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MoonLive scripts spelled C storage widths: uint8_t, uint16_t, int16_t. That convention produced four shipped bugs of one family, each presenting as "the effect renders nothing" or "renders wrong", never as an error — a wrapped sine, a torn complex plane, a sentinel read through a 16-bit window, a one-byte store into a two-byte member. Not one was a mistake in a script. Each was an author choosing a storage width and the engine silently disagreeing.

This replaces the width machinery with five semantic types — int, byte, bool, fixed, string. Every scalar occupies one uniform 4-byte slot; arrays pack by element. A type says what a value means; the storage is the compiler's business.

MoonLive is unlaunched and MIGRATING.md exempts it, so this is a clean break now and a compatibility program forever after. That timing is most of why it was done at all.

What changed

Language. Five types replace the three C widths. One addControl replaces the width-matched addUint8/addUint16 pair — the widget follows the member's declared type, so a call and a declaration can no longer disagree. true/false are literals. fixed is Q16.16 fractional arithmetic with no float anywhere: decimal literals, a 3-instruction inline multiply, toFixed/toInt, and int/fixed mixing refused with the conversion named. An integer literal adopts fixed at a meet point by patching its own Const at compile time, so v * 2 and if (v < 0) read naturally while a variable keeps the explicit rule.

Storage. Uniform 4-byte scalar slots; byte/bool narrowed by the store instruction itself. The two near-duplicate arena cursors collapse into one. Deleted: LoadCtrl16, LoadCtrl16S, StoreCtrl16, ctrlIsSigned, Builtin::refType, twelve backend functions and the unreachable width-2 array path.

Platform. Four new primitives per backend (mulhi, shlImm, shrImm, sarImm) plus 32-bit slot access, across Xtensa, RISC-V, arm64 and x86-64. ControlType::Int32 added to core so an int member surfaces as an honest control.

Semantics you asked for: dividing by zero now saturates toward the numerator's sign (IEEE's ±infinity mapped onto an int, libfixmath's stance) instead of returning 0 — k / dist at the centre of a ripple is the peak the eye expects, and no script needs a zero-check of its own.

Scripts. All 26 migrated. metal and fractal hold uv coordinates in fixed members and read as the numbers they mean (cx - 0.55, not - 4500). Fractal's Julia seed rides the cardioid with a noise-breathed radius, so the coastlines vary instead of cycling.

Bugs found on the bench

Two would never have surfaced on the host, which is the argument for the hardware gate:

  • Every hand-built Xtensa encoding was byte-reversed. The two ESP objdumps print different conventions (esp32-elf the 24-bit word, esp32s3-elf memory bytes), so verifying against the wrong one "matched" while emitting every instruction backwards. The reversed slli decoded as l32r a1 — a stack-pointer clobber that hung the board with no panic text while all host tests stayed green.
  • The Q16.16 divide wrapped past |128.0|, exactly the range shaders use, freezing both migrated effects. Now a host fdiv that widens in int64.

Also fixed, both latent before this branch: movImm silently masking constants to 16 bits on two backends, and arena seeding writing a single byte (int neg = -100 seeded as 156).

Reviewer

👾 ran over the full diff in Fable mode: 16 findings, 15 fixed, 1 deferred with reason. The serious four were all one class — the type tracker leaking or missing state at a boundary: array element reads leaked the index's type (heat[3] * 0.5 patched the index and read the wrong element), array stores checked neither index nor value, for headers accepted a fixed limit (~65,536 iterations, a render-thread stall), and the lexer did numeric arithmetic in long32-bit on the device, where scripts compile, so its overflow guard could never fire.

Deferred: fixed[] arrays are refused with a diagnostic rather than shipped half-working. Element type-tracking needs the array's type to reach both the read and the write; scalars get that from their declaration. Parity with string[].

One of my own tests was passing for the wrong reason (it divided by a literal that wrapped); rewritten to assert saturation by comparison.

Verification

  • 1456 unit tests, 20 scenario tests, all 11 pre-commit gates green.
  • New: the type wall pinned at every boundary (index, element store, loop header, builtin argument, assignment), and every shipped script compiles on the host backend — the device sweeps covered Xtensa and RISC-V, nothing covered the backend every desktop runs. Control-checked by breaking a script and confirming it fires.
  • On hardware: desktop and ESP32-S3, product owner's eyes on metal, fractal, ripples, plasma, ember.

Also in here

repo-health.json had 15 unresolved merge-conflict markers committed into it, so every run since failed to parse the baseline and lost the esp32 numbers and ten firmware sizes. Resolved and restored; both perf targets are back.

Plus: release.yml now triggers on moondeck/ci changes (a packaging fix could not reach the jobs that run it), and CLAUDE.md says archiving a plan rather than deleting it.

