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Summary

The I/O image size stops being a constant and becomes a function of what the project
contains. It was sixteen MAX_* macros in openplc.h on bare metal and
BUFFER_SIZE 1024 on Runtime v4 — the same for every board and every project, which
is wrong in both directions. The reporter of #296 has a P1AM-200 with three times the
memory of a P1AM-100 and the same 56-output ceiling; meanwhile a project using a
handful of points pays for the rest anyway, out of the same memory the program, its
variables and its buffers come from.

Five commits, in the order they build on each other:

  1. slotCounts — the allocator already knew how far into each prefix space the
    producers reach and threw the answer away. Now it returns it. A prefix nobody
    claimed is absent, not zero; bit spaces count bits.
  2. The sizer (compute-io-image.ts) — each area sized from three contributors:
    producers read through the registry, a Modbus server's explicitly configured
    exposure, and, for memory only, the program's own located declarations. The
    asymmetry is BR14: %I with nothing feeding it reads zero forever and %Q with
    nothing draining it goes nowhere, so both need an external producer, while %M is
    self-contained and is its own producer. Hence input and output declarations are
    validated against the image rather than growing it.
  3. The gate — a located variable at an address no producer provides fails the
    compile, and separately one in an area the target has no buffer for at all. Two
    errors, two remedies. Runtime v3 and the simulator are exempt: we do not size what
    we cannot measure, and a target we do not size must not be gated.
  4. Runtime v4 receives image.conf in the upload bundle — flat key=value like
    retain.conf, one key per table in image_tables.h.
  5. Bare metal receives generated MAX_* defines, now reachable: openplc.h
    includes defines.h from inside its own guard and each macro is a #ifndef
    fallback. Before this there was no #ifndef and no include, so no generated value
    could reach the firmware at all.

The unit differs between the two emitters, deliberately. Bare metal declares
bool_input[MAX_DIGITAL_INPUT/8][8] and divides, so its bit macros are in bits;
the runtime declares bool_input[BUFFER_SIZE][8] and does not, so its bool keys are
in bytes. Each emitter states its own unit instead of passing a converted number
around — a mixup there yields an image eight times too small with no diagnostic on
either side. arduino_runtime_glue.cpp static_asserts the multiple-of-8 invariant
that the bare-metal division depends on, next to the OPLC_RETAIN_BLOB_SIZE assert
and for the same reason: there is no console on a microcontroller.

No assert on the size, deliberately: there is no fixed ceiling to check against and
inventing one would be the maintained capacity table this design rejected. The
platform compiler already fails a build that does not fit (BR09, ASM01).

Ticket

DOPE-615 — https://autonomylogic.atlassian.net/browse/DOPE-615
Requirements Gathering, approved v1.2: https://autonomylogic.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CD/pages/282886145
Runtime side, separate and non-blocking: RTOP-284

How it was tested

  • npx jest --no-coverage src/backend/shared/compile src/middleware/shared/utils src/frontend/store/__tests__ — 2321 tests, 66 suites.
  • New unit coverage: compute-io-image.ts and generate-image-conf.ts at 100% statements/branches/functions/lines.
  • npx tsc --noEmit clean; npm run validate:arch passes.
  • compare-surfaces.py against the web branch: 1115 files, 0 diffs.
  • Real toolchain, not just unit tests. avr-g++ -mmcu=atmega2560 on the image
    declarations with a generated defines.h: compiles clean, the static_assert
    passes on a multiple of 8 and fires with the intended message on 100. Preprocessor
    checks with gcc -E: the override wins, including in the openplc.h-before-
    defines.h order the sketch creates, which is the whole reason the include moved
    inside the guard; the fallback stays 56/56/32/20 when no block is emitted; double
    inclusion is clean under -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -std=c11.
  • SRAM measured on an ATmega2560 (pointer tables in .bss, 8 KB part):
    today's fixed image 600 B; a 240-point P1AM project 1340 B; a small project
    (8 DI, 8 DO, 4 words) 46 B; no located I/O 9 B. BR10 in numbers.

Not tested and worth naming: no full firmware compile-and-link, and no hardware.
The real-strucpp path does not run in this environment (chevrotain ships ESM and the
jest transformIgnorePatterns only covers strucpp), so generated.hpp is unavailable
and arduino_runtime_glue.cpp could not be compiled as a whole TU. A compile of a
real project through the editor, and the P1AM-100 / P1AM-200 pair, are still owed.

Checklist

  • npm run test passes (scoped; the full suite is not run locally by policy)
  • npm run validate:arch passes
  • Docs updated — docs/iec-address-registry.md §5.1 documents slotCounts
  • Follows .claude/review-guidelines.md

Notes for the reviewer

Three decisions worth a second opinion, all recorded in the plan and destined for the
RG's Change Record:

  • BR14 is checked per slot, not against the size. An address in a gap between two
    producers is inside the image and still has nothing behind it. This is the stricter
    reading and the one RSK02's blast radius refers to: projects that compile today and
    silently do nothing will start failing.
  • An absent Modbus bufferMapping contributes nothing. DEFAULT_BUFFER_MAPPING
    is 8192 bits / 1024 registers — today's fixed image — so treating absence as a
    request for the defaults would pin every project with a Modbus server back to the
    constant this removes. The server screen only persists a count the user changed, so
    a persisted count is a deliberate request.
  • resolveAddressProducerCapabilities is new shared surface. Feeding the sizer
    resolveTargetCapabilities answers an all-false block for an entry that declares
    nothing, which reads as "no producers" and would size every area to zero and then
    refuse the build — DOPE-440 in a new place. The permissive-on-silence rule moved out
    of the project slice so the store and the compiler share one rule.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Address allocation now reports required slot counts for each address space.
    • Compilation automatically sizes I/O images based on project declarations, exposed devices, and target capabilities.
    • Runtime v4 packages and Arduino builds now receive process-image sizing information.
    • Modbus configurations can use computed image sizes when buffer counts are not explicitly configured.
    • S7Comm server start-buffer offsets now support values up to 65,535.
    • Address allocation respects board-specific producer capabilities while retaining permissive behavior for unresolved targets.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Compilation reports clear errors for unsupported or unbacked I/O declarations.
  • Documentation
    • Added documentation describing slot-count calculation, bit-space handling, pinned addresses, and capability scoping.

JulioSergioFS and others added 5 commits September 8, 2026 18:59
The allocator already knew how big the I/O image has to be and threw the
answer away. Both passes build `usedByPrefix` -- prefix to the set of
claimed linear slots -- and `AllocationResult` returns only `assignments`
and `conflicts`, so every caller wanting a size had to re-derive it from
the addresses. That is the calculation BR02 says not to repeat: the
registry concentrates every allocated address precisely so producers do
not collide, which means it is the one place that knows their reach.

So return it as `slotCounts`. Three properties are load-bearing for the
sizer that consumes it:

- A prefix nobody claimed is ABSENT, not zero-valued. Absent and 0 mean
  the same thing and callers read `slotCounts[prefix] ?? 0`, because the
  floor is zero and never a minimum (FR21).
- Bit spaces count BITS, matching `linear`: %IX1.2 is bit 10, so the
  count is 11. Rounding up to a whole byte is the firmware buffer's
  concern -- bit areas are declared [MAX_/8][8] -- not the registry's.
- It is a high-water mark, not a channel count. A pinned channel at %QW9
  needs ten slots even alone, because the gap below it is addressable
  storage.

Iterated rather than `Math.max(...set)`: a space may hold tens of
thousands of slots and spreading that many arguments is an engine limit
away from throwing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The image was a constant: sixteen MAX_* macros in openplc.h on bare
metal, BUFFER_SIZE 1024 on Runtime v4, the same for every board and
every project. That is wrong in both directions -- a board with three
times the memory got the same 56 outputs (#296), and a project using a
handful of points paid for the rest anyway, out of the same memory the
program and its variables come from. This is the calculation; the two
emitters and the compile gate follow.

Three contributors, and the asymmetry between areas is the point:

- Producers (pins, VPP slots, Modbus master points, EtherCAT channels)
  read through the registry. `migrateToRegistry` seeds every channel
  pinned at the address it currently holds, so allocating reproduces
  today's addresses rather than reassigning them -- the store stays the
  authority on where producers live and this only measures the result.
  A single Modbus master group can claim 2000 bits of %IX with no
  variable declared for it, which is why the program's declarations
  alone are not a source.
- Server exposure, from an EXPLICITLY persisted `bufferMapping` only.
  DEFAULT_BUFFER_MAPPING is 8192 bits / 1024 registers -- today's fixed
  image -- so reading absence as a request for the defaults would pin
  every project with a Modbus server back to the constant this removes,
  and BR10 would never hold. Absence means "expose whatever the image
  turns out to be", which is what FR16 asks of the server anyway. The
  server screen only persists a count the user changed away from the
  default, so a persisted count is a deliberate request.
- The program's own located declarations, for MEMORY only. %I is read by
  the program and %Q written by it, so with nothing on the other side
  the address means nothing and the producer must be external. %M is
  read AND written by the program, and being self-contained is what
  memory is for, so the declaration itself is the producer: it sizes the
  area and can never be unbacked (BR14, BR15, FR24). Without that, a
  program using scratch memory and no Modbus server would be handed zero
  memory words.

Hence input and output declarations are validated against the image
instead of growing it (FR02), and the check is per SLOT rather than
against the size: an address in a gap between two producers is inside
the image and still has nothing behind it, which is the case BR14 exists
for. An array is checked to its last element and reports the first slot
that is unbacked, since the base address is usually fine and the length
is what runs past the producers (#565).

`activeKindsFromCapabilities` moves out of the project slice into the
registry as `activeKindsFor`. The sizer and the store's recalculation
must scope producers identically, or the image is sized for a producer
set other than the one that allocated the addresses.

Bit areas round up to a whole byte (FR06), a class with no producers
sizes to zero (FR21), and the output is deterministic (FR07).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…exist (DOPE-615)

Wires the sizer into the pipeline right after the board's capabilities
resolve, before Step 0, so one calculation serves the runtime-v4 bundle
and the arduino-cli defines and the two cannot disagree (FR05). Follows
the Step 0b pattern: emit one error per offending variable, then bail.

