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Rung 5's acceptance criterion is a status vector that can be compared
ENTRY FOR ENTRY between the oracle and the co-simulation DUT, including
Skipped and NotRun. Producing one is the v2.6.3 deliverable; making the
two agree is v2.6.4. This lands the oracle half of that comparison.
## What the tool does
`accuracycoin_status` reads an AccuracyCoin work-RAM dump, decodes it
against the 146-entry catalog in `accuracy_coin_catalog.rs`, and prints
one line per catalog entry. Given two dumps it diffs them entry by entry
and names every disagreement by test, not by address.
It is a binary rather than a test because its input is a golden produced
outside the workspace: `nes_golden_export --ram` on the oracle side, and
the DUT's own RAM dump on the sibling side. `required-features =
["test-roms"]` because the catalog it decodes against lives behind that
feature.
## Why the status vector rather than the RAM
Byte-comparing 2 KiB of work RAM answers a different question and answers
it wrongly in both directions. It reports scratch bytes -- a stack slot, a
loop counter, a partially written result the ROM is about to overwrite --
as failures, and it reports two runs that never started the battery as a
pass, because two idle title screens have identical RAM. The catalog
decode discards both classes: an entry the run never reached reads
NotRun, and NotRun is a distinct verdict from Pass rather than a byte
that happens to match.
The tool refuses an all-NotRun vector with exit 3. That case is precisely
the one that looks like success to a naive comparison -- two vectors
agreeing on 146 entries of nothing -- and it is exactly the shape of the
vacuous status-address assertion v2.6.2 found in the NTSC blargg suite,
where an unmapped read returned blargg's own success code for five minor
releases. A comparison that cannot distinguish "agreed" from "never ran"
is not a gate.
## The manifest records the controller press, and its absence
The frames-mode manifest emitted by nes_golden_export gains press_start,
written as A:B when a press window was given and the literal none when it
was not.
The manifest exists so a golden's provenance is recoverable from the
golden itself. A controller press changes what the ROM EXECUTES: an
AccuracyCoin export with no press captures an idle title screen, and one
with a press captures 88 test results. Without the field the manifest
describes those two completely different runs identically, which makes it
worse than silent -- it asserts equivalence between them.
Found by needing it. The shipped AccuracyCoin golden plainly contains a
pressed run (80 clean passes are not reachable from a title screen), and
its own manifest could not say which window produced them.
## Current measurement
Against the DUT's first end-to-end run the vector reports 137 of 146
entries agreeing and 9 differing, six of those sharing Fail(code 7) --
five SH-group stores and Open Bus -- which is a pattern suggesting one
shared address-bus cause rather than six independent defects. Naming that
pattern is what the entry-for-entry form buys over a pass count; a count
of 137 would have hidden it.
## Verification
- cargo fmt --all --check clean
- cargo clippy -p rustynes-test-harness --features test-roms
--all-targets -- -D warnings clean
- cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean inside the excluded
rustynes-cosim crate (it is not reachable from a workspace build)
No rustynes-{cpu,ppu,apu,mappers,core} changes, so AccuracyCoin 141/141
(RAM decoder) and nestest 0-diff hold by construction.
… clock, and four enables that were never enabling
A mainspring is the single wound source that drives a clock's whole
train, which is what `nes_top` becomes in this release. It took its clock
enables as INPUTS and let the testbench generate the dot phase; it now
takes a single 21.477272 MHz master clock and derives `ce`, `ppu_ce` and
`ppu_access` itself -- the shape Quartus compiles.
The emulation core is unchanged. No rustynes-{cpu,ppu,apu,mappers,core}
changes, so AccuracyCoin and nestest hold by construction -- and both
were run anyway (numbers below).
## What the release contains
The substantive work landed in the sibling repository (RustyNES_MiSTer,
`main` at 2aa07bb) and in this repository's harness. This commit is the
ceremony: version, CHANGELOG, the sixteen release anchors, the plan row,
and the notes.
