libakgl/TODO.md

# TODO

## Internal consistency

Findings from a sweep of `src/` and `include/`. These are consistency and
convention problems, not new functional defects — where one has a functional
consequence it is called out. Ordered roughly by blast radius. Items that
overlap the existing **Defects** list are cross-referenced rather than repeated.

### 1. Public naming conventions

1. **Include guards use three different schemes.** `_AKGL_ACTOR_H_`,
   `_AKGL_CHARACTER_H_`, `_AKGL_GAME_H_`, `_AKGL_HEAP_H_`, `_AKGL_ITERATOR_H_`,
   `_AKGL_SPRITE_H_`, and `_AKGL_TYPES_H_` carry the project prefix; `_ASSETS_H_`,
   `_CONTROLLER_H_`, `_DRAW_H_`, `_ERROR_H_`, `_JSON_HELPERS_H_`, `_PHYSICS_H_`,
   `_REGISTRY_H_`, `_RENDERER_H_`, `_TEXT_H_`, `_TILEMAP_H_`, and `_UTIL_H_` do
   not. Pick `_AKGL_<FILE>_H_` everywhere.

   The worst case is `include/akgl/staticstring.h:6`, which guards with
   `_STRING_H_` — a name several libc implementations use for their own
   `<string.h>`. The same file then does `#include "string.h"` (line 9) with
   quotes, which is a relative-first lookup that only reaches the system header
   by accident. Rename the guard to `_AKGL_STATICSTRING_H_` and use
   `#include <string.h>`.

2. **Function names contradict the stated convention.** `AGENTS.md` says public
   symbols use `akgl_` and types use `akgl_TypeName`. Exceptions:
   - `akgl_Actor_cmhf_left_on` and its seven siblings (`include/akgl/actor.h:196-252`)
     embed the *type* name in a *function* name, unlike every other actor entry
     point (`akgl_actor_*`). Rename to `akgl_actor_cmhf_*`.
   - `akgl_game_updateFPS` (`include/akgl/game.h:104`) is camelCase; every other
     function is snake_case.
   - `akgl_render_init2d` (`include/akgl/renderer.h:83`) puts the `2d` at the end
     while the six functions it installs are `akgl_render_2d_*`. Make it
     `akgl_render_2d_init`.
   - `akgl_sprite_sheet_coords_for_frame` (`include/akgl/sprite.h:86`) spells it
     `sprite_sheet`; `akgl_spritesheet_initialize` and `akgl_heap_next_spritesheet`
     spell it `spritesheet`.

3. **Two public types have no prefix at all.** `point` and `RectanglePoints`
   (`include/akgl/util.h:13-25`) are unprefixed, and `RectanglePoints` is
   PascalCase with no namespace. Both are dumped into every translation unit
   that includes `util.h`. Rename to `akgl_Point` / `akgl_RectanglePoints`.

4. **Global variables use four different conventions.** `window`, `bgm`, `game`,
   `gamemap`, `renderer`, `physics`, and `camera` (`src/game.c:26-43`) are
   unprefixed single common words exported from a shared library — `renderer`
   and `camera` in particular are very likely to collide with a consuming game.
   Alongside them the same file exports `akgl_mixer` and `akgl_tracks` (prefixed),
   `_akgl_renderer` / `_akgl_camera` / `_akgl_physics` / `_akgl_gamemap`
   (underscore-prefixed, which is reserved at file scope), and elsewhere
   `HEAP_ACTOR`…`HEAP_STRING` (`src/heap.c:17-21`) and `GAME_ControlMaps`
   (`src/controller.c:13`) are SCREAMING_SNAKE, which the convention reserves for
   constants and macros. Settle on `akgl_` for all exported objects.

5. **`AKGL_SPRITE_MAX_CHARACTER_NAME_LENGTH`** (`include/akgl/character.h:13`) is a
   character constant carrying the `SPRITE` prefix, and lives in `character.h`.
   Rename to `AKGL_CHARACTER_MAX_NAME_LENGTH`.

6. **`AKGL_TIME_ONESEC_MS` is misnamed and the error is live.**
   `include/akgl/game.h:22` defines it as `1000000`. One second in milliseconds
   is `1000`; `1000000` is the number of nanoseconds in a *millisecond*. The name
   says "one second" but the value means "one millisecond", so:
   - `src/character.c:209` and `src/sprite.c:141` use it correctly as a
     milliseconds-to-nanoseconds scale factor.
   - `src/game.c:136` uses it as documented — a one-second budget for the state
     lock — in a loop that advances `totaltime += 100` alongside `SDL_Delay(100)`.
     The loop therefore runs 10,000 iterations of 100 ms, so `akgl_game_state_lock`
     blocks for roughly 16 minutes rather than 1 second before reporting failure.

   Rename to `AKGL_TIME_ONEMS_NS` to match `AKGL_TIME_ONESEC_NS`, and give
   `akgl_game_state_lock` a real one-second budget.

### 2. Header/implementation surface drift

7. **Nineteen non-static functions are defined in `src/` but declared in no
   header.** They have external linkage and public-looking names, so they are
   part of the ABI whether intended or not, and no consumer can call them:

   `akgl_game_load_objectnamemap`, `akgl_game_load_versioncmp`,
   `akgl_game_save_actors`, `akgl_game_save_actorname_iterator`,
   `akgl_game_save_charactername_iterator`, `akgl_game_save_spritename_iterator`,
   `akgl_game_save_spritesheetname_iterator` (`src/game.c`);
   `akgl_get_json_properties_double`, `akgl_get_json_properties_float`,
   `akgl_get_json_properties_number`, `akgl_tilemap_load_layer_image`,
   `akgl_tilemap_load_layer_object_actor`, `akgl_tilemap_load_physics`
   (`src/tilemap.c`); `akgl_path_relative_from`, `akgl_path_relative_root`
   (`src/util.c`); `gamepad_handle_added`, `gamepad_handle_button_down`,
   `gamepad_handle_button_up`, `gamepad_handle_removed` (`src/controller.c`).

   Each should be either declared in its header or made `static`. Note that
   `tilemap.h` already has a "part of the internal API, exposed here for unit
   testing" block — the tilemap entries belong there.

8. **`akgl_game_init_screen` is declared but never defined**
   (`include/akgl/game.h:100`). Same failure mode as **Defects → Known and still
   open #10**, which covers the four `akgl_controller_handle_*` declarations;
   fold this one into that item.

9. **Static helpers use three different naming styles.** `actor_visible`
   (`src/actor.c:185`) is bare; `akgl_character_load_json_inner` and
   `akgl_character_load_json_state_int_from_strings` (`src/character.c:101,132`)
   and `akgl_sprite_load_json_spritesheet` (`src/sprite.c:51`) carry the full
   public prefix; `gamepad_handle_*` (`src/controller.c:121+`) uses a third
   subsystem word that appears nowhere else. Adopt one rule — the clearest is
   that `static` helpers drop the `akgl_` prefix, since it exists to avoid
   external collisions.

10. **Parameter names disagree between declaration and definition.** Doxygen
    documents the header spelling, so the generated docs describe names the
    implementation does not use:

    | Header | Implementation |
    |---|---|
    | `character.h:41` `basechar` | `character.c:21` `obj` |
    | `character.h:69` `props` | `character.c:75` `registry` |
    | `heap.h:121` `ptr` | `heap.c:143` `basechar` |
    | `registry.h:97` `value` | `registry.c:163` `src` |
    | `json_helpers.h:134` `e` | `json_helpers.c:149` `err` |
    | `tilemap.h:134,143` `dest` | `tilemap.c:646,767` `map` |

    The `tilemap.h` pair is the most misleading: the parameter is the map being
    *read* and drawn, but it is named `dest` and documented as "Output
    destination populated by the function".

11. **Object-pool size macros are defined twice, and the override hook is
    dead.** `heap.h:15-29` wraps `AKGL_MAX_HEAP_ACTOR`, `_SPRITE`, `_SPRITESHEET`,
    `_CHARACTER`, and `_STRING` in `#ifndef` guards so a consumer can override
    them, but `actor.h:65`, `sprite.h:19-20`, and `character.h:14` define the same
    four unconditionally and are included from `heap.h:9-11`. Whichever header
    lands first wins and the `#ifndef` never fires, so the override mechanism
    cannot work. Define each pool size once — `heap.h` is the natural home.

12. **Headers rely on their includers for types.** `iterator.h` uses `uint32_t`
    without `<stdint.h>`; `json_helpers.h` uses `json_t` without `<jansson.h>`;
    `util.h` uses `SDL_FRect` and `bool` without any SDL include; `text.h` uses
    `SDL_Color` and `akerr_ErrorContext` without including SDL or `akerror.h`;
    `controller.h` uses `akgl_Actor` without including `actor.h`. Each compiles
    only because of `.c`-file include ordering. Headers should be self-contained.

13. **Include spelling is split between quoted and angled forms for the same
    directory.** `actor.h:10-11`, `character.h:10-11`, `controller.h:11`,
    `game.h:11-14`, `json_helpers.h:10`, and `staticstring.h:9` use
    `#include "sibling.h"`; `physics.h:11-13`, `registry.h:9-10`, `renderer.h:13`,
    `tilemap.h:10-12`, and `util.h:10` use `#include <akgl/sibling.h>`. The
    angled form is correct for an installed library.

14. **Empty parameter lists.** `akgl_heap_init()`, `akgl_heap_init_actor()`,
    `akgl_registry_init*()`, `akgl_game_init()`, `akgl_game_init_screen()`, and
    `akgl_game_updateFPS()` declare `()` rather than `(void)`, while
    `akgl_controller_list_keyboards(void)`, `akgl_controller_open_gamepads(void)`,
    `akgl_game_lowfps(void)`, and `akgl_game_state_lock(void)` use `(void)`.
    Before C23 the two are not equivalent — `()` suppresses argument checking.
    `akgl_heap_init_actor` is even declared `()` in `heap.h:57` and defined
    `(void)` in `heap.c:48`.

15. **`AKERR_NOIGNORE` is applied inconsistently at definition sites.** Headers
    use it uniformly (except `akgl_sprite_sheet_coords_for_frame`, `sprite.h:86`,
    which omits it). Definitions are split even within one file: `registry.c:55,120,163,172`
    repeat it, `registry.c:27,44,63,71,79,96,104,112` do not. Since the attribute
    is already on the declaration, drop it from all definitions.

### 3. Error-handling pattern

16. **`*_RETURN` macros are used inside `ATTEMPT` blocks, which skips `CLEANUP`.**
    The established pattern is `FAIL_*_BREAK` / `CATCH` inside `ATTEMPT` and
    `*_RETURN` outside it. Violations:
    - `src/tilemap.c:52` — `SUCCEED_RETURN` on the success path of
      `akgl_get_json_tilemap_property` returns directly from inside `ATTEMPT`,
      bypassing the `CLEANUP` at line 54 that releases `tmpstr` and `typestr`.
      Every successful property lookup leaks two heap strings, and the string
      pool is only 256 entries.
    - `src/tilemap.c:620` — `FAIL_RETURN` inside `ATTEMPT`.
    - `src/controller.c:286-289,306` — `FAIL_ZERO_RETURN` / `FAIL_NONZERO_RETURN`
      inside `ATTEMPT`; `src/controller.c:383` — `SUCCEED_RETURN` inside `ATTEMPT`,
      which also leaves `akgl_controller_default` with no return statement on the
      path that falls out of `FINISH`.
    - `src/game.c:457,462` — `FAIL_NONZERO_RETURN` inside `ATTEMPT`, skipping the
      `fclose` in `CLEANUP` at line 482.

17. **NULL-check discipline varies by function.** In `src/json_helpers.c` only
    `akgl_get_json_string_value` (line 71) and `akgl_get_json_array_index_string`
    (line 128) validate `key`/`dest`; the other eight accessors validate only the
    container and then dereference `dest` unconditionally. In `src/physics.c` the
    arcade backends check `actor` but `akgl_physics_null_gravity`,
    `_null_collide`, and `_null_move` (lines 15-34) check only `self`. In
    `src/renderer.c:65,74`, `akgl_render_2d_frame_start` and `_frame_end`
    dereference `self->sdl_renderer` with no check on `self`, while
    `akgl_render_2d_draw_texture` (line 82) checks `self` first.

18. **Error-context variable naming is split between `errctx` and `e`,
    sometimes within one file.** `src/util.c` uses `e` in the path helpers
    (lines 32-116) and `errctx` in the geometry helpers (lines 118-259);
    `src/heap.c` uses `errctx` everywhere except `akgl_heap_init_actor` (line 50).
    `src/actor.c`, `character.c`, `json_helpers.c`, `registry.c`, `sprite.c`, and
    `tilemap.c` favor `errctx`; `game.c`, `physics.c`, `renderer.c`, and
    `controller.c` favor `e`. Pick one.

