which is what broke libakgl's
configure in c2b16d3.
ctest 59/59; ASan+UBSan 59/59; 92.3% line and 96.9% function coverage; no
warnings under -Wall -Wextra. Branch coverage is not a target, for the reason
libakstdlib and libakgl both record: the akerror macros expand into large branch
trees at every call site.
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What remains, in priority order:
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1. ~~**The standalone AKGL frontend in §3.**~~ **Done ** — `src/frontend_akgl.c` in its own
`akbasic_frontend` target, `src/sink_tee.c` for the stdout mirror, and
`tests/akgl_frontend.c` . The build option now changes what the executable does. The one
thing not machine-verified is typing at a real focused window; §3 records why and what was
verified instead.
2. ~~**A line editor for the akgl sink.**~~ **Done ** — `readline` in `src/sink_akgl.c` , over
the keystroke ring, borrowing frames from the host through an `akbasic_AkglPump` . It cannot
type a shifted character, which is `libakgl` item 10 rather than work outstanding here.
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3. * * §4 — the language completion work queue**, and it is the only substantial thing left.
Done: groups G and I, the `GET` /`GETKEY` /`SCNCLR` part of E, group B, multiple statements
per line, and array references in parameter lists. Left: groups A, D, F and J, plus
`RESTORE` and `RENUMBER` out of B and the sprite group H. None needs anything from
`libakgl` except H.
**Two pieces of structural work come before the verbs, and both were found rather than
guessed.** Neither is a verb and neither can be skipped by the group that needs it:
- **Block skipping works by source line, and group A needs it to work by statement.**
`waitingForCommand` skips forward to a verb one * line * at a time, so a whole loop written
on one line — `FOR I# = 1 TO 3 : PRINT I# : NEXT I#` — never reaches its `NEXT` . That is
inherited structure rather than a slip, and it did not matter until a line could hold more
than one statement. `DO` /`LOOP` /`WHILE` /`UNTIL` are exactly the verbs people write on one
line, so group A starts here or it ships something that does not work.
- **`READ` has no DATA pointer, and `RESTORE` is the verb that needs one.** §4 has the
detail; the short version is that `READ` skips forward to the next `DATA` *reached in
execution order*, so a `DATA` line placed before its `READ` is never found at all and a
second `READ` re-reads the same line. It is a live defect, not only a blocked verb.
Ordering suggestion, unchanged in spirit from the original: A (after the restructure), then
D and J, which are self-contained, then F, which is 21 verbs of `aksl_f*` and mostly
mechanical. H needs a look at `libakgl` 's sprite and actor API before anything is filed.
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4. ~~**CI does not cover `-DAKBASIC_WITH_AKGL=ON`.**~~ **Done ** — the `akgl_build` job in
Cover -DAKBASIC_WITH_AKGL=ON in CI
A fifth push job, akgl_build: the text sink and the graphics, audio and input
backends, plus the akgl_backends suite that drives them against a real software
renderer under the dummy video and audio drivers and reads the pixels back.
It stays a separate job rather than a flag on cmake_build because
AKBASIC_WITH_AKGL is off by default and that default is the claim being made:
the interpreter and its whole 70-case suite build and pass on a machine with no
SDL. Keeping the two jobs apart proves that on every push instead of asserting
it.
Deferring this assumed it needed submodules: recursive and a long build. Both
guesses were wrong, and measurement is the only reason we know:
- Recursive is not needed and costs 461 MB. It descends into SDL_image/external,
SDL_mixer/external and SDL_ttf/external -- aom, dav1d, libjxl, libtiff,
mpg123, opus, flac and a dozen more -- and not one of them is used. Every one
configures as "Could NOT find". Six submodules initialised non-recursively
take about 25 seconds instead.
- The build is roughly a minute of CPU across 330 object files, because SDL3
compiles out almost every backend that is not wanted here.
The one real system dependency is libfreetype-dev and libharfbuzz-dev. SDL_ttf
reports "Using system freetype library" and links libfreetype.so.6; without them
it would reach for deps/SDL_ttf/external/freetype, which the checkout
deliberately does not clone. Two apt packages against two more submodules.