**The divider found four enables that were never enabling.** The old
testbench tied `ce` high and pulsed the clock once per CPU cycle, so the
CLOCK did the gating the ENABLE was supposed to do, and any ungated
`always_ff` was correct only by accident; under a real master clock each
fires twelve times. Two were already known -- the PPU register block at
v2.5.7 and the open-bus decay reload. Two were not: the DMC's DMA
acknowledge, where the sample pointer advanced by TWELVE per byte and
324,182 of 357,360 cycles diverged, and the frame-counter IRQ set points,
where the IRQ line rose eleven master clocks early so the CPU took the
interrupt one instruction sooner.
A compensating fix was found and REJECTED: delaying the APU's IRQ by one
cycle also gave 66 of 66 and is indistinguishable from the real fix by
gate result. cpu6502.sv already implements the oracle's
second-to-last-cycle interrupt recognition, correctly gated, so a second
delay would have cancelled an APU-side error rather than removed it.
**Two accumulators, not a phase counter.** The divider is built in
RustyNES's own v2.0.0 "Timebase" shape: two independent accumulators in
master-clock units, never reset to one another. A modulo-CPU_DIV phase
counter looks equivalent on NTSC and cannot express PAL at all, where 16
master clocks per CPU cycle and 5 per dot is 3.2 dots per cycle.
ACCESS_MC and the PPU phase offset are DERIVED from the oracle's
read_split/write_split rather than swept, and five testbench phase knobs
are retired -- they existed to find this phase.
**blargg's instr_test-v5 is a standing gate at 16 of 16 exact**, taking
the suite from 50 gates to 66 green, 0 failed, and closing the decoder at
256 of 256 opcodes. It found three defects the entire self-written corpus
had missed, none in the opcodes it was run to validate.
**The decay constant is a measured three-way disagreement.** The wiki
says 3-30 ms; RustyNES uses 558.7 ms. Swept against the full 66-gate
suite: 30 ms fails 9 gates, 50 ms fails 5, 100 ms 3, 200 ms 2, 300 ms 1,
and 558.7 ms is the first value failing none. The binding constraint is
one measurable property of one ROM, and the prediction was tested:
2,809,000 dots leaves 52 divergences, 2,811,000 is exact. Documentation
and corpus are incompatible by a factor of ~17 and this rung has no
independent oracle to adjudicate, so the constant stays the oracle's,
stays labelled fitted, and stays a localparam.
**Rung 5 reaches an end-to-end AccuracyCoin run** -- 17,868,316 cycles --
and the harness gains `accuracycoin_status`, committed separately. First
measurement: 137 of 146 entries agree, 9 differ, six sharing one failure
code. Producing the vector is this release's deliverable; making the two
agree is v2.6.4.
## The ceremony itself
Cut with `scripts/release-automation/bump_release.py --apply` rather than
by hand. That tool exists because a mechanical marker swap produced ten
confidently-wrong anchors at v2.4.4 -- version moved, codename moved,
description still described the previous release. It classified all
sixteen anchors by shape (5 bare, 5 dash, 2 paren, 2 chain, 1 period, 1
dated_code), demoted each one's prose behind the new lead rather than
overwriting it, and refused nothing.
Two edits it does not do, done by hand: the VERSION-PLAN table row, and
the ROADMAP chain tail that names its own last entry the current release.
`release_anchor_audit` named both, by test.
## Verification
- AccuracyCoin (RAM): pass rate = 100.00% over 141 assigned tests
(total=146 pass=130 pass_with_code=11 fail=0 skipped=0 not_run=5).
Read with --nocapture: the line is captured by default, and an empty
grep is not a pass.
- nestest: nestest_pc_c000_matches_golden_log ok, 0-diff.
- cargo fmt --all --check clean.
- cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings clean.
- All five standing release audits green: release_anchor_audit 10/10,
release_state_prose_audit 8/8, release_notes_render_audit 2/2,
libretro_info_audit 3/3, cosim_manifest_audit 4/4.
- markdownlint clean on every changed document.
The libretro `.info` display_version moves with the workspace, as the
audit requires. No upstream sync is opened: the amended cadence defers it
until the MiSTer core is complete, and a licence change -- the one
override -- has not occurred.