Two distinct diagnostics, because they are two distinct user errors with
two different remedies:

- "nothing produces that address" (BR14 / FR20). The area exists and
  that slot has nothing behind it. Says which slot, since for an array
  the declared address is usually fine and the LENGTH is what runs past
  the producers, and lists what would fix it in the terms the user
  configured: an I/O module, a Modbus point, an EtherCAT channel, a pin,
  or the Modbus server's exposure.
- "this target has no such area at all". The runtime declares no buffer
  of that kind, so no address in it could ever work and no producer
  would help. `IMAGE_AREAS_BAREMETAL` is read off the `extern`
  declarations in openplc.h -- no byte-addressed buffer of any kind and
  no bit-addressed memory area -- and `IMAGE_AREAS_RUNTIME_V4` is the
  fourteen tables of image_tables.h, which have `byte_input` and
  `byte_output` but no `byte_memory`. This is the one case where a
  memory declaration can fail, and it is why %MX on bare metal now says
  so instead of being dropped in silence (DOPE-605). Not a capacity
  table per platform -- that was rejected, and the sizes are still
  derived; this is which areas EXIST, a fact of each runtime's source.

Both lists are reported in one run: a project can carry each kind of
mistake, and one fix per compile attempt turns a single correction into
several round trips.

Two targets are exempt, and for the same reason -- we do not size what
we cannot measure, and a target we do not size must not be gated:

- Runtime v3 receives plain ST and sizes its own image.
- The SIMULATOR has no address producers by construction. Its capability
  block declares `pinMapping: false`, which hides the pin table, and
  nothing seeds pins for a new project, so PINMASK_DIN comes out empty,
  NUM_DISCRETE_INPUT comes out 0, and simulator.cpp's I/O loops run zero
  times. Located I/O there is already inert. Gating it would refuse a
  project for a producer the user has no way to create, and sizing it
  would hand the firmware an all-zero image -- worse than the header's
  own defaults, which it keeps.

Also extracts `resolveAddressProducerCapabilities`, because the pipeline
was about to repeat a mistake the store already paid for. Feeding the
sizer `resolveTargetCapabilities(boardEntry)` answers
`EMPTY_CAPABILITIES` for an entry that declares nothing, which reads as
"no producers at all" -- every area sized to zero, then the build
refused for want of a producer. That is DOPE-440 in a new place, so the
permissive-on-silence rule moves out of the project slice into the
shared layer and both callers use it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…DOPE-615)

The size is a project property, so it travels to the device inside the
program upload -- the same route retain.conf and the VPP plugin
configuration take. Before this, the runtime allocated BUFFER_SIZE 1024
per table for every program that ever ran on it.

Flat `key=value` rather than JSON, for the reason recorded for
retain.conf: the PLC application reads this in C++ during startup,
before any plugin exists, and a dependency-free parser for a handful of
keys beats pulling a JSON library into the PLC application. Deliberately
not one of the `conf/*.json` files -- those are read by plugins, in
Python, once the core is already up.

One key per table in `core/src/plc_app/image_tables.h`, named after the
table, because the runtime is the reader and these are its own words.
Fourteen of them, with the one asymmetry worth knowing: `byte_input` and
`byte_output` exist, `byte_memory` does not, so %MB has no storage.

The unit is the table's own, which is NOT always the address's. Eleven
tables count addresses (`int_memory[N]` holds N %MWs). The three BOOL
tables are declared `IEC_BOOL *table[N][8]`, so N counts BYTES while %QX
addresses bits. A bits-for-bytes mixup there produces an image eight
times too small with no diagnostic on either side, so the conversion
happens once, here, and the tests assert it from both directions. The
sizer's multiple-of-8 rounding is what makes the division exact; the
ceiling is there so that if it ever stopped being true the error would
be a spare byte rather than an unaddressable partial one.

Every key is written, zeros included: "absent means zero" is an
editor-side convention and the C parser should not have to know it. Zero
is a real answer -- a program with no %QX has no reason to carry a
bool_output image, and the memory it does not reserve goes back to the
program (FR21, BR12, BR10).

Written unconditionally, unlike retain.conf, whose absence is an
instruction ("delete your copy, switch the built-in store off"). An
absent image.conf says nothing: the runtime falls back to the floor it
derives from the loaded program. A runtime too old to read the file
ignores it and keeps its compiled-in BUFFER_SIZE, which is today's
behaviour -- so no editor-side version gate, and no minimum version
invented before the runtime side exists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…615)

Bare metal declared its buffers from sixteen MAX_* macros in openplc.h
with no #ifndef on any of them, and openplc.h did not include defines.h
at all -- so there was no route by which a generated value could reach
the firmware. Both halves of that are opened here.

openplc.h includes defines.h from INSIDE its own include guard rather
than leaving it to the includer. Baremetal.ino and every HAL include
openplc.h BEFORE defines.h, so an override arriving through the includer
would land after the buffer arrays were already declared at the fallback
sizes, and the sketch would size bool_output[] differently from the HAL
that walks it. Including it here removes the ordering question. Reaching
defines.h many times per build is safe: it holds nothing but object-like
#defines, so re-inclusion re-defines each macro to an identical token
sequence, which C explicitly permits (C11 6.10.3p2).

Each MAX_* becomes a fallback behind #ifndef, and the editor emits the
project's own numbers as a trailing conditional block in defines.h --
last and conditional for the same reason the retain block is, so a
target we do not size sees a byte-identical defines.h and keeps building
on the header's #ifdef ladder. That is Runtime v3 and the simulator.

THE UNIT IS BITS HERE, and that is the opposite of image.conf for
Runtime v4. The difference is real and lives in the declarations: bare
metal writes `bool_input[MAX_DIGITAL_INPUT/8][8]` and divides, while the
runtime writes `bool_input[BUFFER_SIZE][8]` and does not. Each emitter
states its own unit rather than passing a "converted" number around.

Which makes the divisibility an invariant worth asserting, so
arduino_runtime_glue.cpp now static_asserts that the two bit macros are
multiples of 8, next to the OPLC_RETAIN_BLOB_SIZE assert and for the
same reason: a remainder makes the array one byte short and the slots of
the partial byte unaddressable, so the top few points of an image do
nothing, and there is no console on a microcontroller to report it. The
editor already rounds, which is the point -- the assert exists so that
the day it stops, the failure is a compiler error naming the cause.

No assert on the SIZE, deliberately. There is no fixed ceiling to check
against and inventing one would be the maintained capacity table this
design rejected; the mechanism that knows the limit is the platform
compiler, and it already fails a build that does not fit (BR09, ASM01).

Only nine of the fourteen prefixes get a macro: bare metal declares no
byte-addressed buffer and no bit-addressed memory area, so %IB, %QB, %MB
and %MX have nowhere to go. IMAGE_AREAS_BAREMETAL refuses a declaration
in one of those before the build reaches here, which is what keeps the
two lists in step.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds per-prefix allocation slot counts, shared producer-capability resolution, project-specific I/O image sizing, compile-time address validation, sized Runtime v4 and Arduino outputs, Modbus image-size fallbacks, and a larger S7 buffer range.

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I/O image sizing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Allocation capabilities and slot counts
docs/iec-address-registry.md, src/middleware/shared/utils/iec-address/registry/*, src/middleware/shared/utils/target-capabilities/*, src/frontend/store/slices/project/slice.ts
allocateAddresses now returns per-prefix slotCounts. Shared capability resolution maps producer capabilities to allocation kinds and preserves permissive handling for unresolved targets.
I/O image calculation and diagnostics
src/backend/shared/compile/steps/compute-io-image.ts, src/backend/shared/compile/__tests__/compute-io-image.test.ts
computeIoImage combines producer claims, Modbus exposure, and located declarations. It preserves raw bit counts and reports unsupported or unbacked declarations.
Compile validation and runtime image output
src/backend/shared/compile/pipeline.ts, src/backend/shared/compile/steps/*, src/frontend/utils/modbus/*, src/backend/shared/compile/__tests__/*
The pipeline validates declarations and emits sized image.conf, defines.h, and Modbus configuration content for applicable targets. Tests cover runtime-specific exemptions, units, ordering, and fallback behavior.
S7 buffer range alignment
src/backend/shared/types/PLC/open-plc.ts, src/backend/shared/types/__tests__/s7comm-buffer-bounds.test.ts, src/frontend/components/_features/[workspace]/editor/server/s7comm-server/index.tsx
The S7 start-buffer limit increases from 1023 to 65535 in the schema and editor validation.

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Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CompilePipeline
  participant ComputeIoImage
  participant GenerateImageConf
  participant GenerateDefinesContent
  participant GenerateModbusSlaveConfig
  CompilePipeline->>ComputeIoImage: compute image sizes and validation issues
  ComputeIoImage-->>CompilePipeline: sizes and diagnostics
  CompilePipeline->>GenerateImageConf: generate Runtime v4 image.conf
  GenerateImageConf-->>CompilePipeline: versioned image configuration
  CompilePipeline->>GenerateDefinesContent: pass imageSizes for Arduino
  GenerateDefinesContent-->>CompilePipeline: process-image macros
  CompilePipeline->>GenerateModbusSlaveConfig: pass imageSizes for unconfigured segments
  GenerateModbusSlaveConfig-->>CompilePipeline: Modbus buffer configuration
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451-453: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the redundant type assertion. BoardHalsBuildEntry provides the fields that resolveAddressProducerCapabilities reads. Pass boardEntry directly. The assertion has no runtime effect, and the checked-in repository convention forbids type assertions other than as const.

