writeonce/docs/plan/oop-vm
shoney.arickathil 477f8d1b2b feat(wob): v7 — class descriptor carries durability and residency
Task 3 of docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-26-table-residency.md.

- NO LAYOUT CHANGE. The plan said to add descriptor fields; the descriptor
  already had a `flags` u32 with only bit0 used, so both properties ride
  spare bits (WO_CLASSF_VOLATILE 0x02, WO_CLASSF_RESIDENT_KEYS 0x04). A v7
  class record is byte-identical in shape to a v6 one, which is a much
  smaller and safer change than the plan assumed
- both spelled as the NON-default, so a zero flags word means exactly what
  every pre-v7 image meant: durable, every row resident. A non-@table class
  has both clear by construction
- the loader refuses the meaningless pair (bit1+bit2) independently of woc,
  on the standing principle that what the loader accepts the interpreter
  trusts. Verified by FORGING the flags word in an otherwise valid image,
  since woc will not emit one: flags=6 gives "durable:false with
  resident:keys", flags=8 still gives "unknown flags"
- WOB_VERSION 6 -> 7. Kept because an OLDER runtime reading a v7 image would
  otherwise treat a volatile table as durable and quietly disagree with its
  own source. loader.c's check is exact-match, so a v6 image is refused
  rather than read with the bits clear — verified by patching a v7 header
  back down to 6

GAP FOUND AND CLOSED: woc ACCEPTED `durable: false, resident: keys`. Task 1's
steps covered duplicates and bad values but never the combination, and the
plan had only put that refusal in the loader. The spec wants both, so the
compiler now refuses it too (WO-E102, checked after the argument list is
complete since it is a property of the pair). A compile error is the one a
developer can act on.

VERSION DRIFT: the constant lives in FOUR places, not one. wob.h,
emit.ml:157, disasm.ml:186, and compiler/test/runner.ml:2405 — the last is a
deliberately independent reimplementation of the loader battery, and it
caught the drift as 14 failures rather than silently passing. Its flags mask
and the combination refusal are now in sync too, which is the point of it
being independent rather than shared.

Gates: woc-test 557/0, 18 runtime suites 0 fail, 18 ISO-flavour suites 0
fail, cli_smoke OK, oop-e2e 118/0, employee 8/0, db-actor 8/0, site 21/0.
Zero goldens moved (git diff over golden/ empty).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-26 23:22:26 +02:00
..
00-wob-format.md feat(wob): v7 — class descriptor carries durability and residency 2026-08-26 23:22:26 +02:00
01-error-catalog.md feat(wob): v7 — class descriptor carries durability and residency 2026-08-26 23:22:26 +02:00
02-corpus.md feat(compiler): iteration 5 Tasks 1-4 — modules, language surface, switch, typedef records + enum variants 2026-08-12 14:40:07 +02:00
03-concurrency-coroutines.md docs: audit all markdown against the code, fix findings, flatten status folders 2026-08-26 19:20:22 +02:00
04-db-binding.md feat: insert executes (iteration 9, Task 3) -- DB_STUB retires for insert 2026-08-15 11:15:06 +02:00
08-builtin-surface.md feat(serve+view): file serving, downloads, supported systems; rename 2026-08-25 04:41:00 +02:00
README.md docs: oop-vm/03 — stackless coroutine contract (no async) 2026-08-21 11:07:52 +02:00

docs/plan/oop-vm/ — OOP + systems track contracts

The normative contract documents both stacks cite. Landed by their named plan tasks:

doc contract plan
00-wob-format.md .wob bytecode format (compiler↔VM) 1
01-error-catalog.md every WO-E### code 2, grows 3/8
02-corpus.md how to add conformance fixtures 3
03-concurrency-coroutines.md stackless fibers, park/resume protocols, reduction budget, the no-async rule arc (was plan 4's slot; that plan ✖ discarded 2026-08-21)
04-db-binding.md row format, WAL records, query subset 5
05-http-service.md route section, trap→HTTP table, JSON subset 6
06-ui-live.md delta frames, subscribe protocol, wo:live 7
07-systems-stdlib.md per-function nil-vs-trap contracts 9
08-builtin-surface.md builtin source names, container/call/entry rules the emitter enforces 3

Specs and plans: docs/superpowers/{specs,plans}/. Repo map: docs/08-project-structure.md.