### 4. Types and macros

19. **`float`/`double` are used raw where `types.h` defines aliases.** `types.h`
    exports `float32_t` and `float64_t`, and the actor and character structs use
    `float32_t` throughout — but `akgl_get_json_number_value` takes `float *`
    (`json_helpers.h:55`), `akgl_get_json_double_value` takes `double *` (line 66),
    `akgl_PhysicsBackend`'s six drag/gravity fields are `double`
    (`physics.h:22-27`), and `akgl_Tilemap`'s perspective fields are `float`
    (`tilemap.h:105-108`). Either use the aliases consistently or delete them.

20. **`AKGL_COLLIDE_RECTANGLES` (`include/akgl/util.h:27`) has unbalanced
    parentheses** — three opens, two closes — so any use is a syntax error. It has
    no callers and duplicates `akgl_collide_rectangles`. Delete it.

21. **Bitmask macros are unparenthesized.** `AKGL_BITMASK_HAS(x, y)` expands to
    `(x & y) == y` with no outer parens, so `!AKGL_BITMASK_HAS(a, b)` parses as
    `!(a & b) == b`. No in-tree caller negates it today (`AKGL_BITMASK_HASNOT`
    exists for that), so this is latent rather than live. `AKGL_BITMASK_CLEAR(x)`
    (`game.h:86`) also carries a trailing semicolon inside the macro body, so
    normal use produces an empty statement. Parenthesize all five and drop the
    semicolon.

22. **The state and iterator bit macros mix forms.** `AKGL_ITERATOR_OP_UPDATE`
    (`iterator.h:15`) is written `1` while its 31 siblings are `1 << n`, and none
    of the `1 << n` values in `iterator.h` or `actor.h:15-49` are parenthesized.
    The hand-maintained trailing bit-pattern comments in `actor.h:34-49` are also
    wrong for the high word — they restart at `0000 0000 0000 0001` for bit 16
    rather than showing the full 32-bit value.

23. **`akgl_Frame` (`game.h:27-31`) is defined and never used** anywhere in
    `src/`, `include/`, `tests/`, or `util/`.

### 5. `AKGL_ACTOR_STATE_STRING_NAMES` disagrees with `actor.h`

24. **The array bound differs between declaration and definition.**
    `include/akgl/actor.h:57` declares `[AKGL_ACTOR_MAX_STATES+1]` (33);
    `src/actor_state_string_names.c:6` defines `[32]`. Any consumer that trusts
    the declared bound and reads index 32 reads past the object.

25. **Two entries name the wrong bit.** `actor.h` assigns bit 11 to
    `AKGL_ACTOR_STATE_MOVING_IN` and bit 12 to `AKGL_ACTOR_STATE_MOVING_OUT`, but
    `actor_state_string_names.c:18-19` puts `"AKGL_ACTOR_STATE_UNDEFINED_11"` and
    `"AKGL_ACTOR_STATE_UNDEFINED_12"` at those indices — names for macros that do
    not exist. Since `akgl_registry_init_actor_state_strings`
    (`src/registry.c:79-94`) builds `AKGL_REGISTRY_ACTOR_STATE_STRINGS` from this
    array and `akgl_character_load_json_state_int_from_strings`
    (`src/character.c:101`) resolves character-JSON state names through it, a
    character JSON can never bind a sprite to `MOVING_IN` or `MOVING_OUT`.

26. **The generation comment is stale.** `actor.h:53-55` says the file "is built
    by a utility script and not kept in git, see the Makefile for
    lib_src/actor_state_string_names.c". There is no Makefile (the project is
    CMake), no `lib_src/`, no such script under `scripts/` or `util/`, and the
    file *is* tracked in git at `src/actor_state_string_names.c`. Either restore
    the generator — which would fix items 24 and 25 by construction — or delete
    the comment and maintain the file by hand.

### 6. Doxygen drift

27. **Three struct doc comments in `tilemap.h` are rotated by one.**
    `akgl_TilemapObject` (line 31) is documented as "Stores tileset metadata,
    texture, and frame offsets" (that is `akgl_Tileset`); `akgl_TilemapLayer`
    (line 46) as "Represents an object embedded in a tilemap layer" (that is
    `akgl_TilemapObject`); `akgl_Tileset` (line 61) as "Stores tile, image, or
    object data for one map layer" (that is `akgl_TilemapLayer`).

28. **`point` is documented as "Represents a two-dimensional point"**
    (`util.h:12`) but has `x`, `y`, and `z`.

29. **Doc comments live on the definition for public functions.** The convention
    is header-side documentation, but `akgl_path_relative_root` (`util.c:23`),
    `akgl_path_relative_from` (`util.c:97`), the four `gamepad_handle_*`
    (`controller.c:114+`), the `akgl_game_save_*` iterators and
    `akgl_game_load_*` helpers (`game.c:173+`), and the tilemap helpers
    (`tilemap.c:90+`) are documented only in the `.c`. This is the same set as
    item 7 — resolving that resolves this.

### 7. Formatting

30. **A minority of files use a 2-column offset instead of the canonical
    4-column one.** The mix of tabs and spaces across most of `src/` is *not*
    disorder: it is exactly what Emacs `cc-mode` emits for the `stroustrup` style
    with `indent-tabs-mode t` and `tab-width 8` — depth 1 is four spaces, depth 2
    is one tab, depth 3 is a tab plus four spaces, and so on. Twelve of the
    seventeen `.c` files follow that ladder cleanly.

    The genuine outliers indent at 2 columns: `src/json_helpers.c` (82 lines,
    except `akgl_get_json_with_default` at line 149 which is 4), `src/util.c`
    (37 lines, from `akgl_rectangle_points` at line 118 onward), `src/assets.c`
    (9), `src/staticstring.c` (7), `src/actor.c` (8, in `akgl_actor_add_child`
    at line 272), plus `include/akgl/util.h` (7) and
    `include/akgl/staticstring.h` (2).

    **Resolved.** `AGENTS.md` now specifies the canonical style and the exact
    `cc-mode` settings; `.dir-locals.el` applies them in Emacs; and
    `scripts/reindent.sh` applies them in batch. The whole tree (32 files across
    `src/`, `include/`, `tests/`, and `util/`) has been reindented and is a fixed
    point of `scripts/reindent.sh --check`. Verified whitespace-only: apart from
    three trailing blank lines removed at EOF in `src/heap.c`, `src/registry.c`,
    and `tests/tilemap.c`, `git diff -w` over the reindent is empty, and the test
    results are unchanged (13/14, `character` still the intentional failure).
    `scripts/hooks/pre-commit` keeps it that way — enable with
    `git config core.hooksPath scripts/hooks`.

31. **Leftover debug code ships in the library.** `src/controller.c:91-97` logs
    four lines whenever `event->type == 768 && event->key.which == 11 &&
    event->key.key == 13` — hardcoded decimal values for a specific keyboard ID
    on a specific developer's machine, inside the per-event inner loop.

32. **Large commented-out blocks.** `src/sprite.c:115-120,157,185-198,210`;
    `src/character.c:192-199,215`; `src/assets.c:18-27,50`;
    `src/tilemap.c:583,596-598,640`. All are the same abandoned
    `SDL_GetBasePath()` path-prefixing approach, superseded by
    `akgl_path_relative`. Delete them.

33. **Unused locals.** `screenwidth`/`screenheight` (`game.c:53-54`), `curTime`
    (`game.c:499`), `curTime` and `j` (`renderer.c:114,116` — `j` is also shadowed
    by the inner loop at line 128), `target` (`character.c:59`), `result`
    (`util.c:37,73`), `opflags` (`heap.c:146`, declared and cleared but never
    read).

34. **`akgl_game_update`'s default flags OR the same bit twice.**
    `src/game.c:496` reads
    `(AKGL_ITERATOR_OP_LAYERMASK | AKGL_ITERATOR_OP_LAYERMASK)`. Given the loop
    that follows walks layers and calls `updatefunc`, the intent was almost
    certainly `AKGL_ITERATOR_OP_UPDATE | AKGL_ITERATOR_OP_LAYERMASK`.

35. **`akgl_draw_background` is the only public function outside the error
    protocol.** `include/akgl/draw.h:14` returns `void` and reports nothing;
    every other public entry point returns `akerr_ErrorContext *`. It also calls
    `SDL_SetRenderDrawColor` and `SDL_RenderFillRect` without checking `renderer`
    or `renderer->sdl_renderer`.

36. **`akgl_registry_init_actor` is the only registry initializer that destroys
    an existing registry** before recreating it (`src/registry.c:47-49`). The
    other seven leak the old `SDL_PropertiesID` on a second call. Either all of
    them should do it or none should.

37. **Redundant casts obscure the code.** `(json_t *)json` where `json` is
    already `json_t *`, `(akgl_Tilemap *)dest`, `(akgl_Actor *)actorobj`,
    `(char *)&obj->name` on an array that already decays — roughly 180 pointer
    casts across `src/`, a large majority of them no-ops, densest in
    `src/tilemap.c:150-624` and `src/character.c:144-172`.
    They suppress exactly the conversion warnings that would catch a real
    mismatch.

38. **`struct`-qualified parameters in two definitions.**
    `akgl_physics_null_move` (`src/physics.c:29`) and `akgl_physics_arcade_move`
    (`src/physics.c:80`) are defined with `struct akgl_PhysicsBackend *self`
    while the header and the other eight physics functions use the typedef.

39. **`text.c:19` validates the wrong argument.**
    `FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(errctx, name, AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "Null filepath")` checks
    `name` a second time; `filepath` is never checked and is passed straight to
    `TTF_OpenFont`. Copy-paste of line 18.

    **Resolved** alongside the text measurement work; `tests/text.c` asserts a
    NULL filepath reports `AKERR_NULLPOINTER`.

40. **`akgl_path_relative` and `akgl_path_relative_from` disagree on the output
    parameter.** `akgl_path_relative` and `akgl_path_relative_root` take
    `akgl_String *dst`; `akgl_path_relative_from` takes `akgl_String **dst`
    (`src/util.c:105`). The `**` form matches the rest of the library
    (`akgl_get_json_string_value`, `akgl_get_property`, `akgl_heap_next_string`),
    which allocate when `*dest` is NULL. Related: **Defects → Known and still
    open #4**, which covers the fact that `akgl_path_relative_from` never writes
    `*dst` at all.

41. **`dst` vs `dest` for output parameters.** `akgl_string_copy` and the
    `akgl_path_relative*` family use `dst`; everything else uses `dest`.

## Coverage status

Generated with:

```sh
cmake -S . -B build-coverage -DAKGL_COVERAGE=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
cmake --build build-coverage --parallel
ctest --test-dir build-coverage --output-on-failure
```

Reports land in `build-coverage/coverage/` (`index.html`, `coverage.xml`).

**Line coverage 79.6%, function coverage 87.2%** (2189/2749 lines, 164/188
functions), up from 77.2% / 83.1% and from a 39.6% / 44.3% baseline. All 21
suites pass. (An earlier revision of this file recorded `character` as an
intentionally failing suite; it passes now, and nothing in `tests/character.c`
or `src/character.c` has changed since — the fix came from elsewhere in the tree
and this note was never updated.)

Note the trap described in "Known and still open" item 13 while regenerating
these numbers: a coverage tree rebuilt after a source edit fails `coverage_reset`
with `GCOV returncode was 5`. `find build-coverage -name '*.gcda' -delete` clears
it.

| File | Lines | Functions |
|---|---|---|
| `src/actor.c` | 205/258 (80%) | 16/18 |
| `src/assets.c` | 0/21 (0%) | 0/1 |
| `src/audio.c` | 229/248 (92%) | 22/23 |
| `src/character.c` | 104/118 (88%) | 6/7 |
| `src/controller.c` | 300/329 (91%) | 16/16 |
| `src/draw.c` | 253/267 (95%) | 11/12 |
| `src/error.c` | 9/9 (100%) | 1/1 |
| `src/game.c` | 128/235 (54%) | 12/17 |
| `src/heap.c` | 111/111 (100%) | 12/12 |
| `src/json_helpers.c` | 111/111 (100%) | 11/11 |
| `src/physics.c` | 140/140 (100%) | 10/10 |
| `src/registry.c` | 76/102 (74%) | 11/12 |
| `src/renderer.c` | 42/75 (56%) | 7/8 |
| `src/sprite.c` | 93/101 (92%) | 5/5 |
| `src/staticstring.c` | 16/17 (94%) | 2/2 |
| `src/text.c` | 48/48 (100%) | 4/4 |
| `src/tilemap.c` | 201/426 (47%) | 10/20 |
| `src/util.c` | 121/131 (92%) | 7/8 |
| `src/version.c` | 2/2 (100%) | 1/1 |

Branch coverage reads 21.2% and should not be used as a target. The akerror
control-flow macros (`ATTEMPT`/`CATCH`/`PROCESS`/`FINISH`, `FAIL_*_RETURN`)
expand into large branch trees per call site, most of them unreachable in normal
operation — `src/game.c` reports over 1700 branches across 230 lines. Track line
and function coverage; treat branch coverage as a relative signal within a file.

