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Brummel c5eca7e91d bench: re-ratify compile_check baseline (closes #45)
Re-baseline bench/baseline_compile.json, last ratified 2026-05-15
(20add51, mut.4-tidy). check_ms shifted +35..47% uniformly across all
12 fixtures (~1.8-3.3ms -> ~2.4-4.7ms); build_O0_ms rose ~10%
(90->100ms) but stayed inside its 20% tolerance and so never tripped.

RATIFY, not a regression. The decisive signal is that the check_ms
drift is *uniform* across every fixture regardless of complexity
(hello +35%, nested_pat +35%). Fixture-independent drift means the
cost lives in shared per-invocation work, not in any fixture-specific
checker path. Two concrete shared-cost growths fully account for it:

  - examples/prelude.ail grew 116 -> 153 lines (+32%); every
    `ail check` parses and typechecks the full prelude.
  - the kernel_stub module is now injected alongside prelude on every
    check (landed in raw-buf prep.3, 9339279, #33) — a whole extra
    module parsed + typechecked per invocation.

Both are real modules added by wanted features, not a quadratic
blow-up. There is no fixable type-checker regression hiding here; the
+0.8ms is the parse+typecheck cost of more shared source. The throughput
baseline (bench/baseline.json) was already re-ratified 2026-05-28
(de4399d); this brings the compile baseline back in sync.

Corrects the record: the #44 cycle-close audit body (7321826) wrongly
attributed the compile_check exit-1 to transient machine load. main is
sacrosanct so 7321826 cannot be amended; #45 and this commit are the
forward correction.

Verified: compile_check.py -n5 -> 24 metrics, 0 regressed, 24 stable.
2026-05-30 15:31:04 +02:00
Brummel de4399df37 audit + close: kernel-extension-mechanics — latency-arm restoration + p99 jitter-metric removal (ratify)
Audit Step 2 (regression scripts) blocked at exit 2 on bench/check.py
— the latency arms produced lines=0 because their fixtures rely on
`(app print N)` to deliver one newline per sample, but the
io/print_str byte-faithful change (commit 26fb345, closes #29)
stopped trailing newlines from appearing in the polymorphic
print path. Pre-existing infrastructure failure, NOT iter-caused;
fix is one \n insertion per print site in both bench_latency_*.ail
fixtures, behaviour-preserving for any other consumer.

With infra unblocked, bench/check.py reported exit 1 on
latency.explicit_at_rc.p99_us (+42% then +65% across two
back-to-back runs) and the cognate p99_over_median. Median +1.3%,
implicit-arm-control all green. Dispatched bencher for
hypothesis-driven characterisation; the report (6 back-to-back
invocations, recorded per-invocation p99 + within-invocation
[lo, hi] spread) is unambiguous:

- explicit-arm p99_us cv = 18.6% across invocations
- explicit-arm median_us cv = 0.37% (steady-state allocator signal)
- implicit-arm p99_us cv = 2.9% (the control — no co-firing)
- 4 of 6 invocations would trip the 25% gate even though the
  underlying mean (~329 µs) is closer to baseline (259.9 µs) than
  to the worst observed (418 µs)

Structurally identical to the 2026-05-20 recalibration that
removed max_us and p99_9_us (iter bench-harness-recalibration.1,
Gitea #15 / #16) — see docs/specs/0047-bench-harness-recalibration.md.
The 2026-05-20 gamble was that p99 was still allocator-attributable
on a quiet developer machine; that gamble has now failed on the
explicit arm.

Ratify path: removed latency.explicit_at_rc.p99_us and
latency.explicit_at_rc.p99_over_median from baseline.json. The
explicit arm gates only on median_us going forward — the only
metric whose cv (0.37%) actually reflects allocator behaviour
rather than OS jitter. The implicit-arm p99 + p99_over_median
stay — they are stable (cv 2.9%) and provide the contrast that
lets future audits distinguish a real allocator regression from
machine-state jitter.

This is a ratify, not an intentional baseline movement caused by
prep.3: the kernel-extension-mechanics work touches schema +
checker + workspace-load — no codegen-runtime change that could
plausibly affect RC tail latency. The decision is forward-looking
metric removal (per honesty-rule: a regression gate that fires
4 of 6 times on byte-identical code is not a gate, it is a
random-event generator).

Bench results post-ratify: exit 0 across all three scripts
(bench/check.py 34 metrics 0 regressed; bench/compile_check.py 24
metrics 0 regressed; bench/cross_lang.py 25 metrics 0 regressed).

Architect drift items (8 enumerated) will be addressed in a
separate consolidated tidy iteration; this commit only closes the
bench gate.
2026-05-28 19:00:12 +02:00
Brummel 078c39a76a iter prep.2-term-new-construct (DONE 4/4): Term::New AST + Form-A surface + checker + drift — closes #32
Second iteration of the kernel-extension-mechanics milestone. Ships
the `new` Form-A keyword + `Term::New { type_name, args: Vec<NewArg> }`
AST variant + `NewArg::Type|Value` enum end-to-end through schema /
surface / checker, with two new diagnostics
(`NewTypeNotConstructible`, `NewArgKindMismatch`), a new arm in
prep.1's workspace-wide normalisation pre-pass `qualify_workspace_term`
that rewrites bare `Term::New.type_name` to qualified form
(symmetric to the existing `Term::Ctor` arm), and the data-model.md
+ form_a.md anchor additions. Codegen out of scope per spec; codegen
sites get `CodegenError::Internal` arms naming the raw-buf milestone
as the carrier.

Verification:

- `cargo test --workspace`: 654 tests passing, 0 failed.
- 3 new in-source checker tests pin the elaboration paths:
  `new_resolves_via_type_scope` (the spec's worked Counter example
  checks cleanly), `new_type_not_constructible` (missing `new` def
  in home module fires the new diagnostic), `new_arg_kind_mismatch_value_where_type`
  (kind-mismatch detection).
- 2 new schema-drift pins (`term_new_round_trips`,
  `term_new_type_arg_round_trips`) ratify the JSON byte shape:
  `{"t": "new", "type": "<TypeName>", "args": [{"kind": "type"|"value",
  "value": ...}]}`.
- 1 new surface round-trip pin exercises mixed-kind args through
  Form-A → JSON → Form-A.
- 44+ exhaustive Term-match sites across 24 files extended with
  `Term::New` arms — workspace-wide cargo build clean.

Concerns documented inline:

- `crates/ailang-core/tests/schema_coverage.rs` deliberately does
  NOT register `VariantTag::TermNew` in the `EXPECTED_VARIANTS`
  set. The coverage test asserts every declared variant is
  observed in the .ail fixture corpus; no .ail fixture in the
  current tree emits `"t": "new"` (codegen-runnable Term::New
  programs require the raw-buf milestone's plugin registry).
  Registering would fail the coverage check. The `visit_term` arm
  IS extended (compile-forced); only the enum registration is
  deferred. Inline rationale in the source. Future milestone that
  ships a Term::New fixture extends both sides.
- `crates/ailang-surface/src/print.rs` `write_term` Term::New arm
  was added in Task 1 (not Task 2 as planned), because without it
  ailang-core's tests fail to compile (the surface crate is in
  the dependency graph of ailang-core's test binaries). Task 2's
  round-trip pin verified the arm's correctness.
- Task 3 (synth elaboration) needed one implementer re-loop: the
  first attempt over-qualified within-module type-references via
  `qualify_local_types` on `new`'s signature when the home module
  was the calling module itself. Fixed by skipping qualification
  when `home_module == env.current_module`.

Architectural composition with prep.1: `Term::New` joins
`Term::Ctor` as a `type_name`-bearing site that goes through
`qualify_workspace_term`'s bare→qualified rewrite before the
checker sees it. The checker's `synth` arm for `Term::New`
therefore receives an already-qualified `type_name` (or a local
bare name for same-module construction).

Milestone status: kernel-extension-mechanics (Gitea #6) advances
2/3 iters. Next: prep.3 (kernel-tier modules + param-in), issue #33.
2026-05-28 15:31:13 +02:00
Brummel b586999e81 iter prep.1-type-scoped-namespacing (DONE 5/5): TypeDef-first resolution + workspace pre-pass — closes #31
First iteration of the kernel-extension-mechanics milestone. Ships
the type-scoped `<TypeName>.<member>` resolution path as the
canonical form for type-associated operations, narrows the
`BareCrossModuleTypeRef` / `BadCrossModuleTypeRef` diagnostics from
"bare = strictly local" to "bare = in-scope by any path", migrates
12 std-library example fixtures, and introduces a workspace-wide
normalisation pre-pass `prepare_workspace_for_check` shared between
`check_workspace` and `monomorphise_workspace`.

Architectural discovery during implementation: the plan covered the
`Term::Var` dot-qualified resolver layer plus the workspace
validator's bare-name acceptance, but the migration of bare-form
fixtures exposed five sites where bare vs. qualified type-names
needed symmetric treatment — `Term::Ctor` resolution, `Type::Con`
well-formedness, mono's poly-free-fn name/constraint-count
enumeration, codegen's `lookup_ctor_by_type` bare-name path, and
the upstream desugar-then-qualify composition. Rather than
scattering TypeDef-first ladders across each site, the implementer
centralised the work into one pre-pass that walks every consumer
module's `Type::Con.name` and `Term::Ctor.type_name`, rewriting
bare cross-module references to their qualified `<home>.<Type>`
form. This is symmetric to the pre-existing `qualify_local_types`
(owner-side); the new pre-pass is the consumer-side mirror.
Downstream passes see qualified Types regardless of authoring form.
The TypeDef-first ladder still lives in `synth`'s `Term::Var` arm
because `<TypeName>.<member>` is term-position-only — `Maybe.from_maybe`
is a Var, not a Type expression, and the pre-pass does not rewrite
Var names.

Alternatives considered:

(a) Add TypeDef-first ladder at every resolution site separately
    (the plan's implicit assumption). Rejected: O(N) extension
    sites, each carrying the same workspace-walking logic; the
    pre-pass version is O(1) — one pass, every downstream consumer
    benefits.
(b) BLOCKED + spec re-brainstorm. Rejected: the architecture
    extension is consistent with prep.1's thesis (bare type-name
    resolves to the workspace-wide TypeDef) and forward-compatible
    with prep.2 (Term::New.type_name falls under the same rewrite)
    and prep.3 (kernel-tier TypeDefs enter the workspace map
    automatically). No design regression to bounce back over.

Spec updated to document the realisation mechanism honestly: the
"Realisation mechanism — workspace pre-pass" subsection clarifies
that the resolver-level semantics described in "Implementation
shape" are the user-facing contract, and the actual code path is
the pre-pass.

Verification:

- `cargo test --workspace`: ALL GREEN. 87 e2e + every crate's unit
  + integration tests pass with no regressions.
- Three NEW in-source tests pin Task 1's resolver paths:
  `type_scoped_member_resolves`, `type_scoped_member_not_found`,
  `type_scoped_receiver_not_a_type`.
- One NEW workspace test pins the narrowed validator:
  `ct1_validator_accepts_bare_with_explicit_import`.
- One renamed-and-flipped existing test:
  `ct1_validator_rejects_bare_xmod_with_import_candidate` →
  `ct1_validator_accepts_bare_xmod_with_import_candidate` (the
  bare-with-import path is now ACCEPTED).
- One NEW companion test for the workspace-wide ctor lookup:
  `ct2_term_ctor_bare_cross_module_via_workspace_resolves`.
- Two pre-existing tests' assertions updated for the new error
  wording: `ct1_check_cli::check_human_mode_emits_actionable_message_to_stderr`
  and `crates/ailang-check/tests/workspace.rs::unknown_module_prefix_is_reported`.
- 12 migrated `.ail` fixtures verified via the existing e2e
  suite (each fixture is the test runner's target for an existing
  `build_and_run` assertion).
- Negative fixture `ct_2_bare_cross_module.ail` semantically
  preserved: dropped its `(import std_maybe)` so bare `Maybe` is
  out-of-scope under the narrowed rule and still fires
  `BareCrossModuleTypeRef`.

Concerns:

- The pre-pass introduces a new architectural layer (consumer-side
  qualification) that the spec did not originally anticipate. Spec
  amendment in this commit documents the layer. Future iterations
  reference `prepare_workspace_for_check` as established
  infrastructure.
- `examples/test_ct1_bare_xmod_rejected.ail.json` switched its
  offending name from bare `Ordering` (which under the prep.1
  semantics may now resolve via implicit prelude) to a still-
  unresolvable `Mystery_Type`. The CLI test's intent (assert that
  a human-mode `ail check` exits non-zero on a still-RED case) is
  preserved.

Milestone status: kernel-extension-mechanics (Gitea #6) advances
1/3 iters. Next: prep.2 (`Term::New` construct) issue #32.
2026-05-28 14:43:03 +02:00
Brummel 832375f2ac convention: counter-prefix file naming across docs/specs/, docs/plans/, design/contracts/, design/models/
All 176 files in the four accumulating directories now use a
zero-padded 4-digit counter prefix that reflects creation order
(`NNNN-slug.md`). The counter is assigned per directory in strict
git-log creation order; ties broken alphabetically by original name.
The old `YYYY-MM-DD-` prefix on docs/specs/ and docs/plans/ files is
dropped — the date is recoverable from git log and the counter
carries the ordering.

A file's counter is stable for the life of the file: never reassigned,
never reused, never compacted. Deleted files retire their counter;
subsequent files do not fill the gap. This is the property that lets
cross-references stay literal — refs use the full filename including
the counter (`design/contracts/0007-honesty-rule.md`) so they grep
cleanly and resolve directly without a glob step.

313 cross-references updated across .md/.rs/.toml/.c/.json files
(test pins, include_str! paths, design-INDEX entries, baseline notes,
runtime C comments, inter-contract markdown links incl. bare basename
and `../models/foo.md` forms).

CLAUDE.md gets a new "File-naming convention" section spelling out
the rule and rationale. skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md and
skills/planner/SKILL.md updated so new spec/plan creation produces
counter-prefixed names from the start.

The full test suite (cargo test --workspace) passes.
2026-05-28 13:31:31 +02:00
Brummel 4fc65ccb99 iter schema-camelcase-fix.1 (DONE 4/4): paramTypes/retType → param-types/ret-type — closes #30
`Term::Lam`'s two camelCase JSON tags become kebab-case, matching
the convention every other compound-key tag in the AST schema
already follows. After this iter the canonical JSON has zero
camelCase outliers.

## Schema swap (atomic, Task 2)

- `crates/ailang-core/src/ast.rs:492,494` — two
  `#[serde(rename)]` strings: `"paramTypes" → "param-types"`,
  `"retType" → "ret-type"`. Rust field names unchanged.
- `crates/ailang-core/src/workspace.rs:1925-1926` — in-source
  JSON literal in the `ct1_validator_walks_lam_embedded_types`
  test.
- `design/contracts/data-model.md:142-147` — fenced JSON block
  in the canonical data-model contract. Honesty-Rule touch-point:
  the contract document must describe the actual present-state
  schema.
- `examples/test_loop_binder_captured_by_lambda.ail.json` and
  `experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/master/examples/fn_with_lambda.ail.json`
  — the two `.ail.json` fixtures whose canonical-JSON embeds
  the renamed tags.

The five files moved together within one task because `Term::Lam`
has no `#[serde(default)]` on `param_tys` / `ret_ty` — a
renamed-away key is a hard deserialise error. Splitting the swap
would have left the workspace untestable mid-step.

## RED → GREEN pin (Tasks 1, 2)

`crates/ailang-core/tests/design_schema_drift.rs` gains
`lam_serialises_with_kebab_keys`: pins that `serde_json::to_value(&Term::Lam{...})`
emits `"param-types"` / `"ret-type"` AND does not emit the old
camelCase keys. Companion: the existing
`design_md_anchors_every_term_variant` test now also asserts the
kebab anchors appear inside `data-model.md`'s `lam` fenced block.
Both confirmed RED on entry, GREEN after Task 2.

## Rustdoc honesty pass (Task 3)

Three pure-prose edits keep production rustdoc consistent with
the new schema vocabulary: `crates/ailang-core/src/ast.rs:8` (the
module-level rename enumeration), `crates/ailang-surface/src/parse.rs:81`
(prose mention of `lam`'s carry), `crates/ailang-check/src/lib.rs:1707`
(InstanceMethod routing helper rustdoc). No compile or test
consequence — Honesty-Rule maintenance.

## Plan-pseudo-vs-reality finding: under-audited hash blast radius

The brainstorm spec audited `crates/ailang-core/tests/hash_pin.rs`
exhaustively (5 pinned modules, zero `(lam ...)` occurrences,
"no hash refresh required"). It missed
`crates/ailang-surface/tests/prelude_module_hash_pin.rs` — a
separate hash-pin file in a different crate that pins `prelude.ail`,
which contains 11 `(lam ...)` forms. The prelude module hash
drifted (`6d0577ff0d4e50ac` → `562a03fc57e7e017`); the implementer
refreshed it with a Honesty-Rule provenance comment matching the
precedent set in commit `26fb345`. Form-A is unchanged — only the
canonical-JSON byte stream differs, which is exactly what the
rename targets. The spec-side learning is: schema-rename
brainstorms must walk *every* test crate for hash-pin files, not
just the home crate of the AST.

