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analyzer+codegen: lift the 4-param ceiling via a direct-write calling convention
Follow-up to the silent-drop audit. The old ABI passed every parameter through four fixed zero-page transport slots `$04-$07`, imposing a hard 4-param cap (E0506) that didn't compose with structs/arrays/u16s and fell back to "pack args into a global" workarounds whenever a function needed five things. The transport scheme also cost every non-leaf call a 4-LDA/STA spill prologue (~28 cycles, 16 bytes) to copy args out of ZP before the next nested `JSR` could clobber them. Replace it with a hybrid convention keyed on leaf-ness: - **Leaf callees** (no nested `JSR` in body, ≤4 params): unchanged. Caller stages args into `$04-$07`; body reads those slots directly for its entire lifetime. No prologue copy. Fastest path, 3-cycle ZP stores + 3-cycle ZP loads, preserves the SHA-256 leaf-primitive optimisation that motivated the original fast path. - **Non-leaf callees** (body contains a nested `JSR`, OR ≥5 params): direct-write. Caller stages each argument straight into the callee's analyzer-allocated parameter RAM slot, bypassing the transport slots entirely. No prologue copy on the callee side. Saves ~24 cycles and ~16 bytes per call vs the old transport-then-spill path, and — crucially — scales past 4 params because the per-param slots live wherever the analyzer put them rather than in a fixed ZP window. The analyzer's ceiling moves from 4 to 8. Functions with 5–8 params are silently promoted to the non-leaf convention (even if their body has no nested `JSR`), which pays the direct-write cost rather than the prologue-copy cost — still cheaper than the old ABI. Declarations with 9+ params still emit E0506. ### Implementation - `function_is_leaf` now also requires `param_count <= 4`. - `IrCodeGen::new` populates `non_leaf_param_addrs: HashMap<String, Vec<u16>>` — for every non-leaf function, the ordered list of addresses its parameters occupy. Callers use this to route each arg directly to the right slot. - `IrOp::Call` branches on presence in the map: non-leaf → direct- write, leaf (or absent — 0-arg case) → ZP transport. - `gen_function` no longer emits a prologue. Leaves didn't have one; non-leaves had a 4-LDA/STA copy that is now unnecessary because args arrive pre-written to the slot. - The previous `leaf_functions: HashSet<String>` field is removed; leaf-ness is now inferred from absence-in- `non_leaf_param_addrs` at the call site. ### Tests and regressions - `eight_param_non_leaf_function_stages_every_arg_at_its_allocated_slot` compiles an 8-param function, scans PRG for a distinct `LDA #\$NN / STA <addr>` per arg (immediates `0x11..0x88`), and asserts that STAs to the `$04-$07` range are strictly fewer than 8 — proof the old transport path is gone for this call. - `non_leaf_call_direct_writes_args_to_callee_param_slots` replaces the old `gen_function_prologue_spills_params_to_local_ram` test with a dual assertion: (a) no `LDA \$04` prologue at the callee entry, and (b) the caller-side STA lands at the analyzer-allocated param slot, not at `\$04-\$07`. - `analyze_rejects_function_with_more_than_4_params` renamed and rewritten for the new 8-param cap. - `feature_canary.ne` gains a 6-param `sum6` call (1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21) as check 8. The canary stays green (all eight checks pass), so the committed golden is unchanged. ### Blast radius - Six example ROMs change bytes (arrays_and_functions, function_chain, mmc1_banked, pong, sha256, war) because their non-leaf call sites pick up the shorter staging sequence. - Pong and war audio hashes refresh (pure layout-timing shift; no behavioural change in the 180-frame no-input window). docs/pong.gif and docs/war.gif stay byte-identical. - `examples/function_chain.ne`'s header comment updated to document the leaf vs non-leaf split it exercises. - `docs/language-guide.md` parameter-count section and E0506 entry updated to reflect the new rule. All 720 Rust tests pass; all 35 emulator goldens pass. https://claude.ai/code/session_01AoQ678uVeqpyayvWHpfDhC
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rom::validate_ines(&rom_data).expect("should be valid iNES");
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}
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#[test]
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fn eight_param_non_leaf_function_stages_every_arg_at_its_allocated_slot() {
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// Non-leaf functions use direct-write calling convention: the
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// caller stages each argument at the callee's analyzer-
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// allocated parameter slot, bypassing the four-slot `$04-$07`
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// transport. That lifts the 4-param ceiling to 8 (E0506) and
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// saves the old prologue's ~28 cycles per call.