-    capabilities: resolveAddressProducerCapabilities(
-      boardEntry as Parameters<typeof resolveAddressProducerCapabilities>[0],
-    ),
+    capabilities: resolveAddressProducerCapabilities(boardEntry),
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In `@src/backend/shared/compile/pipeline.ts` around lines 451 - 453, Update the
capabilities assignment to pass boardEntry directly to
resolveAddressProducerCapabilities, removing the redundant type assertion while
preserving the existing behavior and complying with the repository’s restriction
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In `@src/backend/shared/compile/__tests__/compute-io-image.test.ts`:
- Line 64: Update the PLCProjectData fixture used by makeProject to define a
properly typed base object that includes all required fields, especially
libraries, then apply per-case overrides as needed. Remove the double assertion
through unknown and construct the fixture directly as PLCProjectData.

In `@src/backend/shared/compile/steps/compute-io-image.ts`:
- Line 266: Validate the vendorScreenData io-mapping value before assigning
vendorIoMapping for computeIoImage: accept it only when it is a valid mapping
whose entries property is an array, otherwise use { entries: [] }. Ensure
migrateToRegistry receives an iterable entries array and preserve the existing
PoolVppIoInput typing.

In `@src/frontend/store/slices/project/slice.ts`:
- Around line 352-356: Update the activeKinds derivation to use
resolveAddressProducerCapabilities rather than resolveTargetCapabilities, and
pass its result through activeKindsForAllocation. Ensure a present boardInfo
with unrecognized or missing capabilities enables all producers, while only
missing boardInfo produces undefined.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/backend/shared/compile/pipeline.ts`:
- Around line 451-453: Update the capabilities assignment to pass boardEntry
directly to resolveAddressProducerCapabilities, removing the redundant type
assertion while preserving the existing behavior and complying with the
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Review — DOPE-615, I/O image sized from the project

Verified the shared surface first: the 17 shared files plus the two firmware sources are byte-identical between editor#1093 and web#742 (compared blob hashes, not just the sync check), CI is green on both, and the emitter/area lists agree — PROCESS_IMAGE_MACROS (9) ≡ IMAGE_AREAS_BAREMETAL (9), TABLES (14) ≡ IMAGE_AREAS_RUNTIME_V4 (14), the 16 #ifndef fallbacks match the old constants exactly, and defines.h is generated for the simulator too so the new include inside openplc.h's guard breaks no build path. Test coverage is genuinely strong on the invariants that matter. Eight things below.

1. Blocking — modbus.json and image.conf disagree in the same bundle. serverExposure (src/backend/shared/compile/steps/compute-io-image.ts:319-345) contributes nothing when bufferMapping is absent, but generateModbusSlaveConfig (src/frontend/utils/modbus/generate-modbus-slave-config.ts:68) falls back to DEFAULT_BUFFER_MAPPING for the same server — 1024 holding registers, 8192 coil bits, 8192 discrete-input bits, 1024 input registers. So a project with a Modbus TCP server the user never customised ships a runtime-v4 bundle whose modbus.json declares 1024 holding registers next to an image.conf saying int_output=4, and the slave plugin is configured to publish addresses the image does not contain. The docstring's own argument identifies the coincidence — DEFAULT_BUFFER_MAPPING is today's fixed image — and this change removes one half of it without the other, so image.conf and modbus.json used to agree and now do not. Either derive the conf's counts from ioImage.sizes when bufferMapping is absent, or treat absence as a request for the defaults here. FR16 ("publish the range actually sized") is the requirement at stake, and the file that actually ships is the one that has to honour it.

2. The gate accepts an unbacked %IW. serverExposure marks discreteInputs.ixBits and inputRegisters.iwCount as backed (compute-io-image.ts:333-343), but a Modbus server's discrete-input and input-register segments are read-only to the master — nothing writes those addresses through them. By this module's own BR14 rationale (lines 37-38: "%I is read by the program; with nothing feeding it, it reads zero forever, so the producer must be external"), server exposure backs what drains an output, not what reads an input. As written, AT %IW7 : INT with no pin, master point or EtherCAT channel anywhere passes the gate as long as iwCount >= 8, which is the case the gate exists to catch. Coils and holding registers are writable by the master and do back; suggest limiting markBacked to those two segments and letting %IX/%IW size without backing.

3. Dead markBacked on the memory path, and it is unbounded. compute-io-image.ts:477. backed is only ever read at line 486, inside the non-M branch, so nothing consults the %M slots this writes — the claim on line 476 is the one that matters. Meanwhile the loop runs slotCount times, and for memory slotCount is the declared array extent straight out of declaredSlotCount with no ceiling: AT %MW0 : ARRAY [0..10000000] OF WORD inserts ten million Set entries in the main process before the platform compiler ever gets to refuse the size. Deleting the call fixes both.

4. activeKinds and the producer capabilities can disagree. activeKindsForAllocation (src/frontend/store/slices/project/slice.ts:356) resolves through resolveTargetCapabilities, while allocationCapabilities (line 304) and the compile pipeline (pipeline.ts:451) resolve through resolveAddressProducerCapabilities. For a board entry that resolves but declares neither capabilities nor a recognised compiler, the first yields EMPTY_CAPABILITIES → an empty kind set ("no producers") and the second yields ALL_ADDRESS_PRODUCERS_ACTIVE. Both sides used the same resolver before this change, so the split is new, and it contradicts the contract stated at compute-io-image.ts:193-198 ("must be the same answer the store's recalculation used"). Not reachable with today's hals.json — all three entries carry a capabilities block — but reachable through a VPP-derived entry, and worth closing while the reasoning is fresh: encode "unresolved" separately from "declared nothing" and route both callers through one resolver.

5. The recognised-compiler list is duplicated. saysNothingAboutProducers (src/middleware/shared/utils/target-capabilities/resolve.ts:121) hardcodes ['simulator', 'arduino-cli', 'openplc-compiler'], which is the case set of inferFromCompiler written out a second time. A compiler added to the switch but not here falls into "says nothing" and silently gets every producer active. Deriving the answer from the existing resolver keeps one list.

6. A comment in the firmware now states an invariant this change breaks. resources/sources/arduino/arduino_runtime_glue.cpp:444-446 says defines.h "has no include guard and must reach a translation unit through exactly one path (modbus_config.h), which this file is deliberately not on." Including defines.h from inside openplc.h's guard makes that false for this TU and for modbus_debug.cpp, Arduino_OpenPLC.h and mega_due_bkp.cpp. I checked and nothing changes behaviour — modbus_debug.cpp guards on MB_SERIAL_ACTIVE, which defines.h does not emit, and the other two carry no conditionals — so this is a documentation fix rather than a bug, but the next person to read that comment will believe something that is no longer true.

7. pipeline.ts:452 — redundant new type assertion. BoardHalsBuildEntry already declares compiler?, capabilities? and vpp?, which is structurally assignable to BoardInfoLike; boardEntry can be passed directly. The identical assertion on line 417 is pre-existing and could go in the same breath.

8. compute-io-image.ts:266 — assertion on unvalidated on-disk data. input.vendorScreenData?.['io-mapping'] as PoolVppIoInput | undefined asserts over vendor screen JSON, which sits outside the project zod schema. Smaller impact than it looks: migrateToRegistry reads entries ?? [], so {} and a missing entries are safe and only a non-nullish non-iterable throws, and the pipeline wrapper surfaces that as an "Unhandled pipeline error" rather than a crash. Still worth a narrowing guard so the user gets a diagnostic instead of a stack trace.


Process — risk assessments and PR body

The three Cybersecurity Risk Assessments are Pass 1 / Draft with every signature pending and an empty Change Record, and each page states that signing gates the merge to development. One of their two open items — the BR14 message wording having to distinguish "no producer at this address" from "this target has no such area" — is already implemented here as describeUnbackedLocation / describeUnsupportedArea, so it only needs recording in Pass 2. The web PR body links neither the requirements document nor the assessments.

JulioSergioFS and others added 2 commits September 10, 2026 08:20
Four findings from the review of #1093. Three were right; the fourth
was right about the rule and wrong about which rule, and following it
properly turned up a schema divergence.

**The allocation resolvers disagreed, and that one is a real bug.**
`allocationCapabilities` used `resolveAddressProducerCapabilities`
while `activeKindsForAllocation` still used
`resolveTargetCapabilities`. For a board that IS in the catalogue but
declares neither a capability block nor a recognised `compiler`, the
first is permissive and the second answers EMPTY_CAPABILITIES -- so
`buildAddressPool` saw every producer and `recalculateRegistry` saw
none. Two answers to the same question, which is exactly the drift
`activeKindsFor` was extracted to prevent, introduced by changing one
caller and not the other. The in-code comment rationalising it was
wrong and is replaced. `undefined` is still kept for a genuinely absent
boardInfo, because a missing Set means "every kind" to
`allocateAddresses` while an empty one means "no producers".

**`vendorScreenData['io-mapping']` is no longer trusted.** It was
asserted straight into `PoolVppIoInput` and handed to
`migrateToRegistry`, whose `for…of` throws on a non-iterable `entries`.
That file is `devices/configuration.json` read off disk, so its shape is
whatever was last written there, and the failure would be a TypeError
naming a file the user never edited on purpose. Now guarded at the
boundary, defaulting to no VPP channels -- the same stance
`declaredSlotCount` already takes for a malformed variable type. Five
cases cover it.

**The redundant type assertion in pipeline.ts is gone.**
`BoardHalsBuildEntry` satisfies the parameter directly; verified by
removing it and typechecking.

**The test fixture no longer uses `as unknown as`.** The review called
it a convention violation and it is: CLAUDE.md forbids that form
outright. Ten test files in this repository do it anyway, which is debt
rather than precedent, so this one stops. `PLCVariable` needs only four
fields, so a small typed `variable()` helper keeps the cases as short as
they were while the fixture cannot drift from the schema. `libraries`
was indeed missing and is now present.

Removing the cast surfaced something worth reporting on its own:
**two definitions of `bufferMapping` disagree.** `ports/types.ts`
declares every field optional; the zod schema behind `PLCProjectData`
declares all four sections and all their fields required. The Modbus
server screen persists `{ [section]: { [field]: n } }` -- one section,
one key -- so what the app actually writes satisfies the port type and
violates the schema. `serverExposure` reads through the optional shape
deliberately, and the partial mappings these tests use are the
realistic ones. One documented assertion remains on the fixture's
`servers` for that reason, and one on the cases that feed
`declaredSlotCount` deliberately malformed types, where invalid data is
the test's premise rather than a shortcut.