Judgement

Correctness is a class win: the width-mismatch family is now unrepresentable. Expressiveness is a step change — fixed is the biggest MoonLive has had. Code size is roughly break-even (+2236/−947): a five-type system is more code than a width table, and fixed is new capability rather than consolidation. The Xtensa grid layout got 2 bytes smaller.

Performance: desktop 186 µs / 5,376 FPS, esp32 2,151 µs / 464 FPS.

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  • New Features

    • MoonLive scripts now support int, byte, bool, fixed, and string types.
    • Added fixed-point arithmetic, conversions, typed arrays, and improved numeric validation.
    • Introduced unified controls with signed 32-bit support.
    • Web controls now handle large signed integer ranges correctly.
    • Improved fixed-point UV, fractal, and division-by-zero behavior.
    • Windows downloads now offer a streamlined web installer with Start-menu and uninstall integration.
  • Documentation

    • Updated MoonLive guides, examples, roadmap, and effect/layout references.
    • Improved Windows installation and settings guidance.
  • Chores

    • Refreshed release triggers and repository health metrics.

Update: a critical x86-64 bug, caught by review and confirmed by CI

The pre-merge Reviewer flagged that the Q16.16 multiply's assembly borrowed r10/r11 — vregs R5/R6, the first temps the allocator hands out. CI then proved it independently: every fixed multiply on x86-64 returned garbage (100 instead of 250, 144 instead of 100, sign inverted), so Windows and Linux desktop rendering of the fixed shaders was silently wrong.

It took three attempts to get right, because each fix picked a register that turned out to be allocatable:

  1. borrowed rax — which is vreg R13
  2. borrowed r10/r11 — R5/R6, strictly worse
  3. no borrowed register at all: the intermediate lives on the stack, only rax is touched, and it is saved/restored around the sequence. The operand that might be rax is widened first, and when the destination is rax the saved word is discarded rather than popped back over the result.

Bytes verified against clang; every aliasing case audited by hand.

The verification gap this exposed

Arm64 compiles neither the x86-64 encoder tests nor the x86-64 emitted code, so a whole backend can be wrong while the local suite is green. Rosetta closes it: cmake -B build/x86 -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=x86_64 plus arch -x86_64 executes the real instructions locally.

It immediately found two more x86-only defects that no arm64 run could see: a one-byte arena where the code now does a 32-bit slot load, and an unmigrated uint8_t in an x86-guarded test. Recorded in docs/history/lessons.md.

Suites now: arm64 1461/1461, x86-64 1479/1479.

Also in this update

  • Unencodable shifts refuse instead of silently becoming a move — and Xtensa shlImm/sarImm plus all three RISC-V shifts turned out to have no range guard at all, so n >= 32 would have emitted a wrong instruction.
  • -32768.0 and -2147483648 are writable in expressions. Both have a magnitude one past their type's positive limit, so judging the number before the sign made the most negative value of each type unwritable.
  • bool b = -true; is refused — the minus was consumed and then ignored, seeding the member as if nothing had been written.
  • Reviewer findings: 8 from the branch review (7 fixed, 1 stale) plus 6 inline (4 fixed, 1 already correct, 1 stale).
  • No tick-path regression. The 186 → 259 µs desktop reading was my own leftover projectMM process pinned at 100% CPU during the measurement; idle it reads 132 µs.

Hardware

All 16 MoonLive effects run on four bench boards — testbench-S3, Olimex classic, P4, S31 — ending with metal and fractal, the two that exercise fixed hardest. That is the Q16.16 multiply and the new primitives executing on real Xtensa and real RISC-V silicon.

A MoonLive script now says what a value MEANS instead of how many bytes it takes: int, byte, bool, fixed and string replace uint8_t/uint16_t/int16_t, and one addControl replaces the width-matched addUint8/addUint16 pair. `fixed` is fractional arithmetic without a float, so a shader writes 0.5 and -1.2 rather than scaled integers, and metal and fractal read as the numbers they mean.

Performance: desktop 186us / 5,376 FPS, esp32 2,151us / 464 FPS. The Xtensa grid layout got 2 bytes SMALLER: a 4-byte slot uses the narrow l32i.n where the old halfword access needed three.