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…ured `to-dos/mister/TASKS.md` still carried v2.6.3 as `[~]` with its AccuracyCoin row open, describing an attempt rather than a result. Both are now settled and the tracker should say so, with the numbers rather than the verdict. The run row moves to `[x]`: AccuracyCoin completes the full 17,868,316 cycles, where it previously halted early. The two false passes that preceded it are KEPT in the row rather than replaced by the success -- they are the reason the manifest gained `press_start`, and a tracker that records only the outcome loses why the guard exists. A second row is added for the status vector, because it is a distinct deliverable from the run: 137 of 146 entries agree, 9 differ, six sharing one failure code (five SH-group stores and Open Bus), which reads as one shared address-bus cause rather than six independent defects. It also records the tool's refusal of an all-NotRun vector, since that is the property that makes the comparison a gate rather than a report. The v2.6.3/v2.6.4 split -- producing the vector versus matching it -- was stated in the plan before the run rather than after it, and both rows say so.
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…x mutations `accuracycoin_status` shipped with no tests. Its module docs call the anti-vacuity guard "the point" and the release notes claim it exists, but nothing asserted it -- so mutate `vacuous` to return false and the tool reports two empty vectors as agreement, which is the exact failure mode the binary was written to refuse. An untested guard is a claim. This is the project's own standing rule from v2.4.0 -- extract the decision so a test can reach it -- applied to the one decision this tool is justified by. ## The tests, and what each is for - `an_all_not_run_vector_is_vacuous` -- the guard itself. - `one_real_result_is_enough_to_be_non_vacuous` -- the other half, and the half an `any`-for-`all` swap needs. Without it that swap still passes the first test, which is the two-assertions-need-two-mutations rule. - `skipped_is_not_the_same_as_never_run` -- `Skipped` is a verdict the ROM writes deliberately (`$FF`), not an absence. A vector of skips is a run that HAPPENED and must not be refused. This is the test that catches the plausible-looking widening to `NotRun | Skipped`, and nothing else does. - `a_blank_work_ram_decodes_to_a_vacuous_vector` -- pins the guard to the real input rather than a hand-built vector. All-zero work RAM is what an idle title screen actually looks like on disk, and `$00` decoding to `NotRun` is the link that makes the guard fire at all. - `decoded_vectors_are_always_catalog_length` and `a_short_dump_is_refused` -- see below. - `describe_carries_the_code` -- the codes are what a reader acts on, so a status must not render as a bare variant name that drops its code. Six of the nine current disagreements are distinguished only by their code. ## A concern checked and found to be a non-defect `main` zips three iterators to compare entry for entry, and `zip` truncates silently to the shortest. If the two decoded vectors could ever differ in length the comparison would cover a prefix while reporting agreement across `a.len()` entries -- a comparison claiming more coverage than it performed, precisely the class of defect this tool exists to prevent. It is unreachable: `decode_results` maps over `catalog()`, so its output is always exactly `catalog().len()`, and a dump too short to hold the vector is refused with `None` rather than decoded into a short one. Both properties are now pinned by test, so a future change to `decode_results` that returns a shorter vector fails loudly instead of turning the `zip` into a silent truncation. Recorded rather than "fixed": verifying the claim before writing the fix is the rule, and this one did not survive verification. ## Mutation results Six mutations, all CAUGHT, baseline passing first: M1 all -> any CAUGHT one_real_result_... M2 guard always false CAUGHT a_blank_work_ram_... M3 NotRun renders as "Skipped" CAUGHT describe_carries_the_code M4 Fail drops its code CAUGHT describe_carries_the_code M5 vacuous widened to NotRun|Skipped CAUGHT skipped_is_not_the_same_... M6 Unknown drops its byte CAUGHT describe_carries_the_code A first pass reported M1, M2 and M5 as BUILD-FAILED. That was a defect in the mutation harness, not in the mutants: the inline classifier's regex misfired and every one of those three actually compiled and was caught. BUILD-FAILED is not a data point, so a harness that emits it wrongly manufactures three false absences of evidence -- the same shape as the v2.4.4 harness bug that reported every mutation as a catch including the baseline. Rewritten as a script that requires the baseline to PASS before any verdict is trusted, matches `^error[E...]`/`could not compile` rather than any line containing "error", and names the test that caught each one so a verdict cannot be read without its cause.
