chore(release): cut v2.4.6 "Abacus" — the core learns arithmetic - #442
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… drifted Bumps the workspace to 2.4.6 and records the indexed addressing modes, ADC/SBC and the compare group. RTL pinned at RustyNES_MiSTer@26d0fd9. The emulation core is untouched; AccuracyCoin 141/141 (RAM decoder) and nestest 0-diff verified. Three ROMs, 573 records, seven mutations caught. ## The release **Zero-page indexing wraps INSIDE page zero.** $FE + $05 is $0003, not $0103. A 16-bit-add implementation is wrong only for programs that index past $FF -- exactly the defect that survives casual testing -- so the ROM does it and reads back through a DIFFERENT mode. **Absolute indexing pays for its page cross, and a write pays always.** Four cycles for a read that did not carry, five for one that did, five ALWAYS for a store because the CPU has already driven the unfixed address. A store taking the read fast path agrees on every register and differs only on `cycle`. **ADC and SBC share one adder**, SBC feeding it ~M, so its carry means NO BORROW. Overflow is SIGNED overflow, covered at $7F+$01 (V, no C), $80+$FF (both) and $10+$10 (neither) -- one case cannot separate "V from carry" from "V stuck high", three can. **A compare leaves the register and V untouched**, and the ROM stores A afterwards and reads it back rather than asserting that it survived. ## The documentation sweep Asked for, and it found three things nothing was checking. **docs/mister.md had ZERO rung-1 content.** It is the programme's spec document and it did not know the RTL existed -- its sections stopped at "the two risks that had to be settled before any RTL". It now carries the rung-1 record: the three opcode groups, what the rung established beyond the opcodes, and -- stated plainly rather than left to be discovered -- that the accuracy gate is NOT automated, because the goldens are not vendored in the sibling repository and golden fetching from a pinned commit is not built. **AGENTS.md had zero rung-1 references.** Its Fabric bullet said v2.5.0 is scoped to the 6502 rung and nothing about three groups having closed. Now records the 573 records, the three tests that read correctly and verified nothing, the reset length the oracle corrected in our own spec, and the un-automated gate. **The Fabric plan's delivery table was stale.** v2.4.1 and v2.4.2 were never marked delivered, and the v2.4.4-v2.4.6 row still read as pending. All four rows now carry their gate RESULT rather than the gate's wording. The undocumented opcodes planned for that window are NOT delivered and are moved explicitly to v2.4.7-v2.4.9 rather than quietly dropped. **.gitignore did not cover the golden-export outputs.** `nes_golden_export` writes `.ckpt.bin`, `.obs.bin`, `.boot.bin`, `.index_fb.bin`, `.ram.bin` and `.manifest.txt` wherever `--out` points; none were ignored. None are in the tree today only because this session wrote them to a scratch directory. The re-include beside the new patterns is not decoration. A BARE pattern matches at any depth, which is exactly how `Cargo.lock` silently ignored the excluded crate's lockfile until v2.4.2 -- so the committed golden trees are named explicitly. Verified in both directions: the outputs are ignored, a file under the golden trees is not, and `git ls-files | git check-ignore --stdin` reports nothing, so no tracked file was newly swallowed. **Checked and found correct**, recorded so they are not re-checked: README and docs/STATUS.md both state 174 mapper families; the CHANGELOG's `[Unreleased]` section is empty with `[2.4.6]` below it; no golden-export artifacts are untracked in the tree; to-dos/ROADMAP.md's current-release anchor already carries the RTL narrative through its "built on" chain. ## Verification * AccuracyCoin 141/141 (100.00%, RAM decoder), nestest 0-diff -- run, not assumed, with non-zero test counts confirmed. * release_anchor_audit 8/8, release_state_prose_audit 6/6, release_notes_render_audit 2/2, cosim_manifest_audit 4/4, libretro_info_audit 3/3. * Release notes written through reflow.py before landing. * cargo fmt --all --check clean; markdownlint via pre-commit Passed. * bump_release.py classified all 16 anchor sites with no refusals: 5 bare, 5 dash, 2 paren, 2 chain, 1 period, 1 dated_code. * No upstream libretro PR: cadence limits those to vX.Y.0 and no licence changed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
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Antigravity review (Gemini via Ultra)This is a trivial PR that cuts the v2.4.6 "Abacus" release, bumping version strings, updating documentation, and adding a test to ensure release prose tracks the current tag. Blocking issuesNone found. Suggestions
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In `@docs/mister.md`:
- Around line 519-521: Reconcile the v2.4.4 record count across both tables with
the 573-record total: update docs/mister.md lines 519-521 and
to-dos/plans/v2.5.0-fabric-plan.md line 161 to use the current count, or
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- Line 58: Synchronize the current-release markers in both roadmap documents:
update the stale v2.3.9 “current tag” wording in to-dos/ROADMAP.md lines 58-58
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Two review findings on the v2.4.6 cut, both correct, and the second is
the more interesting of the pair because it is a repeat of a shape this
line has now hit four times.
