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AnachronautandClaude Opus 5 b2945e41c4 docs.sh: say which heading went missing, rather than raising IndexError
The manual checks find what they examine by splitting the file on an exact
heading. Ten of the eleven anchors already say what they could not find -
"the Programming Manual has lost its Devices table" and so on. Two did not:
the worked hello world program and the hex dump beside it were reached with
pm.split(anchor)[1] and nothing else, so renaming either produced a Python
traceback and an IndexError.

A traceback is a worse answer than a stale manual. It says a check broke
without saying which heading moved, and it stops the rest of the run, so
whatever else was wrong stays unreported.

Both anchors are now tested before they are used, and both say which one is
missing and what that means. Verified by renaming each and reading the
message.

This is the first of four commits restructuring the Programming Manual, and
it comes first on purpose: the next three move headings around, and they
should be watched by checks that would notice.

IT ALSO CORRECTS THE PLAN. I had written that renaming a heading fails
silently, and set out to fix all eleven. Probing them one at a time showed
that was wrong - ten were already fine, and the job was one check rather
than the whole file. The claim was worth testing before acting on it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
2026-08-21 14:11:37 -04:00

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Checks the manuals against the code.
#
# Documentation goes stale quietly. An instruction added without a table row, or a count
# in a heading that nobody updated, is wrong in a way nothing notices until somebody
# trusts it. Everything here is a claim the manuals make that can be settled by looking
# at the source, so it is settled every time the tests run.
#
# Written by Anachronaut
set -u
ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd)"
cd "$ROOT" || exit 1
python3 - <<'PY'
import re
import sys
problems = []
def read(path):
return open(path).read()
pm = read("SplitBit Programming Manual.md")
am = read("SplitBit Assembler Manual.md")
asmc = read("Source/Assembler/assembly.c")
util = read("Source/Assembler/Assm-util.c")
# ---- Every instruction has a row, and every row is an instruction ----
#
# A mnemonic begins with a letter, which is what keeps the offset and size columns of the
# other tables in these manuals out of it.
documented = {(int(m.group(1), 16), m.group(2))
for m in re.finditer(r'^\|\s*([0-9A-F]{2})\s*\|\s*([A-Z][A-Z0-9]*)\s*\|', pm, re.M)}
implemented = {(int(m.group(1), 16), m.group(2))
for m in re.finditer(r'\{0x([0-9A-Fa-f]{2}),\s*"([A-Z0-9]+)"\}', asmc)}
for opcode, name in sorted(implemented - documented):
problems.append("%s (0x%02X) is implemented and not in the manual" % (name, opcode))
for opcode, name in sorted(documented - implemented):
problems.append("%s (0x%02X) is in the manual and not implemented" % (name, opcode))
# ---- The counts in the group headings ----
body = asmc[asmc.index("Instruction instruction_set[]"):asmc.index("int num_instructions")]
actual = {}
group = None
for line in body.split("\n"):
heading = re.match(r'\s*// (.+?) Operations:', line)
if heading:
group = heading.group(1)
actual.setdefault(group, 0)
if re.search(r'\{0x[0-9A-Fa-f]{2},', line) and group:
actual[group] += 1
for m in re.finditer(r'^### (.+?) Operations: (\d+) Instructions?$', pm, re.M):
name, claimed = m.group(1), int(m.group(2))
# The manual's headings are wordier than the source's comments, so match on the start.
match = [v for k, v in actual.items() if name.startswith(k)]
if not match:
problems.append("the manual has a group called \"%s\" that the source does not" % name)
elif match[0] != claimed:
problems.append("the manual says %s has %d instructions, and it has %d"
% (name, claimed, match[0]))
# ---- How many instructions carry a Data Pointer selector ----
#
# The manual says this as a word rather than a figure, and it is the sort of number that
# goes stale quietly: adding an instruction that takes a selector leaves the sentence
# looking perfectly reasonable and wrong. dataPointerOperands is the list, so it is the
# one to believe.
words = {12: "Twelve", 13: "Thirteen", 14: "Fourteen", 15: "Fifteen", 16: "Sixteen",
17: "Seventeen", 18: "Eighteen", 19: "Nineteen", 20: "Twenty"}
selectors = asmc[asmc.index("int dataPointerOperands"):asmc.index("uint8_t getOpcode")]
taking = len(re.findall(r'^\s*case 0x[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}:', selectors, re.M))
said = re.search(r'^([A-Z][a-z]+) instructions work through a Data Pointer\.', pm, re.M)
if not said:
problems.append("the manual no longer says how many instructions take a Data Pointer")
elif said.group(1) != words.get(taking):
problems.append("the manual says %s instructions work through a Data Pointer, and %d do"
% (said.group(1).lower(), taking))
