Dispatching through a vector with nothing in it was the one fault this machine
could not hand over, because the thing that would hand it over is the thing that
has just found nothing to hand it to. It stopped the machine and no program
could do anything about it - so calling a service the system does not implement
was fatal, and that is an ordinary mistake to make.
Two new fault vectors: 5 when a software vector was empty, 6 when a device
interrupted and its hardware entry was. Separate, because they are separate
mistakes with separate fixes - one is a program calling something that is not
there, the other a program that asked to be interrupted and forgot the handler.
WHICH ENTRY WAS EMPTY ARRIVES IN Q, and it is the only thing on this machine a
handler is given in a register. Not a fault cause register by another route: the
vector still says what happened and Q says which of the 256 entries it happened
about, which is a parameter and not a cause. It costs no new state at all,
because the frame already saved the Q the interrupted program had and RETI puts
it back.
The escalation happens once. If vector 5 or 6 is itself empty the machine stops
the way it always did, having genuinely run out of places to go.
swiFaultTest is what guards that, and it was written long before any of this: it
installs nothing, so it must still get the old halt. Breaking the escalation
fails the two new tests and not that one; making the escalation unbounded fails
that one and not the two new ones. Each break fails exactly the half it belongs
to.
noDeviceTest is fed no input on purpose. The console raises its line once when
input ENDS as well as when a byte arrives - which exists so a program driven by
interrupts is told when nothing more is coming - so with no input at all, that
end is what turns up.
Groundwork for CosmOS's fault screen, which wanted to catch these two and could
not.
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