- the test runner re-makes every state between tests again: since 12fdc07 a state is made by its getter on
first use, so re-running L_init_globals left the last test's state in place (state/tested failed its
second test); @L_reset_states forgets every lazy state, and the runner calls it before each test
- diag_json_case counts errors, and an absent @Ref / @Tint / @OneOf target is a warning since d82dc31:
ref_unknown is 1 error and node_bad 8
- schema_hash.ludic prints 1: a bool is 1 or 0 as text (random_plain's 1 1 1)
- permap_check_case looks for the unit warning without the quotes the JSON escapes
- baked_test's inputs-hash test makes its directory: each test has a temp directory of its own
- ludic deps prints phase 25's five counters too
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examples/lang/permap (two maps, a chunked table with a negative, a positive and a
missing chunk, constants and fn by name, a nested list, a cross-row @Ref, a reload
shrinking in place, a bad file's file:line:col; built under arena strict with an @On
frame root), --check fixtures for a wrong field, a wrong type, an unknown constant and
a dangling cross-row @Ref, @Ref(PerMap) on an int, as PREFIX, and a @Unit warning.
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Each UI component: module, place, doc, xml and lss paths, props and state
(type, default as written, place, doc), states_read (the header's states),
derived fields with their types, functions and events as the template calls
them (states and instance stripped), and the native tags its template uses.
natives: every ui_native / ui_native_input call with a literal tag - tag, via,
handler, place. schema_version stays 1; the lists are additions.
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--emit-schema FILE writes the compiler's resolved view once the program type-checks: every
record (fields, types, defaults as written, docs, places, attributes), every registry with its
entries in their final order after the open-registry merge (key, constant, index, file:line:col
of the entry and of each field value, and which file contributed which keys), every const, and
the zero-argument functions a fn value can name. Deterministic, schema_version 1; the runtime is
left out. `ludic schema [file] [-o FILE]` wraps it.
--check --diagnostics=json prints every error as one JSON array on stdout: the checker's and the
module rules' all, a parse or lowering error as the last. Tokens and nodes now carry a column.
Fields take several @attributes; @Ref(Registry), @OneOf(PREFIX_), @Range(lo, hi), @Unit("..."),
@Asset("..."), @Color on a field and @AppendOnly / @ByKey on a registry change nothing but go into
the schema, and @Ref naming no registry is an error (every one reported). Fixtures:
examples/lang/attributes.ludic, examples/rejected/ref_unknown.ludic, cases in ludic-dev test.
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Within a pass a row writes only its own still-masked texels and reads only neighbours already let go,
which no row writes that pass, so the result is the single-threaded one. The worker takes a DilateJob
of plain buffers and allocates nothing. tex_dilate_bytes (safe_api) and examples/rendering/dilate.ludic,
which checks it against the old loop on RGB and RGBA atlases of sizes that do not divide (DILATE OK).
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- The arrows, a press on the select and the pad step past a disabled option (ct_opt_step), wrapping
as before.
- A value naming a disabled option is shown as the nearest enabled one (the lower of two as near) and
set to it once the build is done: an event fired while the tree is built is cleared with the frame's,
so the clamp is queued (ct_clamp_n / _i) and fired after nt_fired_clear.
- The < or > whose next option is disabled is drawn disabled (its part's :disabled), so a cycler shows
where the options stop being on; it still steps past them.
- ct_build_select moves to controls_opts.ludic with the rest (controls_build.ludic 119 -> 104 lines).
Golden ui_select_disabled: options 3 and 4 disabled, a value of 4 clamps to 2, > is drawn disabled
there, > wraps to 0 and < from 0 steps back to 2. The 38 ui examples pass.
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Master's windowed fog profile failed the fence at walk t 35 s: +512 B from value_new / value_put /
value_slot / value_lists under bd_class and cmp_keycap_model - a KeyCap first shown mid-walk.
It is a first build, bounded, not a per-show leak: an unmounted instance goes to in_free and the next
show of its class reuses it (in_reuse, `renew`), its props and model objects kept and filled in place.
Only a NEW instance makes them - bounded by how many of that class are up at once, and the ones
unmounted less than two builds ago. in_reuse already declared the record; the props and model objects
and their first fill, made afterwards in bd_class, were not. They are now: in_reuse marks a new record
`fresh`, and bd_class's first fill of it goes through bd_first_fill (@alloc_ok) - a reused instance's
fill stays judged, so a real per-show leak would still fail.