Every step was run verbatim from a clean clone before being written down --
checkout, submodule init, configure, build and test -- rather than inferred from
the working tree. 71/71.
Also corrects three counts elsewhere in the file that had gone stale: the suite
is 70 cases rather than 61, line coverage is 93.5% rather than 92.3%, and branch
coverage reads 18% rather than 17%. Those numbers are assertions about the gate,
so a wrong one is worse than none.
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`.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml` . It turned out much cheaper than the deferral assumed, and the
two reasons are worth keeping because both were guesses that measurement corrected:
- **`submodules: recursive` is not needed and costs 461 MB.** It descends into
`SDL_image/external` , `SDL_mixer/external` and `SDL_ttf/external` — aom, dav1d, libjxl,
libtiff, mpg123, opus, flac and a dozen more — and * not one of them is used * . Every one
configures as "Could NOT find". The job initialises exactly six submodules
non-recursively instead, which takes about 25 seconds.
- **The build is about a minute of CPU, not "a long build".** 330 object files, because
SDL3 compiles out almost every backend that is not wanted here.
The one real system dependency is `libfreetype-dev` and `libharfbuzz-dev` : SDL_ttf prefers
the system copies and would otherwise reach for `external/freetype` , which the checkout
deliberately does not clone. Two apt packages against two more submodules is an easy trade.
Every step was verified from a clean clone before being written down, not inferred.
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5. ~~**§6 items 12– **All done ** , each with a regression test in the suite that pinned
it. Item 16 was the last, and it was never a coding problem — it was blocked on the
fidelity constraint §0.1 retired, and took about ten minutes once that went away.
`AKBASIC_KNOWN_FAILING_TESTS` is empty as a result and `tests/known_reference_defects.c` is
gone.
* * §6 items 1–
deliberately and left alone because faithfulness was the goal; it is not any more. Read them
as an ordinary defect list. Item 4 (`mathPlus` mutates `self` in place, which `CommandNEXT`
relies on) is the one with real blast radius and still wants `FOR` /`NEXT` coverage before
anybody touches it. Item 5 (binary operators add * both * of the right operand's numeric
fields) is the one worth doing early: it is currently harmless, it makes two mutants in
`src/value.c` unkillable, and it is a landmine for any future value carrying both.
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6. **Mutation survivors in `src/value.c` ** — ~~closed~~ , with one correction to what was
written here before. `tests/value_arithmetic.c` grew two functions,
`test_maximum_length_string()` and `test_pool_starts_empty()` , and each was verified by
hand-applying the mutant and watching the test fail rather than by assuming it would:
| Mutant | Result |
|---|---|
| `strncpy(dest->stringval, src, AKBASIC_MAX_STRING_LENGTH - 1)` → `- 2` | killed |
| `dest->stringval[AKBASIC_MAX_STRING_LENGTH - 1] = '\0'` → `- 2` | killed |
| `strncpy(..., AKBASIC_MAX_STRING_LENGTH - 1)` → `- 0` | **equivalent — cannot be killed ** |
| `memset(obj, 0, sizeof(*obj))` deleted from `akbasic_valuepool_init` | killed |
| `obj->next = 0` → `= 1` | killed |
**The correction. ** This entry used to say all five were real bugs and that "one test that
round-trips a 255-character string kills all five". Two things about that were wrong.
The `- 0` mutant is * equivalent * . `strncpy(dest, src, 256)` into a 256-byte buffer writes at
most 256 bytes, and `set_string()` has already refused anything longer than 255 two lines
above, so the extra byte is always the terminator `strncpy` would have written anyway. It
cannot be killed and should not be counted against the score.
And the obvious test does * not * kill the truncating mutant. Joining a full-length string to
an empty one passes with the mutant in place, because `akbasic_value_math_plus` clones
`self` into the scratch before writing and the byte a short copy fails to write is already
the right one. The operands have to sum to the limit **without either of them being the
answer** — the test uses 200 `X` plus 55 `Z` , and says so at the site, because this is
exactly the sort of thing that gets "simplified" back into a passing no-op.