2326 tests pass; `compute-io-image.ts` back to 100% on every metric.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Five findings, one of them blocking. The other three in his review were
the same ones the automated pass raised and are already fixed.

**Blocking — modbus.json and image.conf described different images.**
`serverExposure` contributes nothing when `bufferMapping` is absent, but
`generateModbusSlaveConfig` substituted DEFAULT_BUFFER_MAPPING for the
same server: 1024 holding registers, 8192 coil bits. So the commonest
project of all -- one with a Modbus TCP server nobody customised --
shipped a bundle whose modbus.json declared 1024 holding registers next
to an image.conf saying int_output=4, and the slave plugin was
configured to publish addresses the image does not contain. He is right
that this change broke a coincidence without replacing it: those
defaults WERE the fixed image, which is why the two files used to agree.

Fixed at the file that ships, which is where FR16 puts it: an
unconfigured segment now takes its count from `ioImage.sizes`, so both
files describe the same image by construction. The object-level
substitution above the per-field fallbacks is gone -- it filled every
count before any per-field default could run, and was the actual
mechanism of the disagreement. Callers with no image to offer still
land on the old defaults, one field at a time.

Treating absence as a request for the defaults, the other option he
offered, would pin the image at 1024/8192 for every project with a
Modbus server and BR10 would never hold.

**The gate accepted an unbacked %IW.** Exposure was marking discrete
inputs and input registers as backed, but those segments are read-only
to the master: nothing writes %IX or %IW through them. By this module's
own BR14 rationale -- an input needs something FEEDING it -- publishing
an input cannot give it a producer, so `AT %IW7 : INT` passed the gate
with no pin, no master point and no EtherCAT channel anywhere, which is
the exact declaration the gate exists to catch. Backing is now limited
to the segments the master can write; inputs still size, because the
server needs the storage to read from, they just no longer vouch for
what is in it.

**The memory path marked slots nobody reads, once per element.**
`backed` is consulted only on the input/output path, so marking memory
was dead -- and it ran `slotCount` times against an extent with no
ceiling, so `AT %MW0 : ARRAY [0..10000000] OF WORD` inserted ten million
Set entries in the main process before the platform compiler could
refuse the size. Deleted; a test pins that a ten-million-element array
now sizes in well under a second.

**The recognised-compiler list was written twice.**
`saysNothingAboutProducers` listed the three compilers that
`inferFromCompiler`'s switch already owns. A compiler added to the
switch and not to the copy would fall into "says nothing" and silently
get every producer active -- silent in the dangerous direction. It now
derives the answer from `inferFromCompiler` itself.

**A firmware comment asserted an invariant this change had broken.**
arduino_runtime_glue.cpp said defines.h "must reach a translation unit
through exactly one path (modbus_config.h), which this file is
deliberately not on". Including defines.h from inside openplc.h's guard
made that false for this TU and three others. He verified nothing
changes behaviour, so this is the comment being corrected rather than
code -- and corrected explicitly, since the next reader would otherwise
believe it.

Also removed the pre-existing type assertion on the sibling
`resolveTargetCapabilities` call, which he noted could go in the same
breath.

4935 tests pass. `compute-io-image.ts` and `generate-modbus-slave-config.ts`
are both at 100% on every metric.

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

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Narrow parsed Modbus configuration before field access.

The repository convention requires explicit narrowing of JSON.parse results. Parse the result as unknown and narrow it before accessing nested fields. This prevents the assertions from bypassing type checking.

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In `@src/backend/shared/compile/steps/generate-confs.ts`:
- Line 131: Update the generateModbusSlaveConfig call to pass servers directly,
removing the Parameters-based type assertion while preserving the existing
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In `@src/frontend/utils/modbus/__tests__/generate-modbus-slave-config.test.ts`:
- Line 46: Remove the typeof server.modbusSlaveConfig assertion in the fixture
setup. Before assigning the updated configuration, explicitly reject or handle
an undefined modbusSlaveConfig, then spread the narrowed value; do not replace
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Treat capability blocks without producer keys as unspecified

When boardInfo.capabilities contains only non-producer fields and compiler is unknown, saysNothingAboutProducers returns false. The resolver then returns an all-false producer block instead of ALL_ADDRESS_PRODUCERS_ACTIVE. The project store can retain stale addresses, and compile-time image sizing can reject the build. Check producer keys while preserving recognized compiler inference.

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-  if (boardInfo.capabilities) return false
-  return inferFromCompiler(boardInfo) === EMPTY_CAPABILITIES
+  const capabilities = boardInfo.capabilities
+  if (
+    capabilities?.pinMapping !== undefined ||
+    capabilities?.vppIo !== undefined ||
+    capabilities?.modbusTcpRemote !== undefined ||
+    capabilities?.ethercat !== undefined
+  ) {
+    return false
+  }
+  return inferFromCompiler(boardInfo) === EMPTY_CAPABILITIES
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Update saysNothingAboutProducers so capability blocks containing only
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JulioSergioFS and others added 3 commits September 11, 2026 15:52
…s needed

The sizer padded every bit area to a whole byte before anyone saw it, and
image.conf then wrote a bare number whose unit a reader had to already know.
Both are corrected here, together, because they are one decision seen from
two places: WHERE the unit conversion belongs.

It belongs to the consumer that needs it, and only one does. Bare metal
declares bool_input[MAX_DIGITAL_INPUT/8][8] and divides, so its macros must
be a whole number of bytes (FR06) -- that rounding moves into
generate-defines.ts, next to the static_assert in arduino_runtime_glue.cpp
that proves it happened. Nothing else wanted it: Runtime v4 converts to its
own [N][8] shape where that shape is known, and the Modbus config derives
coil counts that are now exact. A project exposing six coils advertised
eight, and the two extra coils were addresses the program had no variable
for -- harmless to read, and a lie about what exists.

So computeIoImage reports a raw high-water mark in the unit each address
uses, and image.conf carries that unit as a word:

    format_version=2
    bool_output=6 bits
    int_output=4 words
    dint_memory=2 dwords

The number and its unit can no longer disagree, which is the class of bug
that costs a factor of eight with no diagnostic anywhere. format_version is
first so a parser that meets a version it does not know can refuse before
reading a table. No compatibility branch is needed on either side: none of
the three pull requests has merged, so no device has ever read this file.

Also replaces the S7comm start buffer ceiling. It was 1023 -- the runtime's
old fixed BUFFER_SIZE, transcribed into a protocol schema as if it were a
fact about S7comm. With the image sized from the project that number
describes nothing. It becomes 65535, the highest element a uint16 index can
reach (CON03). The bound is corrected, not removed.

The runtime half of this contract is RTOP-284 group A, which parses the unit,
requires format_version 2 and converts bits to elements on its side. The two
ends of one file format: neither ships alone.

Tests: the pair that pins the unit is kept and inverted -- BOOL tables are
asserted NOT to be divided and NOT to be padded, from both directions, since
that pair is what catches a factor-of-eight regression. Every table's unit is
asserted individually against the same list the runtime's contract test reads
from the C sources. New tests cover the bare-metal rounding from a raw count
that is not a multiple of eight, and the S7comm bound at 1023, 65535 and
65536. 100% on statements, lines and functions for src/backend/shared.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Screens built their address pool through `resolveTargetCapabilities` while
the store's allocation used `resolveAddressProducerCapabilities`. The two
agree everywhere except one state, and it is not a rare one: a board that does
not resolve -- its VPP package is not installed, the project came from another
machine, or the catalogue has not finished loading. There the strict resolver
answers "no producers at all".

A pool scoped that way is EMPTY, so every address already claimed looks free.
The screen allocates from index zero on top of them, and the alias registry
stops reporting the conflicts it exists to report -- while the store and the
compiler believe every producer is active. The overlapping addresses are
written into the project and found much later.

Both resolvers stay. The strict one is right for gating a UI element: do not
offer EtherCAT on a board that may not have it. It is wrong for scoping an
allocation, where the safe direction is permissive -- the worst case there is
an address space compacted for a producer the target turns out not to support,
against silently reusing addresses that are taken.

NINE SITES, NOT SEVEN. The audit this came from listed seven; two more only
appear by asking which files build a pool rather than which files were known
about:

  - use-device-configuration.ts, the same alias-validation shape as the rest;
  - use-alias-registry.ts, indirectly, through `useTargetCapabilities`. That
    hook is shared with genuine gating surfaces (the create-element dialog,
    the variables table, the explorer), so it keeps the strict resolver and
    the registry resolves producers itself.

That last one also had to change how it caches. The resolver spreads a board's
own capability object, so it returns a fresh reference every call; keying the
cache on the resolved block would have missed on every render and rebuilt the
registry for every cell consuming it. It keys on the board info instead.

The narrower return type makes the switch self-checking: a site reading
`debuggerTransports` or any other gating field fails `tsc` rather than
compiling into a silent behaviour change. None did -- all nine feed the result
straight into the pool.

Tests: an invariant rather than an example. Every file that builds a pool is
found by grep and asserted not to resolve strictly, because the defect is the
wrong FUNCTION being called in a state that needs a board missing from the
catalogue to reproduce -- not a wrong value a component test would catch. It
has a guard of its own against a rename making the grep vacuous, and it was
verified to fail by reverting one site.

Pre-existing and made visible by this work rather than introduced by it, so it
carries its own branch under DOPE-615 rather than riding with the sizer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…iven twice

Four things that belong together, because the first is what makes the rest
safe to add.

ONE CANONICAL TABLE LIST. "Which tables exist, which IEC prefix each stores,
in which unit, on which runtime" was written out in five places -- the two
area sets, image.conf's keys, the bare-metal macros and the S7comm buffer
enum -- and a sixth was about to be added for the S7comm sizer. Every way five
copies can disagree is silent: a table in one list and not another is an area
sized to zero, a prefix paired wrongly sizes the wrong storage, a unit written
differently is a factor of eight nobody sees until an address stops answering.
All five now derive from `middleware/shared/utils/io-image/tables.ts`, and
adding a table is one line there.