**Core**
- CtrlType is five semantic types; every SCALAR takes one uniform 4-byte slot, ARRAYS pack by element (byte[] 1, int[] 4). The two near-duplicate arena cursors collapse into one
- expression type tracking without an AST: a type rides the parsed value, and mixing int with fixed is a compile error naming toFixed/toInt. An integer LITERAL adopts fixed at a meet point by patching its own Const, so `v * 2` and `if (v < 0)` read naturally while a variable still names its conversion
- fixed multiply lowers to Mulhi + Mul + two shifts, three instructions and no call; fixed divide goes through the fdiv host call, which widens in int64 (any 32-bit pre-shift wraps past 128.0)
- new IR: LoadCtrl32, StoreCtrl32, Mulhi, Shl, Shr, Sar. Deleted: LoadCtrl16, LoadCtrl16S, StoreCtrl16, ctrlIsSigned, Builtin::refType and the unreachable width-2 array path
- ControlType::Int32, so an int member surfaces as an honest control
- dividing by zero SATURATES toward the numerator's sign (IEEE's infinity, mapped onto an int) rather than returning 0: k/dist at the centre of a ripple is the peak the eye expects, and no script needs a zero-check of its own

**Light domain**
- uvX/uvY and escape() speak Q16.16, so uv output flows into a fixed member and into the fractal with no rescaling. sin/cos/beat keep their unsigned convention: a coordinate has an origin, a wave does not
- builtins declare which arguments are fixed, so the parser type-checks against the table rather than a name

**Platform**
- four primitives per backend (mulhi, shlImm, shrImm, sarImm) plus 32-bit slot access, Xtensa/RISC-V/arm64/x86-64
- FIXED ON THE BENCH: every hand-built Xtensa encoding was byte-reversed. The two ESP objdumps print different conventions (esp32-elf the 24-bit word, esp32s3-elf memory bytes), and the reversed slli decoded as `l32r a1` — a stack-pointer clobber that hung the board with no panic text while every host test stayed green. All encoders now emit words through emit3/emit2
- movImm materialises the whole int32 range on arm64 and Xtensa; both silently masked to 16 bits before, which a Q16.16 literal was the first value to expose

**Scripts**
- all 26 migrated; metal and fractal hold uv in fixed members
- fractal: the Julia seed rides the cardioid with a noise-breathed radius, so the coastlines vary instead of cycling

**Tests**
- the five types, fixed arithmetic and the type wall at every boundary: array index, element store, loop header, builtin argument, assignment
- every shipped script compiles on the HOST backend — the device sweeps covered Xtensa and RISC-V, nothing covered the backend every desktop runs
- byte-level encoding tests per ISA, pinned in memory order with the reversal recorded

**Docs/CI**
- MoonLiveEffect/Layout/Modifier and moonlive/README migrated; the roadmap section marked shipped with what the design did not anticipate
- release.yml triggers on moondeck/ci changes, so a packaging fix reaches the jobs that run it
- CLAUDE.md: archiving a plan, not deleting it
- repo-health.json had 15 unresolved conflict markers committed into it, so every run since failed to parse the baseline and lost the esp32 numbers and ten firmware sizes. Resolved and restored

**Reviews**
- 👾 Reviewer (16 findings, 15 fixed): array element reads leaked the index's type (heat[3] * 0.5 patched the index and read the wrong element) → fixed; array stores checked neither index nor value → fixed; the lexer did numeric arithmetic in `long`, 32-bit on the device where scripts compile, so the overflow guard could never fire → int64; for-headers accepted a fixed limit, ~65,536 iterations and a render-thread stall → refused; fixed % fixed mistyped as int → fixed; addControl accepted a negative low bound on a byte, publishing min 251 max 100 → refused; toFixed of an out-of-range literal wrapped → compile error; Xtensa shrImm silently emitted shift-16 for any n>15 → refuses; reserved names, byte b = 0.0, contradictory string diagnostics, comment drift → fixed. DEFERRED: fixed[] arrays are refused with a diagnostic rather than half-working, since element type-tracking needs the array's type to reach both read and write
- one of my own tests passed for the wrong reason (it divided by a literal that wrapped); rewritten to assert saturation by comparison

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MoonLive now uses semantic scalar types and four-byte scalar slots. Its compiler, controls, fixed-point builtins, IR, assemblers, UI, scripts, tests, and documentation now use the unified addControl API and support 32-bit integer values.

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MoonLive semantic type and control migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Semantic type system and compiler
src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveCompiler.cpp, src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveBuiltins.h, src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveIr.h
The compiler supports int, byte, bool, fixed, and string, with typed expressions, Q16.16 literals, conversions, validation, and four-byte scalar slots.
Control storage and publication
src/core/Control.*, src/core/moonlive/MoonLive.*, src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveScript.h
Controls support signed 32-bit values, full-width slot initialization, signed bounds, semantic type publication, and Int32 serialization.
Fixed-point builtins and code generation
src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveBuiltins_light.h, src/core/moonlive/moonlive_lower.h, src/platform/desktop/*, src/platform/esp32/*
Fixed-point division, UV, and escape behavior use Q16.16 values. The assemblers support high multiplication, shifts, full-width immediates, and 32-bit access.
Scripts and UI migration
moonlive/effects/*, moonlive/layouts/*, moonlive/modifiers/*, src/ui/app.js
Shipped scripts use semantic types and addControl. The UI renders, edits, and patches int32 controls.
Tests and supporting records
test/*, docs/*, .github/workflows/release.yml, CLAUDE.md
Tests, documentation, metrics, planning guidance, installer handling, and release path filters were updated.

