The sixteen kilobytes taken back a moment ago all went to the output image,
because that was the wall: 13,245 bytes of cosmos.bin against 13,312. Lifting
it moved the machine straight into the next one, a hundred and eleven bytes
away - the label names, at 8,081 of 8,192 - and the index was a hundred and
eighteen entries from the same place.
So the room is shared out rather than given to the obvious one. Names and index
both double, and the output takes what is left, which is still four and a half
thousand bytes more than CosmOS needs.
LabLimit and LabRoom in labels.asm have to agree with the map in scratch.asm
and are now said to.
Worth recording how this was found, because it is the good case. The assembler
STOPPED and said "no room left for label names: Mode, at line 3598" - a limit
it checks, names, and points at. Every other ceiling this project has hit went
unnoticed until something downstream broke: a program loaded over the shell, a
path silently cut short, a file reported as itself less 65,536. A limit that
announces itself is worth the handful of instructions it costs.
The output's eighteen kilobytes are temporary. They exist because the assembler
holds a whole finished file in memory before writing it, and the file is
produced in order, so it could be written as it is made.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
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