## Why this shape, and not the alternatives

- *`params-ty` / `ret-ty` (Rust-field-name vibe)* — rejected. The
  AST JSON schema follows its own kebab/single-word convention,
  not Rust field names. The other multi-word tag (`reuse-as`) is
  kebab; abbreviating `params-ty` mixes singular+plural and has
  no precedent.
- *Inline typed params as a sub-tag* (e.g. `params: [{name, type}, ...]`)
  — rejected. Stronger semantic locality, but it changes schema
  topology rather than tag spelling. Out of scope for a camelCase
  correction; would have re-pinned far more than this milestone.
- *Bundle with #27 (arith-rename)* — rejected. #27 carries four
  open brainstorm questions (mod vs rem, neg vs sub 0, Num class,
  deprecation window) and is structurally a separate milestone.
  Each gets one re-pin wave with its own rationale; no churn
  saving from bundling.

## Honest call on the feature-acceptance gate

Clause 1 (LLM author naturally uses the new form) is the weakest
of the three. Direct empirical evidence is absent — the 2026-05-21
naming-A/B run measured a different axis. The argument is
indirect: a future LLM author generalises from the rest of the
schema ("compound keys are kebab"), and the two camelCase
outliers are precisely the sites where that generalisation
diverged from reality. Clause 2 (redundancy reduction) and
Clause 3 (no semantic surface touched) are direct.

## Forbidden touches verified untouched

`docs/plans/*.md` historic plans (which embed old tag names in
example JSON), `experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/master/spec.md`,
`experiments/.../rendered/*.md`, and `experiments/.../runs/**` —
all left as frozen historical artefacts per Honesty-Rule
analogue (describe state at time of writing, not present state).
Verified via `git diff --name-only HEAD` (Task 4 Step 4).

## Verification

- `cargo test --workspace`: all test groups OK, 0 failed,
  2 ignored (pre-existing).
- `cargo test -p ailang-surface --test round_trip`: GREEN
  (Form-A unchanged invariant).
- New schema-shape pin and the extended data-model anchor walk:
  GREEN after Task 2.
- Negative grep across `crates/`, `examples/`, `design/`,
  `runtime/`: the only remaining `paramTypes` / `retType`
  occurrences in checked-in code are the load-bearing
  negative-assertion strings inside the new pin (intentional —
  they are what makes the pin RED-able on regression).
- Stats: `bench/orchestrator-stats/2026-05-21-iter-schema-camelcase-fix.json`
  — 4/4 tasks DONE, no re-loops, no review-loops.

closes #30
2026-05-21 12:57:06 +02:00
Brummel 26fb3459d8 GREEN: io/print_str byte-faithful via @fputs(@stdout) — closes #29
The runtime print path now writes exactly the bytes of its
argument with no implicit trailing newline. `io/print_str` is
byte-faithful; authors who want a newline emit `(do io/print_str
"\n")` themselves.

## Codegen

`crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs`:
- Module preamble: `@puts(ptr)` → `@fputs(ptr, ptr)` plus
  `@stdout = external global ptr` (libc's `FILE *stdout`).
- Effect-op lowering for `io/print_str`: emit
  `getelementptr +8` then `load ptr, ptr @stdout` then
  `call/tail call i32 @fputs(ptr bytes, ptr fp)`. Identical
  bytes-pointer GEP, distinct sink.
- The pinned IR-shape test renames from
  `print_str_calls_puts_with_bytes_pointer` to
  `print_str_calls_fputs_with_bytes_pointer_and_stdout` and now
  asserts: bytes-GEP present, stdout-load present, both module-
  preamble declarations present, and no `@puts(` call anywhere
  in the emitted IR.

## Why this shape, and not the alternatives

- *Rename `io/print_str` to `io/println_str` (issue #29 option 2)*
  — kept the auto-newline, just relabelled it. AILang's design
  bias is explicit-over-implicit (CLAUDE.md: implicit conversions
  cut). Auto-newline is a hidden runtime augmentation; the rename
  would have preserved it. Rejected.
- *Append `\n` inside the polymorphic `print` (Show-mediated)
  function in `examples/prelude.ail`* — would have been a one-line
  fix. Rejected: `print` is the Show-mediated formatter, not a
  newline emitter; baking a newline into it would have re-imposed
  the same implicit-augmentation problem one layer up, breaking
  callers that legitimately want pure-bytes output.

## Fixture / test sweep

30 `.ail` fixtures whose owning tests asserted line-separated
stdout now emit explicit `(do io/print_str "\n")` after each
print. Tests that asserted on multi-line stdout (`show_print_e2e`,
`floats_e2e`, `str_concat_e2e`, `eq_ord_e2e`, several `print_*`
smoke tests) had their fixtures sweetened the same way; assertions
themselves remain the canonical observable output. Fixtures that
never relied on the newline (no test ever read the absence of one)
were left untouched.

## Migrated metadata

- `crates/ailang-core/tests/hash_pin.rs`: the `ordering_match::main`
  canonical hash is refreshed (`b65a7f834703ffb4` →
  `8ed47b4062ce00f5`). The comment now names both successive
  corpus migrations honestly: the per-type-print-retirement (which
  moved `(do io/print_int x)` to `(app print x)`) AND this
  fputs swap (which wrapped that with `(seq ... (do io/print_str
  "\n"))`).
- `design/contracts/str-abi.md`: the consumer-ABI table now lists
  `@fputs` as the print sink. A prose paragraph documents the
  byte-faithful semantics and references this issue.
- `examples/ordering_match.prose.txt`: regenerated from the
  updated `ordering_match.ail`.
- `crates/ail/tests/snapshots/{hello,sum,max3,list,ws_main}.ll`:
  IR snapshots regenerated via `UPDATE_SNAPSHOTS=1`.
- Stale `@puts` comments in `runtime/str.c`,
  `crates/ail/tests/{e2e,show_print_e2e,print_no_leak_pin}.rs`
  replaced with `@fputs`.

## Verification

- `cargo test -p ail --test print_str_no_auto_newline_e2e` — both
  RED tests from commit c8ecfa3 now pass.
- `cargo test --workspace` — 90 test groups GREEN, 0 failures.
- `cargo build --workspace` — GREEN.
- No new clippy lints (24 warnings pre-existing in
  `crates/ailang-core/src/lib.rs:129`).
- Stats: `bench/orchestrator-stats/2026-05-21-iter-bugfix-print-
  str-fputs.json` — 1/1 tasks, 0 re-loops, 0 review loops.

## Empirical evidence cited

Caught in the 2026-05-21 Qwen3-Coder naming-A/B run
(`experiments/2026-05-21-naming-ab/runs/r1/`): every cohort wrote
`(do io/print_str "...\n")` with explicit `\n` and got doubled
newlines, failing the `t3_main_prints` stdout match across all
three cohorts. The empirical LLM-natural form already assumes the
new (post-this-commit) semantics — confirming the
feature-acceptance test in CLAUDE.md.

closes #29
2026-05-21 12:22:45 +02:00
Brummel 5170b6abd1 iter operator-routing-eq-ord.1 (DONE 13/13): drop comparator builtins, route through Eq/Ord
Closes Gitea #1. Realises the "P2 follow-up" called out in
examples/prelude.ail:9 — removes the surface comparator names
`==` / `!=` / `<` / `<=` / `>` / `>=` from the language entirely,
routes the LLM-author's `(app eq …)` / `(app compare …)` /
`(app ne|lt|le|gt|ge …)` through prelude.Eq / prelude.Ord class-
dispatch, ships six named Float-comparison fns
(`float_eq`/`float_ne`/`float_lt`/`float_le`/`float_gt`/`float_ge`)
so Float keeps comparability without an Eq/Ord instance, and emits
primitive instance bodies with `alwaysinline` so the -O0 IR shape
stays at one instruction per comparison.

Plan-task journal (13 tasks, single atomic iter per Approach A):

  Task 1 — Bootstrap: 4 new fixtures (eq_user_adt_smoke.ail,
    eq_float_must_fail.ail, float_compare_smoke.ail,
    operator_unbound_check.ail) + 5 new E2E/pin tests as RED
    starting state. All 5 confirmed RED at start: north-star
    fixed `NoInstance Eq Unit` (preserved by Unit-eq opening line
    intentionally added in plan-self-review); float_compare unknown
    `float_eq`; operator-name typechecked (== still polymorphic);
    must-fail diagnostic lacked `float_eq`; alwaysinline absent
    from IR.

  Task 2 — Codegen alwaysinline + intercept arms: introduced
    `intercept_emit_wants_alwaysinline` allowlist + appended
    ` alwaysinline` between `)` and `{` of the `define` line in
    `emit_fn`; added 9 new intercept arms to
    `try_emit_primitive_instance_body` — `eq__Int`/`eq__Bool`/
    `eq__Unit` + the six `float_*` arms.

  Task 3 — Prelude reshape: `instance Eq Unit` added; Eq Int/Bool
    bodies become placeholder-`false` (intercept overrides); six
    `float_*` free fns added; line-9 P2-follow-up comment removed.
    Lockstep hash re-pins: prelude_module_hash_pin (3abe0d3fa3c11c99
    → new), mono_hash_stability six body-hash literals
    (eq__Int/Bool/Str + compare__Int/Bool/Str all shifted because
    placeholder body changes the canonical hash). IR-snapshot
    regen (hello/list/max3/sum/ws_main) rolled forward into this
    task at orchestrator's pragmatic call — prelude shift forces
    the snapshots immediately.

  Task 4 — Fixture migration: 58 .ail fixtures rewritten
    (`(app == …)` → `(app eq …)`, etc.; Float-typed operand sites
    to `(app float_eq …)` / `(app float_lt …)`). eq_ord_user_adt.ail:21
    inner `==` → `eq` migration with lockstep eq_ord_e2e.rs:134
    body-hash re-pin (3c4cf040cb4e8bb2 → new). Two prose snapshots
    accepted; deps test + 5 hash_pin literals updated as cascading
    consequences.

  Task 5 — Test-scaffold migration: all 8 in-source
    `#[cfg(test)] mod tests` AST-literal sites threaded
    (desugar.rs:2414, check/lib.rs:5656/6092/6220, codegen/lib.rs
    sites). 7 obsolete in-source tests deleted (5 eq_typechecks +
    2 lower_eq ADT/Fn rejection — coverage moves to E2E
    eq_user_adt_smoke + eq_float_must_fail). 2 additional letrec
    tests deleted (single-module check env can't resolve eq/ge
    without prelude auto-import; covered by workspace E2E).

  Task 6 — Lit-pattern desugar: build_eq emits
    `Term::Var { name: "eq" }` instead of `"=="` at desugar.rs:1109;
    doc-comment rewritten to describe class-dispatch.

  Task 7 — Dead-machinery deletion sweep (compile-gated): typchecker
    builtins (install + list comparator entries deleted); codegen
    builtin_binop_typed (10 comparator arms deleted from synth.rs,
    table reduced to arithmetic core); lower_eq fn entirely
    deleted; `==` short-circuit in lower_app deleted;
    `is_static_callee` `==` clause deleted;
    `is_arithmetic_or_comparison_op` renamed to `is_arithmetic_op`
    + caller-update at codegen/lib.rs:2152 + :2529. Dead
    `poly_a_a_to_bool` helpers also removed. Workspace build green
    after compile gate — every caller of the deleted surface was
    migrated by Tasks 4-6.

  Task 8 — Float-aware NoInstance diagnostic: check/lib.rs:856-880
    addendum extended to name `float_eq` / `float_lt` as the
    explicit alternative for Eq/Ord at Float;
    eq_float_noinstance.rs:32-44 assertion extended.

  Task 9 — IR snapshot regen: subsumed by Task 3 (prelude shift
    forced immediate snapshot regen; deferring to Task 9 would
    have left the workspace red between tasks).

  Task 10 — Prose-projection cleanup: 6 comparator arms deleted
    from binop_info; 3 in-source mod-tests updated/deleted
    (comparator-infix rendering would be dishonest now that the
    operators are no longer language identifiers).

  Task 11 — Contract updates: 5 design files rewritten to the
    class-dispatch present —
      float-semantics.md (arithmetic guarantees retained on
        +/-/*/; comparison guarantees transferred from ==/!=/<
        to float_eq/float_ne/float_lt/etc.);
      prelude-classes.md (Eq Unit added to instance list;
        new paragraph on six float_* fns; Float-no-Eq/Ord clause
        gains `→ use float_eq` cross-reference);
      str-abi.md (clause "REMAIN primitive operators" rewritten
        to describe class-method dispatch);
      scope-boundaries.md (multiple operator-name and
        Pattern::Lit-desugar clauses rewritten);
      authoring-surface.md (==, <= dropped from operator-example
        list).

  Task 12 — Initial acceptance gate: workspace 638/0 GREEN;
    bench/compile_check + cross_lang 0 regressed; bench/check.py
    flagged 4 regressions on bench_closure_chain (+29% bump_s,
    +47% rc_s, +29% bump_rss_kb, +48% rc_rss_kb). Orchestrator
    initially classified as DONE-with-concerns; Boss reclassified
    as PARTIAL-via-acceptance-#8-fail after independent re-run,
    extended iter scope to Task 13.

  Task 13 — Direct icmp intercept arms (Boss-extension):
    try_emit_primitive_instance_body gains direct-icmp arms for
    lt__Int / le__Int / gt__Int / ge__Int / ne__Int, bypassing
    the compare__Int → Ordering → match indirection that allocated
    one Ordering ctor per call in tight loops. Each new arm
    inherits `alwaysinline` via the existing allowlist (extended
    accordingly). New IR pin test `ord_int_intercept_ir_pin.rs`
    + smoke fixture `ord_int_intercept_smoke.ail` ratify the
    optimization — opt -O2 -S confirms zero `call
    @ail_prelude_lt__Int` in optimized IR; the icmp folds directly
    at every use site. Bool variants (lt__Bool/etc.) deliberately
    NOT added — no bench/example calls Ord at Bool; spec-extension
    permits skipping if unreachable at bench level. Family can be
    extended symmetrically when first Bool-ordered perf workload
    appears.

Bench-gate post-Task-13: bench_closure_chain bump_s -6.05%,
rc_s -2.67%, bump_rss_kb -0.77%, rc_rss_kb +0.46% — all four
previously-regressed metrics back inside tolerance. Full bench
corpus: 36 metrics, 0 regressed, 0 improved beyond tolerance,
36 stable. bench/check.py exit 0 ✓; bench/compile_check.py exit
0 ✓; bench/cross_lang.py exit 0 ✓.

Workspace: 640 passed, 0 failed across all binaries (delta vs.
milestone start: +5 new E2E/pin tests added in Task 1 + 1 IR pin
added in Task 13 − 9 in-source mod tests deleted as obsolete net
≈ −3). The eq_user_adt_smoke fixture's Unit-opening line was
the deliberate RED-first device added in planner self-review so
the north-star wouldn't accidentally GREEN at start (user-ADT-Eq
on Point with hand-written instance was already operable today;
the milestone's actual delivery is operator-name death + Eq Unit
+ Float-named-fns + cleanup of the two-pathy primitive
comparator machinery).

Net delta: 96 files changed, 1760 insertions, 1101 deletions;
12 net-new files (6 new fixtures, 5 new E2E/pin tests, 1 stats
file). main passes-test-count: 640 (was 633 pre-iter, accounting
for the deletions).

Spec-vs-acceptance addendum: spec §Testing strategy anticipated
the bench-gate-regression case with two recovery paths
(`alwaysinline` investigation or "spec needs revisiting toward α").
Task 13 is the third path — direct intercept arms for `lt`/etc.
that bypass the compare→match path entirely. The spec's contingency
clause was thus generous enough to absorb Task 13 without spec
revision, but a future iter that hits a class-method primitive
where the body shape introduces a similar codegen cost (Ordering
allocation, RC tax, deferred-init) should expect a parallel
extension. The pattern is "primitive instance whose canonical body
indirects through other class methods that allocate" → add a
direct-emit intercept arm + alwaysinline + IR-shape pin.

Concerns absorbed:
  - Codegen lower_app / resolve_top_level_fn gained a
    prelude-fallback lookup so bare monomorphic prelude fns
    (`float_eq` etc.) resolve from non-prelude modules without
    explicit `prelude.float_eq` qualifier. Mirrors the
    typechecker's implicit prelude import — not in plan but
    necessary infra for the named-fn surface to be callable.
  - Recon's "≈10 fixtures" estimate was 6× too low — 58 actual.
    Mechanical migration; no design impact.
  - Recon caught 4 in-source AST-literal sites the spec missed
    (lib.rs:5656 `>=` site + three codegen/lib.rs sites);
    Task 5 covered all.
  - Recon caught 2 contract files outside the spec's update set
    that directly contradicted the milestone (str-abi.md +
    scope-boundaries.md "REMAIN primitive operators" /
    "Pattern::Lit desugar to ==" clauses); Task 11 covered all 5.