Add mutation testing, and split the release gates into their own workflow
Ports libakstdlib's mutation harness (the newest of the three) to scripts/
mutation_test.py, adds the namespaced `mutation` CMake target the sibling
libraries have, and splits CI in two.
.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml keeps the push path: suite, ASan+UBSan, coverage, and a
mutation run bounded to src/convert.c and src/symtab.c -- about four minutes,
scoring 77.8% against a gate of 65.
.gitea/workflows/release.yaml is new and manual (workflow_dispatch). It carries
the doxygen gate, moved out of ci.yaml, and a whole-tree mutation run: 3675
mutants and hours of runner time, which is a release cost rather than a
per-commit one. Both artifacts a release wants -- api-documentation and
mutation-report -- come out of it. Two optional inputs narrow the run or change
the threshold; they arrive through the environment rather than being
interpolated into the shell, because ${{ }} substitution happens before the
shell sees the line.
The harness paid for itself immediately, which is the point of it. Three real
gaps, each checked to be a genuine bug rather than an equivalent mutant:
- errno was never asserted clear before a strtoll. Confirmed with a standalone
probe that strtoll leaves a stale errno untouched on success, so without the
`errno = 0` a valid conversion raises ERANGE.
- Nothing exercised a maximum-length symbol-table key, so every MAX_KEY - 1
off-by-one in a strncpy and its NUL terminator survived. The same hole exists
for strings in src/value.c and is filed.
- Nothing asserted a freshly initialised table was actually zeroed.
Closing the first two took the measured score from 73.1% to 77.8%.
I set the push-path threshold to 75 first, on an estimate. Measuring gave 73.1%
and the job would have failed on its first run -- the earlier per-file figure was
too high because the captured output had been truncated to its last lines and I
counted fewer survivors than there were. It is 65 now, and the gate was run as
written and confirmed to exit 0.
src/value.c is the file most worth mutating and is deliberately off the push
path: 368 mutants at ~11s each is about 70 minutes, because almost everything
links against it. A partial run over it found the same maximum-length-string
hole plus two genuinely equivalent mutants that only exist because of reference
defect section 6 item 5 -- adding both of the right operand's numeric fields
works only while the unused one is zero, so + and - are interchangeable there.
Recorded in TODO.md.
ctest 61/61; doxygen exits 0; both workflows' steps were executed locally, both
input paths included.
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Two survivors there are genuinely equivalent and cannot be killed: `rval_as_int` and
`rval_as_float` (`src/value.c:30,35` ) tolerate `+` → `-` because the reference's habit of
adding * both * of the right operand's numeric fields only works when the unused one is zero
— §6 item 5. Fixing that defect would make these two mutants killable, which is a small
argument for doing it.
`src/value.c` takes about 70 minutes to mutate in full (368 mutants, ~11s each, because
Delete src/convert.c: libakstdlib 0.2.0 grew the contract it existed for
That file wrapped strtoll and strtod because libakstdlib's aksl_ato* family
could not report a conversion failure at all -- atoi("not a number") returned
success with 0, turning four diagnosable errors into wrong answers. Its own note
said what to do when that changed: "When it grows it, delete src/convert.c and
switch the call sites over." 0.2.0 grew it, so it is gone.
Six call sites go straight to the library now: both literal constructors in
src/grammar.c, the line number in src/scanner.c, FunctionVAL in
src/runtime_functions.c, INPUT in src/runtime_commands.c, and GSHAPE's handle in
src/runtime_graphics.c. aksl_strtoll(str, NULL, base, &dest) rather than
aksl_atoll wherever a base is involved, because the ato* forms are base 10 and
grammar.c picks base 8 or 16 off the lexeme's prefix; the NULL endptr is what
makes trailing junk an error rather than a stopping point.