Golden ui_first_show: a component first shown at frame 700, once the fence is judging, then hidden and
shown twice more: bad 0 (the toolchain before this fails frame 701: +464 B value_new from value_slot
under cmp_cell_model, value_put grow - the profile's failure). The 37 ui examples pass.
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A load freed only the parsed trip's nodes (Json.free) and kept every string the parser made, because
a loader might keep one; free_all freed every string and every key, so on a tree a migration had
added a literal to (`Value.put(v, "sver", Value.str("2"))`) it freed the literal and aborted.
- The parser marks the string values it makes (JP_OWNED, in the node's otherwise unused num) and
interns object keys (a few names, never freed); free_all frees only marked strings, never keys,
and a list's spares too. A setter that gives a marked node other text (value_set_str/_strs,
value_into_str/_strs, value_become) frees the parser's text first. value_as_int / _as_float read a
string as 0 as before.
- ludic.base sv_str returns intern(...): every package load that keeps a text read from a section
(minimap labels, a Thing's look, photo tags and files, an effect's label, ...) holds its own copy.
Golden json_free_edited: parse, put a literal key and string in, set a string, keep an interned copy,
free_all - 1100 loads: the copy reads on and nothing grows (the toolchain before this aborts, 134).
Tests: ludic.save, base, settings, minimap, things, photo, effects; json_saves, value_list_regrow; the
36 ui examples.
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From the user's play, reproduced on Maroon Lake's customisation screen with the pointer scripted over
each control (the lab's R3D_CLICKS): nothing on it was ever pressed or hovered.
- A screen's root <div> round a positioned panel (a component's root holding the kit Screen's
modal) lays out to 0x0, and the hit test (fr_pick) and :hover (fr_under) only walked into a child
whose box held the point - so nothing under it was reachable. A box with no size holds no point and
clips nothing: both look through it now (fr_empty), without hovering it.
- A control's parts (a select's < and >, a range's thumb) are made by ct_part, which never set
`hovered`: `select .ui-prev:hover` could not match anywhere. It is set as an element's is.
Golden ui_pointer_through: the panel's button pressed and hovered through the empty root, and a
select's > hovered (before this: pressed 0, hovered 0). The 36 ui examples pass.
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From the user's play: clicking an item in the pack opened nothing, and the wardrobe's picks did
not respond - both are a component whose button says `emit click` (ItemCell, LookCell, ListRow),
answered by its user's on-click. An on-* attribute's name is kept as a browser would have it, so
on-click is on-press (tpl_event), and the emit looked for "click" and found nothing. An emitted
name now goes through the same tpl_event.
And a settings cycler's left arrow did the right one's job: any press let go on a select stepped it
forward. ct_activate_at steps back when it is let go over the select's .ui-prev; Enter and the rest
of the select still step forward.
Goldens ui_emit_click (the mouse and a press both reach on-click; with the toolchain before this,
neither does) and ui_select_arrows (1 -> 0 on <, then 2 on > >; before this, 1 -> 2 on <). The 33
ui examples pass.
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From the fence's kept frames in 22 minutes of play:
- A component field that is a record or a list of records was `value_put(o, k, view_val_T(x))`,
a whole new tree every frame (HudPrompt's notifications). view_fill.ludic generates view_set_T /
view_set_list_T / view_fill_T that fill the object and list under the key in place.
- value_list_fit dropped the items it cut off and value_item made new ones as the list grew back,
a Value per item per regrowth (value_item / value_set_strs); the cut-off items are now the
list's spares (Val.spare), and an item of another kind is turned rather than replaced.
- ludic.ui: a scroll box's "scroll" and a slider's "change" fired a fresh Value.float a frame
(sc_walk, scroll.ludic:36); ui_fire_float takes one from a ring kept with the state (fired.ludic).
ui_object_fit_into is exported, for a draw that keeps its list.
- Json.read_file(path): read, parsed, and the file's text given back - Json.parse(Fs.read_text())
kept the whole file on every read (Maroon Lake's settings peeks).
Golden value_list_regrow: a list alternating 6 and 2 items every frame keeps nothing (the toolchain
before this fails it: +128 B new Val from value_item). Game compiles; ludic.i18n/settings/hints/
base tests pass (ludic.ui has none); arena and fence goldens unchanged.