Stats file:
`bench/orchestrator-stats/2026-05-21-iter-operator-routing-eq-ord.1.json`.

closes #1
2026-05-21 01:16:21 +02:00
Brummel 14a91f0ae5 iter boehm-retirement.1 (DONE 10/10): retire the transitional Boehm GC backend
Closes Gitea #4. Removes the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative GC
backend wholesale across six layers in one atomic iteration. After
this iter, `AllocStrategy` has two variants (`Rc`, `Bump`),
`--alloc=gc` is rejected at CLI parse with `unknown --alloc value`,
the libgc link arm is gone, and the design ledger describes RC
(canonical) + bump (raw-alloc bench-floor) as the only allocators.

Layer-by-layer summary:

  CLI surface — `crates/ail/src/main.rs`:
    `parse_alloc_strategy` arm `"gc" => Ok(AllocStrategy::Gc)`
    removed; error wording updated to `(expected `rc` or `bump`)`;
    clap-derive `value_parser = ["gc","bump","rc"]` allowlist on
    BOTH `Build` and `Run` subcommands DROPPED so that
    `parse_alloc_strategy` remains the sole gatekeeper for the
    unknown-value diagnostic (otherwise clap shadows the runtime
    diagnostic with `invalid value 'gc' for '--alloc'`, which would
    miss the milestone-pin's stderr substring check). The
    `default_value = "rc"` stays.

  Codegen — `crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs`:
    `AllocStrategy::Gc` variant + `Default` derive removed (no
    caller of `AllocStrategy::default()` existed in the workspace,
    so the trait derivation was dead). `fn_name` (spec called it
    `runtime_alloc_fn` loosely; actual identifier is `fn_name`)
    drops the `Gc => "GC_malloc"` arm. `lower_workspace` and
    `lower_workspace_staticlib` defaults flip from `Gc` to `Rc`.
    In-source negative-complement codegen test (mod tests, lib.rs:3571ff)
    retargets from `AllocStrategy::Gc` to `AllocStrategy::Bump`
    (bump also doesn't emit per-type drop fns; the test's semantic
    "no drop fns under non-RC" is preserved).

  Link branch — `crates/ail/src/main.rs:2389ff`:
    The `match strategy { AllocStrategy::Gc => { ... cmd.arg("-lgc"); ... } }`
    arm and its libgc-link block are entirely gone. The surviving
    match exhausts on `Bump` and `Rc` (Rust's exhaustiveness check
    confirms; no `error[E0004]`). Staticlib-guard diagnostic
    rewritten to drop the "shared Boehm collector" phrasing while
    preserving the prefix `staticlib (swarm) artefact is RC-only`
    verbatim (the surviving `staticlib_bump_is_rejected` test
    depends on that substring).

  Test suite — 3 pure-differential e2e tests deleted
    (`gc_handles_recursive_list_construction`,
    `alloc_rc_produces_same_stdout_as_gc`,
    `alloc_rc_matches_gc_on_std_list_demo`); 9 RC-feature tests
    stripped of their `stdout_gc` build call and differential
    `assert_eq!(stdout_gc, stdout_rc, ...)` (absolute
    `assert_eq!(stdout_rc.trim(), "<n>")` pin retained as
    correctness oracle); `staticlib_gc_is_rejected` deleted; new
    milestone-pin `crates/ail/tests/boehm_retirement_pin.rs`
    asserts `ail build --alloc=gc` exits ≠ 0 with stderr containing
    `unknown --alloc value` and `\`gc\``; `examples/gc_stress.ail`
    fixture deleted (no remaining references).

    Implementer expansion (not in plan): `iter17a_local_box_alloca`
    (in `e2e.rs`) carried an IR-shape assertion against
    `@GC_malloc`-absence as the witness for non-escaping
    allocation. After the Task-2 codegen default flip, the witness
    shifts to `@ailang_rc_alloc`-absence in escape-targeted
    positions; assertion + doc-comment updated. Property
    protected ("no heap allocation in non-escaping contexts") is
    unchanged; only the named allocator shifts.

  Bench harness — `bench/run.sh` 9→6 column compaction
    (workload + bump(s) + rc(s) + rc/bump + bump RSS + rc RSS);
    gc-arm `bench_latency_implicit_gc` build call + harness
    invocation dropped from latency block; header comment reframed
    from "GC-overhead bench harness" to "RC-overhead bench
    harness"; "Decision 10's Boehm-retirement target (1.3x)"
    rewording to "RC-overhead-vs-bump bench-health regression gate".

    `bench/check.py:62` header-sentinel changes from
    `"gc(s)" in line` to `"bump(s)" in line`; column-count check
    at `:72` flips from `!= 9` to `!= 6`; per-workload field set
    drops `gc_s`/`gc_over_bump`/`gc_rss_kb`; `ARM_LABEL_TO_KEY`
    drops the `"implicit @ gc": "implicit_at_gc"` entry.
    `bench/baseline.json` regenerated via `--update-baseline`.

    Implementer note (planner-defect): `write_new_baseline`
    iterated over the *existing* baseline's metric list when
    emitting the regenerated file, so even after parser-level
    `gc_*` removal, the fallback emitted them back into the JSON.
    Scrubbed post-update; the cleaner fix (have
    `write_new_baseline` emit only keys present in
    `parsed_throughput[workload]`) is a follow-up if the script
    becomes load-bearing for further allocator changes.

  Design ledger — `design/models/rc-uniqueness.md` excises the
    `## Dual allocator — RC canonical, Boehm parity oracle`
    section and the `Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative GC` choice
    block + rationale + trade-offs; the per-fn-alloca section
    generalises Boehm-specific language to allocator-agnostic;
    the memory-model section's `## Choice.` paragraph reframes the
    1.3× target from "Boehm-retirement gate" to "bench-health
    regression gate".

    `design/models/pipeline.md` drops the `--alloc=gc → links libgc`
    arm of the pipeline diagram and replaces it with
    `--alloc=bump → links bump-floor`; the accompanying prose
    rewrites accordingly.

    `design/contracts/scope-boundaries.md` rewrites the
    "Memory management via Boehm conservative GC" bullet to
    describe RC + per-fn-arena present-tense; the dead reference
    to `examples/gc_stress.ail.json` (file never existed; the
    fixture only ever had a `.ail` form, deleted by this iter) is
    dropped along with the `examples/std_list_stress.ail.json`
    reference whose purpose was Boehm-only soak testing.
    `:67`'s `@printf` / `@GC_malloc` parenthetical updated.

    `design/contracts/memory-model.md:232` drops the
    "leaks like the pre-Boehm era" phrase; the RC inc/dec
    instrumentation is wired up, so the "until then" conditional
    that referenced pre-Boehm is closed.

    `design/contracts/embedding-abi.md:42-44` rewrites the
    staticlib-guard prose to drop the `--alloc=gc` clause (gc is
    now a CLI-parser-level unknown-value, not a staticlib-guard
    rejection) and reframe the swarm-safety justification around
    `--alloc=bump` (leak-only bench instrument) rather than the
    historical Boehm collector.

  Honesty pin — `crates/ailang-core/tests/docs_honesty_pin.rs`
    inverts the polarity: the present-tense Boehm-anchor assertion
    on `pipeline.md` (`:116-117`) is deleted, and four
    absence-pins are added to `design_md_has_no_wunschdenken`
    against the Boehm-zombie strings `transitional Boehm`,
    `parity oracle`, `GC_malloc`, `libgc`. The
    `design_corpus()` already includes `rc-uniqueness.md` so no
    path-list change was needed for the new pins to scan.

    `crates/ailang-core/tests/design_index_pin.rs:166` drops the
    `"pre-Boehm"` token from the protected-exception comment list
    (the phrase no longer appears in `memory-model.md` after this
    iter, so the exception is dead).

  Runtime docs — `runtime/bump.c`, `runtime/rc.c`, `runtime/str.c`
    header comments scrubbed of Boehm/`GC_malloc`/`libgc`
    references. `bump.c`'s function signature description still
    documents `void *bump_malloc(size_t)` as the bench-floor
    allocator interface, but no longer cross-references libgc.

  Example fixtures — `examples/bench_latency_implicit.ail`,
    `bench_latency_explicit.ail`, `escape_local_demo.ail`,
    `reuse_as_demo.ail`, `rc_pin_recurse_implicit.ail` doc-comment
    headers scrubbed of `--alloc=gc` / Boehm references. The
    `.ail` surface (AST) is untouched in every case; round-trip
    invariant holds (`cargo test -p ailang-surface --test round_trip`
    green).

  Skill / agent prompts — `skills/audit/agents/ailang-bencher.md`
    rewritten to use an RC-vs-bump worked example pattern for the
    hypothesis-driven bench tutorial, replacing the recurring
    "RC vs Boehm under heap pressure" example.
    `skills/implement/agents/ailang-implementer.md` Decision-10 /
    Boehm references replaced with present-tense RC-commitment
    framing.

  IR snapshots — the 5 checked-in snapshots
    (`crates/ail/tests/snapshots/{hello,list,max3,sum,ws_main}.ll`)
    regenerated via `UPDATE_SNAPSHOTS=1 cargo test -p ail --test
    ir_snapshot`. Each previously contained
    `declare ptr @GC_malloc(i64)` and (for `list.ll`) a `call ptr
    @GC_malloc(...)` invocation; post-flip the snapshots contain
    `declare ptr @ailang_rc_alloc(i64)` plus the rc inc/dec runtime
    declarations.

Spec-vs-acceptance addendum (caught at orchestrator end-report,
absorbed here rather than in a follow-up spec edit): spec §6
acceptance criteria said "Boehm-grep returns matches ONLY in
docs_honesty_pin.rs". The plan itself prescribed historical Boehm
references in 3 additional files: (a) the new milestone-pin
`boehm_retirement_pin.rs` (must literally invoke `--alloc=gc` to
assert its rejection), (b) `embed_staticlib_alloc_guard.rs` file
doc-comment historical note ("`--alloc=gc` no longer exists as a
CLI value"), (c) `embedding-abi.md:44-45` contract historical
clause ("see the Boehm-retirement iter"). All three are
prescribed; the spec's grep wording was too narrow. The four
absence-pins in `docs_honesty_pin.rs` catch the actual zombies
(Boehm-narrative re-emerging in the design ledger), which is the
substantive intent the spec was aiming at — the four extra
documented-by-design exceptions are the cost of having an
explicit milestone-pin and contract-level historical anchors.

Net delta:
  - 32 files modified, 2 new (boehm_retirement_pin.rs + stats),
    1 deleted (gc_stress.ail);
  - workspace tests: every binary `0 failed`. Pass-count delta:
    -3 net (4 e2e tests deleted, 1 new milestone-pin test added);
  - boehm-grep state: hits only in the four by-design exceptions
    documented above;
  - `bench/check.py` exit 0 against regenerated baseline;
  - CLI must-fail fixture: `ail build --alloc=gc examples/hello.ail`
    exits non-zero with stderr containing `unknown --alloc value`
    and `\`gc\``;
  - design ledger present-tense honest (Boehm-narrative gone from
    `rc-uniqueness.md` + `pipeline.md`; the few historical
    references in `embedding-abi.md` / `boehm_retirement_pin.rs` /
    `embed_staticlib_alloc_guard.rs` are explicit milestone-pins
    or contract anchors, not silent ledger residue).

Bench measurement variance noted: closure-chain and hof-pipeline
are ±1-5% jittery between runs; one regeneration flagged 2
metrics as `regressed` before a second run returned 0. The
captured baseline is within self-comparison range. Existing
per-metric tolerances absorb the jitter.

Stats file:
`bench/orchestrator-stats/2026-05-20-iter-boehm-retirement.1.json`.

closes #4
2026-05-20 20:51:53 +02:00
Brummel 7a42989b34 iter nullary-app.1 (DONE 5/5): accept (app f) as canonical zero-arg call
Resolves Gitea #12 — the design fork from the 2026-05-20 /boss
session, surfaced independently by two prior fieldtests
(mut-local F3 + loop-recur `run_forever`).

Mechanics, layer by layer:

  Parser — `crates/ailang-surface/src/parse.rs:1322-1331` drops
    the 4-line `expected at least one argument` guard in
    `parse_app_body`. Grammar comments at file top change `term+`
    to `term*` on both `app-term` and `tail-app-term`; doc comment
    on `parse_app_body` changes `1+ args` to `0+ args`. Inline
    comment cites #12 and notes which layers below already accept
    empty args.

  Serde — `crates/ailang-core/src/ast.rs:419-425` annotates
    `Term::App.args` with `#[serde(default)]`, mirroring
    `Term::Ctor.args`'s *actual* attrs verbatim (no
    `skip_serializing_if`). Write behaviour unchanged — canonical
    JSON still emits `"args":[]` for nullary calls; only read
    behaviour gains tolerance for the `args` key being absent.
    Verified hash-impact-free at plan time:
    `grep -rn '"args":\[\]' examples/*.ail.json` returns zero
    matches, so no existing fixture's canonical bytes shift.

  Doc-honesty — `design/contracts/data-model.md`:
    (a) the `app` jsonc shape gains an explicit "args may be
        empty / read-tolerant" note;
    (b) the existing `ctor` comment claiming "args omitted when
        empty" was factually false (Ctor.args has no
        `skip_serializing_if`; a serde probe at plan time
        confirmed writes always emit `"args":[]`). Rewritten to
        describe the actual write/read asymmetry, with a
        cross-reference to the new `app` note.

  E2E pin — `crates/ail/tests/nullary_app_e2e.rs` +
    `examples/nullary_app_smoke.ail`. Defines `greet : fn()
    -> Unit !IO` and calls it as `(app greet)`; asserts stdout
    `"hello\n"`. RED→GREEN pin for the parser change AND the
    milestone-protecting E2E for nullary call surface going
    forward. Fixture literal is `"hello"` (no `\n`) because
    `io/print_str` lowers via `puts` which appends a newline —
    the plan body had a `"hello\n"` literal which would have
    yielded `"hello\n\n"`; the implementer caught and aligned to
    the canonical pattern in `examples/hello.ail` while writing
    the fixture, fix scoped to that single file.

Layers below parser untouched: typechecker's arity check at
`crates/ailang-check/src/lib.rs:3300` is `args.len() !=
params.len()` which is `0 != 0 → false` for nullary; codegen's
`args.iter().zip(sig.params.iter())` at
`crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs:2410` is an empty loop;
LLVM `call @ail_<mod>_<name>()` with empty arglist is valid;
surface printer's arg-emit loop at
`crates/ailang-surface/src/print.rs:430-434` writes nothing for
empty args, producing exactly `(app f)`.

Verification: full workspace `cargo test --workspace --quiet`
green (0 failed across all crates); drift pins
`design_index_pin 5/5` + `design_schema_drift 8/8`; round-trip
`2/2`; new `nullary_app_e2e 1/1`. Stats file:
`bench/orchestrator-stats/2026-05-20-iter-nullary-app.1.json`.

closes #12
2026-05-20 18:57:14 +02:00
Brummel 13946219f5 fix(runtime): mirror surface .0-fallback in ailang_float_to_str
`runtime/str.c::ailang_float_to_str` now applies the `.0`-fallback
already enforced by the surface printer's `write_float_lit`
(crates/ailang-surface/src/print.rs lines 624-637): after the
existing `%g` snprintf, if `x` is finite and the rendered buffer
contains neither `.` nor `e`/`E`, append `.0` so a whole-valued
Float renders with Float-shaped text. The `isfinite(x)` fence
keeps `nan`/`inf`/`-inf` from matching the predicate and turning
into `nan.0`/`inf.0`. The 64-byte stack buffer's truncation guard
is extended by 2 bytes for the fallback path so the defensive
`abort()` discipline holds.

The alternative (document `%g`-without-fallback in the design/
ledger as a deliberate human-friendly contract) was rejected: the
language's stated ethos is machine-readability and round-trip
identity; the surface printer is the reference, runtime drift
from it is a defect not a feature.

Golden updates flow from the contract change. Three fixtures
encoded the old Int-shaped output for Float values:
- `crates/ail/tests/floats_e2e.rs`: `"4\n42\n-1.5\n"` →
  `"4.0\n42.0\n-1.5\n"` (1.5+2.5=4.0, int_to_float(42)=42.0).
- `crates/ail/tests/e2e.rs::mut_sum_floats_prints_55`: `"55"` →
  `"55.0"`. The accompanying doc comment used to canonicalise the
  bug ("`%g` strips the trailing `.0` — so the canonical stdout
  for Float 55.0 is `55`"); rewritten to reflect the new contract.
- `examples/mut_sum_floats.ail` docstring: same correction.

Two doc comments are updated where the post-fix contract differs
from the old text but the fixture golden does not change:
- `examples/float_to_str_smoke.ail` docstring (3.5 still renders
  as `3.5` because `.` is already present — the fallback does not
  fire).
- `crates/ail/tests/e2e.rs::float_to_str_smoke` doc comment (same
  observation, made explicit so the trip-wire's intent is clear).