# ---- Every device class in the header has a row in the Devices table ----
#
# The table says which ports a device answers on and what class it reports. Adding a
# device, or widening one from a single port to a block, leaves the table looking perfectly
# reasonable and describing a machine that no longer exists. The classes are the part that
# can be checked against the source without teaching this script how ports are laid out:
# every class the header defines except DEVICE_NONE is something a program can find on the
# bus, so every one of them has to be findable in the manual too.
ioh = read("Source/Emulator/io.h")
classes = {name: int(value, 16)
for name, value in re.findall(r'^#define (DEVICE_[A-Z_]+)\s+(0x[0-9A-Fa-f]{2})$',
ioh, re.M)
if name not in ("DEVICE_NONE",)}
if "## Devices:" not in pm:
problems.append("the Programming Manual has lost its Devices table")
else:
table = pm.split("## Devices:")[1].split("\n## ")[0]
listed = {int(m, 16) for m in re.findall(r'\|\s*(0x[0-9A-Fa-f]{2})\s*\|\s*$', table, re.M)}
for name, value in sorted(classes.items(), key=lambda pair: pair[1]):
if value not in listed:
problems.append("%s (0x%02X) is a device class and has no row in the Devices"
" table" % (name, value))
# ---- The vector ranges the manuals quote are the ones the assembler uses ----
#
# Both manuals print the boundary between numbers a program may pin and numbers the
# assembler hands out. Those are two constants in one header, and moving them without
# touching the manuals would leave every programmer reading a range that no longer exists
# and being refused a number the manual said was theirs.
header = read("Source/Assembler/assembly.h")
ranges = {name: int(value)
for name, value in re.findall(r'^#define (VECTOR_FIRST_[A-Z]+)\s+(\d+)$',
header, re.M)}
if set(ranges) != {"VECTOR_FIRST_PINNED", "VECTOR_FIRST_AUTO"}:
problems.append("the vector range constants are not the two this check knows about: %s"
% ", ".join(sorted(ranges)) if ranges else "none found")
else:
pinnedFrom = ranges["VECTOR_FIRST_PINNED"]
autoFrom = ranges["VECTOR_FIRST_AUTO"]
said = "%d to %d" % (pinnedFrom, autoFrom - 1)
for manual, text in [("Programming Manual", pm), ("Assembler Manual", am)]:
if said not in text:
problems.append("the %s does not say the pinned vectors are %s"
% (manual, said))
if "%d and up" % autoFrom not in pm:
problems.append("the Programming Manual does not say the automatic vectors start"
" at %d" % autoFrom)
if "from vector %d upwards" % autoFrom not in am:
problems.append("the Assembler Manual does not say the automatic vectors start"
" at %d" % autoFrom)
# ---- The loadable header table matches the offsets the assembler writes ----
#
# The Programming Manual prints the header field by field, which is the description two
# implementations work from. sbex.h is where the offsets actually are, so a field moved
# there and not here would leave the manual describing a format nobody writes.
sbex = read("Source/Assembler/sbex.h")
offsets = {name: int(value)
for name, value in re.findall(r'^#define (SBEX_[A-Z_]+_AT)\s+(\d+)$', sbex, re.M)}
if "## Loading A Program From A Disk:" not in pm:
problems.append("the Programming Manual has lost its loadable program section")
else:
loading = pm.split("## Loading A Program From A Disk:")[1].split("\n## ")[0]
listed = [int(m) for m in re.findall(r'^\| (\d+) \| \d* \|', loading, re.M)]
for name, offset in sorted(offsets.items(), key=lambda pair: pair[1]):
if offset not in listed:
problems.append("%s is at offset %d and the header table has no row for it"
% (name, offset))
# Spelled as a word, the way these manuals write small numbers in prose.
asWord = {1: "one", 2: "two", 3: "three", 4: "four", 5: "five"}
for version in ("SBEX_VERSION", "SBEX_VERSION_VECTORS"):
number = re.search(r'^#define %s\s+(\d+)$' % version, sbex, re.M)
if not number:
problems.append("%s is gone from sbex.h" % version)
continue
said = asWord.get(int(number.group(1)))
if said is None or said not in loading.lower():
problems.append("the loadable program section does not mention version %s (%s)"
% (number.group(1), said))
# ---- Every console status bit is described ----
#
# The status port is read by writing a mask and testing it, so a program can only use a bit
# it has been told the number of. Adding one and forgetting to write it down leaves a bit
# that works and that nobody can discover. The section names them as "bit N", so that is
# what is looked for.
status = {name: int(value, 16)
for name, value in re.findall(r'^#define (CONSOLE_STATUS_[A-Z]+)\s+(0x[0-9A-Fa-f]{2})$',
ioh, re.M)}
if "## The Console:" not in pm:
problems.append("the Programming Manual has lost its \"The Console\" section")
else:
console = pm.split("## The Console:")[1].split("\n## ")[0]
for name, value in sorted(status.items(), key=lambda pair: pair[1]):
bit = value.bit_length() - 1
if "bit %d" % bit not in console:
problems.append("%s is bit %d of the console status port and The Console does"
" not mention it" % (name, bit))