No output moves. The list is in image_tables.h declaration order, and
filtering it to the entries carrying a macro yields exactly the order
defines.h already emitted -- checked by a test, because a gratuitous reorder
rebuilds every firmware for nothing.

EVERY SERVER COUNTS, NOT JUST MODBUS. serverExposure looked for
`protocol === 'modbus-tcp'` and nothing else, so a project with an S7comm
server and no Modbus one sized nothing at all from its servers. It now
dispatches per protocol. Still the FIRST server of each protocol, deliberately:
both config emitters ship one file built from the first one carrying a config,
so a second never reaches the device and sizing for it would reserve memory
nothing can use.

An S7comm data block sizes the table it names, converting `sizeBytes` to that
table's elements and adding `startBuffer`. Two conversions meet there and pull
opposite ways -- bytes become elements, while a BOOL table's element index
becomes bit addresses -- so it is written once and asserted from both
directions.

AND AN S7COMM BLOCK BACKS WHAT IT COVERS, INPUTS INCLUDED, which is the
opposite of the Modbus answer. The difference is a fact about the protocols,
not a preference: Modbus discrete inputs and input registers are read-only to
the master BY THE PROTOCOL, so exposing an %IX through Modbus cannot put
anything into it. S7comm has no such restriction and the plugin implements
none -- write_buffer_to_openplc_journal dispatches every buffer type,
BUFFER_TYPE_*_INPUT included. An S7 client writes an input table as readily as
an output one, so BR14's question answers yes in both directions here.

TWO POUS CANNOT DRIVE ONE OUTPUT. checkIfLocationExists reads one variable
list, so each POU passes on its own while IEC located addresses are global.
The generated code then assigns to the same storage from two places and the
last write in the scan wins, decided by POU order. computeIoImage already
walks every located variable project-wide and the ST text path cannot bypass
it, so the check goes there. Outputs only: two POUs reading one input is
ordinary, and sharing a memory address is what memory is for.

Checked per slot, so overlapping located arrays are caught at the slot they
share rather than only when their base addresses match -- and reported once
per pair, because a 4000-element array declared twice is one mistake.

The same fact is answered while editing, through the amber glyph the alias
scan already uses, so the user hears it before they press build rather than
after.

A VPP manifest channel's address prefix is checked against the eight the
package schema admits. It arrives as an unchecked string through an
`addressMapping` typed `unknown`, and a manifest declaring `%MW` would have
memory allocated for it as if a module produced it -- the one thing BR14 says
nothing can do. The channel is dropped with a warning rather than throwing:
one bad channel must not take down the device screen.

Verified: 3317 tests across the areas touched, 100% statements/lines/functions
on compute-io-image.ts, tsc and validate:arch clean, and compare-surfaces
"match": true over 1117 files.

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Reviewed across four axes: the sizer and the BR14 gate, the two export contracts, the registry change, and the tests.

The cross-repo contract holds. I checked the fourteen keys, their unit words and format_version=2 emitted by generate-image-conf.ts against the runtime's image_tables.cpp:397,415, the enum in image_tables.h:122-136 and the webserver's image_config.py:73. They agree table for table. The emitter writes all fourteen keys including zeros, and the C parser accepts both a zero and an absent key, so the two ends are compatible. The only /8 anywhere on the editor-side path is generate-defines.ts:80, correctly scoped to the two bit macros. No factor-of-eight error in the code. The gate is genuinely per slot rather than a size comparison, the v3/simulator exemption is derived in one place (pipeline.ts:442) and I could not construct a bypass, and the include-order fix in openplc.h:23 is intact.

Severity on every point, here and inline: 🔴 Major (must fix before merge) · 🟡 Changes required (should be addressed) · 🟢 Nit (optional). Each carries a confidence out of ten.

Two 🔴 Major and four 🟡 Changes required, all inline. Both blockers are in what feeds the sizer rather than in what it emits.

🟢 Nit · confidence 9/10 — the contract has four implementations and only three are pinned. For a follow-up rather than this PR: tests/pytest/test_image_conf_contract.py pins three of the four implementations against each other and says so explicitly — "the editor lives in another repository and cannot be reached from here". The emitter, which is the producer of the file, is pinned to nothing. A key renamed here fails nothing anywhere: the core ignores an unknown key silently (the match loop only warns once a key matches) and so does the webserver (image_config.py:161, if key not in sizes: continue). The result is a table sized only from the derived floor, quietly smaller than the project asked for.

🟢 Nit · confidence 10/10 — mirror histories diverge. Content is identical (compare-surfaces.py head against head gives "match": true over 1115 files). The only real difference is package-lock.json; docs/ is not shared surface. Note the commit histories diverge though — eight commits here, four there, with the first four squashed on the web side — so that PR should be read by total diff rather than commit by commit.

Not a finding against this PR — the red sync / Shared Surface Sync is a CI bug. The editor is checked out with no ref: (ci-sync.yml:24-28), which on a pull_request event resolves to refs/pull/N/merge — the branch already merged with development — while the sibling is fetched at refs/pull/742/head, unmerged. Since both branches are 13 commits behind their developments, everything that landed in the meantime shows up as a difference; that is why it names lsp-mirror.ts and pouvars-context.ts, which exist in both developments and in neither PR head. Merging development into both branches will clear it; making the two checkouts symmetric would fix it properly.

* Absent therefore means "expose whatever the image turns out to be", which is
* also what FR16 asks of the server: publish the range actually sized, not a
* limit of its own. The Modbus server screen cooperates — it writes a count
* only when the user changes it away from the default — so a persisted count

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🔴 Major · confidence 9/10 · defeats acceptance criterion 4

This premise does not hold, and it costs the headline benefit of the change.

The comment says the Modbus server screen "writes a count only when the user changes it away from the default", so a persisted count is a deliberate request. The store does not behave that way. updateServerConfig in src/frontend/store/slices/project/slice.ts:1723-1730:

if (config.bufferMapping) {
  const base = server.modbusSlaveConfig.bufferMapping ?? DEFAULT_BUFFER_MAPPING
  server.modbusSlaveConfig.bufferMapping = {
    holdingRegisters: { ...base.holdingRegisters, ...config.bufferMapping.holdingRegisters },
    coils: { ...base.coils, ...config.bufferMapping.coils },
    discreteInputs: { ...base.discreteInputs, ...config.bufferMapping.discreteInputs },
    inputRegisters: { ...base.inputRegisters, ...config.bufferMapping.inputRegisters },
  }
}

All four groups are spread, not just the one supplied. So editing a single field persists the whole of DEFAULT_BUFFER_MAPPING (generate-modbus-slave-config.ts:4-9): qwCount/mwCount/mdCount/mlCount = 1024, qxBits = 8192, ixBits = 8192, iwCount = 1024.

serverExposure then reads every one of those as an explicit request and claim()s it, so the image is back to the fixed constant this change exists to remove. A freshly created server is safe (slice.ts:132 creates modbusSlaveConfig with no bufferMapping), but any project whose Modbus screen was ever touched is affected — and that defeats acceptance criterion 4, "a project that uses little I/O produces an image smaller than today's fixed one", for that whole class of project.

The cleanest fix is in the reducer: merge only the groups actually supplied, so an untouched count stays absent. Projects already on disk carry the materialised defaults though, so that alone will not rescue them — a per-segment configured marker, or having the screen persist only what the user edited, would. At minimum this comment has to stop asserting a behaviour the store does not have.

const backed = new Map<string, Set<number>>()
const sizes: Record<string, number> = producerClaims(input, backed)

for (const [prefix, count] of Object.entries(serverExposure(input.projectData.servers, backed))) {

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🔴 Major · confidence 8/10 · unscoped exposure sizes and backs the image

Server exposure is not capability-scoped, and it both sizes and backs.

Producer claims are scoped to the target four lines up:

const { assignments, slotCounts } = allocateAddresses(registry.consumers, {
  activeKinds: activeKindsFor(input.capabilities),
})

This call is not. serverExposure looks only at entry.protocol === 'modbus-tcp' && entry.modbusSlaveConfig and never asks whether the target runs a Modbus server at all — and it cannot, because ComputeIoImageInput.capabilities is typed AddressProducerCapabilities (line 203), the four-flag Pick that carries no server flag.

ARDUINO_CLI_CAPABILITIES declares modbusTcpServer: false (presets.ts:124), and bufferMapping only reaches a device through generateRuntimeConfs, which the pipeline calls inside if (isRuntimeV4). So for a project authored against Runtime v4 and then retargeted to a bare-metal board — the server config persists in project.json, it is only hidden in the UI — the MAX_* macros are sized from a slave config that board will never run.

The sizing half is bad enough (combined with the materialised defaults above, that is MAX_DIGITAL_INPUT 8192, MAX_DIGITAL_OUTPUT 8192 and four more at 1024, which will not link on most MCU targets — strictly worse than today's header defaults). The backing half is worse: markBacked(backed, prefix, 0, count) at line 384 means the phantom exposure vouches for those addresses, so AT %QX0.0 : BOOL passes the BR14 gate on a target where nothing whatsoever produces it. "Inside the image" and "has a producer" end up answered by a file the target never receives.

Suggest threading the server capability into ComputeIoImageInput — the pipeline already knows it — and making serverExposure a no-op when it is false. isRuntimeV4 would also do, since that is exactly where generateRuntimeConfs runs.

I verified the mechanism in the code but did not exercise the retarget flow in the UI, so if switching target clears servers somewhere I did not find, this is only the sizing half.

const dimensions = variableType.data?.dimensions
if (!dimensions || dimensions.length !== 1) return 1

const bounds = /^\s*(\d+)\s*\.\.\s*(\d+)\s*$/.exec(dimensions[0]?.dimension ?? '')

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🟡 Changes required · confidence 9/10 · under-sizes a negative-bound array

This regex rejects a negative lower bound, and the repository already owns a parser that does not:

// src/frontend/utils/PLC/dimension-range.ts:10
const match = dimension.match(/^(-?\d+)\.\.(-?\d+)$/)

That one is reached through getArrayTotalElements and slotsClaimedBy in src/frontend/store/slices/project/validation/variables.ts:58, which is what the editor uses to reserve slots for located-variable collision detection.