Verified: `cargo test -p ail --test print_float_whole_e2e` green
(was RED at f19b0dd); `cargo test --workspace` 0 failed across
all crates and integration suites.

closes #7
2026-05-20 18:24:57 +02:00
Brummel a355fd861e fix(drift): scope anchor-presence check to jsonc fenced blocks
Adds `anchor_in_jsonc_block(md, anchor) -> bool` to
`design_schema_drift.rs` — a line-walking helper that toggles on
``` / ~~~ fence markers (any info-string: jsonc, json, or
unspecified — all count) and returns true only if the anchor
appears inside fenced content. Re-routes the seven
`DATA_MODEL.contains(anchor)` assertion sites in the file
(Term, Pattern, Type, Literal, Def, ParamMode, nested struct
keys) onto it.

The carrier from `debug` named six sites; in the implement phase
the orchestrator flagged a seventh — `design_md_anchors_nested_
struct_keys` — that exhibited the identical scope-widening bug and
was structurally identical to the named six. Routing it uniformly
is the cohesive shape of the fix; leaving it as `.contains()`
would have preserved a known false-positive surface inside the
same file the fix targets. The "minimal fix, no surrounding
cleanup" constraint blocks opportunistic refactor, not the
uniform application of the named one-line substitution.

Verified: 8/8 in `design_schema_drift` green (was 7 + 1 compile-
blocking RED at c8c30d5); full ailang-core suite green; full
workspace `cargo test` green, no regressions.

Mirrors the inverse `strip_fences` pattern in
`crates/ailang-core/tests/design_index_pin.rs`.

closes #10
2026-05-20 18:15:44 +02:00
Brummel 21cfccf846 iter bench-harness-recalibration.1 (DONE 4/4): drop 6 latency entries + recapture baselines
One-artefact iter on `bench/baseline.json`.  Closes Gitea #15 + #16
as documented in the spec commit `a97aaeb`.

Changes:

- `note` field rewritten forward-looking: drops the retired-JOURNAL
  workflow reference (Journal system deleted in 54f0ced) and the
  now-moot `*.max_us` tolerance convention (the metric being
  described is being removed in the same edit).  Points readers at
  `docs/specs/2026-05-20-bench-harness-recalibration.md` + closed
  issues #15 / #16 for rationale.
- 6 latency entries removed (`max_us` + `p99_9_us` × 3 arms:
  `implicit_at_gc`, `explicit_at_rc`, `implicit_at_rc`).  After the
  edit, `bench/check.py` gates only on `median_us` / `p99_us` /
  `p99_over_median` across the three latency arms.
- All remaining baselines (48 throughput + 9 latency = 57 metrics)
  regenerated by `bench/check.py --update-baseline` on HEAD
  `ddb50c3` from a fresh `bench/run.sh -n 5`.  `captured` field
  bumped 2026-05-09 → 2026-05-20.  Per-metric `tolerance_pct` and
  `version` preserved verbatim by `write_new_baseline`
  (`bench/check.py:249-284`).

Verification:

- Acceptance §1 (same-HEAD replay): `bench/check.py` exit 0, summary
  `57 metrics; 0 regressed, 0 improved, 57 stable` on first try
  (no single-run noise mitigation triggered).
- Acceptance §2 (synthetic injection): halving
  `throughput.bench_list_sum.bump_s.baseline` 0.053 → 0.026 fires
  REGRESSION row `+99.57% > 10.0%` with exit 1; restoration via
  `jq` returns the value to 0.053 and the next `bench/check.py`
  exits 0 (with 2 `improvement` rows on
  `latency.explicit_at_rc.p99_us` / `p99_over_median` at ≈-33% —
  improvements never gate; this is exactly the tail-distribution
  jitter that motivated dropping `max_us` / `p99_9_us`).

Diff shape:

- `bench/baseline.json` shows +230 / -67 lines.  Most of the line-
  count growth is the `json.dumps(indent=2)` pretty-print emitted
  by `--update-baseline` (`bench/check.py:283`) replacing the
  previous hand-formatted compact entries (each metric was one
  line; now each is six).  No behavioural delta — the file is
  semantically identical to a hand-edited version of the same
  changes.  Future `--update-baseline` runs will keep this expanded
  format.
- `bench/orchestrator-stats/2026-05-20-iter-bench-harness-recalibration.1.json`
  is the iter-stats artefact: outcome DONE, 0 re-loops across all
  4 tasks, the four bench-result fields documenting the acceptance
  outcomes.  Stats files are committed per `skills/implement/SKILL.md`
  Step 3.

No code change to `bench/check.py` / `bench/run.sh` /
`bench/latency_harness.py`.  No Rust crate touched.  `cargo test`
not exercised by this iter — the harness IS the test surface and
its replay+injection ARE the acceptance checks.

Follow-up noted (not addressed here):

- `skills/implement/agents/ailang-implement-orchestrator.md`
  references a Phase-4 per-iter journal write; the
  `docs/journals/` directory was retired in 54f0ced.  The
  orchestrator handled the mismatch by skipping the phase; the
  agent prompt itself is stale and should be edited in a follow-up
  tidy iter.

closes #15
closes #16
2026-05-20 16:15:13 +02:00
Brummel 93887aa03b workflow: replace docs/roadmap.md with Gitea issue backlog
The forward queue moves out of the in-tree markdown file and into
Gitea issues at http://192.168.178.103:3000/Brummel/AILang/issues.
Labels: kind:{milestone,feature,todo,idea} + prio:{p1,p2,p3}
+ state:in-progress. Big chunks live as Gitea milestones
(containers) with full prose in the description; smaller items are
standalone issues. Browse-and-filter scales constant against
growing item count; the previous markdown file was 1059 lines, of
which ~850 were already-closed-entry verlauf (the same failure
class the JOURNAL cut removed).

Sync-drift Code<>Tracker mitigation: Soft-convention `closes #N`
/ `refs #N` in commit bodies — Gitea auto-closes the issue on
push. Captured in user-level CLAUDE.md (~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, not
in this commit) as the durable rule; no hook enforcement.

In-repo changes:

- docs/roadmap.md deleted.
- CLAUDE.md (project): Code-layout drops roadmap; /boss gating
  retargeted; Roles section rewritten with a new "Gitea issues"
  bullet (URL + tea-CLI snippet) and the closes-#N trailer note.
- skills/boss/SKILL.md: 10 sites retargeted, plus Step 1 now
  prescribes `tea issues ls --labels prio:p1` as the queue read.
- skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md: Step 7.5 no-override BLOCK now
  files a Gitea issue via `tea issues create` instead of
  appending a roadmap entry; spec deletion stays.
- skills/audit/SKILL.md + ailang-architect.md: deferral
  requirement and debt-heuristic retargeted; forward-intent
  belongs in the Gitea backlog.
- skills/fieldtest/SKILL.md, skills/docwriter/SKILL.md +
  ailang-docwriter.md: roadmap → backlog.
- design/contracts/honesty-rule.md: forward intent lives in
  the Gitea backlog (pinned phrases unchanged).
- design/INDEX.md: Docs bullet drops roadmap, adds the backlog
  URL.
- crates/ailang-core/tests/docs_honesty_pin.rs: two assert
  messages retargeted (assertion bodies unchanged).
- bench/architect_sweeps.sh: Sweep-4 TABU extended with
  `docs/roadmap\.md` so the deleted path cannot quietly regrow
  as a cross-reference in design/contracts/.

Verification:

- cargo build --workspace clean.
- cargo test --workspace: 647 passed, 0 failed, 2 ignored.
- bench/architect_sweeps.sh exit 0 (all five sweeps clean, incl.
  new TABU).
- grep over the live tree (excluding docs/specs/, docs/plans/)
  shows zero residual docs/roadmap.md refs.

Not touched: ~55 historical files under docs/specs/ and
docs/plans/ that mention docs/roadmap.md. Snapshot-character,
analogous to the JOURNAL-cut precedent — historical specs are
not mass-edited just because a live file was retired; their
mentions were correct at write time.
2026-05-20 14:48:27 +02:00
Brummel 99df14c792 workflow: scrub residual JOURNAL/journal refs missed in the first sweep
A re-grep found 15 live references (excluding docs/specs/ and
docs/plans/, which stay historical) the previous two commits
missed — all in source comments, doctests, bench helpers, and one
agent file.

Per-file:
- crates/ail/src/main.rs: typeclass-coherence diagnostic comment
  pointed at "the JOURNAL queue's wording" — points at
  design/contracts/typeclasses.md alone.
- crates/ailang-prose/src/lib.rs: `//!` header referred to
  docs/JOURNAL.md "Pinned: human-readable prose surface" —
  retargeted to design/contracts/authoring-surface.md.
- crates/ailang-check/src/lib.rs: bugfix tag + "see iter
  method-dispatch-refactor journal" prose collapsed to a clean
  rationale paragraph; the canonical shape is stated inline.
- crates/ailang-surface/tests/prelude_decouple_carve_out_pin.rs:
  "(d) record the rationale in a per-iter journal" →
  "(d) record the rationale in the commit body".
- crates/ailang-surface/tests/prelude_module_hash_pin.rs: header
  collapsed (pd.2/pd.3 milestone narrative dropped — the test's
  purpose is self-evident from its body); both "per-iter journal"
  drift-instructions point at the commit body.
- runtime/rc.c: "bench numbers in JOURNAL 18f.2" →
  "original profiling bench numbers".
- bench/run.sh: two "JOURNAL entry" comments → "commit body".
- bench/architect_sweeps.sh: header rewritten (cross-ref to the
  design-md-consolidation milestone commits, not a JOURNAL entry).
  Sweep-4 extended with two new anti-regrowth phrases
  ("see the per-iter journal", "in a per-iter journal") so journal
  prose can't grow back into design/contracts/ silently.
- skills/audit/agents/ailang-architect.md: "unlike a journal it
  lives on main" → "since it lives on main".
- ail-embed/src/bin/timeshard_runner.rs: "records it in the
  close-out journal" → "prints it to stderr".
- ail-embed/tests/timeshard.rs: two "journal-only friction timing"
  → "stderr-only friction timing".

Verification (after the edit):
- `grep -rin '\bjournal\b'` against live tree returns exactly two
  hits: the Sweep-4 regex itself (intentional — TABU phrases that
  prevent regrowth) and the PHRASES array in design_index_pin.rs
  (intentional — the same regrowth guard at test level). Both are
  load-bearing negative assertions.
- `bash bench/architect_sweeps.sh` exits 0 ("All five sweeps
  clean") — no design/-side regrowth.
- `cargo build --workspace` green; `cargo test --workspace` green.
2026-05-20 11:32:37 +02:00
Brummel 8ad91e7f24 iter design-ledger-formal-links.1 (DONE 5/5): clause-5 hard gate + 7 prose-ref conversions + 2 disposition-(b) homeless removals + honesty-rule positive-half (whole milestone in one iter)
Positive-half completion of the DESIGN.md -> design/ split: design/
body cross-references are now formal, file-relative Markdown links
into the durable tier (design/ or source), and a new in-tree hard
gate (design_index_pin.rs clause-5,
design_body_links_are_durable_and_resolve) walks every
design/contracts/*.md + design/models/*.md, strips fenced code
(strip_fences toggles on ```/~~~ lines so a ](  inside a fence is not
treated as a link), extracts every ](path), and asserts the target
resolves file-relative to a real file under design/-or-crates/-or-
runtime/; never docs/, never an in-file #anchor.

RED-first via identity-stubbed strip_fences (four embedded synthetic
vectors -- first one FAILS); replacing the stub with the real
toggle-on-fence impl turns the test GREEN. clause-5 composes with
clause-3 into the complete invariant the milestone establishes:
every contract cross-reference is EITHER a resolving durable
file-link OR clause-3-forbidden decision-record prose.

Conversions (recon-and-corpus-verified closed set):
  Task 2 (7 prose refs, 8 link tokens):
    float-semantics.md:69    Prelude classes -> [..](typeclasses.md)
    float-semantics.md:100   bare-path -> [Str ABI](str-abi.md)
    embedding-abi.md:45      "Frozen value layout" -> [..](frozen-value-layout.md)  (drop stale "below")
    memory-model.md:44       Data model -> [..](data-model.md)
    memory-model.md:105-106  Method dispatch -> [..](typeclasses.md)  (drop stale "below"; the target heading lives in typeclasses.md:227, not in this file)
    scope-boundaries.md:48   Str ABI -> [..](str-abi.md)
    scope-boundaries.md:88   mixed split: ailang-core::desugar -> source link + Pipeline -> ../models/pipeline.md (drop stale "above")
  Task 3 (2 disposition-(b) homeless removals):
    pipeline.md:60-61            (see docs/PROSE_ROUNDTRIP.md) pointer removed, CLI prose preserved
    authoring-surface.md:178-181 cross-tier pointer clause removed, ail merge-prose sentence preserved
  Task 4: honesty-rule.md positive-half paragraph inserted between L14 and the existing L15-blank-L16; both docs_honesty_pin.rs-pinned phrases byte-identical at L14/L19 (now shifted to L19 -> L25 by the +6 lines).

Out of scope, preserved (asserted independently): every intra-file
"above/below"; embedding-abi.md:51 "frozen value layout below
specifies" (no quoted title, no (see) form); data-model.md
38/66/79/206/226 (in-fence ```jsonc schema annotations -- the inline
analog of the nominal-mention carve-out). INDEX.md and the
decision-records journal byte-unchanged; clauses 1-4 of
design_index_pin.rs source byte-unchanged (the only `-` lines in
the diff are the two-line //! header rewrite Task 1 Step 5 itself
delivers).

Boss-verified independently (not on agent report alone):
  cargo test --workspace               647 passed / 0 failed
                                       (+1 vs pre-milestone 646:
                                        the new clause-5)
  cargo test --test design_index_pin   5 / 5 passed
  cargo test --test docs_honesty_pin   5 / 5 passed (additive
                                       paragraph is pin-safe)
  grep ](.../docs/.../) under design/  zero
  grep ](#)        under design/  zero
  ](-link count under design/          8 (closed convert-set)
  git diff --quiet design/INDEX.md     ok
  git diff --quiet decision-records    ok
  embedding-abi.md:48 pinned phrase    byte-identical

One Concerns item: Task-5 Step-7's plan-predicted "`-` line count = 1"
was actually 2 because Task 1 Step 5 rewrote the //! header 5 -> 8
lines (removing the original L4 + L5, not just L5). Planner self-
review-item-8 miss on my part -- a verification-arithmetic error in
the plan, NOT an implementation defect. The substantive assertion
(clauses 1-4 source byte-unchanged) is fully satisfied; the
implementer correctly flagged it and proceeded. The plan stands as
written; the assertion's `1` should have been `2`. Lesson noted for
future header-rewrite tasks.

Spec: docs/specs/2026-05-19-design-ledger-formal-links.md
(grounding-check PASS x3 across two corpus-grounded amendments --
clause-6 + cross-ref definition; clause-5 fence-skip + closed
convert-set enumeration).

Next: mandatory milestone-close audit (no fieldtest -- zero
authoring-surface change, reasoned exclusion).
2026-05-19 23:31:30 +02:00
Brummel f683f1aec8 iter design-md-rolesplit.tidy (DONE 7/7): resolve milestone-close audit drift
Gate-first TDD: widened design_index_pin.rs clause-3 to a hand-rolled
FAITHFUL Sweep-1 superset (case-sensitive digit-anchored line anchors
+ Sweep-1's ^[^/]* path-excluded date + the audit-named
decision-record phrases, case-insensitive); no regex dep; the blanket
iter-detector rejected as unworkable. Sentence-level strip of
faithfully-migrated history/decision-record prose out of 5 contract
files (the audit's 3 spot-checked + roundtrip-invariant.md +
data-model.md the exhaustive scan found) into the decision-record
journal, each replaced by its present-tense contract equivalent;
float-semantics.md stale 'see Str ABI below' -> str-abi.md;
architect_sweeps honesty sweeps re-scoped to design/contracts only
(models/ is the narrative tier) + ailang-architect.md lockstep.
Invariant: clause-3 GREEN => Sweep-1 clean in contracts/.

The prior dispatch correctly BLOCKED on a real plan defect (iso_date
lacked Sweep-1's path-exclusion, over-firing on legit
docs/specs/2026-.. citations); per the two+-defects-in-one-iteration
discipline the audit Resolution mechanism+scope were corrected
upstream in lockstep (f2cdd67) before re-dispatch, not patched a
third time.

Boss-verified independently: cargo test --workspace 646/0,
design_index_pin 4/4 (clause-3 RED->GREEN), architect_sweeps.sh exit