FINDING 1 -- the rung-1 table did not add up.
docs/mister.md claimed "573 records across three ROMs" above a table
whose rows summed to 455. Both numbers were true; they were counted
under different capture windows. opgroup1 closed v2.4.4 over a 0..64
cycle window and was reported then as 29 records. v2.4.5 widened every
ROM's window to reach the addressing modes, and the same ROM now yields
147 -- so the table was carrying v2.4.4's original figure beside two
figures measured under the current windows.
Arithmetic settles which is which without re-running anything: the
sibling repository records 752 records across four ROMs at v2.4.7, and
573 across three at v2.4.6, so opgroup4 is 179 and opgroup1 is
573 - 140 - 286 = 147. The row is corrected to 147 and the paragraph
below the table now states explicitly that every count is measured under
the CURRENT window rather than the one its release reported, which is
what makes the column addable at all.
This is the same class as the earlier v2.4.4 finding: two counts of
different things, presented as though they were counts of the same
thing.
FINDING 2 -- "the current tag" named a superseded release.
to-dos/ROADMAP.md's release-line sentence ended at v2.3.9 "Crucible"
(the current tag), six releases stale. The chain is extended through the
v2.4.x "Fabric" co-simulation line and the label moved to v2.4.6.
The reason this is worth more than a one-line correction: it is the
FOURTH location this project's release-state drift has occupied, and
each move followed the previous location being gated.
1. The 15 release anchors -> gated by release_anchor_audit
2. The (current) labels -> gated by release_state_prose_audit
3. The unshipped-status labels -> gated by release_state_prose_audit
4. A narrative sentence naming a tag in DIFFERENT WORDS -> this change
Rule 2 matches the label form **vX.Y.Z "Codename"** (current) and
nothing else, deliberately, so that prose quoting the defect is not
flagged. "the current tag" is the same claim in different words and
slides straight past it. So the audit gains a third rule rather than the
sentence gaining a correction.
THE NEW RULE, AND WHY IT IS SCOPED THE WAY IT IS.
tag_claims() scans for a phrase from TAG_PHRASES, then reads BACKWARD
from it and takes the nearest preceding vX.Y.Z -- backward because the
version precedes the phrase in every real instance, and nearest because
a release-line sentence lists twenty versions and only the last is the
subject of the claim. A phrase with no version within the lookback
yields nothing rather than a finding: README.md says a header "can lag
... the latest tag" and names no release, which is correct prose.
The phrase list is two entries, and the census that produced it is the
justification. "current release" appears 14 times and "the latest
release" 3, almost all generic prose with no version attached; a rule
over those would report findings nobody can act on, which is how a check
gets switched off. "current tag" and "latest tag" are the exact wording
that drifted. Across the whole tracked corpus the rule finds exactly one
live claim and zero false positives; the third occurrence sits under
to-dos/plans/, already frozen via .markdownlintignore.
The backward scan counts CHARACTERS, never bytes. These documents are
full of em-dashes and arrows, and a byte-offset window cuts mid-character
-- which in a diagnostic path replaces the message explaining the failure
with a char-boundary panic about the reporting code. A test pins that
directly.
DEMONSTRATED TO FAIL, NOT ASSUMED TO WORK.
Reverting the sentence to v2.3.9 and re-running:
release-state: 1 current-tag claim(s) found
to-dos/ROADMAP.md:62 calls v2.3.9 the current tag,
but the workspace is at 2.4.6
test result: FAILED
Restored, 8 passed. Five unit tests pin the scanner itself: nearest
version wins over first-on-line, no-version-in-reach is not a claim, a
version outside the lookback is not the subject, and a multibyte line
does not panic the backward scan.