`read_ram` and the `decode` closure took `&PathBuf` and used only `fs::read` and `Display`, both available through the `Deref` target. `&Path` is the borrowed form and avoids the double indirection. Call sites are unchanged -- `&args[0]` coerces. Raised by the Antigravity reviewer. Adopted because it is a pure signature change with no behaviour implication; the seven guard tests and clippy are green after it. Worth noting that `clippy::ptr_arg` did NOT fire on this, despite being an on-by-default style lint whose whole subject is exactly this shape. The gate passing is not evidence a borrow is idiomatic.
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…he cut happens
The v2.6.3 cut RENAMED `## [Unreleased]` into `## [2.6.3] - ...` instead
of inserting the new section BELOW a retained `[Unreleased]`, so the file
went out with no `[Unreleased]` heading at all. Every prior tag has one --
`v2.6.0`, `v2.6.1` and `v2.6.2` each carry an empty `## [Unreleased]`
immediately above the newest release -- and the Keep a Changelog
convention this file declares requires it.
## How it surfaced, and why that is the real finding
It turned `main`'s test matrix red on BOTH legs -- `ubuntu-24.04-arm` and
`ubuntu-latest` -- through three failing tests in
`crates/rustynes-frontend/src/debugger/doc_panel.rs`:
changelog_splits_into_releases
"an [Unreleased] section should be present"
changelog_display_order_puts_unreleased_last
"[Unreleased] must be displayed last, got \"[0.1.0] ...\""
changelog_display_order_is_cached_and_stable
"[Unreleased] must sort last, got \"[0.1.0] ...\""
The in-app documentation panel parses `CHANGELOG.md` at runtime, so a
CHANGELOG defect surfaces as a FRONTEND unit-test failure. That is a long
way from the edit, and it is the wrong place to learn it: the failure text
names a frontend module, the version bump is nine commits and five
documents earlier, and nothing in between mentions the CHANGELOG.
Worse, those tests do not run on every PR path -- they are on the
full-workspace matrix legs. Had the paths filter scheduled differently
this would have reached `main` and turned it red there, which is the exact
shape recorded in AGENTS.md for the v2.3.4 vector move: a defect landing
on `main` rather than on the PR that caused it.
## The gate moves to where the mistake is made
`release_anchor_audit` already reads and parses `CHANGELOG.md` for the
header shape, so the assertion belongs beside the other claims a cut must
satisfy -- naming the CHANGELOG by name at the moment the version is
bumped, in the same test binary the ceremony already runs.
`the_changelog_keeps_an_unreleased_section` asserts three things, and the
second and third are the ones a naive existence check would miss:
- the heading EXISTS;
- there is exactly ONE, because a cut that leaves its old heading behind
produces two and a reader cannot tell which is live;
- it comes FIRST, because a heading that has drifted below a released
section still satisfies existence while telling a reader the opposite of
the truth about where new entries go.
It deliberately does NOT assert the section is empty. Carrying an entry
destined for the next release is legitimate, and an emptiness check would
fail a tree that is merely ahead.
## Demonstrated to fail
Three mutations of `CHANGELOG.md`, baseline passing before and after:
C1 heading removed (the actual defect) CAUGHT
C2 heading duplicated CAUGHT
C3 heading demoted below the newest release CAUGHT
`cargo test -p rustynes-frontend --lib doc_panel` is green again: 10
passed, 0 failed.
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- Around line 1100-1106: Update the accuracycoin_status description in the
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… entry Three documents said the tool "prints one line per catalog entry". It does not, in either mode, and the claim was mine in all three places. `main` filters what it PRINTS: single-file .filter(|(_, s)| !matches!(s, TestStatus::Pass)) two-file .filter(|(_, (x, y))| x != y) So one dump lists the entries that are not a clean `Pass`, and two dumps list only the entries that disagree. On the measured AccuracyCoin run that is 9 lines out of 146, not 146. The distinction matters because the two halves are easy to conflate and only one of them is filtered. The full 146-entry vector IS decoded and IS compared in both modes -- the filtering is on the OUTPUT. A reader who took the docs literally and saw 9 lines would reasonably conclude the comparison had covered 9 entries, which is the opposite of the property the tool exists to provide, and precisely the "claiming coverage it did not perform" failure the vacuity guard was written against. Corrected in `docs/mister.md`, `.github/release-notes/v2.6.3.md` and `CHANGELOG.md`, each now saying what is filtered and stating explicitly that the comparison is not. Raised by CodeRabbit, and verified against the source before writing the fix rather than adopted on the reviewer's word -- the two `.filter` calls above are that verification. Its only actionable finding on this PR, and it was right.