### Mutation testing

`scripts/mutation_test.py` was run over the three new files as a smoke check
(`--max-mutants 8` to 10 each, so these are samples rather than exhaustive
scores):

| File | Score | Surviving mutants |
|---|---|---|
| `src/draw.c` | 90% | Deleting the `FAIL_ZERO_BREAK` on `SDL_CreateTextureFromSurface` in `akgl_draw_flood_fill` |
| `src/audio.c` | 75% | Deleting `SUCCEED_RETURN` from the static `check_voice`; deleting `spec.freq` before opening a device |
| `src/text.c` | 50% | Three in `akgl_text_rendertextat`, which had no test yet, plus one `SUCCEED_RETURN` deletion |

The first pass over `src/audio.c` scored 50% and named two real gaps, both of
which are now tested: nothing asserted that an *unconfigured* voice is audible
(the whole reason the table defaults to a square wave at full level rather than
a zeroed struct), and no envelope test used a non-zero attack *and* decay
together, so the decay measuring from the wrong origin survived. `src/draw.c`
scored 70% first and named one: the circle was only checked at its four axis
points, which a mis-signed octant reflection survives, so it now checks that
every plotted pixel has a mirror in the other three quadrants.

Re-run as a smoke check after the akbasic API work, again at 10 sampled
mutants each:

| File | Score | Surviving mutants |
|---|---|---|
| `src/controller.c` | 40% | Three `SDL_Log` deletions; `keybuffer_head`'s initialiser; `count > 0` in `keybuffer_attach_text`; the `mod` a text-only entry is given |
| `src/audio.c` | 60% | The `break` on the last `switch` case; `errctx->handled` in the device callback; `ensure_voices()` in the mixer; the mixer's voice loop bound |

Only one of those was a real gap and it is now asserted: nothing checked that
a text-only ring entry reports no modifiers. Of the rest, three are equivalent
mutants rather than misses — a ring buffer whose head starts at 1 behaves
identically, `count > 0` cannot be false where it is checked, and deleting the
`break` on a `switch`'s last case changes nothing — and the mixer's `v <=`
bound reads one voice past a zeroed table, which is undefined rather than
observable. `SDL_Log` deletions are unobservable by construction.

What is left is honestly untestable from here. Deleting a `SUCCEED_RETURN`
leaves a non-void function falling off its end, which is undefined rather than
observably wrong, and the surviving SDL branches are allocation failures the
suite has no way to provoke. The three `src/text.c` survivors in
`akgl_text_rendertextat` are gone: it is tested now, against a software
renderer, and deleting any of its three backend checks fails the suite. That
was not free — the first draft of the test used a made-up `SDL_Renderer`
pointer, which SDL refuses on its own, so the deleted-check mutant survived it.
A live renderer was what made the check observable.

### Suites

Every suite is registered through the `AKGL_TEST_SUITES` list in
`CMakeLists.txt`, which drives target creation, CTest registration, the
`WORKING_DIRECTORY`/`TIMEOUT` properties, the link line, and the
`FIXTURES_REQUIRED akgl_coverage` list together. Adding `tests/<name>.c` and the
name to that list is all a new suite needs; it can no longer be accidentally
left out of the coverage fixture.

Shared assertion helpers are in `tests/testutil.h`: `TEST_ASSERT`,
`TEST_ASSERT_FEQ`, `TEST_EXPECT_STATUS`, `TEST_EXPECT_OK`, `TEST_EXPECT_ANY_ERROR`,
and `TEST_ASSERT_FLAG`. All except the last expand to a `break` on failure, so
they belong directly inside an `ATTEMPT` block, not inside a loop nested in one.

Done:

- `tests/physics.c` — both backends, the factory, and the full simulation loop
  including thrust clamping, drag, layer masking, parent/child positioning, and
  logic-interrupt handling. 100%.
- `tests/heap.c` — pool exhaustion for all five pools, refcount clamping,
  recursive child release, registry cleanup on release. 100%.
- `tests/json_helpers.c` — every typed accessor, both string accessors'
  allocate-vs-reuse paths, array bounds, and `akgl_get_json_with_default`. 100%.
- `tests/controller.c` — control map push and capacity, the default binding set,
  keyboard and gamepad dispatch including cross-device rejection, the dpad
  handlers, and device add/remove against the dummy drivers. 90%.
- `tests/game.c` — version gating, the save/load roundtrip, foreign-save
  rejection, truncated-table detection, the state lock, and FPS accounting. 54%.
- `tests/actor.c` — extended with the eight control-map handlers, automatic
  facing, movement logic, the animation frame state machine, `akgl_actor_update`,
  and character/sprite binding lookups. 80%.
- `tests/audio.c` — every waveform, the ADSR envelope stage by stage, gate
  expiry and release, the frequency sweep frame by frame, voice summing and
  clamping, the master level, and device open/shutdown under the dummy driver.
  92%.
- `tests/draw.c` — every primitive against a 64x64 software renderer with the
  pixels read back, including flood-fill containment, save/paste roundtrip, and
  that drawing restores the renderer's draw color. 95%.
- `tests/text.c` — font loading into the registry, both measurement entry points
  against a monospaced fixture font, and drawing through a bound backend over a
  software renderer, including every way the backend can be unusable. 100%.
- `tests/renderer.c` — the 2D vtable binding, frame start and end, both
  `draw_texture` paths, the refusals a bound-but-unrendered backend gives, and
  the `draw_mesh` stub. 56%; `akgl_render_init2d` and `akgl_render_2d_draw_world`
  are what is left, and both want the harness.
- `tests/headers.c` — that `akgl/controller.h` compiles as the first include in
  a translation unit. The assertion is the compile; `main()` only has to return
  zero.

## Remaining work

### Needs the offscreen renderer harness

`akgl_render_init2d` and `akgl_render_2d_draw_world` in `src/renderer.c` (33
lines), `akgl_draw_background` in `src/draw.c` (13), `src/assets.c` (21),
`akgl_actor_render`/`actor_visible` in `src/actor.c` (53), and the drawing half
of `src/tilemap.c` all need a live `renderer` global, a window, or the world
globals.

`akgl_text_rendertextat` was on this list and is not any more: `tests/text.c`
builds a software renderer and binds a backend to it with `akgl_render_bind2d`
in nine lines, which is enough for anything that only needs *a* renderer rather
than the whole world. `tests/renderer.c` and `tests/draw.c` do the same. The
harness is still wanted, but for what is left it is a convenience rather than
the blocker it was.

Build `tests/harness.c` / `tests/harness.h` with `akgl_test_init_headless()` and
`akgl_test_shutdown_headless()`: set the dummy video and audio drivers,
`SDL_Init()`, `akgl_heap_init()`, `akgl_registry_init()`, create a software
`SDL_CreateWindowAndRenderer`, and point the global `renderer` at it. Seven
existing tests hand-roll this today (`tests/sprite.c:194`, `tests/character.c:200`,
`tests/tilemap.c:421`, `tests/charviewer.c:42`, plus `tests/draw.c`,
`tests/renderer.c` and `tests/text.c`); collapse them onto the shared harness in
the same change.

Then:

- **`tests/renderer.c` extensions** — `akgl_render_init2d` populating the camera
  from the property registry, and `draw_world` layer ordering. `tests/renderer.c`
  exists and covers everything that does not need a world or the registry: the
  vtable binding, frame start/end against a NULL `sdl_renderer`, both
  `draw_texture` paths including `angle != 0` with a NULL center, and the
  `draw_mesh` stub. Note `defflags` at `src/renderer.c:113` is uninitialized
  until the `if` body runs.
- **`tests/assets.c`** — BGM loading into `AKGL_REGISTRY_MUSIC` under the dummy
  audio driver.
- **`tests/draw.c` extensions** — `akgl_draw_background` at zero, negative and
  oversized dimensions. `tests/draw.c` exists and covers every other primitive
  against a software renderer; `akgl_draw_background` is the one function in the
  file that still reads the global `renderer` rather than taking a backend.
- **`tests/tilemap.c` extensions** — `akgl_tilemap_draw`, `_draw_tileset`, and
  `akgl_tilemap_load_layer_image`.

### Does not need a renderer

- **`src/tilemap.c`** — `akgl_tilemap_scale_actor` is pure math over three
  branches (`src/tilemap.c:824-830`); `akgl_get_json_properties_number`,
  `_float`, and `_double` need only a JSON snippet; `akgl_tilemap_load_physics`
  needs a fixture with the physics property block present, absent, and
  malformed. Together roughly 100 of the 225 uncovered lines.
- **`src/game.c`** — `akgl_game_init`, `akgl_game_update`, `akgl_game_lowfps`,
  and `akgl_game_updateFPS`'s frame loop need a window; revisit after the
  harness lands.
- **`src/registry.c`** — `akgl_registry_load_properties` needs a fixture with a
  `properties` object, plus the missing-file, missing-key, and wrong-value-type
  cases. Assert the loop at `src/registry.c:148-158` does not leak the string
  heap.

## Defects

### Fixed while building the suites

Each was found by a test written to assert correct behavior.

1. **`akgl_physics_simulate` dereferenced `self` before its NULL check.**
   `src/physics.c:132` read `self->gravity_time` at declaration time, three
   lines above `FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, self, ...)`. A NULL backend segfaulted.
2. **`akgl_game_save` never flushed or closed its stream.** `CLEANUP` and
   `PROCESS` were transposed, which put the `fclose` inside the `PROCESS`
   switch, where it only ran if an error context existed and reported success.
   An ordinary save produced an empty file.
3. **`akgl_game_save_actors` wrote name-table terminators from a single char.**
   `aksl_fwrite((void *)&nullval, 1, AKGL_ACTOR_MAX_NAME_LENGTH, fp)` emitted
   127 bytes of adjacent stack memory into the save file and produced a sentinel
   the loader could not recognize.
4. **`akgl_game_load_objectnamemap` swallowed read failures.** `CATCH` used
   directly inside `while (1)` breaks the loop, not the function, so a truncated
   or corrupt name table loaded as a successful game.
5. **`akgl_Actor_cmhf_up_on` and `_down_on` dereferenced `basechar` unguarded**,
   unlike their left and right counterparts.
6. **`akgl_actor_logic_movement` checked `actor` twice** instead of checking
   `actor->basechar` before dereferencing it.
7. **The gamepad handlers checked `appstate` three times each**, so a NULL event
   or a missing player actor was never caught and `player->state` was
   dereferenced regardless.

### Known and still open

1. **`akgl_render_and_compare` compares a texture against itself.**
   `src/util.c:228` and `src/util.c:245` both draw `t1`; `t2` is never rendered,
   so the function always passes and the image assertions in `tests/sprite.c`
   assert nothing.
2. **`akgl_tilemap_release` double-frees tileset textures.**
   `src/tilemap.c:849` destroys `dest->tilesets[i].texture` inside the *layers*
   loop; it should be `dest->layers[i].texture`. It also never NULLs the
   pointers, so a second release is a use-after-free.
3. **`akgl_registry_init` never initializes the properties registry.**
   `akgl_registry_init_properties()` is not called from `akgl_registry_init()`
   (`src/registry.c:27`), so `AKGL_REGISTRY_PROPERTIES` stays 0 unless the
   caller initializes it separately. `akgl_set_property` is then a silent no-op
   and `akgl_get_property` always returns the caller's default, which means
   `akgl_physics_init_arcade` and `akgl_render_init2d` silently ignore
   configuration. `akgl_game_init` does call it; a caller that does not use
   `akgl_game_init` does not get it.
4. **`akgl_path_relative_from` is a stub that leaks.** `src/util.c:105` claims a
   heap string, never writes `*dst`, and never releases it. 256 calls exhaust
   the string pool.
5. **`akgl_compare_sdl_surfaces` memcmps without checking geometry.**
   `src/util.c:208` compares `s1->pitch * s1->h` bytes of `s2` without verifying
   the surfaces share dimensions, pitch, or format.
6. **`akgl_string_initialize` overflows by four bytes when `init` is NULL.**
   `src/staticstring.c:17` does `memset(&obj->data, 0x00, sizeof(akgl_String))`,
   but `data` starts four bytes into the struct (after `refcount`), so the memset
   runs four bytes past the end.
7. **Savegame name lengths disagree between writer and reader.**
   `akgl_game_save_actors` writes spritesheet names at
   `AKGL_SPRITE_SHEET_MAX_FILENAME_LENGTH` (512) and character names at
   `AKGL_SPRITE_MAX_CHARACTER_NAME_LENGTH` (128), but `akgl_game_load` reads
   every table at `AKGL_ACTOR_MAX_NAME_LENGTH` (128). A save with any registered
   spritesheet cannot be read back. The current roundtrip test passes only
   because empty registries write nothing but zeroed sentinels.
8. **Heap acquire functions are asymmetric.** `akgl_heap_next_string` increments
   `refcount`; `next_actor`, `next_sprite`, `next_spritesheet`, and
   `next_character` do not. `tests/heap.c` pins the current behavior and says so;
   decide whether to make them symmetric or document the split.
9. **`tests/util.c` defines `test_akgl_collide_point_rectangle_logic` but
   `main()` never calls it.**
10. **`controller.h` declares functions that do not exist.** It declares
    `akgl_controller_handle_button_down`, `_button_up`, `_added`, and `_removed`,
    but `src/controller.c` defines them as `gamepad_handle_*`. Anything compiled
    against the header alone fails to link.
11. **`akgl_controller_pushmap` and `akgl_controller_default` accept negative map
    ids.** Both check `controlmapid >= AKGL_MAX_CONTROL_MAPS` but not
    `controlmapid < 0`, so a negative id indexes before `GAME_ControlMaps`.
12. **A failed controller-DB fetch silently destroys the tracked fallback.**
    `include/akgl/SDL_GameControllerDB.h` is committed deliberately so the
    library still builds if upstream disappears. But `mkcontrollermappings.sh`
    has no `set -e` and never checks `curl`'s exit status: on a failed fetch it
    writes `mappings.txt` empty, then overwrites the good tracked header with
    `AKGL_SDL_GAMECONTROLLER_DB_LEN 0` and an empty initializer — and exits 0.
    Verified by pointing the script at an unresolvable host.