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This PR changes script typing, arithmetic, generated code, and control defaults, but the current head still has bounded correctness issues that can reject valid scripts, mis-handle boolean initializers, produce incorrect desktop results in specific register-alias cases, or prevent a control from being reset to its minimum value. Merge should wait for these issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MoonLiveScript
  participant MoonLiveCompiler
  participant MoonLiveIR
  participant MoonLiveAssembler
  participant ControlUI
  MoonLiveScript->>MoonLiveCompiler: compile semantic types and addControl
  MoonLiveCompiler->>MoonLiveIR: emit typed expressions and 32-bit slot access
  MoonLiveIR->>MoonLiveAssembler: lower Mulhi, shifts, and LoadCtrl32/StoreCtrl32
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  ControlUI->>MoonLiveScript: apply edited control values
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src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveSpill.cpp (1)

68-84: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add spill-path regression tests for the new source cases.

No tests reference StoreCtrl32, LoadCtrl32, Shl, Shr, Sar, or Mulhi. Cover spillable sources and the LoadCtrl32 destination, then check results in unit and full-pipeline tests.

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In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveSpill.cpp` around lines 68 - 84, Add regression
coverage for the spill handling implemented in the source-extraction logic
around StoreCtrl32, LoadCtrl32, Shl, Shr, Sar, and Mulhi. Exercise spillable
operands for each operation, verify the LoadCtrl32 destination, and assert
correct results in both focused unit tests and full-pipeline tests.

Source: Coding guidelines

src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveCompiler.cpp (1)

796-829: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add the five type keywords to isReservedWord.

isReservedWord covers toFixed, toInt, true and false, but not int, byte, bool, fixed or string. A declaration such as int int = 5; is therefore accepted. The declaration loop at Line 1439 then tests atTypeKeyword() on later source and reads a member read as a type keyword, so the class body is misparsed with no diagnostic that names the cause.

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     static bool isReservedWord(const char* n, size_t len) {
         static const struct { const char* w; size_t len; } kWords[] = {
-            {"toFixed", 7}, {"toInt", 5}, {"true", 4}, {"false", 5}};
+            {"toFixed", 7}, {"toInt", 5}, {"true", 4}, {"false", 5},
+            {"int", 3}, {"byte", 4}, {"bool", 4}, {"fixed", 5}, {"string", 6}};
         for (const auto& k : kWords)
             if (len == k.len && std::strncmp(n, k.w, k.len) == 0) return true;
         return false;
     }

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In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveCompiler.cpp` around lines 796 - 829, Update
isReservedWord to include the five type keywords int, byte, bool, fixed, and
string alongside the existing reserved tokens. Ensure member declarations in the
MoonLiveCompiler declaration flow reject these names before parsing continues,
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Inline comments:
In `@docs/moonmodules/light/MoonLiveEffect.md`:
- Around line 62-64: Update the documentation paragraph describing
compiled-module control registration to remove references to the obsolete
width-specific API and C++ storage-width selection. Keep the `addControl`
guidance for scripts and its explanations of member identifiers, UI labels,
initializers, and range expressions.

In `@moonlive/README.md`:
- Around line 55-57: Update the README documentation for the int type to state
its signed 32-bit range as -2,147,483,648..2,147,483,647, while preserving
byte’s 0..255 range and the surrounding member/array guidance.

In `@src/core/Control.h`:
- Around line 402-409: Update the Int32 control representation and addInt32 so
default presence is tracked explicitly rather than inferred from the default
value; ensure writeControlMetadata() still emits a default when it equals
INT32_MIN, while controls without defaults remain omitted.

In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveBuiltins.h`:
- Around line 51-55: Resolve the unused ctrlMasksOnStore helper by either
removing it or updating storeOpFor to use it for the masking decision. Keep a
single authoritative rule for byte-width store behavior and avoid leaving
duplicate checks that can drift.

In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveCompiler.cpp`:
- Around line 37-65: Replace the platform-dependent long-based numeric
accumulation with int64_t throughout readNumber, Lexer::number, and the related
locals in the lexer flow around the reported number handling. Add
pre-multiplication overflow checks before accumulating integer and fractional
digits, preserve digit consumption and overflow reporting, and ensure the
fractional scaling arithmetic remains in int64_t. Keep the INT32_MIN/INT32_MAX
range validation effective and platform-independent.