0 'All five sweeps clean' (acceptance criterion 9 met), acceptance
grep CLEAN, 3 docs_honesty_pin pinned runs each exactly 1 contiguous
match. Zero spec/quality re-loops. FINAL design-md-rolesplit
iteration — milestone functionally complete, audited, drift-resolved,
hard gate enforces the honesty spirit.
2026-05-19 13:44:37 +02:00
Brummel 176821c2e7 iter design-md-rolesplit.1 (DONE 9/9): DESIGN.md -> design/ ledger role-split
The 3020-line docs/DESIGN.md is replaced by the design/ ledger:
design/INDEX.md (sole addressable spine, typed Contracts+Models tables,
polymorphic links — prose file OR authoritative source //!), 14
design/contracts/*.md test-linked invariants + 3 source-link-only
contracts (mangling/env-construction/qualified-xref, no prose file —
code is SoT), 5 design/models/*.md whitepapers, and
docs/journals/2026-05-19-design-decision-records.md (the
relitigation-guard archive — every why/rejected/does-not-do/rollback/
empirical ### moved out at ###-granularity). Clean cut: git rm
docs/DESIGN.md, no stub.

RED-first crates/ailang-core/tests/design_index_pin.rs — the 4-clause
anti-regrowth spine (DESIGN.md-gone / every-INDEX-link-resolves /
every-contract-names-a-resolvable-ratifier /
contracts-carry-no-decision-record-prose) — demonstrably RED before,
GREEN after. Build-atomic by task ordering: design_schema_drift.rs's
include_str! (the only compile-time consumer) retargeted to
design/contracts/data-model.md BEFORE the deletion; its
## Data model/## Pipeline slicer dropped (a simplification the split
enables). 2 NoInstance diagnostics + 2 lockstep E2Es retargeted to
design/contracts/{float-semantics,typeclasses}.md. ~12 agent reading
lists + 5 SKILL bodies + CLAUDE.md + skills/README.md + ~25
code/C/.ail/spec comment xrefs retargeted; OQ7 dangling 'Iter 13b'
cite deleted (no forward target — a pointer would be fiction).
honesty-rule.md rewritten so the rule names the new home
(rationale->journals), resolving the recon-found internal
contradiction; the two docs_honesty_pin.rs:70,72 pinned phrases kept
verbatim+contiguous.

Boss-verified independently: cargo test --workspace 646 passed /
0 failed; design_index_pin 4/4; acceptance grep CLEAN of live
DESIGN.md refs (residuals = only the spec-mandated clause-4
deletion-enforcer). 2 DONE_WITH_CONCERNS routed to the mandatory
milestone-close audit: (a) str-abi.md:23 '(iter str-concat,
2026-05-13)' provenance stamp trips advisory architect_sweeps Sweep-1
— Boss-confirmed byte-identical to DESIGN.md@deeffb1:2062-2065, a
faithfully-migrated PRE-EXISTING anchor (regexes verbatim, only path
retargeted), NOT split-introduced — RATIFY-or-tidy at audit; (b) a
now stale-direction intra-prose 'see Str ABI below' cross-ref in
float-semantics.md — audit-adjudication candidate. Plan defect noted:
Task 9 Step 4's verbatim acceptance grep used a ^./ anchor not
matching the system's grep -rIn output; substance re-verified CLEAN.

Spec grounding-check PASS x2. Journals INDEX + decision-records
pointer appended (Boss-only).
2026-05-19 13:04:22 +02:00
Brummel 70f2a318e0 iter embedding-abi-m5.tidy (DONE 3/3): milestone-close doc-honesty drift — pin-safe, doc/comment-only
Resolves the M5 milestone-close audit DRIFT (audit journal
28ab56a). Single cohesive commit, M2.tidy a80d495 / M3.tidy
63d7d60 precedent (pins are the coverage, no RED, no
audit/fieldtest gate).

- docs/DESIGN.md edit-1 §"Free (host side)": dropped the retired-M4
  forward-reference ("an additive M4 concern, not a contradiction
  of this freeze"; M4 retired 2026-05-18) -> present-tense current
  fact (a boxed-field record is not an M3 embedding type,
  export-gate-rejected; the freeze covers exactly the all-scalar
  single-ctor record).
- docs/DESIGN.md edit-2 §"Embedding ABI": reconciled the now-
  inaccurate "(no shared mutable runtime state - ... data-race-free,
  sanitiser-verified)" blanket with the real post-7bfa11e state:
  the per-allocation hot path (per-ctx counters + per-object
  refcount header) is non-atomic by design and never shared
  (Ctx:!Send, single-thread-per-ctx); the one shared datum is the
  atomic-relaxed global RC-stats fallback counter; "data-race-free,
  sanitiser-verified" retained (still true).
- runtime/rc.c:88 comment-only: stale "two unconditional ++
  operations" -> accurate "one counter bump per alloc/free ...
  relaxed atomic add on the global null-ctx fallback, a plain ++
  on the per-ctx path" (consistent with the adjacent already-
  correct :93-106 atomic block + :45-55 Threading header).

Boss-verified independently: all pins green (design_schema_drift
8/0, docs_honesty_pin 5/0, effect_doc_honesty_pin 4/0,
embed_record_layout_pin 1/0) = mechanical proof no pinned/hashed
byte moved; the adjacent separately-pinned bare-scalar sentence is
byte-identical (shifted 2299->2305 by net-added lines; substring
pin, passes); rc.c strictly comment-only (filter empty);
cargo build --workspace Finished; git scope = only docs/DESIGN.md
+ runtime/rc.c + journal/stats. Clears the M5-audit doc-honesty
debt; no new debt.

FINAL M5 iteration. The M1-M5 Embedding ABI arc is functionally
complete, audited, ratified, and doc-honest. Includes the per-iter
journal, stats, and INDEX line.
2026-05-19 03:07:40 +02:00
Brummel 28ab56af7e audit embedding-abi-m5: milestone close — RATIFY gc_rss trio (evidenced) + DRIFT (one doc-honesty tidy); P2 bench noise causally exonerated, baseline pristine for it
Architect: Invariant 1 PASS (zero data-server in any compiler
crate/runtime; ail-embed its own workspace root); M3 frozen-layout
SSOT unmoved (the lone rc.c change 7bfa11e touched only the global
stats counters); rc.c header-comment honesty accurate. Drift =
[medium] DESIGN.md:2358-2360 stale "additive M4 concern" (PRE-
EXISTING — M4 retired; correctly scoped out of every M5 iter) +
[medium] DESIGN.md §"Embedding ABI" silent-drift (it asserts "no
shared mutable runtime state … data-race-free" but the now-atomic
global RC-stats fallback IS shared mutable state under concurrency;
M5 is AILang's first concurrent consumer) + [low] rc.c:88 "two
unconditional ++" imprecise → one doc-honesty tidy iteration
(embedding-abi-m5.tidy), same honesty axis, not split.

Bencher refuted my pre-audit "gc_rss allocator-orthogonal →
environmental" hypothesis WITH EVIDENCE: the 3x *.gc_rss_kb +32%
are genuine, deterministic, M5-attributable — 7bfa11e's atomic
split a branch in ailang_rc_alloc (reached by GC programs via
str.c int->str at print), spilling %r14/%rbx; a stale interior
list pointer in the new spill slot is conservatively retained by
Boehm, pinning a ~32 MB dead spine (collection #12 freed PRE 32 MB
vs HEAD 32 B); bisects exactly on the commit, IR byte-identical,
ail sha256-identical; RC/bump RSS dead-stable. bump_s + max_us are
pre-existing tracked-P2 noise (bump RC-orthogonal; max_us 1-sample
tail-jitter, PRE often worse, +65->+104% swing between runs) — NOT
M5.

RATIFY the gc_rss trio. Language reason (not effort): Decision 9 —
Boehm is explicitly transitional; AILang's committed model is RC +
uniqueness. The measurable cost of the correct, necessary,
user-approved swarm-safety fix is exclusively a Boehm
conservative-stack-scan false-retention artifact on the
transitional allocator (codegen-layout-fragile; no memory actually
leaked; RC/bump RSS dead-stable). Chasing it with an out-of-scope
codegen change invests in the path being migrated away from; the
committed RC path is unaffected. Selective baseline re-anchor:
bench/baseline.json lines 14/44/64 ONLY -> 137448/137768/137636
(bencher-confirmed steady-state); every other metric byte-pristine
(a wholesale --update-baseline would absorb the P2 noise and break
the established-envelope discipline). Re-run confirms the 3 now ok
at +-0.3%.

bump_s x2 + max_us x2: NO-ratify, causally exonerated, baseline
left pristine — identical disposition to the M2/M3/prelude-decouple
milestone closes.

Friction-harvest recorded (P2 flat-array-decision input):
host-per-tick-FFI ~= ~206 ns/tick at real EURUSD volume.

Ratify discipline: updated baseline JSON + this paired JOURNAL
ratify entry committed together (bench/baseline.json + the audit
journal + INDEX line). M5 closes after the doc-honesty tidy lands
and is Boss-verified.
2026-05-19 02:56:43 +02:00
Brummel 0900f3f413 iter embedding-abi-m5.3 (DONE 3/3): time-shard boundary-invisibility proof + friction harvest
Final functional M5 iteration (spec ae905de, plan 67027ab; on
green m5.1 204c171 + m5.2 b724cd1 whose leak-proof resolved via
dbd76e5). Proves the chunk/window-boundary-invisibility claim the
M4 retirement rests on:

- adapter::fold_window — purely additive windowed sibling of
  fold_symbol (same MidPriceStream+Kernel path; stream_tick_windowed).
  fold_symbol/MidPriceStream/Kernel byte-untouched.
- chrono as a DEV-dep only — the time-shard test derives
  (y,m)->Unix-ms bounds (data-server's own precedent) and passes
  raw ms to the bin; the bin is date-math-free; Invariant 1
  unaffected.
- new single-responsibility [[bin]] timeshard_runner — one thread
  per disjoint window, each owning its Kernel (Ctx:!Send =>
  compile-time per-thread-ctx).
- tests/timeshard.rs — spec §3 strength-ordered: (a) per-shard
  (acc,n) BIT-EXACT vs single-thread host fold of that exact window
  in stream order (THE boundary-invisibility proof); (b) Σ partials
  bit-exact by construction; (c) whole-window within REL_TOL=1e-6
  only (cross-shard f64 reassociation is host arithmetic, never a
  kernel property — bit-exact there would be the bug; tolerance
  derived from the recursive-summation error bound). Plus the
  now-deterministic leak-Σ + a journal-only friction timing capture
  (no bench gate, no timing assertion).

Concrete pin: EURUSD 2017-03/04/05 (recon-verified present,
contiguous, no gaps; data-server has no month-listing API). RED was
a genuine deterministic compile failure (declared-but-absent bin
source; Cargo missing-source error vs the plan's predicted env!
error — same cause, no false-green; benign plan-text imprecision in
Concerns).

Boss-verified independently: timeshard determinism 5/5 (no jitter);
full ail-embed suite 0 failed AND 0 ignored across all binaries
(m5.2 symbol_fan_swarm_leak_free stays un-ignored & green — the
saga's resolution intact); isolated embed_rc_global_stats_race
still green; AILang workspace data-server count 0; compiler-surface
diff empty (zero diff to crates/ailang-*, crates/ail/, runtime/,
examples/*.ail, root Cargo.toml, DESIGN.md).

Friction-harvest deliverable (P2 flat-array-decision input):
host-per-tick-FFI ~= 658 ms / 3,192,562 ticks ~= ~206 ns/tick at
real EURUSD volume.

M5 functional work complete; milestone closes next via the
mandatory audit (which also handles the pre-existing
DESIGN.md:2358-2360 "additive M4 concern" drift, out of m5.3 scope).
Includes the per-iter journal, stats, and the INDEX.md line.
2026-05-19 02:40:16 +02:00
Brummel dbd76e5503 fix(ail-embed): GREEN — build.rs tracks runtime/ as rerun-if-changed; M5 swarm leak-proof armed & deterministic
bugfix-swarm-rc-alloc-undercount, GREEN stage. RED is the separate
audit-trail commit 483117d.

Root cause of the m5.2-resume-attempt residual: ail-embed/build.rs
declared cargo:rerun-if-changed only for the kernel .ail + build.rs
itself — NOT the runtime/ C sources ail build --emit=staticlib
compiles into libailang_rt.a. Cargo never re-ran build.rs after the
atomic-counter fix 7bfa11e, so ail-embed kept linking a stale
pre-7bfa11e non-atomic libailang_rt.a; the swarm's concurrent
TLS-NULL host allocs raced the stale non-atomic g_rc_alloc_count++
(frees-stable/allocs-jitter). NOT a second runtime bug and NOT
test-methodology unsoundness — runtime/rc.c at HEAD is correct; the
isolated crates/ail RED was green only because it rebuilds the
staticlib fresh per run.

Fix (ail-embed/build.rs, +7 lines): directory-level
cargo:rerun-if-changed=<repo>/runtime (Cargo recurses mtimes under
the dir). Preferred over a per-file list — the implementer inspected
crates/ail build_staticlib (libailang_rt.a = ar(rc.o, str.o), both
under runtime/) and chose the directory mechanism so any future
runtime source cannot silently re-introduce the same staleness.
Existing kernel/build.rs/AIL_BIN rerun-if-changed lines kept.

Cohesive consequence (in-scope): symbol_fan_swarm_leak_free
un-#[ignore]d — the test BODY is byte-for-byte unchanged (it was
quarantined, never weakened); the module-doc + fn-doc breadcrumbs
rewritten to the resolved build-dep-staleness rationale. It is now
the integration-level acceptance of both 7bfa11e and this fix. Boss
also removed a pre-existing unused `DataFormat` import in swarm.rs
inline (trivial; the file is committed this iter regardless;
warning-clean after).

Boss-verified independently: RED rt_archive_freshness -> GREEN;
swarm determinism 5/5 (symbol_fan_swarm_leak_free +
symbol_fan_swarm_bit_exact GREEN every run, 0 ignored, jitter gone,
Sallocs==Sfrees==12000003); isolated embed_rc_global_stats_race
still GREEN (untouched, runtime untouched); Invariant 1 data-server
count 0; scope = ail-embed/build.rs + ail-embed/tests/swarm.rs +
journal + stats only.

The M5 swarm leak-proof bounce-back is fully resolved end-to-end.
M5 stays open [~]; m5.3 (time-shard + friction-harvest + close-out)
remains. Includes the per-iter journal, stats, and INDEX.md line.
2026-05-19 02:21:47 +02:00
Brummel 7bfa11e838 fix(rc): GREEN — atomic global g_rc_* stats fallback counters (swarm-safe)
bugfix-rc-global-stats-race, GREEN stage. RED is the separate
audit-trail commit 427b687.

g_rc_alloc_count / g_rc_free_count (runtime/rc.c:90-91) were plain
static uint64_t; the __ail_tls_ctx == NULL fallback at rc.c:161
(alloc) and rc.c:212 (dec-to-zero) did a non-atomic ++. A
multi-threaded host using the global fallback path (no
ailang_ctx_new) raced the read-modify-write and lost increments, so
the AILANG_RC_STATS atexit Σ under-counted non-deterministically.
Not a memory bug — Ctx:!Send keeps every box on one thread; only
the global statistics Σ was wrong (the M5 iter-2 symbol-fan
leak-proof finding, b724cd1; user-approved Option A bounce-back
resolution).

Fix (runtime/rc.c only, 37+/14-): the two globals are now
_Atomic uint64_t; atomic_fetch_add_explicit(.., memory_order_relaxed)
at the two null-ctx fallback ++ sites; atomic_load_explicit(..,
relaxed) snapshot in ailang_rc_stats_atexit (its sole reader).
Relaxed is correct and sufficient — pure statistics, no
happens-before obligation, atexit reader runs after all worker
threads joined. Per-ctx counters and the per-object refcount header
stay non-atomic BY DESIGN (single-thread-per-ctx; boxes never cross
threads) — out of scope, untouched. Frozen value layout / ABI
offsets / host-free rule untouched. The genuinely-still-
single-threaded drop-worklist doc note was correctly left unchanged
(false correction refused); the two stale atomicity doc blocks
corrected for honesty.

Boss-verified independently: RED -> GREEN deterministically 3/3
(jitter gone, allocs==frees==16_000_000); full cargo test -p ail
green (every binary 0 failed — per-ctx tsan harnesses + embed
e2e unaffected; rc.c links into every ail binary, strong regression
gate); scope = runtime/rc.c + journal + stats only; RED files
unchanged. Unblocks resuming the M5 leak-proof.

Includes the per-iter journal, stats, and the INDEX.md line.
2026-05-19 01:57:06 +02:00
Brummel b724cd17a1 iter embedding-abi-m5.2 (PARTIAL 2/3): data-server adapter + symbol-fan swarm; leak-proof surfaced a non-atomic global g_rc_* stats race
M5 iteration 2 (spec ae905de, plan 9cc9d9c). Tasks 1+2 clean and
committable; Task 3 BLOCKED on a real finding → M5 bounce-back.

Shipped:
- data-server promoted [dev-dependencies] -> [dependencies]
  (Invariant-1 sanctioned: ail-embed is the sole meeting point; the
  AILang workspace graph still has data-server count 0; zero
  compiler-surface diff — not even root Cargo.toml this iter).
- additive `adapter` module (ail-embed/src/adapter.rs): tick_to_px,
  MidPriceStream (lazy Iterator<f64> over SymbolChunkIter),