    Two compounding problems:

    - `add_custom_command` at `CMakeLists.txt:89-93` declares
      `OUTPUT include/akgl/SDL_GameControllerDB.h` as a *relative* path, which
      CMake resolves against the binary directory, while the script writes to
      the source directory. The declared output never appears, so the command is
      permanently out of date and re-runs on every build — making every build
      depend on network access and leaving the file dirty in the working tree
      each time.
    - `const char *SDL_GAMECONTROLLER_DB[] = {\n};` is an empty initializer,
      which is a constraint violation in ISO C and compiles only as a GCC
      extension.

    Fix: have the script fetch to a temporary file, check `curl`'s status and a
    plausible minimum line count, and leave the existing header untouched on
    failure (exiting non-zero). Separately, make regeneration explicit — a
    dedicated `controllerdb` target, or an `OUTPUT` that matches where the
    script actually writes — so an ordinary build neither needs the network nor
    dirties the tree.
13. **A stale build tree in the source directory breaks the coverage run.**
    `CMakeLists.txt:208` and `CMakeLists.txt:223` pass
    `--root "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}"` to gcovr, and gcovr searches for
    `.gcda`/`.gcno` files under the root. The `--object-directory` argument on
    the line below each does *not* narrow that search: per `gcovr --help` it
    only identifies "the path between gcda files and the directory where the
    compiler was originally run". So every instrumented build tree left inside
    the source directory is folded into the report alongside the one actually
    being measured.

    With a `build-coverage/` from an earlier session still present, a freshly
    configured `-DAKGL_COVERAGE=ON` tree fails in `coverage_reset`, before any
    test runs:

        AssertionError: Got function akgl_game_lowfps on multiple lines: 45, 46.

    45 and 46 are that function's line numbers before and after an unrelated
    `#include` was added to `src/game.c`: gcovr found 18 stale `.gcno` files
    describing the old layout, merged them with the current ones, and could not
    reconcile the two. Moving `build-coverage/` aside makes the same tree pass
    18/18. Verified with gcovr 7.0.

    The `build*/` entry in `.gitignore` hides these trees from `git status`,
    which makes the state easier to get into and no easier to notice.

    A second, smaller version of the same thing: rebuilding an existing
    coverage tree after editing a test leaves `.gcda` files describing the old
    object layout, and `coverage_reset` -- whose whole job is to delete them --
    fails with `GCOV returncode was 5` before it gets the chance. `find
    build-coverage -name '*.gcda' -delete` clears it. Observed with gcovr 7.0.

    Fix: pass the build tree to gcovr as an explicit search path instead of
    letting it default to `--root`, so only the tree under measurement is
    considered. Touches the two `add_test` blocks at `CMakeLists.txt:204-211`
    and `CMakeLists.txt:220-229`; nothing outside the `AKGL_COVERAGE` branch.

14. **22 public symbols shipped without a version or soname bump.** 42b60f7 added
    `akgl_draw_point`, `_line`, `_rect`, `_filled_rect`, `_circle`, `_flood_fill`,
    `_copy_region` and `_paste_region`; `akgl_audio_init`, `_shutdown`, `_tone`, `_stop`,
    `_waveform`, `_envelope`, `_volume`, `_voice_active` and `_mix`;
    `akgl_controller_poll_key` and `_flush_keys`; and `akgl_text_measure` and
    `_measure_wrapped`. `project(akgl VERSION 0.1.0)` and the `libakgl.so.0.1` soname were
    both left alone.

    That contradicts this repository's own stated rule, which `akbasic`'s `CLAUDE.md` quotes
    back: *"for both 0.x libraries the soname carries `MAJOR.MINOR` deliberately: 0.1 and 0.2
    are different ABIs."* Adding exported symbols under an unchanged soname has two
    consequences, and the first is the one that bites:

    - A binary compiled against the new headers links happily against a `libakgl.so.0.1`
      built from the old tree, because the soname says they are the same ABI. It fails at
      symbol resolution rather than at configure time.
    - `AKGL_VERSION_AT_LEAST(0, 1, 0)` is true for both trees, so a consumer cannot
      feature-test for the new API at all. `akbasic` pins the requirement by submodule commit
      instead, and says so in its README, which is not a thing a released library should make
      anybody do.

    Fix: bump `project()` to 0.2.0, which carries the soname to `libakgl.so.0.2` through the
    existing logic at `CMakeLists.txt:138`. `akstdlibConfigVersion.cmake`'s `SameMinorVersion`
    equivalent then refuses the mismatch at configure time as well.

    **Resolved by 1066ac7**, which did exactly that while this was being written — the two
    crossed, rather than one following the other. Kept rather than deleted because the *reason*
    is still the useful part: `akbasic` could not feature-test for the new API and had to pin
    `libakgl` by submodule commit in its README until this landed, which is the concrete cost of
    an additive release under an unchanged soname. Worth remembering the next time a handful of
    symbols looks too small to bump for.

### Found while rewriting the Doxygen comments

Each of these came out of reading an implementation against the contract its
header claimed. They are recorded inline as `@note` or `@warning` on the
function concerned, so a reader of the generated documentation finds them
without coming here first. Ordered by blast radius.

15. **`akgl_path_relative` leaks one error-context slot per call on its fallback
    path.** `src/util.c:120` returns `akgl_path_relative_root(...)` from inside
    the `HANDLE(e, ENOENT)` block. `FINISH` is what carries `RELEASE_ERROR`, so
    returning before it never gives the context back. libakerror hands these out
    of a fixed `AKERR_ARRAY_ERROR[128]`, and this is not a rare path — it is the
    *ordinary* one, taken every time an asset names a neighbour relative to its
    own file rather than to the working directory. Every tileset image, layer
    image and spritesheet in a map costs a slot, permanently. Once the array is
    exhausted every subsequent failure anywhere in the process has nowhere to
    report from.

    Fix: assign the result to a local, `break`, and return after `FINISH`; or
    hoist the fallback out of the handler entirely and let the `HANDLE` block
    only record that a retry is wanted. Touches `src/util.c:117-121` only.

16. **`akgl_sprite_load_json` does not bound the `frames` array.**
    `src/sprite.c:165` sets `obj->frames` from `json_array_size()` and
    `src/sprite.c:167` then writes that many entries into
    `frameids[AKGL_SPRITE_MAX_FRAMES]`, which is 16. A sprite definition with 17
    or more frames writes past the array into the rest of `akgl_Sprite`, and
    past the struct into the neighbouring pool slot. It is also written through
    a `uint32_t *` cast of a `uint8_t *`, so each element write touches four
    bytes; that happens to work on a little-endian machine because the following
    iterations overwrite the spill and the last write lands in the struct's
    alignment padding, but it is not portable and it is what makes the overflow
    reach four bytes past `frames` rather than one.

    Fix: refuse a `frames` array longer than `AKGL_SPRITE_MAX_FRAMES` with
    `AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS`, and read into an `int` local before narrowing to
    `uint8_t`. Touches `src/sprite.c:164-169`.

17. **Two more unbounded array loads in the tilemap loader.**
    `src/tilemap.c:387-389` walks a Tiled object layer straight into
    `curlayer->objects[j]` with no check against
    `AKGL_TILEMAP_MAX_OBJECTS_PER_LAYER` (128), and `src/tilemap.c:278-280`
    fills `dest->tilesets[i]` with no check against `AKGL_TILEMAP_MAX_TILESETS`
    (16).
    Both are the same shape as item 16 and both are reachable from an ordinary
    map file: 128 objects is not a large object layer. Note that
    `akgl_tilemap_load_layers` *does* bound its loop and raises
    `AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS`, so the pattern to copy is already in the same file.

    Fix: add the bound check at the top of each loop body, matching
    `akgl_tilemap_load_layers`. Touches `src/tilemap.c:387` and
    `src/tilemap.c:278`.

18. **`akgl_get_json_with_default` defaults on a status the array accessors never
    raise.** `src/json_helpers.c:164-165` handles `AKERR_KEY` and `AKERR_INDEX`,
    but `akgl_get_json_array_index_object`, `_integer` and `_string` all report
    a short array as `AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS`. So the "this element is optional" form
    silently does not work for an array — the error propagates instead of being
    replaced by the default. Only the object accessors, which do raise
    `AKERR_KEY`, are actually served by this function today. Nothing in tree
    passes an array accessor's error here, which is why it has not been noticed.

    Fix: add a third `HANDLE_GROUP(err, AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS)`. Note that the
    existing two rely on `HANDLE_GROUP` not emitting a `break`, so the `KEY`
    case falls through into the `INDEX` body — a third arm has to go *above* the
    one holding the `memcpy`, not below it. Touches `src/json_helpers.c:164-167`.

19. **The background music never loops.** `src/assets.c:20` initialises
    `bgmprops` to 0, `src/assets.c:44` sets `MIX_PROP_PLAY_LOOPS_NUMBER` on it,
    and `src/assets.c:46` plays the track with it. 0 is SDL's "no property set"
    sentinel, not a set this function owns, so the write is rejected —
    unchecked — and the play call is given no options. The music plays once and
    stops. `akgl_load_start_bgm` reports success either way.

    Fix: `SDL_CreateProperties()` into `bgmprops`, check it, and destroy it in
    `CLEANUP`. Touches `src/assets.c:20-47`.

20. **`akgl_character_sprite_add` leaks a sprite reference when a state is
    remapped.** `src/character.c:51` writes the new sprite over any existing
    entry for that state without releasing the one it displaces, whose refcount
    was incremented when it was added. The displaced sprite's pool slot is never
    reclaimed. The write itself is also unchecked, so a failure to record the
    mapping is reported as success.

    Fix: read the existing entry first and `akgl_heap_release_sprite` it, and
    check `SDL_SetPointerProperty`'s return. Touches `src/character.c:43-55`.

21. **`akgl_heap_release_character` abandons the whole state-to-sprite map.**
    `src/heap.c:150` zeroes the character without walking `state_sprites`, so
    every sprite reference the character took in `akgl_character_sprite_add` is
    lost and the `SDL_PropertiesID` holding the map is never destroyed. Loading
    and releasing characters in a loop — level to level — exhausts the sprite
    pool and leaks an SDL property set each time.
    `akgl_character_state_sprites_iterate` with `AKGL_ITERATOR_OP_RELEASE` exists
    precisely to do this walk and is not called from here.

    Fix: enumerate `state_sprites` with that iterator, then
    `SDL_DestroyProperties`, before the `memset`. Touches `src/heap.c:145-151`.

22. **`akgl_path_relative_root` uses `FAIL_RETURN` inside its `ATTEMPT` block.**
    `src/util.c:75` returns past `CLEANUP` on the over-long-path branch, so the
    two scratch strings claimed at `src/util.c:67-68` are never released. This is
    the exact hazard AGENTS.md documents under the error-handling protocol, and
    the same class as the heap-string leak already fixed in
    `akgl_get_json_tilemap_property`. Smaller blast radius than item 15 because
    the branch is rare, but it is a mechanical fix.

    Fix: `FAIL_BREAK`. Touches `src/util.c:75`.

23. **Three smaller leaks on failure paths.** All the same shape: a resource
    acquired before an `ATTEMPT`/`CLEANUP` pair, or released only on the success
    path.