# ---- Every service the system offers has a row ----
#
# services.asm is the one place the numbers are written, and both the system and every
# program include it. A service added there and not here is one nothing can find out about
# except by reading the source of the operating system.
# DECLARING A SERVICE AND IMPLEMENTING ONE ARE DIFFERENT THINGS, and the manual should
# describe the second. services.asm names them and fixes their numbers, which is what lets a
# number be pinned before anything answers to it; cosmos.asm is where a name gets a handler.
# A row for a service nothing implements would be describing a call that faults, and a
# missing row for one that works is a service nobody can find out about.
services = read("Programs/CosmOS/Source/services.asm")
named = set(re.findall(r'^\s{2}(os[A-Za-z]+)\s+0d\d+', services, re.M))
system = read("Programs/CosmOS/Source/cosmos.asm")
vectors = system.split("#Vectors")[-1] if "#Vectors" in system else ""
implemented = {name for name in re.findall(r'^\s{2}(os[A-Za-z]+)\s+[a-zA-Z]', vectors, re.M)
if name in named}
if not named:
problems.append("no services could be found in services.asm")
elif "## What A Program May Ask The System For:" not in pm:
problems.append("the Programming Manual has lost its services section")
else:
section = pm.split("## What A Program May Ask The System For:")[1].split("\n## ")[0]
documented = set(re.findall(r'^\| (os[A-Za-z]+) \|', section, re.M))
for name in sorted(implemented - documented):
problems.append("%s is a service the system implements and has no row in the"
" services table" % name)
for name in sorted(documented - implemented):
problems.append("the services table describes %s, which nothing implements: calling"
" it would dispatch through an empty vector and fault" % name)
# ---- Every program the manual describes is really there ----
#
# The table names what the shell can load. A program renamed or removed leaves a row
# describing something nobody can run, which is the same kind of quiet wrongness as a
# routine that no longer exists. The other direction is deliberately not checked: the ported
# programs are covered in the prose rather than given a row each.
import os
if "## Programs That Come With The System:" not in pm:
problems.append("the Programming Manual has lost its list of programs")
else:
listed = pm.split("## Programs That Come With The System:")[1].split("\n### ")[0]
# After the separator, so the table's own heading row is not mistaken for a program.
listed = listed.split("| --- |")[-1]
for name in re.findall(r'^\| ([A-Z][A-Za-z0-9-]*) \|', listed, re.M):
if not os.path.exists("Programs/CosmOS/Apps/%s.asm" % name):
problems.append("the manual describes a program called %s, and there is no"
" Programs/CosmOS/Apps/%s.asm" % (name, name))
# ---- The monitor's instruction table is the assembler's ----
#
# The monitor disassembles, so it needs the same 64 instructions with the same names and the
# same lengths. A disassembler that disagreed about a length would not print one line wrong,
# it would lose its place and print everything after it wrong, which is the worst way for a
# tool like that to fail: confidently. So the table is generated from assembly.c by
# Tests/instructiontable.py, and what is in the monitor is checked against it here.
import subprocess
generated = subprocess.run([sys.executable, "Tests/instructiontable.py"],
capture_output=True, text=True)
if generated.returncode != 0:
problems.append("the instruction table generator would not run")
else:
wanted = [line.rstrip() for line in generated.stdout.splitlines() if line.strip()]
# TWO copies now, and both are checked. The monitor has one and the assembler that
# runs on the machine has another, because they are separate programs and there is no
# linker to let them share: the monitor's lives in the system's data at an address
# that moves every rebuild. Duplication is the cost of having no libraries, and a
# check on every copy is what keeps the cost to bytes rather than to correctness.
copies = [("the system", "Programs/CosmOS/Source/cosmos.asm", "\nInstructions:\n"),
("the native assembler", "Programs/CosmOS/Assembler/table.asm",
"\nAsmInstructions:\n")]
for who, path, marker in copies:
text = read(path)
if marker not in text:
problems.append("%s has lost its instruction table" % who)
continue
block = text.split(marker)[1]
have = []
for line in block.splitlines():
if not line.strip() or not line.startswith(" 0x"):
break
have.append(line.rstrip())
if have != wanted:
problems.append("%s's instruction table is not what the assembler's"
" instruction set generates: %d entries against %d, first"
" difference at %s"
% (who, len(have), len(wanted),
next((a or b for a, b in zip(have + [None] * len(wanted),
wanted + [None] * len(have))
if a != b), "the end")))