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A block took whatever @lp_site held when it was made. Only malloc, calloc, realloc, concat, the number
texts, the float text, a substring and Text.* set one, so every other runtime helper - intern,
Text.repeat and the string builders, the Fs, Os, unicode, uuid and crypto helpers - was charged to
whichever line had allocated last (walk 9 blamed gvk_tex_storage, m4_new, kept_push$int and
survey_op_reward for intern's 16 B copies).
- Any `call ptr @lp_*` now takes a site of its own, its kind the callee's name when no better one is
known (intern, str_repeat, fs_list, ...). What the helper makes, in however many blocks and
through whichever helpers it calls in turn, is that line's.
- When the call returns, @lp_site goes back to site 0, now named "(runtime) (no site) unsited": a
block made with no site of its own says so instead of borrowing the last one.
- The ECS stores' grows and a mod's registered stores - the only allocations emitted outside
emit_bind - take a site each.
Golden alloc_fence_sites: two lines take turns keeping memory, Text.repeat and a record, every frame
judged. Each report names its own line (25 x +32 B str_repeat at :11, 25 x +16 B new Box at :12);
the toolchain before this charges 23 of the 32 B texts to the new Box line. The other fence and arena
goldens are unchanged; ludic.base's tests pass; the game's frame ratchets are 0 on main 7cb2b164.
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Two blind spots from the windowed walk, where the heap grew about 1 MB a minute and the census read
`frames 0 bad 0 kept 0`:
- @alloc_ok memory was never held to its reason. Every R3D_ALLOC_DWIN judged frames (600) each site's
declared bytes are set against their high-water mark: a new high adds to a streak, a flat window
takes one off, a fall ends it. R3D_ALLOC_DRISE (6) is "declared but unbounded", said once per site
with its line; fail mode exits 86. The census adds `unbounded N` and a `dsite` row per declared
site by its growth since judging began. A list pushed forever grows by doubling, rising too seldom
to make a streak; a record or text made every time (a re-mount's defaults) is what it catches.
- Mem.play() (every screen opened) restarted the warm-up, so memory kept every frame was never flat,
the cap never came, and nothing was ever judged. A rewarm now keeps the first deadline, and past it
has R3D_ALLOC_REWARM frames (120) of grace.
Goldens: alloc_fence_unbounded (a record a frame under @alloc_ok: exit 86, named, census unbounded 1);
alloc_fence_rewarm (kept every frame, Mem.play() every 360: judged and failed at frame 3000 - the
toolchain before this runs all 6000 frames and exits 0). alloc_fence_leak, _declared, _auto,
alloc_ok_private and the four arena goldens unchanged; the game's frame ratchets 0.
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render3d's stream_new holds its pool through a local (`let live = s.chunks; push(live, new
Chunk)`): the flow edge from s.chunks to live carried ESC to nothing, the Chunk records were
LOCAL, and the arena reset them under the stream - the row and horse scenarios' crash at
0xdddd... in fn_stream_update. An ESC class is now HEAP too, so every alias of kept memory is,
and a value stored through it is kept. Bidirectional alias edges were tried first and over-kept
through returns (el_place, rim).
- examples/lang/arena_alias.ludic: the stream_new shape; poisoned it read 3 3000, now 3 1518
- examples/modules/alloc_ok_private.ludic: @alloc_ok on a module's private function and on a
statement in its private generic, declared at run time (it already passes: a guard)
- the game: frame_allocs, frame_keeps, owned_leaks 0; the lab builds under `arena strict`; the row
scenario poisoned (R3D_ARENA_CHECK=1, 2400 frames) runs clean, bad 0 kept 0
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Two more holes of the arena's family, found from ECS's births:
- a function called through a function value (UiClass.make's cmp_x_new, a step list, a System's tick)
has its result flow nowhere the analysis can see, so what it returned looked LOCAL - and a caller
keeping it (ludic.ui's instance table) would keep scratch. Every function taken as a value (fn f)
now has its result kept.
- an entry block has no name, and the analysis only walked named declarations: what an entry stored
was never seen. It is walked now.
examples/lang/arena_fnval.ludic (a factory in a field, its records kept by a pool across frames)
crashed poisoned before and prints '5 1053' as the heap does now; in ludic-dev test. Maroon Lake:
component constructors are kept, not births (birth_leaks 115 -> 103); what fn values return is kept
(frame_allocs 194 -> 210, frame_keeps 151 -> 162); 5293 sites local, 6586 kept.