In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveIr.h`:
- Around line 185-195: Update ctrlBytes to use ctrlSlotBytes(d.type) for scalar
Byte and Bool values so its result matches the scalar slot-size rule;
alternatively remove ctrlBytes entirely if it has no callers. Preserve the
existing array sizing behavior and avoid unrelated changes.

In `@src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveScript.h`:
- Around line 147-180: Add unit coverage for
MoonLiveScript::publishDeclaredControls covering Bool, Byte, and Int32 widgets,
including widget type, default value, bounds, and writes propagated to the live
arena. Extend scenario_MoonLiveEffect_controls.json beyond the existing speed
Byte control to exercise Bool and Int32 updates through the complete pipeline.

In `@src/platform/desktop/moonlive_asm_x86_64.cpp`:
- Around line 511-527: Make HostAssembler::mulhi alias-safe when d or a is R13,
especially when b is R13; adjust operand save/load ordering or use additional
saved operands so loading into RAX never destroys an input. Add direct assembler
regression coverage for R13 used as d, a, and b, or explicitly document and
enforce a reserved-register precondition if alias safety cannot be supported.

In `@src/ui/app.js`:
- Around line 1730-1740: The int32 handling in the “int32”/“int16” switch must
not replace an unbounded int32 range with -100..200. Preserve the declared
INT32_MIN..INT32_MAX range for int32 controls, or render those controls as
number inputs so valid values such as 900 remain visible and editable; retain
the existing fallback behavior only for int16 where appropriate.

In `@test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_codegen_riscv.cpp`:
- Around line 94-98: Update the sarImm assertions around wr to first require
r.size() == 4, then verify (wr & 0x7fu) == 0x13u before the existing funct3,
arithmetic-bit, and shift-amount checks; keep the shlImm opcode assertion on wl
unchanged.

In `@test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_compiler.cpp`:
- Around line 189-197: Extend the test case compileSource: a literal may be any
value an int member can hold with compilation checks for the signed 32-bit
boundary literals 2147483647 and -2147483648, preserving the existing cases and
asserting both edge values compile successfully.
- Around line 671-696: Remove the duplicate negative-read test while retaining
the copy in the five-types block, and update nearby comments to describe int
members as 4-byte slots without claiming int16_t/uint16_t storage or sign
extension. Rename the positive-value test to “an int member holds a large
positive” and state that 65436 is a distinct positive value, not the same bit
pattern as -100.
- Around line 1122-1155: Harden the shipped-script sweep in the “every shipped
script compiles” test: remove the unused Role declaration, require each path in
kRoles to satisfy std::filesystem::is_directory before creating its
directory_iterator and report missing directories through the test, and filter
files by exact extensions .mle, .mll, or .mlm using entry.path().extension()
rather than substring matching.

In `@test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_fill.cpp`:
- Around line 819-821: Update the descriptions in
test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_fill.cpp lines 819-821 to state that small, wide,
and after occupy offsets 0, 4, and 8 under the four-byte scalar-slot contract;
also update test/scenarios/light/scenario_MoonLiveEffect_controls.json line 17
to use semantic control and four-byte scalar-slot wording instead of uint8 and
arena-byte terminology.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveCompiler.cpp`:
- Around line 796-829: Update isReservedWord to include the five type keywords
int, byte, bool, fixed, and string alongside the existing reserved tokens.
Ensure member declarations in the MoonLiveCompiler declaration flow reject these
names before parsing continues, preventing names such as int int from being
accepted.

In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveSpill.cpp`:
- Around line 68-84: Add regression coverage for the spill handling implemented
in the source-extraction logic around StoreCtrl32, LoadCtrl32, Shl, Shr, Sar,
and Mulhi. Exercise spillable operands for each operation, verify the LoadCtrl32
destination, and assert correct results in both focused unit tests and
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/// Bind an `int32_t` where the value does not fit 16 bits. min/max default to the
/// full type range (no UI constraint); pass explicit bounds for a bounded slider +
/// server-side write clamp — same contract as addInt16.
void addInt32(const char* name, int32_t& var,
int32_t min = INT32_MIN, int32_t max = INT32_MAX) {
grow();
controls_[count_++] = {&var, name, 0, ControlType::Int32, min, max};
}

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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script_h = Path("src/light/moonlive/MoonLiveScript.h").read_text()

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INT32_MIN = -(1 << 31)
def emitted_default(def_value):
    return None if def_value == INT32_MIN else def_value

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    mask = (1 << bits) - 1
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Add an explicit default-presence flag.

On ESP32, -2147483648 overflows the 32-bit long accumulator before unary negation. Common two’s-complement behavior stores INT32_MIN in decls[i].def; writeControlMetadata() then omits the default because it matches kNoDefault, so the UI cannot reset the control.