  fold_symbol; RED-first (E0432 -> GREEN). m5.1 core untouched
  except `pub mod adapter;`.
- swarm_runner [[bin]]: one thread per symbol, each owning its
  Kernel. The clean compile IS the compile-time per-thread-ctx
  proof (Ctx: !Send => a shared-ctx swarm is E0277).
- tests/swarm.rs: real-data symbol-fan E2E. `symbol_fan_swarm_bit_exact`
  is GREEN and live — per-symbol kernel (acc,n) bit-exact vs an
  independent same-order host reference (EURUSD/GER40/XAUUSD, ~4s).

The Task 3 finding (Boss independently confirmed by reading
runtime/rc.c): the global Σallocs==Σfrees leak measurement is an
INSTRUMENTATION race, not a memory bug. No box crosses a thread
(Ctx: !Send), the real refcount/free is correct (bit-exact GREEN
every run); only the global g_rc_* stat counters (rc.c:90-91,
161,212) are non-atomic BY rc.c's own documented single-threaded
design, losing ++s when 3 worker threads hit the null-__ail_tls_ctx
host-side path. M5 is AILang's first concurrent consumer; rc.c's
header (rc.c:44-49) explicitly defers exactly this atomic-vs-non-
atomic decision to "when it acquires concurrency primitives".

The leak assertion was Boss-split into `symbol_fan_swarm_leak_free`
(#[ignore], body preserved VERBATIM — quarantined not weakened;
un-ignore = the runtime fix's acceptance criterion) so main stays
green and the finding is pinned as a regression marker. The earlier
plan/journal claim that embed_swarm_tsan.rs covers this path was
wrong and is corrected on the record (that test uses the scalar
kernel — zero box allocs — so it never exercised the host-side
global-counter path).

Escalated as an M5 bounce-back: resolution touches M3-frozen
runtime/ and re-frames M5's "zero runtime change" commitment;
multiple substantive options, not unilaterally Boss's to pick in
frozen-runtime territory. Boss recommendation on the record =
Option A (make only the global-fallback g_rc_* counters atomic, as
a standalone RED-first runtime micro-iteration; M5 framing amended).
Time-shard + friction-harvest remain m5.3.

Includes the per-iter journal (with Boss disposition), stats, and
the INDEX.md line.
2026-05-19 01:37:50 +02:00
Brummel 204c171e60 iter embedding-abi-m5.1 (DONE 3/3): lean ail-embed core + build.rs + hermetic smoke
M5 iteration 1 (spec ae905de, plan 22f02aa). Stands up the
workspace-excluded `ail-embed` crate:

- zero-dependency embedding core (`ail-embed/src/lib.rs`): extern "C"
  to the M3-frozen ABI + frozen-layout State/Tick box helpers + a
  Kernel price fold; the Rust port of the audited
  crates/ail/tests/embed/tick_roundtrip.c. Raw pointers never escape
  the type.
- build.rs (no in-repo precedent): AIL_BIN env override else nested
  `cargo build -p ail` against the parent workspace (separate target
  dir → no cargo-lock deadlock), `ail build --emit=staticlib`, link
  directives.
- hermetic data-server smoke (ail-embed/tests/smoke.rs): synthetic
  Pepperstone-format ZIP fixture via data-server's own public
  RawTickRecord type → real DataServer → Kernel, bit-exact vs a
  same-order host reference fold; runs with no /mnt.
- `ail-embed` is its own cargo workspace root (empty [workspace]
  table); data-server is a dev-dependency only. Root Cargo.toml gains
  only a 4-line non-membership comment.

Invariant 1 Boss-verified independently: full+no-deps cargo metadata
on the AILang workspace shows data-server count 0; git status path
filter empty (zero diff to crates/ailang-*, crates/ail/, runtime/,
examples/*.ail); src/lib.rs zero code-level data_server; AILang
cargo build --workspace still clean. ail-embed suite 2/2 green
(kernel_run_sums_prices unit RED-first + hermetic_smoke integration),
verified by me, not just the agent report.

Two toolchain-forced corrections to the plan's verbatim
ail-embed/Cargo.toml (added empty [workspace] table; sibling dev-dep
path ../libs -> ../../libs, manifest-relative) — confined to the
plan-created manifest, no acceptance gate altered, 0 review re-loops.
Journal Concerns records the planner-recon implication for the next
workspace-excluded-nested-crate plan. Adapter API + thread-swarm
deferred to M5 iter 2+ per spec/plan.

Includes the per-iter journal, stats, and the INDEX.md line.
2026-05-19 01:12:19 +02:00
Brummel 208d7095bc fix(check): GREEN — over-strict-mode recognises ctor-rebuild-from-primitive-fields as a consume
Drives the RED test from a11cb7c to GREEN. Bug-fix iter
bugfix-over-strict-mode-ctor-rebuild-consume (debug -> implement
mini). Check-only lint-precision fix; zero codegen / runtime / ABI /
schema / DESIGN.md change.

The [over-strict-mode] lint's consume-detection
(any_sub_binder_consumed_for / pattern_has_consumed_heap_binder,
crates/ailang-check/src/linearity.rs) only recognised a consume of an
(own (con T)) param when a heap-typed pattern-binder was moved out of
`match p`. When p was destructured into purely primitive fields fed
into a Term::Ctor rebuilding p's own ctor, that genuine
dismantle+rebuild consume was invisible, so the lint spuriously
advised "(borrow ...) would suffice". An LLM author "fixing" that by
flipping an export own->borrow would silently invert the ABI
ownership contract — why a low-severity advisory FP got a real
RED-first fix.

Fix: a second recognition path in any_sub_binder_consumed_for — a
`match p` arm destructuring binders out of p's ctor that references
any of them (primitive or not) inside a Term::Ctor's args in the arm
body genuinely consumes p. Two pure helpers: ctor_uses_any_binder
(finds a fresh-allocation Term::Ctor reachable in the arm body) +
term_mentions_any_binder (deep free-var scan, so binder flow through
an intervening expr like (+ acc px) is recognised, not only a bare
Var arg). Conservative toward NOT suppressing: a ctor ignoring p's
payload still warns (negative-control verified). Over-strict-only —
by-name-shadowing imprecision is extra-silence, never under-strict
(Known debt in the journal + the fn doc). The two stale doc comments
that mis-attributed this FP to a nested `match` corrected for
doc-honesty (debugger concern #2 — same code region, in-scope).

Boss-verified independently: RED test now GREEN; full
cargo test -p ailang-check 108/0 lib + every binary 0-failed with NO
existing test modified; ail check examples/embed_backtest_step_tick.ail
no longer warns over-strict on st/tick (exit 0);
embed_backtest_step_tick_borrow.ail + M3 embed_backtest_step_record.ail
still clean; embed_tick_e2e + bench posture untouched.

+166/-20 in crates/ailang-check/src/linearity.rs only. Journal +
stats + INDEX line in this commit.
2026-05-18 23:50:13 +02:00
Brummel 63d7d60dd1 iter embedding-abi-m3.tidy (DONE 3/3): close M3 audit [medium]+[low] doc-honesty drift, pin-safe
[medium] DESIGN.md §"Embedding ABI": surgically replaced ONLY the
contradicted M1-era parenthetical (asserted the export boundary is
scalar-only — false post-M3, a single-ctor record is an accepted
export type) with the present-tense truth pointing at the frozen-layout
SSOT + the own/borrow mode contract. The parenthetical shared physical
line :2300 with the docs_honesty_pin:135 pinned bare-scalar sentence;
the edit kept every pinned word (planner Step-5 item-6 pin-safety, the
M2.tidy precedent — docs_honesty_pin stayed 5/5 green, RED-restore path
never triggered). [low] codegen forwarder-body comment honesty fix
(comment-only; the IR byte-pins assert generated code not comments —
byte-identical before/after).

Boss-verified: both stale fragments grep-absent; 4 standing pins green
at the recon baseline; workspace 639/77 byte-unchanged; diff exactly
2 files. No behaviour change; the pins are the coverage (M2.tidy
precedent, no audit/fieldtest gate). bench already carry-on/NO-ratify
at the M3 audit (causally exonerated). One non-gating planner-quality
grep defect recorded in the journal Concerns (orchestrator handled it
correctly, no code bent).
2026-05-18 21:50:15 +02:00
Brummel 4ea8bc5faf iter embedding-abi-m3.1 (DONE 6-7): freeze the value layout — DESIGN.md frozen-layout SSOT + lockstep pointers + enforceable byte-pin
Tasks 6-7 of the Boss-repaired split dispatch (Tasks 1-5 committed d5c565d).
Task 6: DESIGN.md §"Embedding ABI" gains the `### Frozen value layout
(M3 — one-way commitment)` SSOT subsection; both "provisional until M3"
sentences rewritten to one-way-freeze wording (docs_honesty_pin-safe — the
pinned "written **bare**" sentence stayed byte-verbatim, :2297->:2299
content-asserted); // FROZEN ABI lockstep pointers at runtime/rc.c +
match_lower.rs lower_ctor + drop.rs; 3 plan-named stale rustdocs fixed +
the Boss-caught stale // gate-comment block (check/lib.rs:1917-1922,
M1/scalar-only -> M1/M2/M3/C-ABI-permitted-incl-record); byte-pin
enforceability demonstrated (RED on a local offset perturbation, GREEN on
git-checkout restore — the only legitimate git op, working-tree only).
Task 7: milestone-close verification gate.

Boss-verified independently (agent report = intent, not outcome): workspace
639 passed / 0 failed; embed_record_e2e 2/2 (own+borrow, global
leak-freedom model); byte-pin 1/1; gate 10/10; forwarder 3/3;
docs_honesty_pin 5/5 pin-safe; design_schema_drift + embed_export_hash_stable
+ embed_e2e + M2 swarm regression-green-unmodified.

INDEX.md line added (deferred from the PARTIAL — one line per iter, final
title). Milestone-close audit next (architect Invariant 1 + bench trio,
spec Testing items 8/9 — audit-owned, not the implement run's job).
2026-05-18 21:29:50 +02:00
Brummel d5c565d48d iter embedding-abi-m3.1 (PARTIAL 5/7 + Boss spec-defect repair): single-ctor scalar record crosses the C ABI, ownership follows declared mode
Tasks 1-5 GREEN. T1 baseline pins (re-point annotation + @ailang_rc_alloc
heap-box byte-pin: size=8+n*8, tag@0, fields@8/16). T2 export gate widened
(is_c_scalar -> two-level is_c_abi_type: single-ctor all-Int/Float record;
multi-ctor/Str/List/nested still RED; gate suite 10/10; M1 adt-ret must-fail
re-pointed to multi-ctor+Str Reading). T3 codegen forwarder widened
(llvm_scalar record Type::Con -> ptr; M2 forwarder body byte-unchanged;
3/3 staticlib pins). T4/T5 E2E record round-trip own+borrow, global
leak-freedom.

Boss spec-consistency repair (M2.1-precedent class): orchestrator
correctly BLOCKED Task 5 on a genuine spec defect -- the single-ctx-readback
allocs==frees proof model is unsatisfiable for borrow (and only
coincidentally passes for own) because M2's TLS-ctx is bound only during
the synchronous forwarder call, so host-side decs land on g_rc_*, not ctx.
Boss-verified globally leak-free + value-correct both modes. Spec + plan +
harness amended to the stronger global model (sum all ailang_rc_stats:
lines; the M2-TLS cross-attribution documented as correct behaviour). No
fresh grounding-check (removes an over-strong measurement assumption).

Tasks 6 (DESIGN.md frozen-layout SSOT + lockstep pointers + freeze wording
+ enforceability demo) and 7 (workspace-green gate) re-dispatched on the
amended plan. Bench/architect milestone-close is audit-owned.

iter embedding-abi-m3.1 (PARTIAL); INDEX.md line deferred to the DONE commit
2026-05-18 21:16:41 +02:00
Brummel a80d495ab3 iter embedding-abi-m2.tidy: '## Embedding ABI (M1)' -> '## Embedding ABI' lockstep rename (M2 audit doc-honesty fix)
Resolves the M2 milestone-close audit's only actionable drift item
(architect [medium] DESIGN.md:2266 stale (M1) header vs its now-M2
present-tense body + coupled [low] :2354 xref). Current-state-mirror:
the section describes the current embedding ABI (M1+M2), so the
milestone tag is internal history, not current state.

5 live-coupling sites renamed in lockstep, 3 files:
- docs/DESIGN.md:2266 header '## Embedding ABI (M1)' -> '## Embedding ABI'
- docs/DESIGN.md:2354 schema-block xref 'see §"Embedding ABI"'
- docs_honesty_pin.rs:134 test comment + :136 assert-message
- crates/ailang-core/specs/form_a.md:89 live forward-xref (Boss-added
  5th site: plan-recon-undercount countermeasure surfaced a live
  dangling-xref the architect's 3-site scope missed; folded in on
  the merits — a half-rename contradicts the tidy's own thesis)

docs_honesty_pin.rs:135 asserted substring (the rename-immune
DESIGN.md body sentence) byte-verbatim untouched. Committed
append-only history NOT falsified (Boss-verified diff = 3 content
files + journal + stats only). Pins green before AND after
(docs_honesty_pin 5/0, design_schema_drift 8/0). Zero
language/checker/codegen/schema change.
2026-05-18 17:52:10 +02:00
Brummel fbeeadeba5 iter embedding-abi-m2.1 (DONE 5-9): swarm-safe ctx ABI complete + sanitiser-verified
Completes Embedding ABI — M2.1 (Tasks 1-4 committed c9a84b3 as the
known-good subset; this commit lands Tasks 5-9 from the re-dispatch
against the Boss-corrected plan).

- T5: swarm.c per-thread-ctx scalar-swarm capability demo (no
  SHARED_CTX) + rc_accounting_shared_ctx_is_flagged_by_tsan added to
  the item-1 harness driver (de-globalisation negative-control teeth,
  where a shared ctx genuinely races on ctx->alloc_count).
- T6: M1 host.c migrated to the ctx ABI; embed_e2e green (s==25
  through the ctx-threaded forwarder).
- T7: DESIGN.md current-state update (provisional-until-M3 narrowed
  to the value/record layout; Decision-10 per-thread-ctx note);
  docs_honesty-pinned sentence + (con Int) snippet preserved verbatim.
- T8: regression gate — workspace green; null-ctx fallback
  byte-behaviour preserved.
- T9: bench-trio — compile_check/cross_lang clean; check.py
  tracked-P2 noise only, causally exonerated (zero codegen/runtime
  diff vs HEAD), NO baseline ratified.

Boss-verified directly (not on report trust): docs_honesty_pin 5/0,
design_schema_drift 8/0, embed_export_hash_stable 1/0,
embed_export_gate 6/0, embed_e2e 1/0, embed_staticlib_alloc_guard
2/0, print_no_leak_pin 1/0 + e2e rc_stats 4/0; the tsan coherent-stop
proven by hand — per-ctx clean (exit 0, 0 warnings), shared-ctx a
real ThreadSanitizer data race at rc.c:157/:208 (exit 66).

Known debt (journal + roadmap): DESIGN.md '## Embedding ABI (M1)'
header still says (M1) while the body mirrors M2 — out of Task 7's
scope-limited regions by design; post-audit doc-honesty tidy.

Milestone-close audit next.
2026-05-18 17:31:50 +02:00
Brummel c9a84b33b3 iter embedding-abi-m2.1 (PARTIAL 4/9 + Boss spec-defect repair): ctx ABI + de-globalisation
Tasks 1-4 land fully review-green and are the cohesive shippable
subset (the per-thread embedding ABI, fully wired + proven):
- T1: FIXED-FIRST alloc-guard baseline pin (RED captured -> GREEN at T4).
- T2: runtime/rc.c gains ailang_ctx_t {alloc_count,free_count} +
  ailang_ctx_new/_free + __thread __ail_tls_ctx; the two increment
  sites become 'if (_ctx) _ctx->... else g_rc_...'. g_rc_* statics +
  ailang_rc_stats_atexit + the constructor RETAINED VERBATIM as the
  null-ctx (single-threaded executable) fallback. rc_accounting_tsan.c
  + driver: per-ctx 8x200000 tsan-clean (de-globalisation positive proof).
- T3: codegen Target::StaticLib forwarder gains a leading 'ptr %ctx'
  + one '@__ail_tls_ctx = external thread_local global ptr' decl +
  TLS save/store/restore around the BYTE-UNCHANGED internal call;
  _adapter/_clos + internal arg vector untouched (M1 decision held);
  doc-comment provisionality narrowed to the value/record layout.
- T4: build_staticlib rejects --alloc != rc (RC-only swarm artefact).

Boss adjudication of the orchestrator's Task-5 BLOCKED (spec-defect,
correctly surfaced not hacked): swarm.c's -DSHARED_CTX negative
control is structurally impossible — examples/embed_backtest_step.ail
is a non-allocating scalar kernel that never writes a ctx field, and
__ail_tls_ctx is __thread, so a shared-ctx scalar swarm has no
shared-memory write to race on (the spec's OWN item-1 honesty point).
The de-globalisation teeth belong to the item-1 rc_accounting harness
(shared ctx genuinely races on ctx->alloc_count; orchestrator
independently confirmed tsan exit 66). Spec amended in lockstep
(Goal coherent-stop, must-fail-axis item 2, Testing item 3,
Acceptance) so item 3's negative control is item-1's by the