Cuts v2.6.3 "Mainspring" and lands the oracle-side rung-5 deliverable.
A mainspring is the single wound source that drives a clock's whole train, which is what
nes_topbecomes in the sibling repository: it took its clock enables as inputs and let the testbench generate the dot phase, and it now takes one 21.477272 MHz master clock and derivesce,ppu_ceandppu_accessitself — the shape Quartus compiles.No
rustynes-{cpu,ppu,apu,mappers,core}changes. AccuracyCoin and nestest hold by construction, and both were run anyway.What is in this PR
Two commits.
feat(harness)—accuracycoin_status, the oracle half of rung 5's acceptance criterion. It reads an AccuracyCoin work-RAM dump, decodes it against the 146-entry catalog, and compares two dumps entry for entry — includingSkippedandNotRun— naming every disagreement by test rather than by address. The golden manifest also gainspress_start, recorded asA:Bor the literalnone.chore(release)— the ceremony: version, CHANGELOG, sixteen release anchors, the plan row, and.github/release-notes/v2.6.3.md.Why the status vector rather than a RAM compare
Byte-comparing 2 KiB of work RAM answers a different question and answers it wrongly in both directions: it reports scratch bytes as failures, and it reports two runs that never started the battery as a pass, because two idle title screens have identical RAM.
So the tool refuses an all-
NotRunvector with a non-zero exit. That case — two vectors agreeing on 146 entries of nothing — is exactly the shape of the vacuous status-address assertion v2.6.2 found in the NTSC blargg suite, which reported 11/11 for five minor releases while asserting nothing.First measurement: 137 of 146 entries agree, 9 differ, six of those sharing one failure code (five
SH-group stores and Open Bus) — a pattern that reads as one shared address-bus cause rather than six independent defects, and one a pass count of 137 would have hidden. Producing the vector is this release's deliverable; making the two agree is v2.6.4, per the plan's own acceptance row.Why the manifest needed
press_startA controller press changes what the ROM executes: an AccuracyCoin export without one captures an idle title screen, and with one captures 88 test results. A manifest omitting it describes those two runs identically, which is worse than silent — it asserts they are equivalent. Found by needing it: the shipped golden plainly contains a pressed run, and its own manifest could not say which window produced it.
The ceremony was tooled, not hand-edited
Cut with
scripts/release-automation/bump_release.py --apply. That tool exists because a mechanical marker swap produced ten confidently-wrong anchors at v2.4.4 — version moved, codename moved, description still described the previous release. It classified all sixteen anchors by shape (5 bare, 5 dash, 2 paren, 2 chain, 1 period, 1 dated_code), demoted each one's prose behind the new lead rather than overwriting it, and refused nothing.Two edits it does not do were done by hand, and
release_anchor_auditnamed both by test: the VERSION-PLAN table row, and the ROADMAP chain tail that labels its own last entry the current release.Verification
AccuracyCoin (RAM): pass rate = 100.00% over 141 assigned tests(total=146 pass=130 pass_with_code=11 fail=0 skipped=0 not_run=5). Read with--nocapture, because the line is captured by default and an empty grep is not a pass.nestest_pc_c000_matches_golden_log ok.cargo fmt --all --checkclean;cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warningsclean;cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warningsclean inside the excludedrustynes-cosimcrate..info3/3, cosim manifest 4/4.RustyNES_MiSTerat2aa07bb: 66 gates green, 0 failed; decoder at 256 of 256 opcodes.No upstream sync
The amended cadence defers the libretro upstream PR until the MiSTer core is complete. A licence change is the one override, and none occurred. The local
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