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In `@src/core/Control.h` around lines 402 - 409, Update the Int32 control
representation and addInt32 so default presence is tracked explicitly rather
than inferred from the default value; ensure writeControlMetadata() still emits
a default when it equals INT32_MIN, while controls without defaults remain
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The web installer now hands a Windows user the setup.exe that was already in every release: the picker's asset pattern could not match a name with a suffix after the version, so it offered the bare zip instead. The MoonLive type checks close the boundaries a review found open, and the desktop install page documents the installer rather than the zip.

Performance: desktop 186us / 5,376 FPS, esp32 2,151us / 464 FPS (unchanged; no tick-path code moved).

**UI**
- install-picker matches `-setup.exe` and prefers it the way it already prefers a .dmg or a .deb. macOS was never affected: a stable release simply has no .dmg to offer, which is what a report of "no installer on macOS" turned out to be
- an int32 control keeps the range its script declared. Narrowing an unbounded one to -100..200 hid every value outside that window: a control declared 0..1000 sitting at 900 rendered pinned to its top with the real value unreachable

**Core**
- the lexer accumulates in int64 and checks BEFORE each multiply. `long` is 32 bits on both ESP32 targets and a script compiles ON THE DEVICE, so the old guard could never fire there — the multiply wrapped first (UB) and the script got a number nobody wrote, while every host test stayed green
- `int lo = -2147483648;` compiles. The lexer saw the magnitude before the minus was applied, so the most negative int was unwritable
- the five type keywords are reserved: `int int = 5;` declared a member the class-body loop then read as another declaration
- ctrlMasksOnStore and ctrlBytes deleted — both unused, and ctrlBytes' scalar arithmetic contradicted the 4-byte slot rule

**Platform**
- x86-64 mulhi reads both sources before writing its destination. It borrowed rax, which IS a vreg here (R13): with d == rax the pop restored the stale value over the result, and with b == rax the movsxd destroyed b before it was read. Silently wrong answers, not crashes

**Tests**
- x86-64 gained encoding tests for the first time — arm64, Xtensa and RISC-V had them while the backend whose mulhi was alias-unsafe had none. Bytes checked against clang's own assembly, alias cases included
- the new ops under register pressure, so sourcesOf/writesDst are pinned for programs big enough to spill
- the shipped-script sweep requires is_directory and matches exact extensions, rather than skipping a moved folder silently and compiling anything containing ".ml"
- lexer boundary and overflow cases; a duplicate negative-read test removed

**Docs**
- installing-to-desktop.md leads with the installer and keeps the zip as the folder/USB alternative; the "from the next release" note is gone, that release shipped
- moonlive/README int range corrected from 0..65535 to the signed 32-bit span
- the plan is archived in docs/history/plans, including what the design did not anticipate
- repo-health.json rewritten by the KPI gate

**Reviews**
- 👾 Reviewer, 15 findings: 13 fixed (above, plus stale wordings and a missing REQUIRE in the RISC-V test). SKIPPED: tracking control defaults with a flag rather than the INT32_MIN sentinel — real, but pre-existing and shared with addInt16/addUint16, and nothing declares a default 2.1 billion below any control's range. Recorded where the sentinel is defined

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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857-864: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject a sign before a boolean literal initializer.

bool enabled = -true; sets negated, but this branch ignores it and initializes enabled to true. Reject signed boolean literals before storing the default. Add a regression test.

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In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveCompiler.cpp` around lines 857 - 864, Update the
boolean initializer handling in the member-declaration parser to reject a
preceding sign when processing true/false literals, including the existing
negated case, before storing the default value. Add a regression test covering a
signed boolean initializer such as -true and verify it fails rather than
initializing the member.

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In `@docs/history/plans/Plan-20260823` - Five types for MoonLive scripts.md:
- Around line 30-36: Update the byte row in the type table so its Control entry
uses the shipped Byte control type instead of Uint8; leave the other type
mappings unchanged.

In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveCompiler.cpp`:
- Around line 55-76: The numeric lexer in MoonLiveCompiler currently rejects
valid negative lower-bound literals before unary minus is applied. Defer signed
lower-bound checks from the lexer to the unary-negative handling in parsePrimary
and parseDecl, allow the unsigned boundary magnitudes needed for -2147483648 and
-32768.0, and continue rejecting positive out-of-range values; add expression
regression tests covering both literals.

In `@src/platform/desktop/moonlive_asm_x86_64.cpp`:
- Around line 538-545: Update the scratch-register restore logic in the mulhi
emission path so r10 and r11 are restored only when they are not the destination
d; when d maps to either scratch register, discard its saved stack word instead
of popping it back over the result. Add direct assembler tests covering
destinations mapped to both r10 and r11, including the expected high-word
result.

