akbasic's src/ now calls libakstdlib 313 times and raw libc 7 -- 2.2%
bypassed, against 86.4% on the same tree before this. The submodule bump
669b2b3 -> 2b79aca needed no source change of its own: the release is
drop-in for what akbasic already used.
Seven of the eight sites the earlier port left on raw libc change their own
signature rather than swallowing an error, per andrew's ruling on
libakstdlib#38. word_is, the is_waiting_for pair, the scanner's is_at_end,
peek, peek_next and match_next_char, format.c's overflow, and sink_akgl's
scroll/newline/putchar_at/echo_line/edit_key chain all return an
akerr_ErrorContext * and hand the answer back through an out parameter.
is_waiting_for and is_waiting_for_any are a public header change; every
call site that used one as a term in a condition hoists it into a
statement first.
verb_compare is the eighth and stays on strcmp. bsearch(3) fixes the
comparator's signature, so there is no out parameter to report through --
which is what libakstdlib#38 concluded. It carries a comment saying so and
saying why the bypass is safe there.
Six snprintf sites stay raw because they want truncation as an answer
rather than an error, and aksl_snprintf cannot express that until
libakstdlib#34 hands the required length back. Each of the six says so at
the site. Two of them, in host.c, are a latent defect rather than a
decision: a host type name over 31 characters truncates silently and two
sharing a prefix then collide, where structtype.c refuses the same case.
DLOAD leaked a file descriptor. Its read loop sat inside an ATTEMPT and the
PASS in it returned past CLEANUP, so a scan error left the file open.
Hoisting the loop into its own helper to convert fgets fixes it.
Refs libakstdlib#26, libakstdlib#38
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A BASIC TYPE and a host C struct are the same thing seen from two sides, so both
go in one type table and everything the language already does with a structure
works across the boundary with no second set of rules. The host describes its
struct once as a table of field descriptors and binds an instance:
akbasic_host_bind(&SCRIPT, "FOE@", "ENEMY", &GOBLIN);
after which `FOE@.HP# = FOE@.HP# - 10` decrements GOBLIN.hp in place, with no
marshalling step the host has to remember to run.
The sharing is done with shadow slots: a binding takes a run from the same value
pool a DIMmed record uses, a field read refreshes its slot from host memory
first, and a write converts back and stores. So the script always sees current
values and its writes always land, while the rest of the interpreter goes on
seeing one storage model instead of two.
AKBASIC_HOST_FIELD takes the offset and the width from the same member, which is
the only reason it is a macro: writing offsetof and sizeof out by hand is two
chances to name the wrong member and no way to notice. A field name's suffix
must agree with the C type it describes, refused at registration -- a host
writing "HP%" over an int32_t has said two different things about one field and
the script would believe the suffix.
Conversion refuses rather than truncates. 200 into an int8_t, 70000 into an
int16_t, -1 into a uint8_t and thirteen characters into a char[8] are each an
error naming the field, because a silent wrap is found three frames later in
code that did nothing wrong. Each width is tested separately, since a range
check is exactly the thing that is right for int32_t and wrong for int8_t when
only one of them is covered.
The language's own distinction turns out to be the one a host needs, so there is
one API rather than two: assignment copies and gives a script a private
snapshot, POINT shares and lets it change the game, and which one happened is
visible in the listing.
Two things the work required. The prescan runs again on every RUN and used to
wipe the whole type table, unregistering the host's types the first time a
script ran; it now keeps what the host registered and drops only what the script
declared. And akbasic_runtime_start() did not rewind, which cost nothing while a
host started a script once and cost everything to a host running one per enemy
-- the second start began past the end and silently did nothing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Andrew Kesterson <andrew@aklabs.net>
