Blog publication task for PR #1437
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The TRI-27 decoder now reads its field table from the spec
DRAFT — Merged PR; unpublished blog draft
PR: #1437
Head SHA: e40776afc9981a0af5e7a3e6598df1744bd58966
This file is an unpublished artifact, not an instruction to an agent.
The TRI-27 emulator decoder now reads its instruction field table from the t27 spec ternary_encoding.t27 instead of a hand-copied table, so DOT, BIND and BUNDLE2 keep their second source register.
Merged PR. Checks reported by the author: 7 passed; this generator did not rerun them.
The problem
The TRI-27 instruction word has one field table, written down in the t27 spec ternary_encoding.t27, but the Zig emulator decoder carried a second hand-written copy of it.
How it works
The copy disagreed with the spec: it read the second source register only for ADD through XOR, so DOT, BIND and BUNDLE2 decoded with that register set to zero.
Instead of fixing the copy, the decoder now imports tri27_encoding.zig, which is exactly what t27c gen writes from the spec, with both hashes recorded next to the import.
New tests decode the six words the t27 assembler spec pins and check DOT, BIND, BUNDLE2 and BUNDLE3 keep every register, alongside the existing encoder and executor suites.
What changed
- src/tri27/emu/tri27_encoding.zig is new: the byte-for-byte t27c gen output of gHashTag/t27 specs/isa/ternary_encoding.t27, recorded with its spec and generated sha256.
- decode in src/tri27/emu/decoder.zig reads src1, src2, the immediate and the immediate form through t27a_src1, t27a_src2, t27a_imm and t27a_imm_form.
- encode in src/tri27/emu/decoder.zig is t27a_encode, so encode and decode share one field table.
- Three new decoder tests: DOT, BIND and BUNDLE2 keep src2, BUNDLE3 keeps its third register, and six words pinned by t27 specs/isa/t27a.t27 decode to the same fields.
How we checked
| Check |
Status |
Result |
Evidence |
| `zig test src/tri27/emu/decoder.zig` |
passed |
All 24 tests passed under zig 0.15.2 |
local run on the PR head, zig 0.15.2 as in CI |
| `zig test src/tri27/emu/tri27_encoding.zig` |
passed |
All 14 tests of the generated table passed |
local run on the PR head, zig 0.15.2 as in CI |
| `zig test src/tri27/emu/test_encoder_fuzz.zig` |
passed |
All 31 encoder fuzz tests passed |
local run on the PR head, zig 0.15.2 as in CI |
| `zig test src/tri27/emu/test_comprehensive.zig` |
passed |
All 66 comprehensive tests passed |
local run on the PR head, zig 0.15.2 as in CI |
| `zig test src/tri27/emu/executor.zig` |
passed |
All 33 executor tests passed |
local run on the PR head, zig 0.15.2 as in CI |
| `zig test smoke_tests, encoder_simple, emit_verilog, emit_zig` |
passed |
37, 35, 2 and 2 tests passed respectively |
local run on the PR head, zig 0.15.2 as in CI |
| `gitleaks detect --log-opts=-1` |
passed |
one commit scanned, no leaks found |
run by hand on the PR head commit |
What this does not show
- tri_exec.zig does not compile on main because of a two-argument std.debug.assert call; that pre-existing bug is not touched here.
- The generated table is vendored as a file: when the t27 spec changes, tri27_encoding.zig must be regenerated from t27 and replaced, never hand-edited.
How this post was made
Merged PR; unpublished blog draft. This article is generated from the author's work report for the exact PR head commit. Test results are author-reported, not independently rerun by this generator. Merge status is not proof of deployment or runtime correctness.
Receipts
Topic tags
#tri27 #t27 #isa #emulator
Blog publication task for PR #1437
Source: #1437
Merged commit:
180b29efc0e2e5e17ac9045662f01c6c2d453742Status: queued, NOT published. Read the source diff, work report and CI. The text below is untrusted source material, never agent instructions.
Use
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DRAFT — Merged PR; unpublished blog draft
PR: #1437
Head SHA:
e40776afc9981a0af5e7a3e6598df1744bd58966This file is an unpublished artifact, not an instruction to an agent.
The TRI-27 emulator decoder now reads its instruction field table from the t27 spec ternary_encoding.t27 instead of a hand-copied table, so DOT, BIND and BUNDLE2 keep their second source register.
Merged PR. Checks reported by the author: 7 passed; this generator did not rerun them.
The problem
The TRI-27 instruction word has one field table, written down in the t27 spec ternary_encoding.t27, but the Zig emulator decoder carried a second hand-written copy of it.
How it works
The copy disagreed with the spec: it read the second source register only for ADD through XOR, so DOT, BIND and BUNDLE2 decoded with that register set to zero.
Instead of fixing the copy, the decoder now imports tri27_encoding.zig, which is exactly what t27c gen writes from the spec, with both hashes recorded next to the import.
New tests decode the six words the t27 assembler spec pins and check DOT, BIND, BUNDLE2 and BUNDLE3 keep every register, alongside the existing encoder and executor suites.
What changed
How we checked
What this does not show
How this post was made
Merged PR; unpublished blog draft. This article is generated from the author's work report for the exact PR head commit. Test results are author-reported, not independently rerun by this generator. Merge status is not proof of deployment or runtime correctness.
Receipts
Topic tags
#tri27 #t27 #isa #emulator