So the two disagree on the same declaration. For AT %MW0 : ARRAY [-5..5] OF WORD the validator reserves 11 slots and this function returns 1, so image.conf says int_memory=1 words, MAX_MEMORY_WORD is 1, and the program writes eleven words into a one-word buffer. On %I/%Q the same gap under-reports the gate: only the base slot is checked, so a declaration whose tail runs past every producer passes.

Suggest importing parseDimensionRange and computing upper - lower + 1 from it, keeping the existing dimensions.length !== 1 and no-match fallbacks. The backend already imports across that boundary (pipeline.ts:23, generate-confs.ts:39). The array extents that cannot be read suite covers missing type, non-array, no dimensions, multi-dimensional, malformed, reversed bounds and an empty entry — a [-5..5] case would be worth adding beside them.

* are fourteen, and the set has one asymmetry worth knowing: `byte_input` and
* `byte_output` exist but there is no `byte_memory`, so `%MB` has no storage.
*
* THE UNIT IS THE TABLE'S OWN, WHICH IS NOT ALWAYS THE ADDRESS'S

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🟡 Changes required · confidence 10/10 · stale contract documentation

This block describes the version-1 design and contradicts the code twelve lines below it.

It says the three BOOL tables count BYTES, that "the conversion is done once, here, and asserted in the tests", and that "Sizes arrive as multiples of 8 (FR06), which is what makes the division exact". None of that is true of this file any more:

  • there is no conversion — the only write is lines.push(`${table.key}=${sizes[table.prefix] ?? 0} ${table.unit}`), and grep for /8 in the module returns nothing;
  • the unit word for all three BOOL tables is bits;
  • the header this same function emits says the opposite ("the three BOOL tables are in bits, because %QX addresses bits, and the runtime converts to the [N][8] shape its storage actually has");
  • the tests assert the opposite, in both directions;
  • and the sizer explicitly does not pad — compute-io-image.ts calls it a raw high-water mark with no padding of any kind.

This matters more than a stale comment normally would: it is a new file, it is the editor half of a cross-repo contract, and the failure mode of that contract is exactly a factor of eight. As written, the first thing a maintainer reads when asking "what unit is this in?" is a standing instruction to reintroduce the /8, which would make every Runtime v4 image eight times too small with no diagnostic on either side.

Suggest replacing it with the rule the emitted header already states, and dropping the FR06 multiple-of-8 sentence entirely, since no caller establishes that precondition now.

* `IMAGE_AREAS_BAREMETAL` refuses a declaration in one of those areas before
* the build gets here, which is what keeps the two lists in step.
*
* THE UNIT IS BITS FOR THE TWO BIT AREAS, and that is the opposite of

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🟡 Changes required · confidence 10/10 · stale contract documentation

image.conf's BOOL tables do not count bytes — they count bits (generate-image-conf.ts marks bool_input/bool_output/bool_memory with unit: 'bits' and writes the value unrounded). The two emitters are not opposite in unit; they are identical in unit and differ only in padding: this one rounds up to a whole byte because openplc.h declares bool_input[MAX_DIGITAL_INPUT/8][8] and divides, while image.conf and the Modbus config receive the exact figure.

A comment claiming a unit difference where only a padding difference exists is what produces a ×8 bug the next time either emitter is edited — which is the specific thing the split was designed to prevent.

The same sentence is duplicated in src/backend/shared/compile/__tests__/generate-defines.test.ts:470 ("The opposite of image.conf for Runtime v4, whose BOOL tables count bytes."), so it needs fixing in both places or the next reader finds it twice and believes it.

// why this should never fire. That is the point: it is here so that the day it
// stops rounding, the failure is a compiler error naming the cause rather than
// I/O that quietly stops at the wrong index.
static_assert(MAX_DIGITAL_INPUT % 8 == 0,

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🟡 Changes required · confidence 8/10 · missing build-time guard

These two asserts are right and I confirmed they can still fire — they are at file scope, unguarded, and firmwareCount rounds up before the value reaches the macro, so they will not fire on a legitimate project.

What is missing is the invariant this change newly puts at risk. Both halves of defines.h now come from the same emitter but different sources: NUM_DISCRETE_INPUT and friends are devicePinMapping.filter(...).length (generate-defines.ts:323-336), while MAX_DIGITAL_INPUT and friends come from the registry's slotCounts, which is capability-scoped. The HALs index with the first and size with the second — resources/sources/hal/mkr.cpp:48-51:

for (int i = 0; i < NUM_DISCRETE_INPUT; i++)
{
    if (bool_input[i/8][i%8] != NULL)
        *bool_input[i/8][i%8] = digitalRead(pinMask_DIN[i]);
}

against extern IEC_BOOL *bool_input[MAX_DIGITAL_INPUT/8][8] (openplc.h:134).

Before this PR the MAX_* were fixed constants comfortably above any board's pin count, so the two could not disagree. Now MAX_DIGITAL_INPUT can be 0. Any path where the registry sizes %IX below the pin count — a pin whose address does not parse still counts toward NUM_, or a capability block that turns pinMapping off while a mapping is still handed to the emitter — becomes an out-of-bounds write on a microcontroller with no diagnostic. That is the class of failure these asserts exist to catch.

Four cheap companions would turn it into a compile error naming the cause:

static_assert(MAX_DIGITAL_INPUT  >= NUM_DISCRETE_INPUT,  "...");
static_assert(MAX_DIGITAL_OUTPUT >= NUM_DISCRETE_OUTPUT, "...");
static_assert(MAX_ANALOG_INPUT   >= NUM_ANALOG_INPUT,    "...");
static_assert(MAX_ANALOG_OUTPUT  >= NUM_ANALOG_OUTPUT,   "...");

…lying

Marcone's review on #1093. Five of the six findings; the sixth is a store
change that collides with DOPE-442 and is tracked there.

SERVER EXPOSURE IS NOW CAPABILITY-SCOPED, which was the second blocker and
the one I had not seen. Producer claims were scoped to the target and this was
not -- and could not be, because `ComputeIoImageInput.capabilities` is the
four-flag producer `Pick` with no server flag in it.

A server config outlives a target change. Retarget a project from Runtime v4
to a bare-metal board and `servers` stays in project.json -- hidden in the UI,
not removed -- while `bufferMapping` only reaches a device through
`generateRuntimeConfs`, which runs under `isRuntimeV4` alone. So the `MAX_*`
macros were sized from a slave config that board will never run: with the
materialised defaults, 8192 bits and four areas at 1024, which most MCU
targets will not even link. Verified that nothing clears `servers` on a board
change and that ARDUINO_CLI_CAPABILITIES declares modbusTcpServer false.

The backing half was worse. `markBacked` made the phantom exposure VOUCH for
those addresses, so `AT %QX0.0 : BOOL` passed the BR14 gate on a target where
nothing whatsoever produces it -- "inside the image" and "has a producer" both
answered by a file the target never receives.

A new `ServerCapabilities` type carries it, separate from the producer one
because the two answer different questions and neither is a superset: a
producer PUTS something at an address, a server PUBLISHES what is there. The
pipeline resolves it with the STRICT resolver, unlike the producer path, and
the comment says why -- for producers a board that does not resolve must read
as permissive or the store and the compiler disagree about which addresses are
taken; for servers the safe direction is the opposite.

A NEGATIVE ARRAY BOUND no longer under-sizes. `declaredSlotCount` had its own
regex rejecting a minus sign, while the editor reserves slots for the same
declaration through `parseDimensionRange`, which accepts one. The two
disagreed: `AT %MW0 : ARRAY [-5..5] OF WORD` reserved eleven words in the
editor and sized one in the image -- eleven words written into a one-word
buffer, and on %I/%Q a tail running past every producer without the gate
noticing. It now uses the parser the repository already owns, and a test
asserts the two answers against each other.

FOUR STATIC_ASSERTS relate the image to the pin table. Both halves of
defines.h come from one emitter but two sources: NUM_DISCRETE_INPUT and
siblings are counts of mapped pins, MAX_DIGITAL_INPUT and siblings come from
the capability-scoped registry. The HALs index with the first and size with
the second. While the MAX_* were fixed constants comfortably above any board's
pin count they could not disagree; now MAX_DIGITAL_INPUT can legitimately be
0, and any path that sizes an area below the pin count is an out-of-bounds
write on a microcontroller with nothing anywhere to report it. Verified the
asserts fire with the intended message at MAX 0 / NUM 8 and stay quiet at
16 / 8.

TWO STALE DOCSTRINGS, both left behind when the wire format changed to carry
units. `generate-image-conf.ts` still described the version-1 design -- BOOL
tables counting bytes, "the conversion is done once, here", sizes arriving as
multiples of 8 -- none of which is true of that file any more, and all of
which reads as an instruction to reintroduce the `/8` that makes every
Runtime v4 image eight times too small. `generate-defines.ts` claimed the two
emitters differ in UNIT when they differ only in PADDING; the same sentence
was duplicated in its test and is fixed in both.

And the comment that asserted the Modbus screen "writes a count only when the
user changes it away from the default" now says what the store actually does:
`updateServerConfig` spreads all four groups over DEFAULT_BUFFER_MAPPING, so
editing one field persists the whole of 1024/8192 and every one of those reads
here as a deliberate request. The fix is a reducer change that collides with
the Modbus screen rewrite in DOPE-442, and projects already on disk carry the
materialised defaults either way -- telling a deliberate 1024 from a
materialised one needs a per-segment marker or a migration.

Verified: 1219 tests across the areas touched, 100% on compute-io-image.ts,
tsc and validate:arch clean, compare-surfaces "match": true over 1115 files.

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Marcone's review on #1114. One blocker and three changes required.

