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AnachronautandClaude Opus 5 fb335681d2 M4: SplitBit assembles SplitBit, and then assembles itself
> load Asm.sbx
    > run cosmos.asm
    wrote cosmos.bin: program 7036, data 2448, labels 475
    > run Asm.asm
    wrote Asm.sbx: program 7533, data 4099, labels 555

Both byte for byte identical to what the host assembler builds from the
same source. The machine now builds the operating system it is running on,
and builds the thing that built it.

THE CHECK THAT MATTERS MOST IS THE THIRD ONE. A binary that matches could
still have come from an assembler wrong in some way this particular source
happens not to exercise. So Tests/native.sh boots the CosmOS that CosmOS
built and has THAT assemble CosmOS again - and the second generation is
identical to the first, down to the cycle count. It is a fixed point: the
machinery has been through itself. After this the host is a convenience
rather than a necessity.

WHAT STOOD IN THE WAY was not the assembler. It loaded, faulted at 7,780
cycles, and the fault was in CosmOS: a loaded program is staged at 0x8000
before being blitted into place, so the whole FILE has to fit in the 32,768
bytes above it. The assembler's file was 33,983, and 22K of that was
zeroed scratch buffers - because #Reserve emits what it reserves.

None of that is initialised data. It is scratch, wanted only while the
assembler runs, and while it runs everything above its own data is free.
So the buffers are a MAP now rather than declarations - Assembler/scratch.asm
writes down six addresses and the file carries none of it. 33,983 bytes
became 11,648, and the assembler could load itself.

The map has a file of its own because the reader and the label table both
need addresses out of it while neither includes the other.

The sizes are cut to the largest thing it is asked to build, and that turns
out not to be the operating system: the assembler is 555 labels and 11,648
bytes of output against CosmOS's 475 and 9,564. The hardest thing this
assembles is itself.

Also: sizing it for CosmOS meant raising the label table, and raising the
label table is what pushed the file over the staging limit. The two facts
only met because the first one was tried.

Speed, measured rather than guessed: CosmOS takes 80,168,646 cycles, which
is eighty seconds of emulated time and under a second under --fast. Most of
it is a straight walk of 475 label names, several thousand times. Sorting
or bucketing that is easy and was deliberately not written before there was
something to measure.

make run-cosmos now puts every source file on the disk, so the whole thing
can be done rather than read about.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
2026-08-21 12:03:31 -04:00

