libccd is compiled into libakgl.so and is BSD-3-Clause, so the notice has to
travel with the binary form. cmake --install now puts BSD-LICENSE at
share/doc/akgl/BSD-LICENSE.libccd, and the README says which dependency is in
that position and which are not -- everything else in deps/ is either a separate
shared object carrying its own notice, a header, or compiled into nothing.
The plan's last step was to delete akgl_rectangle_points,
akgl_collide_point_rectangle and akgl_collide_rectangles. That step is not taken,
and TODO.md carries the reasoning rather than leaving it to be rediscovered:
akgl_collide_rectangles has two correct callers in the sidescroller asking a
game-level overlap question that wants a bool, and it was fixed two commits into
this same series -- deleting it now would be a strange thing to do to a caller.
The other two are the weak case and are named as the candidates if a 0.9.0 wants
to trim.
akgl_RectanglePoints' comment still claimed akgl_collide_rectangles works corner
by corner, which stopped being true when the cross case was fixed. Corrected in
place, with the cross case named so the note explains why the shape changed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KzBDV2fqgnUAcqCKqKvc71
A pure rename plus link rewrite and nothing else. Collision is a pluggable
subsystem with two implementations, shapes, a response hook and a tile binding;
that is a chapter, and burying it inside the physics chapter is the shape this
manual otherwise avoids -- rendering and drawing are 8 and 9, spritesheets and
characters and actors are 10, 11 and 12.
Kept separate from writing the chapter because **nothing validates a
cross-reference target.** The example harness reads fenced blocks; it does not
follow links. A rename mixed into five hundred lines of new prose is not
reviewable, and a broken link would land silently. As its own commit it is
reviewable as a rename, and a grep for dangling `](NN-` targets is clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs/ is a narrative manual, not a second reference. Every header already
carries a substantial @file/@brief block and Doxyfile sets WARN_IF_UNDOCUMENTED
with WARN_AS_ERROR, so an undocumented symbol already fails CI. The gap was
navigation and worked examples. Chapters teach a task and link to the Doxygen
output; where a declaration or a constant table has to be in front of the
reader it arrives as a `c excerpt=` block, so the text *is* the header and
cannot diverge from it. That also preserves the hand-aligned bit-flag tables
scripts/reindent.el goes out of its way not to destroy.
The manual does not re-document its dependencies. libakerror owns the
ATTEMPT/CLEANUP/PROCESS/HANDLE/FINISH protocol, SDL3 owns renderers and events,
Tiled owns the map format, jansson owns json_t. A chapter that restated any of
them would be wrong the day upstream changed and nothing here would notice --
the same drift this work exists to fix, arriving from a different direction. So
each chapter says what libakgl adds or constrains and links out for the rest.
Chapter 4 is the exception and the reason for it: libakerror documents the
mechanism, but only libakgl can say which statuses its own functions raise and
what they mean here, and that was written down nowhere. It carries three tables
-- libakgl's five status codes, the libakerror statuses libakgl actually raises
with their meaning in this library, and the exit-status trap where
`exit(AKGL_ERR_SDL)` is a wait status of 0 because the band starts at 256.
Every chapter was written against src/ rather than against the header comments,
which is how 27 false claims in those comments came to light. Where a chapter
documents a known defect rather than a design decision it says so and points at
TODO.md.
README.md keeps the development process and hands the reader to docs/. Its
task-oriented FAQ is deleted rather than moved, because one source of truth per
topic is the whole point and that FAQ's examples did not compile.
Census: 39 compiled snippets, 89 verbatim header excerpts, 4 JSON documents run
through the real loaders, one linked-and-executed program with its output
compared byte for byte, one generated figure. 11 norun blocks, each justified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes internal-consistency items 1 through 6, 12 and 13. Every include guard
is _AKGL_<FILE>_H_, every in-project header include is angled, and every
exported function, type and global carries the akgl_ prefix. This is an ABI
break; the soname goes to libakgl.so.0.5. TODO.md carries the full rename
table.
The renames were driven by renaming each declaration and letting the compiler
find the uses, not by pattern substitution: renderer, physics and camera are
also parameter and struct-member names, and a sed would have rewritten
map->physics and every akgl_RenderBackend *renderer parameter without a word.
Item 4 turned out not to be cosmetic. The library exported a global called
renderer and tests/character.c defined an SDL_Renderer *renderer of its own;
the executable's definition preempted the library's, akgl_sprite_load_json
read a SDL_Renderer * through an akgl_RenderBackend *, and every texture load
in that suite failed. The suite reported success anyway, because libakerror's
unhandled-error handler ends in exit(errctx->status), exit keeps only the low
byte, and AKGL_ERR_SDL is exactly 256. So character had been green while
running one of its four tests, and every suite in the tree was unable to fail
on the most common status in a library built on SDL.
Both are fixed. tests/testutil.h gains TEST_TRAP_UNHANDLED_ERRORS(), which
collapses any status a byte cannot carry onto 1, and every suite installs it.
character binds a real backend with akgl_render_2d_bind. Its fourth test then
runs for the first time and fails on a defect it has asserted all along, so
akgl_heap_release_character now walks state_sprites with
AKGL_ITERATOR_OP_RELEASE and destroys the property set before zeroing the slot
-- TODO.md Defects item 21 and half of Carried over item 1.
AKGL_TIME_ONESEC_MS said "one second in milliseconds" and held 1000000, so
akgl_game_state_lock waited roughly sixteen minutes rather than one second. It
is AKGL_TIME_ONEMS_NS now, the budget is its own named constant, and
tests/game.c holds the mutex from a second thread to assert the wait -- the
contended path had no coverage at all.