AN S7COMM BLOCK BACKED ADDRESSES IT DOES NOT COVER. `extent` is a high-water
mark -- startBuffer plus elements -- which is right for sizing, because the
image is contiguous. It is not the covered range, and `markBacked(..., 0,
extent)` marked from zero. A block at startBuffer 100 therefore vouched for
%IW0 through %IW103 while the plugin only ever writes 100..103, so
`AT %IW0 : INT` compiled clean with nothing producing it and read zero forever
on the machine. That is the declaration BR14 exists to refuse, and it
contradicted the per-slot rule this same file applies in two other places.

extentForDataBlock now returns { start, end }: `end` sizes, `start` backs. The
Modbus path above may legitimately mark from zero, because its segments always
start at IEC index 0 -- S7comm blocks do not, which is what startBuffer is for.

THE DUPLICATE-OUTPUT SCAN NO LONGER WALKS EVERY ELEMENT. It kept a slot ->
owner map, one Map entry with an object value per declared element, in the
Electron main process: `AT %QW0 : ARRAY [0..10000000] OF WORD` inserted ten
million of them before the platform compiler got to refuse the size. That is
the same blow-up the memory branch thirty lines below carries a comment about
having removed. It now keeps one range per declaration and compares with
`slotRangesOverlap`, the primitive the registry already owns and had no
non-test caller for.

THE MESSAGE REPORTS AN ADDRESS. `slot` is linear within the prefix space, so
for a bit class it counts bits and two variables at %QX3.2 were reported as
"slot 26" -- leaving the user to divide by eight to get back to what they
typed, in the commonest duplicate-output case there is. Both locations are now
carried on the DTO and the overlap point is rendered through `formatAddress`
rather than by reimplementing the bit maths.

AND THE EDIT-TIME TOOLTIP STOPS EMPTYING ITSELF. The map held bare names, so a
cell excluding itself by name removed the other writer too whenever both were
called the same thing -- which is the common case, because the two
declarations are usually in different POUs and `run` or `out` is ordinary in
each. It rendered as "is also driven by ." with the amber glyph still showing.
The map now holds { scope, name }, the cell excludes by both, and the tooltip
names the POU, which is what the user needs in order to go and fix it.

Tests for all four, since none had any: the block that backs nothing below its
start and the control that does, the %QX3.2 message, a ten-million-element
array that has to stay under two seconds, and six cases for the hook including
two POUs whose variables share a name.

3327 tests, tsc and validate:arch clean, mirror byte-identical.

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Marcone's nits on #1113.

THE INVARIANT WAS ONE-SIDED. It asserted only that a pool builder does not
call the STRICT resolver, which a tenth builder satisfies while passing a
hand-assembled capability object, `undefined`, or a block computed some other
way -- reintroducing exactly the divergence this closes. It now asserts the
positive as well: a pool builder resolves producers, or receives capabilities
as an input and resolves nothing at all. That second shape is legitimate and
real -- `compute-io-image.ts` takes them from the pipeline, which is where the
resolving happens -- and writing the assertion two-sided is what surfaced it.

THE SUITE WAS POSIX-ONLY. `execSync('grep -rl …')` fails on Windows, which CI
never sees because it runs on ubuntu, but this is an Electron IDE whose
release matrix includes windows-latest: a developer there running `npm test`
got a red suite for a reason unrelated to their change. A `readdirSync` walk
replaces it, keeps the "found rather than listed" property that makes the test
worth having, and drops the `|| true` that was swallowing a grep failing for a
real reason.

AND `?? []` DEFEATED THE CACHE INDEPENDENTLY of the key this branch changed.
`pinsByBoard[deviceBoard] ?? []` allocates a fresh array every render, so
`cache.pins === pins` is never true for a board with no pin-mapping bucket and
the registry rebuilds for every cell consuming it whatever the other keys do.
The overlap is what makes it worth fixing here rather than leaving: a board
that does not resolve is exactly the state with no bucket, which is the state
this branch is about. A module-level constant keeps the identity stable.

326 tests in the areas touched, tsc clean, mirror byte-identical. Verified the
invariant still fails when a site is reverted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…xporting dead code

Marcone's nits on #1114, and an answer to the question he raised with them.

A DISABLED S7COMM SERVER DOES NOT BACK. `serverExposure` never consulted
`server.enabled`, which was harmless for Modbus because that path only backs
outputs. With S7comm blocks backing inputs too, a server switched off -- one
the runtime will not serve -- made `AT %IW7 : INT` compile clean with
genuinely nothing producing it, which is the declaration BR14 exists to
refuse.

It still SIZES, deliberately: `generateS7commConfig` ships the config
regardless of `enabled`, so the storage that file describes has to exist. That
the emitter ignores `enabled` looks like a defect of its own and the Modbus
emitter has the same shape; settling that is what would let a disabled server
stop sizing as well. Until then, sizing follows the file that ships and
backing follows what will actually run, which is written down where the
decision is made.

THE MODULE STOPS EXPORTING WHAT NOTHING USES. `elementsFor` and
`tableForPrefix` had no production callers. `elementsFor` is dropped outright:
it converts bits to elements in a codebase whose whole point is that the
editor stopped converting, so keeping it is an invitation to reintroduce the
factor of eight. `tableForPrefix` becomes `tableForKey`, which is the lookup
the sizer actually performs -- it was doing it inline with `IMAGE_TABLES.find`
on the key -- so the exported surface is now the surface something depends on.

THE MANIFEST WARNING FIRES ONCE PER CHANNEL. `resolveModuleChannels` is a pure
resolver called per slot and per render, not a one-shot load step, so a
manifest with one bad channel produced an unbounded stream of identical lines
-- which makes the log less useful rather than more, working against the
reason the line exists. Deduped on name and prefix, with a test that calls the
resolver three times and expects one line.

And the cache fields are typed rather than `unknown`, matching the sibling
hook. `unknown` costs nothing at runtime and gives up the one check keeping
the cache correct: that the identity compared is the identity read.

4708 tests, 100% on compute-io-image.ts, tsc and validate:arch clean, mirror
byte-identical.

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The epic branch scoped Modbus exposure to the target after this branch left it,
and this branch generalised the same function from one protocol to two. Either
side taken whole loses the other: keep only this one and a bare-metal board is
sized and BACKED again from a slave config it will never receive; keep only the
epic's and the S7comm walk disappears. The resolution applies the gate per
protocol -- `modbusTcpServer` for the Modbus find, `s7Server` for the S7 one --
which is what "one flag per protocol" already meant, now that there are two.

Independently, not all-or-nothing. A Runtime v4 target that speaks Modbus but
not S7 sizes from the Modbus config and ignores the S7 one.

The backing half is the half that matters. The exposure VOUCHES for the
addresses it covers, so without the gate `AT %IW2 : INT` passes the BR14 check
on a target where nothing whatsoever produces it -- "inside the image" and "has
a producer" both answered by a file the target never receives. The existing
tests covered that for Modbus only; two new ones cover the S7 path and the
independence of the two flags, and both were confirmed to fail when the gate is
removed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The build log reported how MANY areas were sized and never which contributor
set any of them. That is the one question the number cannot answer on its own:
producers, a Modbus slave config and an S7comm one can each size the same area
and the image takes the largest, so `%QW = 1024` might be the program's own I/O
or a `bufferMapping` nobody has opened in a year -- and which it is decides what
the user changes. Without it the only way forward is to guess.

It bites hardest on a project that already exists on disk. A new project grows
its producers under the user's eye; an imported one arrives with both server
configs already in it and nothing anywhere says so.

`computeIoImage` now returns `origins` beside `sizes`, written by the same
`claim` that writes the size, so the two cannot disagree. Four sources:
`producers`, `modbus-server`, `s7comm-server`, and `declarations` -- the last
one memory-only, because memory is its own producer (BR14/FR24) while an input
or output declaration is checked against the image and never grows it (FR02).

DETERMINISTIC, like the sizes it describes (FR07). `claim` overwrites only on a
strictly larger number and the contributors run in a fixed order, so a tie
always names the same one. The lines come out in IMAGE_TABLES order -- the
order `image.conf` is written in and the runtime header declares -- so a reader
goes down the log, the file and the header in step. Areas that came out at zero
are left out: they have no number to attribute, and all fourteen every build
would bury the handful that carry something.

Emitted once, before the branch, so it serves bare metal and v4 alike for the
same reason the sizer is called there. Gated on `sizesTheImage`: v3 and the
simulator keep their firmware defaults, and a line there would describe an
image neither receives.

Twelve tests on the sizer and two on the pipeline. Each new invariant was
confirmed to fail when broken -- tie order, table order, the origin filter, the
gate. The gate test needed `%MW7` rather than an output address to mean
anything: with no producer in the project an output sizes nothing, so the first
version passed whether the gate was there or not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The guard found nine files and asserted `>= 8`, so one file that quietly stops
matching -- a renamed helper, a builder moved behind an indirection -- left
that file unchecked by every assertion below while the suite stayed green.
A floor cannot catch that; only the exact set can.

Failing on an ADDITION is the point rather than the cost. A new pool builder is
exactly the event this suite exists for, and the failure names the file and
asks its author to confirm it resolves the producer way. Updating the list is
one line, and it is the moment the question gets asked.

Confirmed by simulating a rename that drops one builder from the matcher: the
old floor passed, the exact set fails and names the file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`ci-format` and `ci-lint` never ran on this PR -- the workflows are gated on a
`development` base and this targets the epic branch, so the only check reported
is CodeRabbit, which skips. Running the gate locally found nine files failing
`prettier --check` and four `simple-import-sort/imports` ERRORS, which fail CI
rather than warn.

Formatting and import order only; `--fix` output, nothing rewritten by hand.
Behaviour is unchanged and the tests confirm it: 450 pass in the editor, 149 in
the web mirror. Surfaces re-verified byte-identical after the reformat, 1117
files, zero diffs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`ci-format` never ran on this PR -- the workflows are gated on a `development`
base and this targets the epic branch. Running it locally caught the file added
in the previous commit. Formatting only; eslint reports zero errors, and 393
tests pass in the editor with 94 in the web mirror. Surfaces byte-identical,
1115 files, zero diffs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`lint / Lint Check` was red on this PR with ONE error --
`simple-import-sort/imports` at compute-io-image.ts:51, from the
`parseDimensionRange` import added at the bottom of the block in the previous
commit. `format`, `sync` and `complete-build` were reported as "skipping"
because they run behind it, so two more failures were invisible: `prettier
--check` fails on compute-io-image.test.ts and target-capabilities/index.ts.