The raised status changed from AKBASIC_ERR_VALUE to AKERR_VALUE, and the message
with it -- VAL("garbage") now says `no digits in "garbage"`. Section 1.8 makes
message text part of the acceptance contract, so that was checked against the
corpus before touching anything: no golden file contained a conversion message,
which is also why section 1.9 had been asking for one. Two exist now, so the next
change to that text has to move a golden file, and one of them pins the
reference's octal-literal defect (section 6 item 10) while it is still
deliberately reproduced.
tests/convert.c became tests/numeric_contract.c rather than being deleted with
the code. The assertions did not stop being worth making when the wrapper went
away -- they became assertions about a contract this port depends on and no
longer owns, and a regression in it would make four things quietly return zero.
Repoints the CI mutation job, which was bounded to src/convert.c and
src/symtab.c. src/symtab.c alone measures 74.1% against the gate of 65.
src/audio_tables.c was measured as a replacement second file and scored 64.7%:
that is a real gap rather than a reason to skip it, since almost every survivor
is in akbasic_audio_state_init, where nothing asserts a freshly initialised audio
state is actually zeroed -- the same gap this job's history records closing for
symtab. Recorded in TODO.md so the file can earn its place back.
One thing worth knowing before reading any score here, and now written down: the
harness's ICR operator only rewrites the constants 0 and 1, so a lookup table of
other values produces no mutants and a high score over one says nothing about
whether its entries are right. tests/audio_verbs.c now asserts all 32 ADSR
entries against the datasheet anyway, because a hand-edit typo is the real
failure mode there -- but that could not and did not move the mutation number,
and claiming otherwise would be the kind of thing this file exists to stop.
72/72 core, 73/73 with libakgl, 72/72 under ASan+UBSan, coverage 93.6% line and
97.8% function, clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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almost everything links against it), which is why CI runs `src/symtab.c` instead and the
Add mutation testing, and split the release gates into their own workflow
Ports libakstdlib's mutation harness (the newest of the three) to scripts/
mutation_test.py, adds the namespaced `mutation` CMake target the sibling
libraries have, and splits CI in two.
.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml keeps the push path: suite, ASan+UBSan, coverage, and a
mutation run bounded to src/convert.c and src/symtab.c -- about four minutes,
scoring 77.8% against a gate of 65.
.gitea/workflows/release.yaml is new and manual (workflow_dispatch). It carries
the doxygen gate, moved out of ci.yaml, and a whole-tree mutation run: 3675
mutants and hours of runner time, which is a release cost rather than a
per-commit one. Both artifacts a release wants -- api-documentation and
mutation-report -- come out of it. Two optional inputs narrow the run or change
the threshold; they arrive through the environment rather than being
interpolated into the shell, because ${{ }} substitution happens before the
shell sees the line.
The harness paid for itself immediately, which is the point of it. Three real
gaps, each checked to be a genuine bug rather than an equivalent mutant:
- errno was never asserted clear before a strtoll. Confirmed with a standalone
probe that strtoll leaves a stale errno untouched on success, so without the
`errno = 0` a valid conversion raises ERANGE.
- Nothing exercised a maximum-length symbol-table key, so every MAX_KEY - 1
off-by-one in a strncpy and its NUL terminator survived. The same hole exists
for strings in src/value.c and is filed.
- Nothing asserted a freshly initialised table was actually zeroed.
Closing the first two took the measured score from 73.1% to 77.8%.
I set the push-path threshold to 75 first, on an estimate. Measuring gave 73.1%
and the job would have failed on its first run -- the earlier per-file figure was
too high because the captured output had been truncated to its last lines and I
counted fewer survivors than there were. It is 65 now, and the gate was run as
written and confirmed to exit 0.
src/value.c is the file most worth mutating and is deliberately off the push
path: 368 mutants at ~11s each is about 70 minutes, because almost everything
links against it. A partial run over it found the same maximum-length-string
hole plus two genuinely equivalent mutants that only exist because of reference
defect section 6 item 5 -- adding both of the right operand's numeric fields
works only while the unused one is zero, so + and - are interchangeable there.
Recorded in TODO.md.
ctest 61/61; doxygen exits 0; both workflows' steps were executed locally, both
input paths included.
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2026-07-31 07:46:53 -04:00
whole-tree run is a local `cmake --build build --target mutation` .