    - `src/renderer.c:26-32` — `akgl_render_init2d` releases the two pooled
      strings holding the screen dimensions only after both `aksl_atoi` calls
      succeed, so a non-numeric `game.screenwidth` leaks two string slots.
    - `src/controller.c:80` — `akgl_controller_open_gamepads` calls
      `SDL_free(gamepads)` only after the loop completes, so a gamepad that
      fails to open leaks the enumeration array.
    - `src/text.c:57-64` — `akgl_text_rendertextat` destroys the surface and
      texture only on the success path, so a failed texture upload or a failed
      draw leaks both. On a HUD line redrawn every frame that is a leak per
      frame.

24. **`akgl_get_property` reads past the end of the property value.**
    `src/registry.c:182` copies a fixed `AKGL_MAX_STRING_LENGTH` bytes out of
    whatever `SDL_GetStringProperty` returned, rather than that string's length.
    The destination is a full-sized pool string so nothing is corrupted, but the
    source is an ordinary NUL-terminated string owned by SDL and the read runs
    up to PATH_MAX bytes past its end. Benign in practice and immediately fatal
    under ASAN, which is the reason to fix it rather than leave it.

    Fix: `aksl_strlcpy` or an explicit length. Touches `src/registry.c:181-186`.

25. **`akgl_character_load_json_state_int_from_strings` checks the same argument
    twice.** `src/character.c:123` guards `states` and `src/character.c:124`
    guards `states` again under the message "NULL destination integer" — the
    guard for `dest` was never written. A `NULL` `dest` is dereferenced at
    `src/character.c:132`. Only reachable from inside the character loader, which
    always passes a real pointer, so it is a latent hole rather than a live bug.

    Fix: change the second guard's subject to `dest`. Touches
    `src/character.c:124`.

26. **`akgl_actor_render` computes a sprite's drawn height from its width.**
    `src/actor.c:276` sets `dest.h = curSprite->width * obj->scale` where it
    should read `curSprite->height`. Every actor is therefore drawn square, and
    a non-square sprite is stretched or squashed. Invisible in the current
    assets because they are square; it will not stay that way.

    Fix: one word. Touches `src/actor.c:276`. Worth a test that renders a
    deliberately non-square sprite and asserts on the destination rectangle.

### Found while closing the akbasic API gaps

27. **`akgl_text_rendertextat` refuses the empty string, and `akgl_text_measure` accepts it.**
    SDL_ttf returns `NULL` with "Text has zero width" from both `TTF_RenderText_Blended` and
    `TTF_RenderText_Blended_Wrapped` for `""`, so `src/text.c:56`'s `FAIL_ZERO_RETURN` on the
    surface reports `AKERR_NULLPOINTER` for what a caller means as "draw nothing". Verified
    directly against SDL_ttf 3.x with the fixture font.

    `akgl_text_measure("")` is documented as legal and returns 0 wide by one line high, which
    is what a cursor sitting on an empty line needs, so the two halves of the same header
    disagree about the same string. The functional consequence is a caller that draws a line of
    text which may be empty — a line editor, a `PRINT` of an empty string, a HUD field that has
    not been filled in yet — has to test for it before every call or handle a failure that
    means nothing went wrong.

    **Fix:** return success without rasterizing when `text[0] == '\0'`, matching the measure
    side, and say so in the header. Touches `akgl_text_rendertextat` only. `tests/text.c` has
    the case written and deliberately not asserted; it would become a `TEST_EXPECT_OK`. Until
    then the header carries the wart as a `@note` pointing here.

## Performance

The first measured baseline is in `PERFORMANCE.md`, produced by `tests/perf.c`
and `tests/perf_render.c` (`ctest --test-dir build -L perf`). Both suites hold
every measurement to a budget set at roughly ten times the recorded baseline, so
an algorithmic regression fails the suite rather than being discovered by a
player. Read `PERFORMANCE.md` before arguing with anything below — every claim
here has a number behind it, and several of the things I expected to be slow are
not.

### Defects the perf suites found

Ordered by blast radius. Numbering continues the **Defects** list above.

28. **`akgl_path_relative` leaked an error context on every root-fallback
    resolution.** `src/util.c:118` took its `ENOENT` branch by `return`ing from
    inside the `HANDLE` block, which skips the `RELEASE_ERROR` that `FINISH`
    ends with. One entry of `AKERR_ARRAY_ERROR` was lost per call, and the 129th
    call hit "Unable to pull an error context from the array!" and **exited the
    process**. Every tilemap load resolves several paths this way, so a game
    that loaded fifty levels died in the loader.

    **Fixed.** The branch now records a flag and calls
    `akgl_path_relative_root` after `FINISH`. `tests/util.c` carries
    `test_akgl_path_relative_releases_contexts`, which resolves
    `AKERR_MAX_ARRAY_ERROR * 2` paths through that branch and asserts the pool
    is where it started; against the old code that test does not fail, it
    terminates the suite.

    This is the *only* `return` from inside a `HANDLE` block in `src/` — the
    other candidates use `SUCCEED_RETURN`, which releases correctly. Worth a
    grep before anyone writes a new one, and worth a line in AGENTS.md's
    error-handling protocol, which warns about `*_RETURN` inside `ATTEMPT` but
    not about returning out of `HANDLE`.

29. **`akgl_tilemap_load` leaks five pooled strings per load.** Measured by
    counting non-zero `HEAP_STRING` refcounts across load/release cycles: five
    per cycle, exactly, and `akgl_tilemap_release` gives none of them back. The
    52nd map load in a process finds the pool empty.

    Blast radius: every level transition. A game with fifty levels, or one that
    reloads a level on death, hits it. The fix is a sweep of the loader's
    `CLEANUP` blocks — `akgl_tilemap_load`, `akgl_tilemap_load_layers`,
    `akgl_tilemap_load_layer_tile`, `akgl_tilemap_load_layer_objects`, and
    `akgl_tilemap_load_tilesets_each` all claim scratch strings — and it wants a
    test that asserts the pool is unchanged across a load/release cycle. That is
    its own commit, not a footnote to a benchmark.

    Until it is fixed, the tilemap-load benchmark in `tests/perf_render.c`
    reclaims the pool by hand between iterations, and says so.

30. **Two JSON accessors turn string-pool exhaustion into a segfault.**
    `akgl_get_json_string_value` ends its `ATTEMPT` with
    `FINISH(errctx, false)` at `src/json_helpers.c:89`, so a failed
    `akgl_heap_next_string` is swallowed rather than passed up, and
    `src/json_helpers.c:91` then `strncpy`s `AKGL_MAX_STRING_LENGTH` bytes
    through the pointer it never set. `akgl_get_json_array_index_string` has the
    same pair at `src/json_helpers.c:143` and `src/json_helpers.c:145`. Item 29
    is what makes this reachable, and this is what item 29 looks like from the
    outside: not `AKGL_ERR_HEAP`, a crash inside `strncpy` with a NULL
    destination.

    Fix: `FINISH(errctx, true)` in both. One word each, but it changes what
    callers see on a path they currently cannot survive, so it wants a test that
    exhausts the pool deliberately and asserts `AKGL_ERR_HEAP` comes back out of
    both functions.

31. **`akgl_game_update` segfaults if `akgl_game_init` did not run.**
    `src/game.c:182` calls `game.lowfpsfunc()` through the pointer with no NULL
    check, on every frame where `game.fps` is under 30 — which includes the
    first frame, before there is a frame rate to compare against. `akgl_game_init`
    installs the default; nothing else does.

    That matters because `include/akgl/renderer.h` documents the other path on
    purpose: a host that owns its own window and calls `akgl_render_bind2d`
    instead of `akgl_render_init2d`. An embedder following that documentation
    and then calling `akgl_game_update` crashes on frame one. `akbasic` is
    exactly that embedder.

    Fix: guard the call, or have `akgl_game_updateFPS` install the default when
    it finds a NULL. `tests/perf_render.c` installs it by hand as a workaround
    and points here.

32. **`akgl_game_update` runs the actor update sweep once per tilemap layer.**
    `src/game.c:617` loops `i` over `AKGL_TILEMAP_MAX_LAYERS` and the actor
    sweep nested inside it never compares `actor->layer` to `i`, so every live
    actor's `updatefunc` runs **16 times per frame**. Measured: 68.4 ns per
    update, 64 actors, so 70 µs of work to do 4.4 µs of work.

    It hides behind the rasterizer today (a 640x480 software frame is 16 ms) and
    it will not hide behind a GPU backend, where a frame is nearer 2 ms and this
    is 3.5% of it. Fix: either filter by layer like `akgl_render_2d_draw_world`
    does, or hoist the update sweep out of the layer loop entirely — updating an
    actor is not a per-layer operation. The second is almost certainly right,
    and it is the one that needs a test asserting `updatefunc` runs exactly once
    per actor per `akgl_game_update`.

33. **`akgl_heap_release_character` leaks its `state_sprites` property set.**
    Already documented in `heap.h` and in **Carried over** item 1; the perf
    suite makes it measurable rather than theoretical. A benchmark that loads
    the fixture character 10,000 times leaks 10,000 SDL property sets and 20,000
    sprite references. Cross-referenced here only because the character-load
    benchmark had to be written around it.

### Targets

What a library like this *should* hit. These are not predictions of what the
current code does — several are missed today, and each says which. The frame
budget throughout is 16.67 ms (60 fps); where a target is stated per-operation
it is because that is the number that survives a change of renderer.

The one that governs the rest: **libakgl's own bookkeeping should never be the
reason a frame is late.** Everything the library decides — pool scans, registry
lookups, state-to-sprite mapping, physics, visibility, error contexts — should
fit in 5% of a frame, leaving 95% for the pixels and the game's own logic. At
64 actors and a screenful of tiles that is a ceiling of about 800 µs.

| # | Target | Today | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Library bookkeeping under 5% of a 60 fps frame at 64 actors + 1200 tiles | ~0.3% (excluding pixel work) | **met** |
| 2 | One actor's logic update under 200 ns | 68.4 ns | **met** |
| 3 | One actor's render bookkeeping, excluding the blit, under 500 ns | ~250 ns, by subtraction rather than direct measurement | **met, weakly measured** |
| 4 | Physics sweep under 25 ns per *live* actor, and proportional to live actors rather than pool size | 19 ns per live actor, but 63.9 ns for an *empty* pool | **partly** |
| 5 | Tilemap draw bookkeeping under 100 ns per tile, excluding the blit | ~25 ns | **met** |
| 6 | Pool acquire under 100 ns regardless of how full the pool is | 3.9 ns empty, 250.9 ns on the last free string slot | **missed** |
| 7 | Pool release proportional to the bytes actually used, not to the slot's capacity | 47.2 ns, a fixed 4 KiB wipe | **missed** |
| 8 | Re-drawing an unchanged line of text under 1 µs | 12.6 µs, every frame, no cache | **missed** |
| 9 | Zero texture creation or destruction per frame in steady state | one create + one destroy per line of text per frame | **missed** |
| 10 | A handled, routine condition costs no more than twice the path that succeeds | 616.5 ns vs 68.4 ns — 9x | **missed** |
| 11 | 256 actors simulated, updated and made ready to draw in under 1 ms | ~22 µs at 64 actors (5.8 µs measured logic + estimated render bookkeeping); linear, so ~90 µs extrapolated | **met, untested at that size** |
| 12 | Collision for 256 actors under 2 ms without the caller writing a broad phase | no broad phase exists; the naive loop is 1.9 ms at 256 actors | **missed** |
| 13 | Level load under 100 ms for a map with 8 tilesets, 4 layers and 64 actors | 11.9 ms for a 2x2 map with one tileset | **unknown at that size** |
| 14 | Fixed per-load overhead under 1% of a level load | 11.5% — zeroing 26 MB of `akgl_Tilemap` | **missed** |
| 15 | Static footprint under 4 MB in the default configuration | 28 MB, 94% of it one tilemap | **missed** |
| 16 | No pool leaks across a load/release cycle of any asset type | tilemap leaks 5 strings per cycle (item 29) | **missed** |
| 17 | Pool exhaustion reports `AKGL_ERR_HEAP` and never crashes | item 30 crashes | **missed** |
| 18 | Every benchmark held to 10x its recorded baseline, enforced in CI | done, `ctest -L perf` | **met** |

Notes on the ones worth arguing about:

- **6 and 7 are the same fix.** The acquire scan is 64x slower on a full string
  pool than an empty one purely because the pool is a megabyte and the scan
  touches one refcount per 4 KiB. A free-list index — one `int` per layer,
  remembering where the last free slot was — takes both to constant time without
  changing the "no `malloc`" rule at all. That is the change I would make first,
  and it is worth doing *before* anyone raises `AKGL_MAX_HEAP_*`, because the
  cost of the current design grows with the ceiling rather than with the usage.