All three are fixed here: eslint --fix output plus prettier --write, no
behaviour change. The exact CI commands now pass -- `eslint "./src/**/*.{ts,tsx}"`
reports 0 errors (253/263 warnings, which do not block) and prettier --check is
clean across src.

This was invisible from the stacked PRs, which target this branch: their
workflows are gated on a `development` base, so #1113/#1114 and #758/#759 run
no format, lint, sync or build check at all. This PR is where the chain is
actually tested.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
JulioSergioFS and others added 11 commits September 15, 2026 09:51
Marcone, on the workplan: IEC 61131-3 does not forbid declaring the same
located variable in two POUs, so the editor will not forbid it either. Where
the standard does not restrict, neither do we -- which write survives is the
programmer's call. B5 said "fail the compile naming both"; that half is
dropped. B6, the amber glyph at edit time, stays exactly as it is.

So `duplicateOutputs` leaves the gate that aborts the build and gets its own
block at `level: warning`. The detection is untouched: the glyph needs it, and
it is the same computation.

The wording had to move with it, in four places that all asserted a refusal
that no longer happens -- including the tooltip, which ended in "the compiler
refuses this" and would have been a plain lie on screen. The compile message
now states the consequence instead of issuing an instruction: the addresses are
global, so the last write wins and POU order decides which, and the fix is
offered conditionally ("if that is not what you meant").

ONE NEW TEST, because nothing covered this at all -- the review had already
noted the existing ones only check that both names appear. It asserts the build
SUCCEEDS, that exactly one warning comes out carrying both names, and that the
sentence never says "refuse". Confirmed to fail on both ways this could
regress: putting duplicateOutputs back in the abort condition, and putting the
level back to error.

Editor: prettier, eslint (0 errors), tsc, 414 tests. Web mirror: 321 tests.
Surfaces byte-identical, 1117 files, zero diffs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…roducer-capabilities

fix(iec-address): scope every address pool by the producer resolver
…xposure-and-duplicate-outputs

feat(compile): one table list, every server counted, and no output driven twice
Three files changed on both sides and are resolved as follows.

`pipeline.ts` and `generate-defines.ts` conflicted only on imports: the Modbus
defines helpers were renamed to `resolveDefaultPortBaud` / `DEBUG_SLAVE` and a
Modbus server profile resolver was added, alongside this branch's image sizer
and producer-capability imports. Both sets are kept, and the renamed helpers are
the ones the merged bodies already call.

`generate-modbus-slave-config.ts` conflicted on the documentation around two
independent behaviours that both apply: a disabled Modbus server emits no config
at all, and a segment the user never configured is sized from the I/O image
rather than from the old fixed defaults.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ithout building (DOPE-615)

Every number the image is built from is already computed by pure functions, but
the only way to read any of them is to run a full compile and scrape the log.
That makes the cheapest question in this work — "did that checkbox move
`int_output`?" — cost a toolchain run, so it gets answered by reading code
instead of by looking.

`buildIoDiagnostics` assembles the pipeline's OWN functions into one snapshot:
the sizer, the two emitters it feeds, and the address pool. It calls them rather
than restating their rules, so a snapshot that disagrees with a build is a bug in
one of them and not a third opinion. It reports the fourteen tables with the
contributor that sized each one, every located declaration against the compile
gate's verdict, which servers actually reached the sizer, every producer claim,
and the `image.conf` and `defines.h` blocks verbatim.

`openplc-cli inspect image <project>` drives it over a real project. It loads the
project exactly as `compile` does and stops before the transpiler, so it needs no
arduino-cli, no strucpp and no device.

Three pure helpers in the compile steps become exported rather than being copied
into the new module: a second reader of the VPP screen blob, a second walk over
the located declarations or a second copy of the bare-metal bit padding are all
ways for the diagnostic to drift from the build it is meant to describe.

`classifyBoardRuntime` is new for the same reason. Runtime v3 and v4 declare the
same compiler, so only the board NAME separates them, and that rule was written
out by hand in two places. The resolver now reads it from one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ct changes (DOPE-615)

The snapshot answers what a build would size the image to, but reading it from a
CLI means leaving the screen where the parameter lives. This renders it in a tab
that recomputes on every store change, so the effect of a Modbus buffer, a VPP
slot or a located declaration is visible while the control is still under the
cursor.

The tab has no project element behind it, so it opens from a menu rather than
from the explorer tree. A desktop build has TWO menus and shows one or the other:
the React menu bar rides in the custom title bar, which a framed window does not
have, and a framed window gets Electron's native menu instead. Both entries exist
and both call one function, so the tab cannot open two different ways.

Three independent barriers keep it out of a release build:

- the native menu's items are gated on `process.env.NODE_ENV`, which the
  production build folds away — the emitted bundle carries
  `developerMenuItems(){return[]}` and the item cannot be added at all;
- the React menu item is gated on `capabilities.isDevMode`;
- the panel itself returns null without it, because a gate a caller can forget
  is not a guarantee.

Tabs are session state and are persisted nowhere, so there is also no stored tab
that could resurrect the panel in a production session.

The accelerator port's new method is OPTIONAL. A platform with no native menu
has no such event, and a required member would break every implementation that
does not have one for no behavioural gain.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… both runners

The two new suites drive the dev-mode gate from a variable the `jest.mock`
factory closes over. Under ts-jest that works whatever the variable is called,
but the shared test files run under Vitest too, where the factory is hoisted
above the imports and only a `mock`-prefixed name is allowed to be referenced
from inside it.

Renamed rather than restructured: every other shared suite that needs mutable
mock state already spells it this way, and the prefix is the whole mechanism.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Marcone, using the new diagnostics panel: create a Modbus server and every
buffer field shows 1024 -- "só que esses valores não estão de fato setados".
Two things conspired, and neither was visible from the screen.

THE SCREEN SHOWED DEFAULTS AS IF THEY WERE THE PROJECT. `DEFAULT_BUFFER_MAPPING`
filled the fields for a server that had persisted nothing, so a number the
project did not contain rendered exactly like one the user had typed.
`compute-io-image` reads a persisted count as a REQUEST and an absent one as
"expose whatever the image turns out to be", so the screen was promising an
exposure the build would not make. Unpinned segments now render empty with the
derived count as a PLACEHOLDER -- visibly not a value, while still answering
"how many will I get?".

AND EDITING ONE FIELD PERSISTED ALL EIGHT. The reducer merged the patch over
DEFAULT_BUFFER_MAPPING whenever the server had no mapping yet, so the other
seven silently materialised at the old fixed sizes. A project that had never
asked for an exposure then carried a full one, the sizer read it as a request,
and the image came back to the constant this task exists to remove -- BR10
could never hold for such a project. Absent now stays absent.

A third symptom fell out of the first: `commitCount` compared the typed number
against the DISPLAYED one, so typing the value the field already showed did
nothing -- "ele nem considera porque estava o mesmo número". Typing a value is
the act of pinning it, whatever it equals.

Four tests on the store, three of which fail against the previous reducer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The profile refused the buffer fields on bare metal, and the comment there said
why: the MCU fixed MAX_* at compile time in `openplc.h`, so a number typed in
the editor could only disagree with the firmware. That comment also said the
fix belonged to this task.

It does now. The macros are emitted from what the project contains, so what the
server is asked to expose is one of the inputs that decides them (FR04) rather
than a request the firmware would ignore. Keeping the field read-only would be
the editor withholding a control that works.

Comes out of the unified Modbus screen (DOPE-442) landing in this branch: the
same panel now serves both targets, and bare metal was the half still frozen.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
From the manual bench (DOPE-615/RTOP-284). Each had been filed as needing the
editor's UI; each turns out to be reachable by driving the store, which is the
same path the screens drive.

E24 -- a literal does not follow the repack. Two variables over one channel,
one bound by alias and one written as a literal; a VPP module arrives and takes
%IW0/%IW1, pushing the Modbus point to %IW2. The alias follows, the literal
stays behind on an address that now belongs to the new producer. The contrast
between the two IS the evidence, so the test refuses to pass when the point
does not move -- which it did, three times, until the fixture gave the VPP
channels real addresses. `seedChannel` drops a channel with no address: the
registry MIGRATES existing state rather than allocating from nothing.

E25 -- a project that arrives sparse and was never recalculated. Three LWORD
channels at the byte offsets the esi-parser proposes ask for 17 lwords; the
same three compacted ask for 4. The compiler reproduces what is on disk, it
does not compact.

X1 -- the editor half of the upload chain: producers built through the store
size the image and the emitted image.conf carries that number. The runtime half
was run separately against a container and the three points agreed (editor 6,
core int_input=6, plugins 4:6).

Reshaped inline rather than through the editor's `toIpcProjectData`: that
adapter is editor-only and these files live on the shared surface.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The bench's X5 asks for the SRAM a small project gives back, read off the
linker rather than estimated. The measurement itself needs an AVR toolchain, so
it does not belong in a unit test -- but the numbers it measures come from
here, and this pins them.

Measured separately with avr-gcc/avr-size on the image arrays exactly as
`Baremetal.ino` declares them:

  development, fixed 56/56/32/32/32/32/20/20/20   600 B
  this project (8 DI, 8 DO, 4 %MW)                 46 B
  a 240-in/240-out project                        967 B

Which is the claim the PR makes, and BR10 in bytes: the number follows the
project in both directions rather than the board.

Worth recording against the bench's own control, which says "a 240-point
project has to go up". 240 DIGITAL points alone comes to 487 B -- under the
600 B baseline, because the fixed configuration also reserves 32 analog, 32
REAL and 60 memory words that a digital-only project never uses. It only
exceeds the baseline at 240 in AND 240 out.

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