de-globalisation-proof / capability-demo split; plan Task 5
restructured (swarm.c per-ctx capability demo only; negative-control
standing test relocated into the item-1 harness driver) + Task 3's
plan-transcription error (@ail_backtest_step ->
@ail_embed_backtest_step_step) corrected. This is a Boss
consistency-repair of an internally-contradictory clause whose intent
is already correctly realised in the same spec — not a redesign; no
brainstorm bounce. Task-5 working files discarded (corrected plan
reproduces them; a structurally-RED test must not enter main).
INDEX.md + final journal land at iter completion (re-dispatch [5,9]).
2026-05-18 17:16:40 +02:00
Brummel bcfe554686 iter emit-ir-staticlib: ail emit-ir --emit=staticlib (M1 fieldtest spec_gap#2)
Restores the Decision-5 IR-readability affordance for main-free
kernels: ail emit-ir gains --emit=staticlib, symmetric with
ail build, reusing the M1-audited Target::StaticLib path via a new
one-line lower_workspace_staticlib convenience. Zero-export guard
byte-identical to build_staticlib's. DESIGN.md widened (not
narrowed) + a pre-existing M1 synopsis omission corrected. 3 new
E2E tests; no fixture minted, no doc pin (E2E is the coverage).
Plan 03493c9.
2026-05-18 16:08:33 +02:00
Brummel 7d7f04e1a4 iter form-a-scalar-param-mode-carveout: scalar-param mode carve-out (docs-honesty tidy)
Resolves the M1-fieldtest [friction] + [spec_gap]#1 shared root:
form_a.md stated an unconditional 'every (fn ...) param needs an
(own/borrow) mode' rule in 4 places, contradicting shipped checker
behaviour (scalars take and require bare (con Int); a mode on a
scalar trips body-pointing use-after-consume/consume-while-borrowed).
All 4 sites rewritten symmetric to the existing return-type carve-out;
DESIGN.md gains the bare-scalar export-param rule + a corpus-grounded
Form-A snippet; RED-first anti-regrowth pin via FORM_A_SPEC + norm().
Zero language/checker/codegen change. Plan 4c266a6.
2026-05-18 15:51:34 +02:00
Brummel e406d07d81 iter embedding-abi-m1.1 (DONE 7/7): Embedding-ABI M1 — scalar AILang fn callable from C/Rust
Tasks 4-7 on the Boss-Repaired plan, completing the M1 iteration:

- Task 4: check-side export-signature gate — CheckError variants
  ExportNonScalarSignature / ExportHasEffects (codes
  export-non-scalar-signature / export-has-effects), code() arms,
  check_fn gate (params->ret->effects, first-violation-wins,
  unconditional on f.export.is_some()). The clause-3 discriminator
  in code: effectful/non-scalar exports fail to typecheck. 6/6.
- Task 5: codegen Target::StaticLib — Target enum, threaded param,
  @main/MissingEntryMain gated behind Target::Executable, one
  external @<sym> forwarder per export to @ail_<module>_<fn>
  (fn_scalar_sig/llvm_scalar). In-source missing_entry_main_is_error
  byte-unchanged. Lowering pin 2/2.
- Task 6: CLI ail build --emit=staticlib — clap field, Cmd::Build
  branch, build_staticlib (verbatim build_to prefix + has_export
  guard + two-archive clang -c/ar rcs tail) + run_cmd. CLI pin 2/2.
- Task 7: C-host E2E coherent-stop proof (cc links
  libembed_backtest_step.a + libailang_rt.a, backtest_step(0,3)=9 /
  (9,4)=25, s==25, exit 0) + DESIGN.md §"Embedding ABI (M1)"
  (scalar C ABI, provisional until M3). E2E pin 1/1.

Independent Boss verification: E2E 1/1, gate 6/6, full workspace
0 failures, roundtrip_cli + design_schema_drift + spec_drift green,
Invariant 1 holds (no new dep in core/codegen/runtime). 3 behaviour-
neutral plan pseudo-vs-reality concerns in the journal. Default-exe
codegen/runtime path byte-unchanged (check.py firing = tracked-P2
known-noise, audit-adjudicated). INDEX line added.

Completes the M1 iteration (impl). Milestone-close audit + fieldtest
(surface-touching) are the next pipeline steps.
2026-05-18 14:50:27 +02:00
Brummel 818177d835 iter embedding-abi-m1.1 (PARTIAL 3/7): schema + surface + baseline prerequisites; plan Repair
Tasks 1-3 of docs/plans/embedding-abi-m1.1.md, a verified known-good
subset (cargo build --workspace exit 0; full workspace green; the
roundtrip_cli all-examples gate green):

- Task 1: CLI build-path MissingEntryMain baseline pin
  (examples/embed_noentry_baseline.ail + embed_missing_main_baseline.rs;
  triple-assertion, layered on the green codegen-unit pin lib.rs:3314).
- Task 2: additive FnDef.export: Option<String> (serde default +
  skip_serializing_if, modelled on FnDef.doc); compile-driven thread
  of export: None across ~85 FnDef/AstFnDef literals / 18 files incl.
  all in-source #[cfg(test)] mod tests + drift/hash/spec-drift
  literals + the codegen lib.rs:3320 in-source pin; hash-stability
  golden pin; DESIGN.md fn-JSON "export" line. DONE_WITH_CONCERNS
  (plan symbol content_hash_fn -> def_hash per hash_pin.rs, plan-
  pseudo-vs-reality class, plan corrected).
- Task 3: Form-A (export "<sym>") modifier — parse_export +
  parse_fn thread + write_fn_def emission + form_a.md grammar;
  byte-identical round-trip.

Task 4 BLOCKED (Boss plan-defect: fixtures declared module != file
stem; AILang's loader hard-enforces module==stem at workspace.rs:438,
so ail check panicked on load before the gate). Boss resolution
(Option 2, overriding the orchestrator's Option 1, rationale in the
journal + plan Design-decision 6): keep descriptive embed_* filenames,
rename fixture MODULES to their stems — the C symbol backtest_step
stays via (export ...), demonstrating spec Decision 2's mangling-
decoupling rather than violating it; archive becomes
libembed_backtest_step.a, internal symbol @ail_embed_backtest_step_step,
host.c unchanged. Plan fixed (Design-decision 6 + Task-4 module==stem
+ Task-5/6/7 dependent strings + the no-*. Float-head + content_hash_fn
concerns folded). Headline fixture corrected; blocked-Task-4 WIP
discarded (recreated by the [4,7] re-dispatch from the fixed plan).

PARTIAL commit (not the iter's final commit): the implement Repair
path mandates committing the known-good subset so the [4,7]
re-dispatch starts from a clean tree that includes Tasks 1-3 (Tasks
4-7 structurally depend on the schema field + surface). INDEX line
added when the full iter lands post-re-dispatch.
2026-05-18 14:32:39 +02:00
Brummel 7580d434f0 iter docs-honesty-lint.1: canonical docs present-tense-honest + wrap-robust pin + Sweep 5
Strips Wunschdenken (forward intent stated as fact) and non-citation
post-mortem / doc-archaeology from docs/DESIGN.md (14 corrections incl.
1 Step-14 procedural-catch-all site the spec's illustrative regex would
have missed) + docs/PROSE_ROUNDTRIP.md; genuine forward intent (LLM
tool-use / MCP / LSP) relocated to roadmap P3. Codifies the
tense+modality discriminator as a present-tense DESIGN.md meta-
subsection. Guards two ways: wrap-robust enumerated absent/present pin
(crates/ailang-core/tests/docs_honesty_pin.rs, norm() whitespace-
collapse helper — structurally discharges the recurring grep/contains
line-wrap failure family) + wrap-robust advisory Sweep 5 in
architect_sweeps.sh (contiguous-fragment regex) with full sweep-count
lockstep + new ailang-architect.md "DESIGN.md honesty drift" bullet.
KEEPs preserved (Diverge-reserved, regions-rejected, self-labelled
tiebreaker). No language/checker/codegen/runtime change — sole crates/
change is the additive pin; ail check/run/build byte-unchanged.
Workspace 609/0 (delta +4 pin), sentinel trio green, build clean.
2026-05-18 12:30:03 +02:00
Brummel 07f080256c iter remove-mut-var-assign.1: atomic removal of mut/var/assign
mut/var/assign removed from AILang entirely and atomically. Deleted:
Term::Mut/Term::Assign/struct MutVar; the three Form-A keywords +
parse_mut/parse_assign + grammar EBNF; the 4 mut CheckError variants;
the mut_scope_stack synth threading (param dropped from synth + every
internal/external/test caller); the two lower_term arms; and every
exhaustive no-_ Term::Mut/Term::Assign match arm across 17 source
files — cut in lockstep with DESIGN.md, fixtures, the drift trio,
carve-out and roadmap so the schema is honest at every commit. No
catch-all wildcard introduced (verified). loop/recur + let/if are
the surviving forms.

The shared codegen alloca machinery survives (loop reuses it):
mut_var_allocas renamed binder_allocas (representation-only, loop
codegen byte-identical) and the shared Term::Lam escape guard
simplified to !loop_stack.is_empty() with the loop half
(LoopBinderCapturedByLambda) byte-equivalent. Feature-acceptance
applied inverted: the removed feature fails clause 2 (redundant)
and clause 3 (IS the iterated-mutable-state bug class).

Behaviour preservation is executable: mut_counter/mut_sum_floats
still print 55 after the faithful let/if rewrite. The removal is
made executable by the new mut_removed_pin.rs (4 must-fail pins).
Independent verification: cargo test --workspace 605/0, zero
residual mut symbols in any crate source, loop/recur non-regression
all green (55 / 500000500000 / infinite-compiles / the
lambda_capturing_loop_binder pin), roundtrip_cli PASS.

One DONE_WITH_CONCERNS: a 4th recurrence of the recon-undercount
class (in-source mod tests + a drift-pin fn + 5 orphaned mut
.ail.json carve-outs + a non-enumerated E0599); all resolved within
implementer remit, no behaviour change. Milestone-close audit then
fieldtest remain.

spec docs/specs/2026-05-18-remove-mut-var-assign.md (grounding PASS)
plan docs/plans/remove-mut-var-assign.1.md
2026-05-18 11:06:17 +02:00
Brummel c9355d7d58 iter prose-loop-binders.1: Form-B loop binders as parenthesised init-list
The Term::Loop arm of write_term rendered binders as bare
`name = init;` statements inside the `loop { … }` body block, which
reads as C/Rust re-init-every-iteration semantics — a projection
lying about a body the prose surface exists to let the reader trust.
Rewrite to a parenthesised init-list on the keyword line,
`loop(acc = 0, i = 1) { … }`, positionally isomorphic to the
unchanged Term::Recur arm. Projection-only: loop/recur AST, Form-A,
JSON-AST, typecheck, codegen, and the Form-A↔JSON round-trip
invariant untouched. RED-first via two new committed
examples/*.prose.txt byte-equality snapshots + two snapshot_loop_*
tests; full ailang-prose suite 10/0; both ail-prose CLI byte-matches
green. Single-iteration milestone, brainstorm→plan→implement.

Spec: docs/specs/2026-05-18-prose-loop-binders.md
Plan: docs/plans/prose-loop-binders.1.md
2026-05-18 01:04:19 +02:00
Brummel 2ee97943bd iter loop-recur.tidy GREEN: reject lambda-captures-loop-binder at check + milestone-close audit resolution
GREEN side of the RED audit-trail commit 39380d3. The loop/recur
milestone-close audit found a [high] correctness defect — a lambda
capturing a loop binder passed `ail check` then panicked
unreachable!() at codegen (crates/ailang-codegen/src/lambda.rs:102)
on type-correct input. Fixed symmetrically to mut.4-tidy: new
CheckError::LoopBinderCapturedByLambda (code
loop-binder-captured-by-lambda, bracket-free F2 Display), the
Term::Lam escape guard gained a parallel loop_stack pass. Minimal
mechanism: loop_stack element Vec<Type> -> Vec<(String,Type)> so
the already-threaded per-loop frame carries binder names; recur
still reads .1 by position (Boss-call-2 positional invariant
preserved verbatim — the name is a second field for the escape
guard only, a consumer iter-2 did not anticipate). Codegen
byte-unchanged (typecheck-only fix). carve_out 17->18 + ct1-F2 +
DESIGN.md note lockstep.

Folded in (Boss-side, audit resolution): the two [medium]
doc-honesty edits the audit surfaced (mut_var_allocas rustdoc now
states its mut-var+loop-binder dual use; Term::Loop doc-comment
now describes the real shipped state, not iter-1's stale
"per-binder phi" forward-look) + a [low] P2 roadmap todo
(plan-recon undercount countermeasure, pairs with planner Step-5
items 7+8). Bench gate: all 3 scripts exit 0, 25 metrics 0
regressed — pristine, carry-on (no baseline/ratify).

cargo test --workspace 619 -> 622 / 0 red (Boss-reran
independently, hash_pin 11/0). The loop/recur milestone is
audit-clean; fieldtest is the only remaining step before close.
2026-05-18 00:21:06 +02:00
Brummel edd2558d35 iter loop-recur.3: codegen — real LLVM-IR lowering + run-to-value E2E (milestone terminal)
Third and terminal iteration of the standalone loop/recur
milestone (plan eae73bf). Replaces the iter-1 lower_term
CodegenError::Internal stub for Term::Loop/Term::Recur with real
LLVM-IR lowering: loop binders as entry-block allocas (mut.3
pending_entry_allocas, reusing mut_var_allocas so the existing
Term::Var load path is byte-unchanged), a fresh loop-header block,
recur stores + back-edge br, a loop_frames stack saved/restored at
the lambda boundary. clang -O2 mem2reg promotes the allocas to
phi. Four Boss design calls implemented verbatim and journalled
(alloca-not-hand-phi; mut_var_allocas reuse; emergent loop-exit
via the if/match join; single block_terminated field + parallel
SET site). Diff confirmed surgical: codegen/lib.rs 3 hunks (field
+ init + stub->2-arms), lambda.rs 2 hunks (save+restore); zero
edits to any existing block_terminated SET/READ site, tail-app
lowering, or verify_tail_positions (Boss call 4, the spec-pinned
invariant). Three new .ail fixtures: sum_to->55,
deep-n 1e6->500000500000 (clause-2 correctness made executable),
infinite-loop build-only. Codegen-only: no schema/typecheck
change; hash pins + drift trio stay green untouched.

One DONE_WITH_CONCERNS (T3): the plan's `cargo test ... tail`
filter resolved to no tests; ran via real names + the full 619/0
which subsumes it (feedback_plan_pseudo_vs_reality class, no
behaviour change). Boss systemic fix folded in: planner SKILL.md
Step-5 gains item 8 (verification-command filter strings must
resolve) — the second planner-meta-gap this milestone surfaced.

cargo test --workspace 616 -> 619 / 0 red (Boss-reran
independently); the 3 loop/recur e2e explicitly green. All three
components shipped: the loop/recur milestone is structurally
complete. Milestone-close audit + fieldtest is the next step.
2026-05-17 23:57:46 +02:00
Brummel 1566ce0b29 iter loop-recur.2: typecheck semantics — binder typing, recur checks, verify_loop_body
Second of three iterations of the standalone loop/recur milestone
(plan 5ac57fe). Replaces the iter-1 synth CheckError::Internal stub
for Term::Loop/Term::Recur with real binder typing + positional
recur arity/type checking via a new loop_stack: &mut Vec<Vec<Type>>
frame threaded as mut.2's mut_scope_stack, a new private
verify_loop_body tail-position pass (sibling of the byte-frozen
verify_tail_positions — 0 deletions there), and the four Recur*
diagnostics firing point-exactly on four negative fixtures. The
iter-1 loop_sum_to.ail fixture now also typechecks clean; an
infinite loop typechecks (no termination claim). NO codegen (the
iter-1 lower_term stub stays — iter 3); NO Diverge/guardedness
(spec boundary).

Three Boss design calls implemented verbatim and journalled:
RecurTypeMismatch is an Assign-style structural pre-check (not a
unify-propagate); loop_stack is positional Vec<Type> (binder names
via ordinary locals); diagnostic-code precedence is by pass
ordering (no explicit logic).

Two DONE_WITH_CONCERNS, both journalled: a plan-ordering defect
(Task 2's compile gate forced the check_fn threading the plan
deferred to Task 4 — resolved byte-identically, only resequenced)
and the recurring mut.2-class recon-undercount of cross-module
synth callers (resolved via the plan's compile-sweep oracle).

Boss systemic fix folded in: planner SKILL.md Step-5 gains item 7
(compile-gate vs. deferred-caller ordering) so the plan-ordering
defect class is scrubbed at plan time. cargo test --workspace
608 -> 616 / 0 red (Boss-reran independently).
2026-05-17 23:33:43 +02:00
Brummel a179ec30a0 iter loop-recur.1: additive Term::Loop / Term::Recur / LoopBinder foundation
First of three iterations of the standalone loop/recur milestone
(spec 97c1ed1). loop/recur become real parseable / printable /
round-trippable / hash-stable strictly-additive AST nodes across
every no-wildcard exhaustive Term match in all six crates, plus