- **8 and 9 are one cache.** A single entry keyed on (font, string, colour,
  wrap) would cover the common case — a HUD field that changes once a second —
  and a four- or eight-entry ring would cover the rest. This is the clearest
  optimisation in the library and it is maybe forty lines.

- **10 is a design target, not a speed target.** The answer is not a faster
  error context. It is that "this character has no sprite for this state" is a
  question with a boolean answer, and reporting it through `AKERR_KEY` costs
  nine times the update it replaces. `akgl_character_sprite_get` wants a
  companion that returns `NULL` without raising.

- **12 is a scope decision, not a defect.** The library deliberately does not
  own a broad phase, and at 64 actors the naive all-pairs loop is 0.7% of a
  frame — genuinely fine. At 256 it is 11%. Either the ceiling stays where it is
  and this target is dropped, or a uniform grid keyed on tile size goes in. I do
  not think a spatial index belongs here yet; I think the target belongs on
  record so that raising `AKGL_MAX_HEAP_ACTOR` is a decision made with the
  number in front of it.

- **14 and 15 are the same fix too.** `akgl_Tilemap` is 26 MB because every
  layer carries a 512x512 `int` grid and every tileset a 65,536-entry offset
  table, sized for the worst case at compile time. The pool rule does not
  require *this*: a layer could carry an index into one shared cell arena sized
  by `AKGL_TILEMAP_MAX_WIDTH * AKGL_TILEMAP_MAX_HEIGHT` once rather than
  sixteen times, and the offset table could be sized by `tilecount` rather than
  by the maximum. That is a real refactor with a real ABI break, so it belongs
  to 0.4 rather than to a patch release — but 28 MB of BSS on a handheld or an
  ESP32-class target is the difference between fitting and not.

- **13 is untested and should not stay that way.** The only map fixture in the
  tree is 2x2 with one tileset, which is why the load benchmark measures a PNG
  decode and a `memset` rather than a map. A realistic fixture — 128x128, four
  layers, several tilesets — would make target 13 measurable and would probably
  find something.

## Memory checking

`cmake --build build --target memcheck` runs **the suites that already exist**
under valgrind — `ctest -T memcheck` with the headless drivers forced, wrapped by
`scripts/memcheck.sh` so that a finding is an exit status rather than a line in a
log nobody reads. There are no memory-check test programs, and there should never
be any: `tests/benchutil.h` notices that it is running under valgrind and divides
every benchmark's iteration count by two thousand, which turns the perf suites
into the broadest path coverage in the tree at a cost valgrind can survive. The
whole run is about thirty seconds.

The two halves fit together on purpose. A benchmark is a program that walks one
path a hundred thousand times; a leak check wants every path walked once. Same
binaries, same registration, one flag apart.

Third-party findings are suppressed in `scripts/valgrind.supp`, and the run
forces `SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER=dummy` / `SDL_RENDER_DRIVER=software` /
`SDL_AUDIO_DRIVER=dummy` so the vendor GPU stack is never loaded — that removes
thousands of unfixable findings inside `amdgpu_dri.so` without suppressing
anything at all. Only *definite* losses and invalid accesses are counted; "still
reachable" is what SDL and FreeType keep for the process lifetime and says
nothing about this library.

### Defects the memory checker found

**All six are fixed.** They are kept here rather than deleted because the sizes
are measured and the reasoning is worth having next time somebody asks why a
loader ends in a `CLEANUP` block, or why a name field is staged through a zeroed
buffer. `cmake --build build --target memcheck` is clean, and the CI job that
runs it gates: the next one of these fails the build on the push that
introduces it.

Ordered by blast radius as they were found. Numbering continues the lists above.
Every size below is measured, not estimated.

34. **Every JSON loader leaks its parsed document.** There are four
    `json_load_file` calls in `src/` and not one `json_decref` anywhere in the
    library, so the whole parsed tree — objects, hashtables, strings — is
    abandoned on both the success and failure paths:

    | Loader | Site | Leaked per call |
    |---|---|---:|
    | `akgl_sprite_load_json` | `src/sprite.c:140` | ~1,500 bytes |
    | `akgl_character_load_json` | `src/character.c:232` | ~2,150 bytes |
    | `akgl_tilemap_load` | `src/tilemap.c:693` | ~9,000 bytes (2x2 fixture map) |
    | `akgl_registry_load_properties` | `src/registry.c:134` | not exercised by any test |

    Blast radius: every asset load, forever. The map figure is for the 2x2
    fixture; a real map's JSON is the size of its layer data, so a 128x128 map
    leaks on the order of a megabyte per load. A game that reloads a level on
    death leaks a level's worth of JSON each time, and this is the one item in
    this list that grows without bound.

    **Fixed.** `json_decref` in the `CLEANUP` block of each, on the success
    path as well as the failure one, with the handle nulled after so a second
    pass cannot double-release. `akgl_registry_load_properties` needed its loop
    moved inside the `ATTEMPT` block first: `props` is a borrowed reference into
    the document and was read after the block ended, so every exit from that
    loop leaked the document. The test is the memcheck run -- nothing in the
    public API can observe a jansson refcount, and inventing a hook to prove it
    would be testing the test.

35. **`akgl_get_property` reads up to 4 KiB past the end of the property
    value.** `src/registry.c:181` copies a fixed `AKGL_MAX_STRING_LENGTH` bytes
    out of whatever `SDL_GetStringProperty` returns, and what it returns is an
    `SDL_strdup` of the value — four bytes for `"0.0"`. Valgrind reports an
    invalid read on **every call**, twelve of them in `tests/physics.c` alone,
    because `akgl_physics_init_arcade` reads six properties and
    `akgl_render_init2d` reads two more.

    This has been in `registry.h` as a `@note` about the copy being "a fixed
    #AKGL_MAX_STRING_LENGTH bytes rather than the length" — filed as waste. It
    is not waste, it is an out-of-bounds read: today it walks into the rest of
    SDL's heap and returns garbage past the terminator, and on a value that
    lands at the end of a page it is a segfault in a getter.

    **Fixed.** The copy is bounded by the value's own length plus its
    terminator, and a value too long for an akgl_String is now refused with
    AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS instead of silently truncated. The documented
    AKERR_NULLPOINTER for "unset with no default" is unchanged -- it is raised
    deliberately now rather than arriving from inside `aksl_memcpy`.
    `tests/registry.c` fills the destination with a sentinel, reads a
    three-byte property back, and asserts every byte past the terminator still
    holds the sentinel; that assertion fails against the old code.

36. **The savegame name tables read past the end of every registry key, and
    write what they find into the file.** `akgl_game_save_actorname_iterator`
    (`src/game.c:219`) writes `AKGL_ACTOR_MAX_NAME_LENGTH` — 128 — bytes
    starting at the key SDL handed it, and SDL allocated that key to fit the
    name. Valgrind catches it on a 40-byte allocation. The three sibling
    iterators do the same thing at `src/game.c:248`, `src/game.c:280` and
    `src/game.c:308`, with 128, 512 and 128 byte fixed widths; only the actor
    one is reached by the current tests, because the other registries are empty
    in the save roundtrip.

    Two consequences, and the second is the interesting one. The read can fault
    if the key sits at the end of a page. And whatever it reads goes into the
    save file, so a savegame contains up to 500 bytes of this process's heap per
    registered object — anything that happened to be next to the key. That is a
    file a player might send someone.

    **Fixed.** All four iterators now write through `write_name_field`, which
    stages the key into a zeroed fixed-width buffer, so the padding is
    deterministic and nothing but the name leaves the process. A
    negative-array-size typedef fails the build if any of the four widths ever
    outgrows the staging buffer. Still open and unrelated to the overread:
    **Defects -> Known and still open** item 7, the same tables disagreeing
    about their widths between writer and reader.

37. **`akgl_controller_list_keyboards` leaks the array SDL gives it.**
    `src/controller.c:188` calls `SDL_GetKeyboards`, which allocates, and never
    calls `SDL_free` on the result. Four bytes per call in the test environment
    — one keyboard id — but it is per call, and the function is shaped like
    something a game calls when a device is hotplugged.

    **Fixed.** One `SDL_free`, in a `CLEANUP` block so a failure inside the
    loop cannot take the array with it. Still worth asking the same question of
    every SDL enumeration in `src/controller.c`: `SDL_GetGamepads` has the same
    contract, and the dummy driver reports no gamepads, so no test reaches it.

38. **A font, once loaded, is never freed and cannot be.**
    `akgl_text_loadfont` (`src/text.c:20`) opens a `TTF_Font`, puts the pointer
    in `AKGL_REGISTRY_FONT`, and that is the last anyone can do about it: the
    header exposes no way to close a font, and `SDL_Quit` destroying the
    property registry drops the last reference. 10,523 bytes per font — 736 of
    them SDL_ttf's, the rest FreeType's.

    This is bounded by how many fonts a game loads, so it is not the runaway
    that item 34 is. It was a gap in the API rather than only a leak: a game
    that switches fonts between scenes, or a tool like `charviewer` that reloads
    one while the user picks a size, had no way to give the old one back.

    **Fixed**, and this one is a new public symbol rather than a repair:
    `akgl_text_unloadfont(char *name)` clears the registry entry and closes the
    font. `akgl_text_loadfont` calls it when it replaces a live name, which
    closes the second leak the header used to document as intended behaviour --
    but only after the new font has opened, so a failed reload leaves the caller
    with the font they already had. The version goes to 0.4.0 with it: an 0.3
    consumer cannot be handed this library and told it is the same ABI.

    Still open: nothing closes the registry's remaining fonts at shutdown. A
    game that exits without unloading leaks them exactly once, which valgrind
    reports against the process rather than against a loop, and which
    `akgl_game_shutdown` would be the natural home for if it existed.

39. **Vendored `deps/semver`'s own unit test leaks 188 bytes** across 16 blocks,
    from the `calloc`s in `test_strcut_first` and `test_strcut_second`
    (`deps/semver/semver_unit.c:8` and `:21`). Not libakgl's code and not
    libakgl's to fix; recorded so that nobody re-diagnoses it, and because
    `semver_unit` is registered as one of our CTest tests and so shows up in our
    memcheck run.

    **Suppressed**, which is what this list said the answer would be if it ever
    became noise, and gating the job made it noise. The two entries in
    `scripts/valgrind.supp` name the functions rather than the file, so a
    rewrite of those cases stops being suppressed and comes back as a finding.
    They are the only entries there that hide a real leak in a program this
    build runs; the alternative was a fork of a vendored dependency.

### Not defects, and why

- **`tests/util.c` fixtures were reading uninitialised stack floats.** Three
  null-pointer tests declared `SDL_FRect` and `point` fixtures without
  initializing them and then made one real call with them at the end, which is
  sixteen "conditional jump depends on uninitialised value" findings for a test
  that is not about coordinates. The fixtures are zeroed now. The library was
  never at fault; a memory checker that reports noise gets ignored, which is the
  only reason this was worth touching.
- **"Still reachable" at exit is not counted.** SDL's global state, the hint
  table, the property registry and FreeType's library instance are one per
  process and are reclaimed by `SDL_Quit` / `TTF_Quit`. Counting them would
  bury the six findings above under a hundred that mean nothing.
- **The GPU driver's findings are avoided rather than suppressed.** Running the
  suite against the real driver produces thousands of findings inside
  `amdgpu_dri.so`; running it headless produces none, and headless is what the
  suites are written for anyway.

## Build notes

The vendored SDL satellite libraries are built into per-project subdirectories
that are not on the loader's default search path, and `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` is
searched ahead of RPATH — so a developer who has previously run `rebuild.sh` had
their installed `libakgl.so` shadow the one under test, and a developer who had
not saw every test abort before `main()` with "cannot open shared object file".
`CMakeLists.txt` now sets `BUILD_RPATH` on the library, the utility, and every
test target, and prepends the build tree to `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` for the CTest run.

## API gaps blocking akbasic

`akbasic` (the C port of the BASIC interpreter, `source.starfort.tech/andrew/akbasic`) is
being built to link into `libakgl` as a scripting engine for game authors.

**All ten items are resolved.** Items 1 through 4 landed first and `akbasic` has since
consumed every one of them: its `libakgl`-backed text sink, its graphics backend, its sound
backend and its input backend are written and tested, and the BASIC 7.0 graphics verbs
(`GRAPHIC`, `COLOR`, `DRAW`, `BOX`, `CIRCLE`, `PAINT`, `SCALE`, `SSHAPE`, `GSHAPE`, `LOCATE`),
the sound verbs (`SOUND`, `ENVELOPE`, `VOL`, `PLAY`, `TEMPO`) and the console input verbs
(`GET`, `GETKEY`, `SCNCLR`) all work against them.