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Checks the assembler that runs on SplitBit against the one that runs on the host.
#
# THE ONLY HONEST TEST OF AN ASSEMBLER IS THE BYTES IT PRODUCES. "It ran" and "the sizes
# look right" both pass for a binary with a label one byte out, which is a program that
# jumps into the middle of an instruction. So this assembles the same source both ways and
# compares the two files byte for byte, the same discipline SplitDisk and sbfs.asm work
# under: two implementations of one written specification, each one checking the other.
#
# Then it runs what the machine built, because a file that matches and does not work would
# mean both assemblers were wrong together.
#
# It checks a boot image and four loadable programs. The loadable ones are the harder case:
# they include another file, they are based somewhere other than zero, and every service
# they call is a name declared in that included file. The last of them also brings a vector,
# which is the only thing here that asks anything of its loader.
#
# Written by Anachronaut
set -u
ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd)"
WORK="$ROOT/Tests/build/native"
ASM="$ROOT/Assembler"
TOOL="$ROOT/SplitDisk"
EMU="$ROOT/SplitBit"
PASS=0
FAIL=0
FAILED_NAMES=()
check() {
local name="$1"
shift
if "$@"; then
printf ' [ok ] %-22s %s\n' "$name" "${REPORT:-}"
PASS=$((PASS + 1))
else
printf ' [FAIL] %-22s %s\n' "$name" "${REPORT:-}"
FAIL=$((FAIL + 1))
FAILED_NAMES+=("$name")
fi
REPORT=""
}
for tool in "$ASM" "$TOOL" "$EMU"; do
[ -x "$tool" ] || { echo "$(basename "$tool") is not built."; exit 1; }
done
rm -rf "$WORK"
mkdir -p "$WORK"
# The system it runs under, and the assembler itself, both built by the host assembler.
# Bootstrapping has to start somewhere, and this is the last place it does.
"$ASM" -I "$ROOT/Programs/Libraries" -I "$ROOT/Programs/CosmOS/Source" \
-o "$WORK/cosmos.bin" "$ROOT/Programs/CosmOS/Source/cosmos.asm" >/dev/null || exit 1
"$ASM" -I "$ROOT/Programs/CosmOS/Source" -I "$ROOT/Programs/CosmOS/Assembler" \
-o "$WORK/Asm.sbx" "$ROOT/Programs/CosmOS/Assembler/Asm.asm" >/dev/null || exit 1
"$TOOL" format "$WORK/native.img" 2048 4 >/dev/null
"$TOOL" put "$WORK/native.img" "$ROOT/Programs/hello.asm" hello.asm >/dev/null
"$TOOL" put "$WORK/native.img" "$WORK/Asm.sbx" Asm.sbx >/dev/null
# The applications, and the file of service names they all include. These are the reason
# the second milestone exists: an assembler that cannot follow an #Include cannot build
# anything that asks the system for anything.
#
# Keys is the last of them and the hardest: it brings a vector of its own, so it needs a
# Vector Segment in the output and the version two header that says so. Nothing else here
# asks anything of its loader beyond code and data.
APPS="Say greet Files Keys"
"$TOOL" put "$WORK/native.img" "$ROOT/Programs/CosmOS/Source/services.asm" services.asm >/dev/null
"$TOOL" put "$WORK/native.img" "$ROOT/Programs/CosmOS/Source/console.asm" console.asm >/dev/null
for app in $APPS; do
"$TOOL" put "$WORK/native.img" "$ROOT/Programs/CosmOS/Apps/$app.asm" "$app.asm" >/dev/null
done
{
echo "load Asm.sbx"
echo "run hello.asm"
for app in $APPS; do echo "run $app.asm"; done
echo "exit"
} | "$EMU" --fast --cycles 600000000 -D "$WORK/native.img" "$WORK/cosmos.bin" \
> "$WORK/session.txt" 2>&1
# ---- It got as far as writing something ----
check "it wrote a file" grep -q "wrote hello.bin" "$WORK/session.txt"
# ---- And the file is the one the host assembler makes ----
"$ASM" -o "$WORK/reference.bin" "$ROOT/Programs/hello.asm" >/dev/null
"$TOOL" get "$WORK/native.img" hello.bin "$WORK/native.bin" >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ -f "$WORK/native.bin" ]; then
REPORT="$(wc -c < "$WORK/native.bin" | tr -d ' ') bytes"
fi
check "byte for byte" cmp -s "$WORK/native.bin" "$WORK/reference.bin"
# ---- And what it built actually runs ----
"$EMU" --fast --cycles 100000 "$WORK/native.bin" > "$WORK/ran.txt" 2>&1