parse/print, prose arms, DESIGN.md + form_a.md schema blocks,
drift/coverage/hash anchors, and the spec's worked sum_to program
as a green round-trip fixture. NO typecheck semantics and NO real
codegen this iter by design: synth and lower_term are stubbed
CheckError::Internal / CodegenError::Internal exactly as mut.1
(real typecheck = iter 2, real loop-header/phi/back-edge = iter 3).

Two binding Boss design calls recorded in the plan header and the
journal: (1) verify_tail_positions "byte-unchanged" = its tail-app
verification role is unchanged, not its source — it is an
exhaustive no-wildcard match so two descent-only arms are
mandatory; acceptance evidence is the tail-app non-regression test.
(2) codegen is in iter-1 scope as stubs/pass-throughs because the
workspace must compile for cargo test --workspace.

Three plan-pseudo-vs-reality substitutions (serde Type::Con
literal, bare Int -> (con Int), unqualified LoopBinder) and one
recon-undercount integration-test site, all intent-preserving and
journalled. Boss forward-fix folded in: the committed specs
themselves wrote bare Int in the loop-binder snippets (parses as
Type::Var) — corrected the three headline snippets to (con Int) for
doc-honesty (no design/schema change).

cargo test --workspace 600 -> 608 / 0 red (Boss-reran
independently); iter13a + new loop_recur hash pins green.
2026-05-17 23:00:15 +02:00
Brummel a29700cc9e iter effect-doc-honesty: make the effect-system documentation true
Standalone documentation-honesty tidy (no language/checker/codegen
change; `ail check`/`run` byte-unchanged by construction). Corrects
three false effect-system claims the effect-subsystem recon surfaced,
plus two satellite mentions, guarded by a new doc-presence pin:

- DESIGN.md Decision 3: removed the "row-polymorphic (`![IO | r]`)"
  claim (no EffectRow / row variable exists in any crate — effect
  sets are a flat, unordered, closed set unified by set-equality);
  reconciled "`IO` and `Diverge` are wired up" to IO-only +
  `Diverge` reserved/unimplemented (zero code in any crate),
  modelled on Decision 4's reserved-refinements precedent.
- DESIGN.md "What is not (yet) supported": "IO and Diverge ops"
  bullet -> IO-only + Diverge-reserved.
- ast.rs Term::Do doc-comment: "resolved against the effect-handler
  table at link time" -> the real mechanism (typecheck lookup in
  Env::effect_ops + literal lower_effect_op codegen match; no
  handler table, no link-time resolution).
- form_a.md:226 + rule 3, and main.rs merge-prose CONTRACT example:
  Diverge mentions reconciled in lockstep.
- new crates/ailang-core/tests/effect_doc_honesty_pin.rs: 4 tests,
  fiction-absent + corrected-anchor-present, single-line wrap-robust
  substrings.

cargo test --workspace 600 -> 604 (4 new pin tests, 0 regressions);
design_schema_drift / spec_drift / schema_coverage stay green,
empirically confirming none scans the effect-prose region.
2026-05-16 13:25:49 +02:00
Brummel 37ac704bf3 iter revert: back out the Iteration-discipline milestone (it.1 + it.2)
One forward iteration; main never rewound. 1ff7e81 (the pre-9973546
commit) is the per-region byte oracle — every reverted source/test
file is byte-identical to it; crates/ailang-check/src/lib.rs fully so.

Root cause being corrected: the Iteration-discipline milestone was an
over-escalation of fieldtest finding F1 (a [friction] item whose own
minimal recommendation was a DESIGN.md note). Its totality dichotomy
made the maximally-LLM-natural build(d:Int)=Node(1,build(d-1),
build(d-1)) inexpressible (it.3 BLOCKED); the only in-thesis escape
(A1/it.2b) conceded the language's first documented-unenforced
totality precondition — a purity-pillar dilution the user rejected in
favour of a full revert + rebuild.

Removed: Term::Loop/Term::Recur/LoopBinder; the verify_structural_
recursion guardedness pass + term_contains_loop + Diverge-injection +
the transitively-it.2 module_fns plumbing; the five Recur*/
NonStructuralRecursion CheckError variants (+ code() + the 3 dedicated
ctx() arms); the it.1 codegen loop-header/phi/back-edge + parallel
block_terminated setter; all Loop/Recur walker arms; 16 it.1/it.2
fixtures; 2 pin files; bench/it3-oracle/. Restored: 2 RC fixtures to
1ff7e81 content.

Surgically kept (not in 1ff7e81, landed with the milestone but
independently sound): feature-acceptance clause 3 in DESIGN.md and
skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md, with its worked example de-claimed from
"shipped" to hypothetical-illustration form; the F3 P2 todo.
bench/orchestrator-stats/2026-05-15-iter-it.{1,2,3}.json kept as
historical record (like journals/plans).

Sole net addition: an honest F1/F4 documented-idiom note in DESIGN.md
(the tail-recursive accumulator fallback; examples/mut_counter.ail),
guarded by a doc-presence test — "a documentation note is not a
reshape", asserts nothing at the typecheck level.

Roadmap: the Iteration-discipline block + blocking-fork section
removed; the genuine total-Int-recursion ambition preserved as a
deferred P2 milestone sequenced behind a future Nat/refinement-types
milestone (not abandoned — correctly sequenced after the type
machinery it needs). 2026-05-15-iteration-discipline.md carries a
superseded header; it.1/it.2/it.3 journals + plans stay as history.

Correctness gate PRISTINE: 164 surviving 1ff7e81-era fixtures
ail check/ail run byte-identical to pre-milestone behaviour (verified
against a 1ff7e81 worktree reference compiler, zero drift);
cargo test --workspace 600/0; zero residual it.1/it.2 production
surface.

Spec docs/specs/2026-05-16-iteration-discipline-revert.md (b3853bf),
plan docs/plans/2026-05-16-iter-revert.md (abf0013).
2026-05-16 01:28:47 +02:00
Brummel 305ffd1367 iter it.3 BLOCKED: surfaced fundamental milestone-design fork (bounce-back)
it.3 Task 1 (non-destructive oracle + spec-delegated class-(b)
sweep) ran complete; zero production code changed. The mandated
sweep surfaced that 6 corpus fixtures contain
build(d:Int)=if d==0 then Leaf else Node(1,build(d-1),build(d-1)) —
a terminating, maximally-LLM-natural, non-structural non-tail
BRANCHING recursion the milestone's totality dichotomy makes
inexpressible (not ADT-structural; not recur-able — branching is
not a single tail back-edge). The milestone as-specified would
fail its own feature-acceptance criterion. Orchestrator correctly
bounced rather than patch a 4th time (spec_over_plan_patches).
Records the blocked attempt + the reusable bench/it3-oracle/
(40-fixture behavioural oracle, valid for the post-decision
re-dispatch). main forward-only; nothing reverted. Resolution
(it.2b + a user purity-pillar decision) tracked in the roadmap.
2026-05-15 16:06:42 +02:00
Brummel a4be1e58a3 iter it.2: structural-guardedness checker + first real Diverge effect
Iteration-discipline milestone, 2 of 3. Strictly additive (nothing
tail-related removed; that is it.3). New whole-body pass
verify_structural_recursion sibling of verify_tail_positions
(DD-1): smaller-set algorithm with implicit candidate inference +
unconstrained accumulators (DD-2, foldl=structural), self/mutual
via inline ADT-family union-find (DD-3), it.2-only tail==false
grandfather. CheckError::NonStructuralRecursion. term_contains_loop
(stops at Term::Lam, DD-4) injects Diverge so existing
UndeclaredEffect enforces it, no new variant; lam-arrow + LetRec
sub-effect sites wired. DESIGN.md Decision 3 synced. Four it.1
loop fixtures gained !Diverge.

Two spec-premise boundary defects surfaced + resolved within the
additive invariant (corpus clean, check not weakened), recorded as
corrected it.3 corpus-migration scope: (1) the "21 tail-app
fixtures" grandfather premise under-counts the corpus —
no-ADT-candidate counter recursions have no structural position to
verify, deferred to it.3; (2) two RC-regression fixtures joined the
spec's transitional tail-app grandfather as the other 20 do (RC==GC
guards verified still green). cargo test --workspace 622/0; 9
acceptance pins non-vacuous. Spec fda9b78, plan bc9f512.
2026-05-15 15:29:43 +02:00
Brummel 96db54d15d iter it.1: loop/recur additive — Term::Loop/Term::Recur/LoopBinder end-to-end
Iteration-discipline milestone, 1 of 3. Adds named loop + recur as
strictly-additive first-class AST nodes: parse/print/prose/serde/
round-trip/schema lockstep, typecheck (binder typing + recur
arity/type unification via loop_stack threaded as mut.2's
mut_scope_stack; recur-tail-position via verify_loop_body), codegen
(loop-header + one phi per binder; recur back-edge br with a NEW
parallel block_terminated setter; lambda-boundary loop_frames
save/restore). Four Recur* CheckError variants. Strictly additive:
zero deletions touch tail-app/tail-do or the seven existing
block_terminated sites — this is what makes the destructive it.3
safe. recur synth = fresh metavar (resolves the plan's flagged
Type::unit() risk). loop_counter->55, loop_in_lambda->49, four
negatives fire, tail-app byte-identical, cargo test --workspace
green. Spec fda9b78, plan 7381a42.
2026-05-15 14:38:55 +02:00
Brummel 20add51112 iter mut.4-tidy + audit close — mut-local milestone closed
Tidy iter addressing the audit-mut-local drift. Plus paired baseline
update on bench/baseline_compile.json (audit-skill discipline).

Architect [high] items closed:

1. CheckError::MutVarCapturedByLambda rejects lambdas whose body
   free vars include a mut-var of the enclosing mut_scope_stack.
   Uses the existing ailang_core::desugar::free_vars_in_term walker
   (which honours Term::Match pattern bindings). The scan runs only
   when mut_scope_stack is non-empty.

2. crates/ailang-codegen/src/lambda.rs: the capture-not-in-locals
   path that previously raised CodegenError::Internal blaming the
   typechecker now uses unreachable!. The companion comment block
   was rewritten to state the current reality.

Architect [medium] items closed (stale mut.1-stub history comments):

3. docs/DESIGN.md §'Term (expression)' mut/assign block: the
   trailing paragraph describing the iter mut.1 stub state was
   replaced with one describing the current mut.3-end-state. The
   inline jsonc comment on {'t': 'assign'} was updated to drop the
   'deferred to mut.2/mut.3' language.

4. crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs: the stale comment block above
   the real Term::Mut arm describing the mut.1 stub was removed
   entirely.

Other:

- Short-circuit on empty mut_scope_stack in synth's Term::Var arm:
  the iter mut.2 prepend now skips the iter-and-find walk when
  the stack is empty, eliminating any per-Var-resolution overhead
  for the common case (programs with no mut blocks). The
  short-circuit did NOT close the check_ms regression — see ratify
  below.

- Spec docs/specs/2026-05-15-mut-local.md §'Out of scope' amended
  with the lambda-capture rejection bullet.

- Negative fixture examples/test_mut_var_captured_by_lambda.ail.json
  + driver test extension in crates/ailang-check/tests/
  mut_typecheck_pin.rs (6th test) +
  crates/ailang-core/tests/carve_out_inventory.rs EXPECTED bumped
  12 → 13.

Bench-regression ratify:

bench/compile_check.py check_ms showed a uniform ~30-50% relative
shift across the entire 11-fixture suite (~0.5ms absolute on a
1.4-1.5ms baseline). The uniformity across fixtures of very
different Var counts argues for a fixed-cost-per-invocation tax,
not a Var-proportional hot path. The Term::Var short-circuit
falsified the hot-path hypothesis. The plausible remaining causes
(synth-parameter-passing through ~19 recursive sites, and binary-
size startup tax from mut-* adding ~1400 LOC to typecheck/codegen)
are both feature-cost, not pathological. Ratified by paired
journal entry; bench/baseline_compile.json updated to the post-
mut-local numbers via 'bench/compile_check.py --update-baseline'.

bench/check.py continues to show the established tail-latency-noise
envelope from audit-pd (2026-05-14) — no separate ratify needed.

bench/cross_lang.py clean.

Tests: 594 → 598 green (4 new lib.rs mod tests + 1 driver test +
1 fixture-corpus uptake).

Journal: docs/journals/2026-05-15-iter-mut.4-tidy.md.

mut-local milestone end-to-end status:
  - mut.1 (7b92719): AST + Form A surface.
  - mut.2 (b24718a): typecheck.
  - mut.3 (03fb633): codegen + e2e.
  - mut.4-tidy (this commit): audit-drift close + bench ratify.
mut-local milestone CLOSED.

Refs: docs/specs/2026-05-15-mut-local.md,
docs/plans/2026-05-15-iter-mut.4-tidy.md.
2026-05-15 09:21:33 +02:00
Brummel 03fb633d85 iter mut.3: codegen + e2e — mut-local milestone end-to-end closed
Replaces the iter mut.1 dispatch stubs in lower_term with real LLVM
lowering: mut-vars become alloca slots hoisted to the fn's entry
block, assign lowers to store, mut-var reads lower to load. Two
example fixtures run end-to-end printing 55 (Int via mut_counter,
Float via mut_sum_floats).

Concretely:

- Emitter struct gains three new fields: mut_var_allocas:
  BTreeMap<String, (String, Type)> for per-fn name→(alloca SSA,
  AIL type) tracking; pending_entry_allocas: String as a side
  buffer accumulating alloca instructions during body lowering;
  entry_block_end_marker: Option<usize> recording the byte position
  in self.body immediately after the entry: label.

- start_block(label) captures the marker when label == 'entry'.
  emit_fn resets all three new fields per fn body. At the end of
  emit_fn, String::insert_str splices pending_entry_allocas into
  self.body at the marker — alloca instructions land in the entry
  block regardless of where in the source tree Term::Mut was
  encountered (mem2reg eligibility preserved).

- Term::Mut arm: per var, fresh-name an alloca SSA, push the
  alloca instruction into pending_entry_allocas, lower the init at
  the current body position, emit a store to bind. The mut-var
  binding is NOT visible during init (matches typecheck-side
  ordering at lib.rs:3576). After all vars are bound, lower the
  body in the extended scope. On block exit, restore any prior
  bindings via a per-block save stack — supports nested
  shadowing correctly.

- Term::Assign arm: look up the alloca + type via
  mut_var_allocas.get(name); lower the value; emit store; yield
  the canonical Unit SSA per the existing Term::Lit { lit:
  Literal::Unit } convention.

- Term::Var arm: prepended with a mut-var lookup that emits a
  load <ty>, ptr <alloca> and returns the load SSA. Innermost-wins
  shadowing falls out of the BTreeMap's insert-overwrites
  semantics combined with the per-block save/restore.

- examples/mut_counter.ail + examples/mut_sum_floats.ail:
  recursive sum_helper accumulates 1..10 (Int) or 1.0..10.0 (Float)
  inside a mut block whose single var is assigned the helper's
  result. Both run end-to-end printing 55.

- crates/ail/tests/e2e.rs: mut_counter_prints_55 and
  mut_sum_floats_prints_55 #[test] fns using the existing
  build_and_run helper.

- DESIGN.md 'What is supported' subsection: 'Local mutable state'
  bullet describes the new construct, points at the two example
  fixtures, and reaffirms the seal-by-construction invariant under
  Decision 10.

Beyond-plan adjustments absorbed in this iter:
  - synth_with_extras's parallel Term::Var arm in
    ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs needed the same mut-var lookup as
    lower_term's. Plan only specified lower_term's arm.
  - crates/ailang-codegen/src/lambda.rs needed save/restore of all
    three new Emitter fields across the lambda-body boundary plus
    in-thunk splice of pending_entry_allocas at the lambda's own
    entry marker, so mut-blocks inside a closure body hoist into
    the closure's entry block (not the outer fn's).

mut-local milestone end-to-end status:
  - mut.1 (7b92719): AST + Form A surface.
  - mut.2 (b24718a): typecheck.
  - mut.3 (this commit): codegen + e2e.
  Audit follows.

Tests: 592 → 594 green; cargo build green; both fixtures execute
and print 55.

Journal: docs/journals/2026-05-15-iter-mut.3.md.

Refs: docs/specs/2026-05-15-mut-local.md, docs/plans/2026-05-15-iter-mut.3.md.
2026-05-15 01:56:26 +02:00