Gates: cargo fmt --all --check clean; cargo clippy -p
rustynes-test-harness --all-targets -D warnings clean; the audit at
8 passed / 0 failed. No crate under rustynes-{cpu,ppu,apu,mappers,core}
is touched, so AccuracyCoin and nestest are unaffected by construction.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
… defects Follow-up to 5fa28b1. That commit corrected opgroup1's row from 29 to 147 and said the counts were "the records the gate compares today". Accurate, and weaker than it needed to be, because I had derived 147 by SUBTRACTING two published totals I had not verified (573 - 140 - 286) rather than by running anything. The subtraction gave the right answer. It also could not have found either of the two defects that measuring did, both now fixed in the sibling repository at RustyNES_MiSTer@3560c98: * `cpu-gate` -- the target this document calls THE accuracy gate -- hardcoded `--cycles 301` for every ROM, so the documented command compared only the first 136 of opgroup3's 286 records. It failed closed, so no false pass was possible, but the two most recent ROMs could not be gated by the published invocation at all. * The oracle's `--boot-trace 0..N` and the harness's `--cycles N` are off by one, undocumented. Pair opgroup3's `0..601` with `--cycles 601` and the diff reports `reference=287 actual=286` -- a one-record length mismatch indistinguishable at a glance from the CPU halting a cycle early, which points the debugging at the RTL for a defect that lives in the invocation. All four counts are now measured, each from `cpu-gate` against a freshly exported golden: 147, 140, 286, 179 -- 573 across the three ROMs this release covers, 752 across the four that exist. The claim in this document is upgraded from "these are current" to "these are measured", which is a different and stronger statement. The wording matters because this project's recurring failure is a check reporting a pass it has not earned, and a number reached by arithmetic over two unverified numbers is the documentation-side form of exactly that. No crate under rustynes-{cpu,ppu,apu,mappers,core} is touched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
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Cuts v2.4.6 "Abacus" — indexed addressing,
ADC/SBC, and the compare group — and sweeps the documentation that had drifted. RTL pinned atRustyNES_MiSTer@26d0fd9.The emulation core is untouched. AccuracyCoin 141/141 (100.00%, RAM decoder) and nestest 0-diff, run rather than assumed. Three ROMs, 573 records, seven mutations caught.
The release
$FE + $05is$0003, not$0103. A 16-bit-add implementation is wrong only for programs indexing past$FF— the defect that survives casual testing — so the ROM does it and reads back through a different mode.cycle.ADC/SBCshare one adder, SBC feeding it~M, so carry means no borrow. Overflow is signed overflow, covered at$7F+$01(V, no C),$80+$FF(both),$10+$10(neither) — one case can't separate "V from carry" from "V stuck high"; three can.Aafterwards and reads it back rather than asserting it survived.The documentation sweep found three things nothing was checking
docs/mister.mdhad zero rung-1 content. It's the programme's spec document and didn't know the RTL existed — its sections stopped at "the two risks that had to be settled before any RTL". It now carries the rung-1 record, and states plainly that the accuracy gate is not automated: the goldens aren't vendored in the sibling repo and golden fetching from a pinned commit isn't built.AGENTS.mdhad zero rung-1 references. Its Fabric bullet said v2.5.0 is scoped to the 6502 rung and nothing about three groups having closed.The Fabric plan's delivery table was stale — v2.4.1 and v2.4.2 were never marked delivered and the v2.4.4–v2.4.6 row still read as pending. All four rows now carry their gate result. The undocumented opcodes planned for that window are not delivered and move explicitly to v2.4.7–v2.4.9 rather than being quietly dropped.
.gitignoredid not cover the golden-export outputs.nes_golden_exportwrites six artifact types wherever--outpoints; none were ignored. None are in the tree today only because this session wrote them to a scratch directory.The re-include beside the new patterns isn't decoration — a bare pattern matches at any depth, which is exactly how
Cargo.locksilently ignored the excluded crate's lockfile until v2.4.2. Verified both ways: outputs ignored, files under the golden trees not, andgit ls-files | git check-ignore --stdinreports nothing, so no tracked file was newly swallowed.Checked and correct (recorded so they aren't re-checked): README and
docs/STATUS.mdboth state 174 mapper families;[Unreleased]is empty with[2.4.6]below it; no golden artifacts untracked;to-dos/ROADMAP.mdalready carries the RTL narrative through its chain.Verification
100.00% over 141 assigned testsrelease_anchor_auditrelease_state_prose_auditrelease_notes_render_auditcosim_manifest_auditlibretro_info_auditcargo fmt --all --checkbump_release.pyclassified all 16 anchor sites with no refusals: 5 bare, 5 dash, 2 paren, 2 chain, 1 period, 1 dated_code. Notes written throughreflow.pybefore landing.Summary by CodeRabbit
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