check "and it runs" grep -q "^Hello, World!$" "$WORK/ran.txt"
# ---- The report it printed says what it did ----
REPORT="$(grep -o 'program [0-9]*, data [0-9]*, labels [0-9]*' "$WORK/session.txt" | head -1 || true)"
check "it counted right" grep -q "program 17, data 14, labels 2" "$WORK/session.txt"
# ---- And the applications, which need an include, a base and the service names ----
#
# A loadable program is the harder case and the one that matters: #Include splices another
# file in, #Base moves every label to where the program will really live, and every SWI in
# them names a vector declared in a file the source never mentions by number.
for app in $APPS; do
"$ASM" -I "$ROOT/Programs/Libraries" -I "$ROOT/Programs/CosmOS/Source" \
-o "$WORK/ref-$app.sbx" "$ROOT/Programs/CosmOS/Apps/$app.asm" >/dev/null
rm -f "$WORK/got-$app.sbx"
"$TOOL" get "$WORK/native.img" "$app.sbx" "$WORK/got-$app.sbx" >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ -f "$WORK/got-$app.sbx" ]; then
REPORT="$(wc -c < "$WORK/got-$app.sbx" | tr -d ' ') bytes"
fi
check "$app byte for byte" cmp -s "$WORK/got-$app.sbx" "$WORK/ref-$app.sbx"
done
# ---- Self hosting ----
#
# The two things that make this more than a demonstration: the machine assembling the
# operating system it is running on, and the assembler assembling itself. Both have to come
# out byte for byte identical to what the host tool builds from the same source.
#
# THE FIXED POINT IS THE THIRD CHECK AND THE ONE THAT MATTERS MOST. A binary that matches
# could still have been built by an assembler that is wrong in some way the source happens
# not to exercise; a binary that BUILDS ITSELF AGAIN and comes out the same has been through
# its own machinery. The host is no longer necessary after this point - it is a convenience.
SOURCES="cosmos console sbfs services text"
PARTS="Asm numbers source token classify labels vectors table"
"$TOOL" format "$WORK/self.img" 4096 8 >/dev/null
for f in $SOURCES; do
"$TOOL" put "$WORK/self.img" "$ROOT/Programs/CosmOS/Source/$f.asm" "$f.asm" >/dev/null
done
for f in $PARTS; do
"$TOOL" put "$WORK/self.img" "$ROOT/Programs/CosmOS/Assembler/$f.asm" "$f.asm" >/dev/null
done
"$TOOL" put "$WORK/self.img" "$WORK/Asm.sbx" Asm.sbx >/dev/null
printf 'load Asm.sbx\nrun cosmos.asm\nrun Asm.asm\nexit\n' \
| "$EMU" --fast --cycles 4000000000 -D "$WORK/self.img" "$WORK/cosmos.bin" \
> "$WORK/self.txt" 2>&1
rm -f "$WORK/built-cosmos.bin" "$WORK/built-Asm.sbx"
"$TOOL" get "$WORK/self.img" cosmos.bin "$WORK/built-cosmos.bin" >/dev/null 2>&1
"$TOOL" get "$WORK/self.img" Asm.sbx "$WORK/built-Asm.sbx" >/dev/null 2>&1
REPORT="$(grep -o 'program 7036, data 2448, labels [0-9]*' "$WORK/self.txt" || true)"
check "CosmOS builds CosmOS" cmp -s "$WORK/built-cosmos.bin" "$WORK/cosmos.bin"
REPORT="$(grep -o 'program 7533, data [0-9]*, labels [0-9]*' "$WORK/self.txt" || true)"
check "and builds itself" cmp -s "$WORK/built-Asm.sbx" "$WORK/Asm.sbx"
# ---- And the second generation is the first ----
#
# Boot the CosmOS that CosmOS built, and have that assemble CosmOS again.
if [ -s "$WORK/built-cosmos.bin" ]; then
"$TOOL" delete "$WORK/self.img" cosmos.bin >/dev/null 2>&1
printf 'load Asm.sbx\nrun cosmos.asm\nexit\n' \
| "$EMU" --fast --cycles 4000000000 -D "$WORK/self.img" "$WORK/built-cosmos.bin" \
> "$WORK/second.txt" 2>&1
rm -f "$WORK/second-cosmos.bin"
"$TOOL" get "$WORK/self.img" cosmos.bin "$WORK/second-cosmos.bin" >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
REPORT="a fixed point"
check "second generation" cmp -s "$WORK/second-cosmos.bin" "$WORK/built-cosmos.bin"
echo
if [ "$FAIL" -eq 0 ]; then
echo "All $PASS native assembler checks passed."
else
echo "$PASS passed, $FAIL failed: ${FAILED_NAMES[*]}"
echo
echo "The session was:"
sed 's/^/ /' "$WORK/session.txt"
if [ -f "$WORK/self.txt" ]; then
echo
echo "And the self hosting run:"
sed 's/^/ /' "$WORK/self.txt"
fi
exit 1
fi