Headers are self-contained and it is enforced: AKGL_PUBLIC_HEADERS drives both
install() and a generated translation unit per header, so a header that ships
is a header that is checked. Writing that found registry.h, which used
SDL_PropertiesID in eight declarations and included no SDL header.
23/23 suites pass, memcheck is clean, reindent --check is clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`cmake --build build --target memcheck` runs every registered CTest suite
under valgrind. There are no new test programs, and there should not be any:
tests/benchutil.h notices valgrind in LD_PRELOAD and drops the benchmark
scale to 0.0005, which turns the perf suites into the broadest path coverage
in the tree at a cost valgrind can survive. A benchmark walks one path a
hundred thousand times; a leak check wants every path walked once. Same
binaries, one flag apart, and the whole run is about thirty seconds.
scripts/memcheck.sh wraps `ctest -T memcheck` because that command records
defects and still exits 0, which cannot gate anything. It also forces the
headless drivers, so the vendor GPU stack is never loaded -- that removes
thousands of unfixable findings inside amdgpu_dri.so without suppressing
anything, and it is what the suites are written for anyway. Only definite
losses, invalid accesses and uninitialised reads count; "still reachable" is
what SDL and FreeType keep for the process lifetime and says nothing about
this library. The three suppressions in scripts/valgrind.supp are each a
decision that a finding belongs to somebody else.
Six defects, all filed in TODO.md under "Memory checking", the first of
which is the one that matters: not one of the four json_load_file calls in
src/ is ever matched by a json_decref, so every asset load abandons its
parsed document -- 1.5 KB per sprite, 2.1 KB per character, 9 KB per load of
the 2x2 fixture map, and on the order of a megabyte for a real one. A game
that reloads a level on death leaks a level's worth of JSON every time.
akgl_get_property also reads up to 4 KiB past the end of every property
value it copies, and the savegame name tables read past the end of every
registry key and write what they find into the file.
tests/util.c zeroes three fixtures it used to leave as stack garbage. The
library was never at fault there -- the tests handed it uninitialised floats
and then made one real call with them -- but sixteen findings of noise in a
new gate is how a gate gets ignored.
The unit suites' TIMEOUT goes from 30 to 300 because CTest applies the same
property to the checked run, where everything is twenty times slower.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The six defects the perf suites turned up were written out in full in both
files. TODO.md is where a defect belongs -- file, line, functional
consequence, blast radius, what closing it touches -- and duplicating that
in a report guarantees the two drift, with no way to tell which copy is
current.
PERFORMANCE.md keeps what is actually its argument: that stress testing
reaches failures a suite calling each function a handful of times does not,
and that two of the six kill the process rather than slowing it down. The
detail is one reference away.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
tests/perf.c and tests/perf_render.c drive the hot paths hard enough to
time them -- pool acquire and release at both ends of the scan, the
registry, the state-to-sprite lookup, the per-actor update and render, the
physics sweep, an all-pairs collision sweep, the JSON accessors, path
resolution, the drawing primitives, text, asset loading, a screenful of
tiles, and a whole frame through akgl_game_update. They are registered like
any other suite but carry the `perf` label, so `ctest -L perf` runs only
them and `-LE perf` leaves them out. Every measurement is held to a budget
at roughly ten times the recorded baseline, enforced only in an optimized
build at full scale.
Three things had to be got right before the numbers meant anything, and
each was wrong first:
- No error checking inside the clock. PASS and CATCH call
akerr_valid_error_address, which walks AKERR_ARRAY_ERROR -- more work than
several of the calls being measured.
- Flush the renderer before stopping it. SDL batches, so the first version
measured queueing, reported a tilemap frame 250 times faster than it is,
and paid the real cost at teardown inside SDL_DestroyTexture.
- A drawing benchmark needs a raw-SDL control doing the same pixel work
with the same access pattern. With one, akgl_tilemap_draw turns out to
cost 0.2% of the frame it appeared to own: 16.26 ms against a control's
16.23 ms for the same 1200 blits. The rasterizer is the frame.
PERFORMANCE.md records the baseline, the frame budget it adds up to, and
what the numbers say -- including that the string pool's acquire is 64x
slower full than empty because it is a megabyte of PATH_MAX buffers, that a
handled missing-sprite condition costs nine times the update it replaces,
that text rasterizes and throws away a texture on every call, and that 28 MB
of the library's BSS is one akgl_Tilemap.
TODO.md gains a Performance section: five defects the stress tests found
that the unit suites do not reach (a tilemap load leaking five pooled
strings, two JSON accessors that turn pool exhaustion into a segfault
rather than AKGL_ERR_HEAP, akgl_game_update crashing without
akgl_game_init, and its actor update sweep running once per tilemap layer),
and eighteen targets with today's number and whether it is met.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The pre-commit hook is version controlled under scripts/hooks/, but Git
configuration is not cloned, so the hook does nothing until each clone is
pointed at it. Nothing said so anywhere a new contributor would look.
Cover installation, verification, what the hook actually does, the Emacs
requirement, bypassing, and uninstalling.
Two things worth calling out explicitly:
- core.hooksPath replaces the hooks directory outright rather than adding
to it, so any pre-existing .git/hooks entries silently stop firing.
Document a symlink alternative for anyone who keeps local hooks.
- The documented --check exit codes are 0 conforming, 1 non-conforming,
2 environment failure, so a CI job failing on any non-zero status will
not mistake a missing Emacs for a clean tree.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Port the scratch-copy mutation runner used by libakerror and libakstdlib, covering libakgl source files with sampling, thresholds, JUnit reports, and test timeouts. Add a CMake target and documentation, preserve the intentionally failing character test exclusion, and migrate the sprite test to the renderer backend so mutation baselines are green.
Co-authored-by: Codex (GPT-5) <noreply@openai.com>