Doing that turned up **items 5 through 9**. Four were things `akbasic` had to work around to
build at all; each workaround is commented at its site over there with the words "filed
upstream". **Those workarounds can now be deleted** — including the five `add_subdirectory`
lines for the vendored SDL projects and the hand-assigned render vtable in
`tests/akgl_backends.c`.

Building the *standalone* SDL frontend on top of all that — a real window, a real event pump
and a line editor — turned up **item 10**, and re-confirmed items 6 and 7: both workarounds
had to be written a second time, in `src/frontend_akgl.c`, because a host that owns a window is
exactly the caller they inconvenience.

These were filed here rather than worked around in `akbasic` because growing `libakgl` to serve
a consumer is the wanted outcome. Each entry says what the BASIC verb needs, what the
`akgl_*` entry point should look like, and what would cover it.

Items 7, 9 and 10 add public symbols and item 9 adds three fields to `akgl_AudioVoice`, so the
project version goes to **0.3.0** and the soname with it — an 0.2 consumer cannot be handed
this library and told it is compatible.

1. **No way to measure rendered text.** `include/akgl/text.h` exposes `akgl_text_loadfont()`
   and `akgl_text_rendertextat()`, and nothing that reports how large a string will be in a
   given font. A terminal-style text surface cannot be built on that: a cursor needs the
   advance width of one cell, and wrapping needs to know where a string crosses the right
   margin. The reference interpreter got this from SDL2_ttf's `font.SizeUTF8("A")` and derived
   its whole character grid from it.

   Wants `akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *akgl_text_measure(TTF_Font *font, char *text, int *w, int *h);`
   over `TTF_GetStringSize`, and probably a companion
   `akgl_text_measure_wrapped(font, text, wraplength, w, h)` matching the `wraplength`
   argument `akgl_text_rendertextat` already takes. Tests: a known string in a known font at a
   known size, the empty string, and a wrapped string wide enough to force two lines.

   This is the only one of the four that blocks work already designed and waiting. **`akbasic`
   cannot render any output through `libakgl` until it lands.**

   **Resolved.** `akgl_text_measure(font, text, w, h)` and
   `akgl_text_measure_wrapped(font, text, wraplength, w, h)` are in
   `include/akgl/text.h`, over `TTF_GetStringSize` and `TTF_GetStringSizeWrapped`.
   Neither needs a renderer. A negative `wraplength` is refused with
   `AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS` rather than passed through, because SDL_ttf reads it as a
   very large unsigned width and silently stops wrapping. `tests/text.c` covers
   both against `tests/assets/akgl_test_mono.ttf`, a 10 KB monospaced ASCII
   subset added for the purpose — being monospaced, it lets the suite assert
   `width("AAAA") == 4 * width("A")` instead of hardcoding glyph metrics that
   FreeType is free to round differently. Same change fixed item 39 below:
   `akgl_text_loadfont` checked `name` twice and never checked `filepath`.

2. **No immediate-mode drawing.** `include/akgl/draw.h` declares exactly one function,
   `akgl_draw_background(int w, int h)`, and `src/draw.c` is at 0% coverage. BASIC 7.0's
   graphics verbs are all immediate-mode plotting against the current screen: `DRAW` (line and
   point), `BOX`, `CIRCLE`, `PAINT` (flood fill), `LOCATE` (set the pixel cursor), `COLOR`,
   and `SSHAPE`/`GSHAPE` (save and restore a rectangle of pixels).

   Wants an `akgl_draw_*` family taking the renderer the host already initialized --
   `akgl_draw_line`, `_rect`, `_filled_rect`, `_circle`, `_point`, `_flood_fill`,
   `_copy_region` -- in the shape of the existing `akgl_render_2d_draw_texture`. SDL3's
   `SDL_RenderLine`/`SDL_RenderRect`/`SDL_RenderFillRect` cover most of it; the circle and the
   flood fill do not exist in SDL3 and need writing. Tests belong with the offscreen renderer
   harness described under "Remaining work": render a known shape, read the target back, and
   compare against a reference surface with the existing `akgl_compare_sdl_surfaces`.

   **Resolved.** `include/akgl/draw.h` now declares `akgl_draw_point`, `_line`,
   `_rect`, `_filled_rect`, `_circle`, `_flood_fill`, `_copy_region` and
   `_paste_region`, all taking the `akgl_RenderBackend *` the host initialized,
   in the shape of `akgl_render_2d_draw_texture`. Decisions worth knowing:

   - **Color is an argument, not state.** There is no current-color global to
     get out of step with the caller's own. Each call saves and restores the
     renderer's draw color, so drawing a line does not change what the host's
     next `SDL_RenderClear` paints. `tests/draw.c` asserts that.
   - **The circle is a midpoint circle**, integer arithmetic with eight-way
     symmetry, plotted eight points per step through `SDL_RenderPoints`.
   - **The flood fill reads the target back, fills on the CPU, and blits only
     the bounding box of what changed.** It keeps a fixed
     `AKGL_DRAW_MAX_FLOOD_SPANS` (4096) stack of horizontal runs at file scope
     rather than recursing per pixel; running out reports `AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS`
     and leaves the region partially filled, which is stated in the header. It
     is therefore not reentrant — neither is anything else that draws to a
     single `SDL_Renderer`.
   - `_copy_region` allocates when `*dest` is `NULL` and otherwise copies into
     the caller's surface, matching `akgl_get_json_string_value` and friends. A
     region that would be clipped by the target edge is refused rather than
     silently returning a smaller surface.

   `tests/draw.c` draws into a 64x64 software renderer under the dummy video
   driver and reads pixels back, so it did not need the offscreen harness. That
   harness is still wanted for `src/renderer.c`, `src/text.c` and `src/assets.c`.
   `akgl_draw_background` is untouched and still outside the error protocol
   (item 35).

3. **No audio API at all.** `SDL3_mixer` is a vendored dependency and `registry.h` declares
   `AKGL_REGISTRY_MUSIC`, but there is no `src/audio.c`, no `include/akgl/audio.h`, and no
   `akgl_*` symbol that opens a mixer, loads a chunk, or plays a note. BASIC 7.0's sound verbs
   are `SOUND` (a tone on a voice, with a duration), `PLAY` (a string of notes in a
   Commodore-specific notation), `ENVELOPE` (ADSR per voice), `FILTER`, `VOL` and `TEMPO`.

   `PLAY` and `ENVELOPE` want a synthesised voice rather than a sample, which SDL3_mixer does
   not provide directly -- the honest first step is a small tone generator feeding
   `SDL_AudioStream`, with `akgl_audio_init`, `akgl_audio_tone(voice, hz, ms)`,
   `akgl_audio_envelope(voice, a, d, s, r)` and `akgl_audio_volume(level)`. This is the largest
   of the four and the one most worth designing before writing. Tests can run under the dummy
   audio driver and assert state transitions rather than sound.

   **Resolved.** `include/akgl/audio.h` and `src/audio.c` add a three-voice tone
   generator over `SDL_AudioStream`: `akgl_audio_init`, `_shutdown`, `_tone`,
   `_stop`, `_waveform`, `_envelope`, `_volume`, `_voice_active` and `_mix`.
   It is deliberately separate from the SDL3_mixer side of the library, which
   plays audio *assets*; nothing in `audio.c` reads a file. Decisions worth
   knowing:

   - **The voice table works with no device open.** `akgl_audio_init` connects
     it to one; without that a host can still pull samples itself through
     `akgl_audio_mix`. That is not only for embedding — it is what makes the
     suite deterministic. A device pulls samples on SDL's audio thread whenever
     it likes, so a test that opened one and then asserted on voice state would
     be racing the callback. `tests/audio.c` mixes by hand and opens a device
     only in its last test.
   - **Phase is derived from the frame counter, not accumulated.** A float
     increment of `hz / 44100` is not exact, and adding it 44100 times a second
     walks a held note off pitch.
   - **A voice that was never configured is audible.** A zeroed voice has a
     sustain of 0.0, which is silence with no error to explain it, so the table
     defaults to a square wave held at full level.
   - **Three voices summing past full scale are clamped, not scaled**, so one
     voice plays at the level it was asked for rather than a third of it.
   - Everything that touches the table takes the stream lock when a device is
     open, since the callback reads it on another thread.

   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.

4. **No non-blocking keystroke read.** `include/akgl/controller.h` is built around SDL event
   handlers the host pumps (`akgl_controller_handle_event` and friends), which suits a game
   loop and does not suit `GET` and `GETKEY` -- those ask "is there a keystroke waiting, yes or
   no" and must not require the interpreter to own the event loop. Goal 3 of `akbasic` forbids
   it owning one.

   Wants `akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *akgl_controller_poll_key(int *keycode, bool *available);`
   reading a small ring buffer that `akgl_controller_handle_event` already fills, so the host
   keeps pumping events and the interpreter drains characters at its own pace. Tests: push
   synthetic `SDL_EVENT_KEY_DOWN` events through the existing handler and drain them, plus the
   empty-buffer and overflow cases.

   **Resolved.** `akgl_controller_poll_key(int *keycode, bool *available)` and
   `akgl_controller_flush_keys(void)` are in `include/akgl/controller.h`, over a
   fixed `AKGL_CONTROLLER_KEY_BUFFER` (32) ring in `src/controller.c`.
   `akgl_controller_handle_event` records every `SDL_EVENT_KEY_DOWN` *before* it
   scans the control maps, so a key bound to an actor still reaches a polling
   caller — the scan returns as soon as a binding claims the event, and doing it
   afterwards would have lost exactly the keys a game also acts on. An empty
   buffer is success with `available` false, not an error. A full buffer drops
   the newest key rather than overwriting the oldest, matching the Commodore
   keyboard buffer and keeping what was typed first. `tests/controller.c` covers
   drain order, the release-is-not-a-keystroke case, a key shared with a control
   map, flush, both NULL arguments, and overflow plus reuse afterwards.

5. **An embedded `libakgl` demands its dependencies be installed, while vendoring them.**
   `CMakeLists.txt:17` gates the whole vendored-dependency block on
   `CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR STREQUAL CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR`, so `deps/SDL`, `deps/SDL_image`,
   `deps/SDL_mixer`, `deps/SDL_ttf` and `deps/jansson` are added only when this repository is
   the top-level project. Embedded with `add_subdirectory()`, the `else()` branch at `:51`
   runs `find_package(SDL3 REQUIRED)` and friends instead, and configure fails on a machine
   that has none of them installed — with the submodules sitting right there in `deps/`,
   already checked out by the recursive clone the consumer just did.

   `akbasic` works around it by adding those five subdirectories itself, immediately before
   `add_subdirectory(deps/libakgl)`. That works only because every lookup in the `else()`
   branch is guarded with `if(NOT TARGET ...)` — which is the same escape hatch
   `akerror::akerror` and `akstdlib::akstdlib` already rely on, and it should not be the
   documented answer. **Fix:** add the vendored dependencies on both paths, still guarded by
   `if(NOT TARGET ...)` so a consumer that has already declared them wins. The suppression of
   their CTest registration should move with them.

   **Resolved.** The vendored block no longer sits behind
   `CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR STREQUAL CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR`. An
   `akgl_add_vendored_dependency(<target> <dir>)` macro adds each of the seven submodules when
   nothing has already declared that target *and* the submodule is actually checked out; the
   `find_package` lookups for anything left over run afterwards, unchanged, so a checkout
   without submodules still resolves against the system. A macro rather than a function
   because `add_subdirectory()` inside a function runs in that function's variable scope.

   The CTest suppression moved with them, and is lifted again before this project registers
   its own suites, so an embedding consumer's `add_test()` still reaches CTest. Two smaller
   consequences of the move: `find_package(PkgConfig)` now runs only when something has to
   come from the system (a fully vendored build needs no pkg-config of its own, though
   `deps/SDL_mixer` asks for it separately), and the build-tree RPATH block keys on whether
   anything was vendored rather than on being the top-level project, so an embedded build's
   tests can also find the satellite libraries.

   Verified by configuring and building a scratch consumer that embeds this repository with
   `CMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_SDL3`, `_SDL3_image`, `_SDL3_mixer`, `_SDL3_ttf`, `_akerror`,
   `_akstdlib` and `_jansson` all set, so any reliance on an installed copy would have failed
   the configure. It configures, builds and links. **The five `add_subdirectory` lines in
   `akbasic`'s `CMakeLists.txt` can be deleted.**

6. **`include/akgl/controller.h` does not compile on its own.** Lines 35, 36 and 41 declare
   handler function pointers taking an `akgl_Actor *`, and the header includes only
   `SDL3/SDL.h`, `akerror.h` and `types.h` — none of which declares that type. Any translation
   unit that includes `akgl/controller.h` before `akgl/actor.h` fails with *"unknown type name
   'akgl_Actor'"*. `src/controller.c` never notices because it includes `akgl/game.h` first.