# ---- And the lengths that table implies are the ones the manual prints ----
#
# The generator works out how long each instruction is from rules written in it; the manual
# says so in a column somebody typed. They are independent accounts of the same fact, which
# is exactly the pair worth checking against each other.
sys.path.insert(0, "Tests")
import instructiontable
lengthOf = {0: 1, 1: 3, 2: 2, 3: 2, 4: 3, 5: 4, 6: 3}
printed = {}
for m in re.finditer(r'^\|\s*[0-9A-F]{2}\s*\|\s*([A-Z][A-Z0-9]*)\s*\|\s*(\d+)\s*\|', pm, re.M):
printed[m.group(1)] = int(m.group(2))
for opcode, name in instructiontable.table():
implied = lengthOf[instructiontable.shapeOf(opcode)]
if name in printed and printed[name] != implied:
problems.append("the manual says %s is %d bytes and the disassembler will read it"
" as %d" % (name, printed[name], implied))
# ---- Every directive the assembler knows is written down ----
for directive in sorted(set(re.findall(r'"(#[A-Za-z]+)"', util))):
if directive not in am:
problems.append("%s is a directive and is not in the Assembler Manual" % directive)
# ---- Every routine the manual promises exists ----
#
# The first column of the table in each of these sections names something the library has
# to define. A routine renamed in the source and not in the manual is caught here, which
# is what keeps the tables a description rather than a memory.
for heading, library in [("## Reading And Writing The Filesystem:", "Programs/CosmOS/Source/sbfs.asm"),
("## The Console Library:", "Programs/CosmOS/Source/console.asm")]:
if heading not in pm:
problems.append("the Programming Manual has lost its \"%s\" section"
% heading.strip("# :"))
continue
section = pm.split(heading)[1].split("\n## ")[0]
defined = set(re.findall(r'^([a-zA-Z][A-Za-z0-9]*):', read(library), re.M))
for name in re.findall(r'^\| ([a-z][A-Za-z0-9]*) \|', section, re.M):
if name not in defined:
problems.append("the manual lists %s, which %s does not define" % (name, library))
# ---- The worked example still assembles to the bytes the manual prints ----
#
# The hello world program and the hex dump beside it are two claims about the same thing,
# and nothing but this keeps them agreeing.
import os
import subprocess
import tempfile
# BOTH ANCHORS ARE CHECKED BEFORE THEY ARE USED. Every other heading this script splits on
# says what it could not find; these two were the exception, and a rename here produced an
# IndexError and a traceback instead of a sentence. That is a worse answer than a stale
# manual, because whoever reads it learns nothing about which heading moved.
exampleAnchor = "### Example Program: Hello World"
dumpAnchor = "assembled and dumped as hex:"
if exampleAnchor not in pm:
problems.append("the Programming Manual has lost its \"Example Program: Hello World\""
" heading, so the worked example cannot be found")
elif dumpAnchor not in pm:
problems.append("the Programming Manual no longer says \"%s\" before the hex dump, so"
" there is nothing to compare the worked example against" % dumpAnchor)
else:
source = pm.split(exampleAnchor)[1].split("```")[1]
claimed = pm.split(dumpAnchor)[1].split("```")[1].split()
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as work:
asm = os.path.join(work, "hello.asm")
binary = os.path.join(work, "hello.bin")
open(asm, "w").write(source)
built = subprocess.run(["./Assembler", asm, "-o", binary], capture_output=True)
if built.returncode != 0:
problems.append("the hello world program in the manual no longer assembles")
else:
actual = ["%02x" % b for b in open(binary, "rb").read()]
if [c.lower() for c in claimed] != actual:
problems.append("the hex dump in the manual is not what that program"
" assembles to now: it prints %d bytes and the assembler"
" makes %d" % (len(claimed), len(actual)))
# ---- The Assembler Manual's worked programs still assemble ----
for heading in ["## An Example SplitBit Assembly Program:",
"## An Example Using More Than One Data Pointer:",
"## An Example Using Interrupts:"]:
if heading not in am:
problems.append("the Assembler Manual has lost its \"%s\" section" % heading.strip("# :"))
continue
example = am.split(heading)[1].split("```")[1]
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as work:
asm = os.path.join(work, "example.asm")
open(asm, "w").write(example)
built = subprocess.run(["./Assembler", "-I", "Programs/Libraries",
"-I", "Programs/CosmOS/Source", asm,
"-o", os.path.join(work, "example.bin")],
capture_output=True)
if built.returncode != 0:
problems.append("the example under \"%s\" no longer assembles"
% heading.strip("# :"))
if problems:
print("The manuals and the code disagree:")
for p in problems:
print(" " + p)
sys.exit(1)
print("The manuals agree with the code.")
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