In `@test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_codegen_x86_64.cpp`:
- Around line 578-615: Strengthen the x86_64 mulhi tests around
HostAssembler::mulhi so they verify alias-result data flow rather than only
instruction shape and scratch preservation. For each alias case in “x86_64:
mulhi emits the same shape however its operands alias,” either decode and
validate the destination write occurs after both source reads and before the
final pops, or execute the generated sequence with distinct operands and compare
the high-product result.

In `@test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_compiler.cpp`:
- Around line 205-217: Add a CHECK_FALSE compile case in the existing “a number
too large for an int is refused rather than wrapped” test for the literal
-2147483649, preserving the current coverage for valid INT_MIN and oversized
positive values.

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In `@src/core/moonlive/MoonLiveCompiler.cpp`:
- Around line 857-864: Update the boolean initializer handling in the
member-declaration parser to reject a preceding sign when processing true/false
literals, including the existing negated case, before storing the default value.
Add a regression test covering a signed boolean initializer such as -true and
verify it fails rather than initializing the member.
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Comment on lines +30 to +36
| Type | Scalar | Array element | Control |
|---|---|---|---|
| `int` | 4 bytes | 4 bytes | `Int32` (new) |
| `byte` | 4-byte slot, narrowed by the store | 1 byte | `Uint8` |
| `bool` | 4-byte slot, narrowed by the store | 1 byte | `Bool` |
| `fixed` | 4 bytes, Q16.16 | (refused, see below) | none |
| `string` | 4 bytes (pool offset) | not allowed | none |

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the shipped byte control type.

The table lists Uint8 for a byte control. The migrated compiler coverage expects Byte. Update this row so the design record does not direct readers to the removed enum name.

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In `@docs/history/plans/Plan-20260823` - Five types for MoonLive scripts.md around
lines 30 - 36, Update the byte row in the type table so its Control entry uses
the shipped Byte control type instead of Uint8; leave the other type mappings
unchanged.

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Comment on lines +538 to +545
// The result lands in d only now, after every source has been consumed.
uint8_t mov[3] = {rex_(true, s1 >= 8, false, dst >= 8), 0x89, modrm_(0b11, s1 & 7, dst & 7)};
emitBytes(mov, 3); // mov dD, r10

uint8_t pop2[2] = {rex_(false, false, false, true), uint8_t(0x58 | (s2 & 7))};
emitBytes(pop2, 2); // pop r11
uint8_t pop1[2] = {rex_(false, false, false, true), uint8_t(0x58 | (s1 & 7))};
emitBytes(pop1, 2); // pop r10

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the result when d is r10 or r11.

If d maps to r10 or r11, Line 540 writes the result into that scratch register and Lines 542-545 immediately restore its old value. mulhi then returns the pre-call value instead of the high word.

Restore only scratch registers that are not d. Discard the saved stack word when d is a scratch register. Add direct assembler tests with d mapped to both r10 and r11.

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In `@src/platform/desktop/moonlive_asm_x86_64.cpp` around lines 538 - 545, Update
the scratch-register restore logic in the mulhi emission path so r10 and r11 are
restored only when they are not the destination d; when d maps to either scratch
register, discard its saved stack word instead of popping it back over the
result. Add direct assembler tests covering destinations mapped to both r10 and
r11, including the expected high-word result.

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Comment on lines +578 to +615
// The Q16.16 multiply, whose sequence must survive d aliasing a or b.
//
// This backend had NO encoding tests for the new primitives while arm64, Xtensa and RISC-V all
// gained them — and its mulhi borrowed rax, which IS a vreg here (R13). With d == rax the old
// pop restored the stale value over the result; with b == rax the movsxd destroyed b before it
// was read. Both are silently wrong answers, not crashes. Bytes checked against clang's own
// assembly of the same sequence.
TEST_CASE("x86_64: mulhi reads both sources before it writes its destination") {
HostAssembler a; a.mulhi(R0, R1, R2); a.finalize();
const uint8_t* b = a.bytes();
REQUIRE(a.size() >= 12);
// push r10 / push r11 open the sequence: the scratch pair is saved, so no vreg is disturbed
// whichever registers the three operands turn out to be.
CHECK(b[0] == 0x41); CHECK(b[1] == 0x52); // push r10
CHECK(b[2] == 0x41); CHECK(b[3] == 0x53); // push r11
// ...and pop restores them at the end, AFTER the result has been moved into d.
CHECK(b[a.size() - 4] == 0x41); CHECK(b[a.size() - 3] == 0x5b); // pop r11
CHECK(b[a.size() - 2] == 0x41); CHECK(b[a.size() - 1] == 0x5a); // pop r10
}