   This is the house rule in `AGENTS.md` — keep headers self-contained, include what you use.
   **Fix:** `#include "actor.h"` in `controller.h`, or forward-declare
   `struct akgl_Actor` if the include order makes that circular. A one-line test that includes
   only `akgl/controller.h` would have caught it and would keep catching it.

   **Resolved.** `controller.h` includes `<akgl/actor.h>`. Not a forward declaration:
   `akgl_Actor` is a typedef of a named struct, and repeating a typedef is C11, not C99. The
   include closes no cycle — `actor.h` reaches only `types.h` and `character.h`, neither of
   which knows about the controller.

   `tests/headers.c` is the test, and it is a whole suite for one `#include` on purpose: a
   second `#include` after the first proves nothing about the second, because by then the
   first has dragged its dependencies in. Covering another header means another file shaped
   like that one. It also stopped being true that `tests/controller.c` has to include
   `akgl/actor.h` first, and the comment there saying so is gone.

7. **There is no way to attach a 2D backend to a renderer the caller already has.**
   `akgl_render_init2d()` (`src/renderer.c:17`) does two separable things: it creates a window
   and an `SDL_Renderer` from the `game.screenwidth`/`game.screenheight` properties and writes
   to the `camera` global, and it installs the six function pointers that make an
   `akgl_RenderBackend` usable. A caller who already owns an `SDL_Renderer` wants only the
   second half — and that caller is not hypothetical, it is precisely the embedding host the
   API-gap section above exists to serve, since an embedded interpreter must not create the
   window.

   Today the only options are to call `akgl_game_init()` and let libakgl own the window, or to
   assign the six pointers by hand, which is what `akbasic`'s `tests/akgl_backends.c` does.
   **Fix:** split out `akgl_render_bind2d(akgl_RenderBackend *self)` that installs the vtable
   and nothing else, and have `akgl_render_init2d()` call it after it has made its window.
   `tests/renderer.c` could then cover the vtable half without a display at all.

   **Resolved.** `akgl_render_bind2d(akgl_RenderBackend *self)` installs the six pointers and
   returns; `akgl_render_init2d()` calls it once the window and the camera exist. It
   deliberately does *not* touch `self->sdl_renderer`, which is the whole point — a host that
   already owns one keeps it, and a host that does not gets a backend whose entry points all
   report `AKERR_NULLPOINTER` instead of crashing.

   `tests/renderer.c` is new and needs no display: it covers the binding (including that the
   caller's `SDL_Renderer` survives it, and that binding a backend without one is legal),
   frame start and end and both `draw_texture` paths against a software renderer under the
   dummy video driver, the refusals a bound-but-unrendered backend gives, and the `draw_mesh`
   "not implemented" stub. `src/renderer.c` goes from 10% line coverage to 56%; what is left
   is `akgl_render_init2d` itself and `akgl_render_2d_draw_world`, both of which want the
   offscreen harness and the world globals. **`akbasic`'s hand-assigned vtable in
   `tests/akgl_backends.c` can be deleted.**

8. **`akgl_text_rendertextat()` dereferences an uninitialised backend vtable.**
   `src/text.c` calls `renderer->draw_texture(renderer, ...)` with no NULL check on either
   `renderer` or the function pointer, so a backend that has an `SDL_Renderer` but has not been
   through `akgl_render_init2d()` segfaults on the first line of text. That is exactly the
   state item 7 leaves a host in, and it is the same class of defect the draw commit at
   42b60f7 added a test for — *"a backend that exists but was never given an SDL_Renderer,
   which is the state a host is in between allocating one and initializing it; every draw
   entry point has to report it rather than dereference it."* The text path still has it.

   **Fix:** `FAIL_ZERO_RETURN` on `renderer`, on `renderer->sdl_renderer` and on
   `renderer->draw_texture`, reporting `AKGL_ERR_SDL` or `AKERR_NULLPOINTER` as the draw
   entry points do. Test alongside the existing `tests/draw.c` backend-without-a-renderer case.

   **Resolved.** All three are checked, with `AKERR_NULLPOINTER` to match the draw entry
   points, and they are checked *before* anything is rasterized rather than after: refusing
   early costs nothing and leaks nothing, where refusing after the rasterize would hit the
   leak the `@note` on this function already describes.

   `tests/text.c` grew a software renderer under the dummy video driver — bound with the new
   `akgl_render_bind2d`, which is what made this cheap — and covers all three refusals plus
   the successful draw, wrapped and unwrapped. `src/text.c` goes from 58% to **100%** line
   coverage, and the three `akgl_text_rendertextat` mutants the mutation run left surviving
   are dead. The third case is the one that matters: with a *live* `SDL_Renderer` behind a
   backend that was never bound, the old code got all the way to a NULL function pointer.
   Checking it against a made-up renderer pointer, as the first draft of the test did, is
   worth nothing — SDL refuses the bogus handle and the call fails for the wrong reason, which
   a deleted-check mutant survives.

   Found while writing that test and filed below as item 27: SDL_ttf refuses the empty string
   on both rasterizing paths, so drawing an empty line is an error while measuring one is not.

9. **`SOUND`'s frequency sweep has no `akgl_audio_*` equivalent.** 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 — a siren, a laser, the whole reason
   `SOUND` has six arguments. `akgl_audio_tone(voice, hz, ms)` holds one pitch for one
   duration, and nothing changes pitch over the life of a note.

   `akbasic` refuses those three arguments rather than faking them, and the reasoning is worth
   recording because it is what makes this a `libakgl` gap rather than an interpreter one: the
   only way to fake a sweep from the interpreter is to re-issue tones from its step loop, which
   ties audible pitch to how often the host happens to call it — a tune that changes key with
   the frame rate. It has to be advanced on the mixer's own frame counter, which is where the
   phase is already derived from and which only this library can see.

   **Fix:** `akgl_audio_sweep(int voice, float32_t from_hz, float32_t to_hz, float32_t step_hz, uint32_t ms)`,
   advanced in `akgl_audio_mix()` beside the envelope. 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 stages.

   **Resolved.** `akgl_audio_sweep(voice, from_hz, to_hz, step_hz, ms)` is in
   `include/akgl/audio.h`, with the step taken in `akgl_audio_mix()` off the mixer's own frame
   counter. Decisions worth knowing:

   - **One step every 1/60 second** (`AKGL_AUDIO_SWEEP_TICK_HZ`), because that is the rate the
     machine this vocabulary comes from advanced its sweep at, and its tunes are written for
     it. It divides 44100 exactly, so a step boundary always lands on a whole frame — which is
     what lets the suite assert the exact frame the pitch moves on rather than a tolerance.
   - **Direction comes from the two frequencies, not from the sign of the step.** `step_hz`
     stays positive; `to_hz` below `from_hz` sweeps down. A negative step is refused rather
     than silently meaning something.
   - **It arrives and holds.** The last step is clamped to `to_hz` rather than overshooting,
     and equal frequencies are a legal held tone rather than an error, so a caller computing
     its own limits does not have to special-case them.
   - **`akgl_audio_tone` is now the same start path with a step of 0**, which is also what
     makes a voice reused for a plain tone stop sweeping. That is one function, `start_note`,
     rather than two copies of the same six assignments.
   - **A swept voice accumulates its phase** instead of deriving it from the frame counter.
     Deriving assumes a constant frequency; under a sweep it jumps the waveform at every step,
     which is an audible click. The drift the derived form exists to avoid is not something a
     note that is changing pitch anyway can be said to suffer from.

   `tests/audio.c` drives the mixer by hand: one tick's frames do not move the pitch, the next
   frame does, both directions clamp at their target, a gate shorter than the sweep cuts it off
   part way, and a plain tone on a swept voice stays put. `src/audio.c` holds at 92%.

   Still missing for a complete `SOUND`: the oscillating third direction (C128 `dir` 2), which
   is a re-issue on arrival rather than a third kind of sweep, and `FILTER`, `TEMPO` and the
   `PLAY` note-string parser as before.

10. **The keystroke ring carries a keycode and nothing else, so Shift is invisible.**
    `akgl_controller_handle_event()` (`src/controller.c:104-105`) pushes `event->key.key` into
    the ring and drops the rest of the event, and `akgl_controller_poll_key(int *keycode, bool
    *available)` hands back only that. Item 4 asked for a non-blocking keystroke read and got
    one; what it did not ask for, and what a *line editor* turns out to need, is which
    character the keystroke actually produced.

    `akbasic` has now built one — an `INPUT` and a REPL prompt drawn in the window, in
    `src/sink_akgl.c` — and the consequence is concrete: no shifted character is reachable, so
    `"`, `!`, `(`, `)`, `:` and `;` cannot be typed at all, and lower case cannot be typed
    either. A BASIC line editor that cannot type a double quote cannot enter a string literal.
    The interpreter folds letters to upper case, which is what a C128 does anyway and is the
    right resolution for letters; it is not a resolution for punctuation, and there is nothing
    the caller can do about it because the modifier state was discarded two layers down.

    Note this is not solvable by the caller polling `SDL_GetModState()` at read time: by then
    the key is long released, and the whole point of a ring is that reads are decoupled from
    events.

    **Fix:** widen the ring entry to carry the modifier state and the composed text SDL already
    computes. Either

    ```c
    typedef struct akgl_Keystroke {
        SDL_Keycode key;
        SDL_Keymod  mod;
        char        text[8];    /* UTF-8, from SDL_EVENT_TEXT_INPUT; "" for a non-printing key */
    } akgl_Keystroke;

    akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *akgl_controller_poll_keystroke(akgl_Keystroke *dest, bool *available);
    ```

    alongside the existing `akgl_controller_poll_key()`, which stays as it is so nothing
    breaks — a game asking "was the up arrow pressed" wants exactly what it already gets.
    Filling `text` means handling `SDL_EVENT_TEXT_INPUT` as well as `SDL_EVENT_KEY_DOWN`, which
    is the only correct way to get a character out of SDL anyway: it is what makes a keyboard
    layout, a compose key and a dead key work, none of which a keycode can express.

    Tests would push a shifted key-down plus its text-input event through
    `akgl_controller_handle_event()` and assert both the keycode and the composed character
    come back, mirroring what `tests/controller.c` already does for the plain ring.

    **Resolved.** `akgl_Keystroke` (keycode, `SDL_Keymod`, and eight bytes of UTF-8) and
    `akgl_controller_poll_keystroke(akgl_Keystroke *dest, bool *available)` are in
    `include/akgl/controller.h`; the ring now holds those instead of bare keycodes.
    `akgl_controller_poll_key()` is untouched from its caller's side. Decisions worth knowing:

    - **The text is attached to the press that is still waiting for it**, tracked by a flag
      rather than by "whatever entry is newest". Without the flag, a press dropped by a full
      buffer hands its text to some older key that happens to be sitting at the end of the
      ring — which is wrong in exactly the case where things are already going badly.
    - **Text with no press behind it is buffered on its own**, with a keycode of 0. An input
      method commit and a character finished by a dead key have no key press of their own, and
      a line editor wants the character regardless. `akgl_controller_poll_key()` discards those
      on the way past rather than reporting a keystroke with no key.
    - **Oversized text is cut on a code point boundary.** An IME can commit several characters
      at once and an entry holds one; truncating on a byte boundary would leave a partial UTF-8
      sequence that nothing downstream can render.
    - **SDL only sends `SDL_EVENT_TEXT_INPUT` while text input is started**, so a host that
      wants `text` populated calls `SDL_StartTextInput()` on its window. Without it `key` and
      `mod` still arrive. That is documented on the function rather than left to be discovered.

    `tests/controller.c` covers the shifted-key case end to end (the `"` that started this),
    a non-printing key composing to nothing, a text-only entry through both pollers, text that
    outlived its own press, the code-point-boundary truncation, and both NULL arguments.
    `src/controller.c` holds at 91%.

## Carried over

1. **Make character-to-sprite state bindings release their references symmetrically.**
   `akgl_character_sprite_add()` increments the sprite refcount for every state-map
   binding, but no corresponding removal API exists. Replacing a state binding
   also leaves the previous sprite's refcount incremented. When
   `akgl_heap_release_character()` drops the character refcount to zero, it clears
   the character registry entry and zeroes the structure without enumerating
   `state_sprites`, decrementing the bound sprites, or destroying the SDL property
   map. Implement binding removal/replacement so each removed binding releases
   exactly one sprite reference. On final character release, enumerate every
   remaining binding (the existing `akgl_character_state_sprites_iterate()` release
   path may be reusable), release each reference, destroy `state_sprites`, and then
   clear the character. Add tests for removal, replacement, duplicate sprite
   bindings across multiple states, and final character release.

   `akgl_character_state_sprites_iterate` is still uncovered and is the natural
   place to start; `tests/actor.c` now covers `akgl_character_sprite_get` and the
   composite-state binding behavior it depends on.