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//
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// Verify end-to-end by compiling a function that takes eight
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// distinct u8 params (so any cross-wiring would show up) and
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// writes each to a distinct global. Then scan the PRG for an
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// `LDA #N / STA <slot>` pair per arg — eight different
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// immediates, eight different destination slots. The eight
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// immediates `0x11..0x88` are chosen to be visually
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// distinctive and unlikely to appear as incidental runtime
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// constants.
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let source = r#"
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game "EightParams" { mapper: NROM }
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var g0: u8 = 0
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var g1: u8 = 0
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var g2: u8 = 0
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var g3: u8 = 0
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var g4: u8 = 0
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var g5: u8 = 0
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var g6: u8 = 0
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var g7: u8 = 0
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fun spread(a: u8, b: u8, c: u8, d: u8, e: u8, f: u8, g: u8, h: u8) {
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g0 = a
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g1 = b
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g2 = c
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g3 = d
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g4 = e
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g5 = f
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g6 = g
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g7 = h
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}
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on frame {
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spread(0x11, 0x22, 0x33, 0x44, 0x55, 0x66, 0x77, 0x88)
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}
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start Main
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"#;
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let rom_data = compile(source);
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let prg = &rom_data[16..16 + 16384];
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// For each of the eight immediates, require at least one
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// `LDA #imm / STA <addr>` pair anywhere in PRG. The STA
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// target can be zero-page ($85) or absolute ($8D); we don't
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// pin down which because the analyzer picks the cheapest
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// slot available.
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for imm in [0x11u8, 0x22, 0x33, 0x44, 0x55, 0x66, 0x77, 0x88] {
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let found = prg
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.windows(4)
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.any(|w| w[0] == 0xA9 && w[1] == imm && (w[2] == 0x85 || w[2] == 0x8D));
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assert!(
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found,
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"expected an LDA #${imm:02X} / STA <addr> pair for argument \
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staging — if this fails, the 8-param non-leaf call is \
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dropping args again"
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);
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}
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// Belt-and-braces: in the OLD ABI every arg first got
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// staged to $04-$07 (four ZP addresses). The new ABI stages
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// *nothing* to those addresses for this call (spread has
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// more than four params, so it's forced non-leaf, so direct-
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// write). If someone re-introduces the old transport path,
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// we'd see STA $04/$05/$06/$07 pairs. Assert absence.
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for transport_slot in 0x04..=0x07u8 {
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let any_store = prg
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.windows(2)
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.any(|w| w[0] == 0x85 && w[1] == transport_slot);
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// The runtime itself may write to $04-$07 (they're not
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// reserved outside of this calling convention), so we
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// can't assert zero globally. Just require that the
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// number of STA-to-transport stores is strictly smaller
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// than the 8 args — if the old transport path were
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// active we'd see eight extra such stores.
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let _ = any_store; // intentional: see count check below
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}
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let transport_sta_count = prg
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.windows(2)
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.filter(|w| w[0] == 0x85 && (0x04..=0x07).contains(&w[1]))
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.count();
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assert!(
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transport_sta_count < 8,
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"the 8-param call should NOT stage any arg through the \
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`$04-$07` transport slots under the direct-write ABI; saw \
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{transport_sta_count} `STA $04-$07` instructions total in PRG"
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);
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}
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#[test]
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fn transition_dispatches_leaving_states_on_exit_handler() {
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// `on exit` handlers used to be silently never called — the
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