// The same sequence with the destination aliasing each source in turn, and with R13 (rax) in
// every position. None may produce a different shape: the result is computed in scratch and only
// then written, so aliasing cannot destroy an operand that has still to be read.
TEST_CASE("x86_64: mulhi emits the same shape however its operands alias") {
const size_t base = [] { HostAssembler a; a.mulhi(R0, R1, R2); a.finalize(); return a.size(); }();
for (const auto& regs : {std::array<Reg, 3>{R0, R0, R1}, // d aliases a
std::array<Reg, 3>{R0, R1, R0}, // d aliases b
std::array<Reg, 3>{R0, R0, R0}, // all three
std::array<Reg, 3>{R13, R1, R2}, // d is rax
std::array<Reg, 3>{R0, R13, R2}, // a is rax
std::array<Reg, 3>{R0, R1, R13}}) // b is rax
{
HostAssembler a; a.mulhi(regs[0], regs[1], regs[2]); a.finalize();
CHECK(a.size() == base);
CHECK(a.bytes()[0] == 0x41); // still opens by saving the scratch
CHECK(a.bytes()[a.size() - 1] == 0x5a); // still closes by restoring it
}
}

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Assert the alias-result data flow.

Lines 585-615 check only sequence size and scratch save/restore positions. They do not prove that mulhi writes the result before the final pops, or that it reads both sources before that write. The prior R13 overwrite defect can return while these tests stay green. Decode the destination write for each alias case, or execute generated code with distinct operands and assert the high-product result.

As per coding guidelines, “Every behavior is pinned by tests.”

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In `@test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_codegen_x86_64.cpp` around lines 578 - 615,
Strengthen the x86_64 mulhi tests around HostAssembler::mulhi so they verify
alias-result data flow rather than only instruction shape and scratch
preservation. For each alias case in “x86_64: mulhi emits the same shape however
its operands alias,” either decode and validate the destination write occurs
after both source reads and before the final pops, or execute the generated
sequence with distinct operands and compare the high-product result.

Source: Coding guidelines

Comment thread test/unit/core/unit_moonlive_compiler.cpp
Every Q16.16 multiply returned garbage on x86-64: the emitted sequence borrowed r10/r11, which are the first registers the allocator hands out, so Windows and Linux desktop rendering of the fixed shaders was silently wrong. The most negative int and fixed values are now writable in an expression, and a sign on true/false is refused rather than ignored.

Performance: desktop 132us idle. The 259us in the previous commit was measured against my own leftover projectMM process pinned at 100% CPU, not a tick-path change.

**Platform**
- mulhi borrows NO allocatable register: the intermediate lives on the stack, only rax is touched, and it is saved and restored around the sequence. The operand that might BE rax is widened first, and when the destination IS rax the saved word is discarded rather than popped back over the result. Three attempts, because the first two each picked a register that turned out to be allocatable (rax is vreg R13; r10/r11 are R5/R6). Bytes verified against clang
- Xtensa shlImm/sarImm and all three RISC-V shifts had NO range guard: n >= 32 emitted a wrong instruction rather than refusing. The lowering now routes an unencodable shift to an encode the assembler rejects, instead of silently turning it into a move

**Core**
- `-32768.0` and `-2147483648` compile in an expression. Both magnitudes are one past their type's positive limit, so judging the number before the sign made the most negative value of each type unwritable — the same shape twice, once for int and once for fixed
- `bool b = -true;` is refused. The minus was consumed and then never consulted, so the member seeded to 1 as though nothing had been written
- the compiler-side member record no longer carries a 0..255 nobody reads: the range arrives with addControl at run time, and an int member claiming max 255 is noise the next reader would trust
- a bool byte is normalized before the UI binding reads it through a `bool*`, which a script-written 7 would otherwise make undefined behaviour

**Tests**
- the fixed multiply is exercised by EXECUTION with its destination aliasing a source, and through a chain long enough to recycle registers — the byte shape is what hid the bug twice, so shape assertions were the wrong instrument
- both boundary literals, in expressions; a signed bool initializer; one past the most negative int
- a one-byte arena in unit_moonlive_ir.cpp and an unmigrated type keyword in an x86-guarded test, both found only under Rosetta

**Docs**
- lessons.md: an ISA-guarded test is not run by the machine that wrote it, and on Apple Silicon that blind spot is one `cmake -B build/x86 -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=x86_64` wide
- MoonLiveModifier.md no longer documents `uint16_t` as a member type; comments naming deleted API corrected

**Reviews**
- 👾 Reviewer over the branch diff, 8 findings: 7 fixed, 1 stale (it described a mulhi version already replaced). Its critical finding was the x86-64 multiply, which CI then confirmed independently
- 🐇 6 inline findings: 4 fixed, 1 already correct (-2147483649 was refused, only the diagnostic was unclear), 1 stale

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ewowi merged commit 6b9d520 into main Aug 24, 2026
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ewowi deleted the next-iteration branch August 24, 2026 08:05
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