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What @alloc_ok covers (a function and its callees, a statement, a statement in a generic's body on
every instance) was counted apart in the frame's verdict, but its sites still carried the bytes the
report and the census rank by, so a declared site was listed as if the frame failed for it. Declared
bytes now have their own per-site counter and never enter live, a site's row or the verdict:
examples/lang/alloc_fence_declared.ludic, all three forms after warm-up, passes the failing fence
('bad 0 kept 0', 1488 bytes declared), with and without the arena, and an undeclared site in the same
frame is still the one listed.
The reachability scan's sites are now the largest first (R3D_ALLOC_SCAN_TOP, 24 by default), and
R3D_ALLOC_SCAN_FILE=<file> appends every site that holds unreachable bytes: the whole table to triage.
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A field's default is one expression, walked at every 'new' of its record: marked LOCAL by a frame's
temporary, it stayed marked when a record a pool keeps was made from it, and that record's list came
from the frame's scratch. The marks are now taken off any node one walk found kept.
examples/lang/arena_defaults.ludic is the case (a pool's record made in frame 3, a temporary of the
same type every frame): foundations 1315baf crashes on it poisoned; this prints '497 124747', as the
heap does. In ludic-dev test.
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memory_final's gate crashed in all 13 scenarios at the first frame of play, R3D_ARENA_CHECK=1 reading
0xDD in ludic.ui's nd_take: a node the pool keeps had come from the frame's scratch. Two holes:
- a call to a generic (ui_kept(list, n)) names the generic, and the analysis knows only its instances
(ui_kept$UiNode), so the callee looked unknown - and an unknown callee was taken to keep nothing.
A generic's call now reaches every instance, and an unknown callee keeps everything it is handed,
but for a short list of intrinsics known to keep nothing; view() shares its list's storage.
- a push's growth into a parameter's list was LOCAL whenever the list was not seen kept, though a
parameter may be a state's list. A site is LOCAL now only when its class is neither ESC nor HEAP.
examples/lang/arena_pool.ludic is the shape (a pool keeping records across frames through a generic
push): built with --arena it prints '7 3498' poisoned on every reset and with the arena off, in
ludic-dev test. On the valley every ludic.ui pool site is kept; 5480 sites local, 6431 kept.
Also, from ECS: a record's field defaults are stored into it when it is made, a global's initializer
is kept, and a component's own functions are frame roots (they run while its page is open).
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Plan 25.1c: vk_mac.ll's @lvk_ac (posix_memalign under a 16-byte header of scope/offset/size, atomic
counters) passed at every render3d create/destroy (49 sites; the caps probe keeps its own null pair);
lvk_ac_bytes/_peak/_allocs/_scope_bytes for the fence, Vk.alloc_bytes. vk_win.ll: null and 0.
MoltenVK 1.4.2 counted 0 live bytes through them in steady. Fence findings: gvk_pipeline freed its 17
create infos (and reuses one bufs list); actor_init fills ac_spare with 512 records (actor_fresh,
m4_new, v3_new at first placement in play). Compiled, not run (the user's call).
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The census's native line is malloc's live bytes over every zone since judging began less what
Ludic's tracked blocks kept - the libraries' and drivers' growth, read before the census file is
opened. A tracked block counts malloc_size(), not the size asked for, so kept is what the heap pays
and the residual carries no rounding. @malloc_zone_statistics is declared once, by the fence or by
Os.heap_bytes.
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Every allocation the compiler emits goes through @lp_malloc/@lp_calloc/@lp_realloc/@lp_free, and a
Ludic-level one first stores its site (function, file, line, kind) in @lp_site. Off, that is one load
and a predictable branch (30 M allocations: 0.87-0.91 s against 0.87-0.90 s on leaks2).
On (the default in a headless build, and windowed under R3D_DEV), tracking starts at the first frame
on its own and judging once R3D_ALLOC_WARM frames in a row kept nothing (600) or R3D_ALLOC_WARM_MAX
after (re)start; Mem.play()/Mem.rewarm() sends a load back to its warm-up. A judged frame that ends
holding more than it began with is reported by site with its callers (the unwinder, taken only once
judging) and fails the run with exit 86 (R3D_ALLOC_FENCE=off|count|warn|fail). R3D_ALLOC_CENSUS
writes the totals and top sites at exit. The build's defaults are --fence=, --fence-warm=,
--fence-census= or a fence line in the program's package.ludic; the environment overrides them.
The runtime is IR (emit_fence_ir.ludic, generated from a template); tracking is a side table in one
calloc'd region, so no block carries a header and pointers crossing to natives stay safe. Examples
alloc_fence, alloc_fence_leak and alloc_fence_auto with cases in ludic-dev test; reseeded.
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The encoder appends into RtJsonState's buffer (grown only past the biggest document yet): ints and
Q16.16 fixeds written as digits in place, floats through string() and freed. Json.encode copies the
answer out once; Json.write_file hands the buffer to Fs.write_text (.tmp + rename) and keeps nothing.
json_saves.ludic: exact text, the file equals encode, parse round-trips, 1000 saves grow 0; clean
under MallocScribble. json_quote (the + builder) is gone.
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A prompt that comes and goes as a player walks (co-op's netleak: in_get, cmp_*_new, bd_class, value_slot/put)
made a new record, props and model on every mount, and an action's call answered into a new Val (ev_call_with).
examples/library/ui_remount: two thousand comings and goings hold the heap at 0, and the counter starts at 0.
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Math.max, Math.sqrt and the rest (and the bare min/max/abs/clamp) are computed inline by the
emitter, and L4 gave each the unknown type, which agrees with everything: Maroon Lake's trail
put Math.max(5, n) into Notify's string field a1 and it failed in LLVM ("%t63 defined with type
i32 but expected ptr"). It was never about two dispatches on a line - one is enough. The checker
now mirrors the emitter: a float/double first argument gives that type (sign an int); otherwise
min/max/abs/clamp keep the first argument's type, sign/floor/ceil/round/posmod/wrap/ping_pong are
ints, the rest fixed. Named arguments or an argument it cannot type leave it unknown.
rejected/math_into_text is the case. Reseeded.
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Found by reading every builtin (Os.platform's 8 KB per call started it). Log builds its line only at
or above the threshold and frees it; DateTime.format folds through + so its pieces go; Input.text
encodes into one buffer; Path/Mime/Fs/Os free their temporaries on every path; string results of
Text/Path/Mime/DateTime/Os dirs are fresh and Text frees a fresh argument. Reseeded.
runtime_temps.ludic: 19.8 MB -> 0 over 20,000 rounds, 64 KB -> 0 over 200 of file work; clean under
MallocScribble. string_temps still 0.
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lp_os_platform and lp_os_arch malloc'd 8 KB per call (the uname buffer) and kept none of it:
string_temps now asks both every round, 327 MB over 20,000 before, 0 after. Reseeded. render3d:
MoltenVK made a mapped buffer's MTLBuffer at its first bind (fn_gvk_draw +4 blocks in the boat
window); gvk_buf_reserve queues it and the next frame's command buffer copies 4 bytes out of it.
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stream_update made a Chunk and a words copy per new chunk (fn_stream_update +39 blocks / 13.2 KB a
window with the hiker in the drifting boat). The pool holds STREAM_MAX_CHUNKS records; the arena
is twice the layer's cap; eviction compacts it; a chunk that cannot be kept is gathered from the
scratch. stream_clear_all frees records, lists and streams. steady: 300 new cells, cap 256: 156 KB
before, 0 / -4.9 KB after, and every kept chunk's data checked against its cell.
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The pools kept every command object ever recorded, so the heap grew each time a frame drew more than
any before (fn_gvk_draw under vkCmdBindVertexBuffers/BindIndexBuffer/Draw in the leakcheck; ~650 B a
draw). Off: 3.7 ms a frame either way over 520 actors. steady: 20 to 200 actors grows 5-7 KB with it
off and 120 KB with it on (bound 16 KB).
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Vk.heap_bytes pulled the Vk module - and on lang/uifree the GL window path - into a plain program,
which then failed to link (_cgl_offscreen, lgl_GetError). Os.heap_bytes is malloc_zone_statistics
through a weak reference (0 where there is none, and on Windows). Reseeded. Docs for it and for
Json.free / Json.free_all.
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gvk_tex_storage freed none of ici, out, req and vci (8 blocks a two-texture model); tex_load_ex kept
dds_path_of's string. Found with malloc_history over 400 load/release rounds (712 bytes a round, all
of it these). steady: the model's bound is 4 KB over 200 (was 1.6 MB), and the frame is the least of
three settled windows - a valley self-test beside it read 87 KB once.
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