chore(release): cut v2.5.9 "Overture" — rung 4 opens with the two pulse channels and the frame counter - #455
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Rung 4's gate needs what each APU channel hands its DAC, per CPU cycle. The oracle already carried the other two surfaces -- $4015 reads through the existing bus trace, and the APU's /IRQ at both M2 phases in irq.csv -- so this adds the one that was missing. --apu-trace CAP writes <stem>.apu.bin: 16-byte little-endian records, a u64 CPU cycle then pulse 1, pulse 2, triangle, noise and DMC as u8, then three pad bytes. The cycle is stored EXPLICITLY rather than implied by the index, because the records are drained per frame and an index-implied cycle would be wrong the moment a frame boundary shifted anything. The five INTEGER levels only. MixRecord's `mixed` and `external` are f32 and are DIAGNOSTICS per RustyNES_MiSTer/docs/rung4-apu.md -- they are RustyNES's model of an analog stage (the non-linear lookup, the band-limited decimator, expansion gain), and exporting them would invite a gate against an emulator's arithmetic rather than against the chip. They are deliberately not written. Oracle::advance_frames drains the APU's store at every frame boundary, because MixTrace is sized for ONE frame and Nes::run_frame re-anchors it at its own start. Skipping the drain would lose every frame but the last, and would do it silently -- the resulting golden is a well-formed shorter file. Nothing re-anchors from this side: run_frame owns that, and a second clear could only ever be wrong since it would run at a different cycle. rustynes-cosim gains the `debug-hooks` feature, which reaches rustynes-apu/debug-hooks. Safe because this crate is excluded from the workspace -- the exclusion is what stops a trace feature unifying into the accuracy battery's build of the core, and cosim_manifest_audit asserts it still holds. The feature is compile-time and the runtime arm is separate and default-off, so it changes no emulated behaviour: VERIFIED, not assumed -- exporting a golden with and without it produces byte-identical obs.bin, index_fb.bin and ram.bin. Capacity is validated at the boundary and a dropped record FAILS rather than warning, matching --fetch-trace: a truncated golden is not a smaller golden, because the comparator sees a length mismatch and reports a divergence whose real cause is an export-side capacity. Both capacity validators are extracted into named functions, which keeps parse_args under the line limit and puts each one's reasoning next to the check rather than in the middle of an arg loop. Device-under-test work is in RustyNES_MiSTer@d6bef7d.
…lse channels and the frame counter An overture is the part that plays before the rest of the orchestra arrives, which is what two of five channels is. rtl/apu2a03.sv in the sibling (RustyNES_MiSTer@d6bef7d) lands both pulse channels -- timer, 8-step duty sequencer, length counter, envelope and the sweep MUTE -- plus the frame counter in both modes with its IRQ and the $4015/$4017 register file, written from the NESdev wiki with no emulator or HDL source consulted per ADR 0037. Triangle, noise and DMC are v2.6.0 and v2.6.1. The partition was fixed BEFORE the rung, because the APU is the hardest chip in the console to gate honestly: what it produces is an analog level and what an emulator computes is a number. Gates are the $4015 read value, the /IRQ pin and each channel's INTEGER DAC input, all per CPU cycle. Diagnostics are MixRecord's f32 mixed and external fields -- RustyNES's non-linear mixer, band-limited decimator and expansion gain -- the frame-sequencer step index, and apu_phase. A field that exists only because RustyNES chose to model something that way never becomes a gate, however convenient. The stimulus measurement earned its place immediately, finding four ROM defects before a single gate ran: length index 3 is 2 and not 254, because the table alternates long and short and the index is not the count; the 6502 boots with I set, so without CLI zero IRQs are taken despite five real line edges, and the interrupt SEQUENCE is half of what that ROM gates; two channels at the same volume are indistinguishable in a channel-level golden; and power-on work RAM is SEEDED rather than zeroed, so an uninitialised counter byte came up 0x7D and the handler's CMP #3 never matched. Four findings in the DUT. The duty sequencer counts UP -- counting down gave the right period and the right levels with the wrong phase, pulse 1 three steps late and pulse 2 five. The 4-step sequence constants must be consistently 0-based, since fc_count reads V on tick V+1: three of four were and the last was written as the wiki's own number, putting the frame IRQ 3 CPU cycles late (29,830 against 29,827, measured) and the last length clock of every frame with it. $4017 bit 7 clocks a quarter and half frame IMMEDIATELY, where a latched flag clocked on the next APU tick left exactly two divergent cycles at a length expiry. And the $4017 sequencer-reset delay depends on bit 7, which the wiki's "3 or 4 CPU clock cycles" does not settle -- each constant fixed one ROM and broke the other, and a parity rule on apu_phase separated nothing because both ROMs' writes land on the same phase. Gates: apulen027 exact on both surfaces at 178,668 cycles each; apupulse026's bus surface 3 of 178,668 and its channel levels 1,000 of 178,668 -- which is 500 runs of EXACTLY TWO cycles, one per pulse edge, a uniform one-tick offset rather than a structural fault. It is a phase sensitivity the first stimulus hid: adding a five-cycle counter initialisation, an ODD number, flipped which apu_phase the $4003 writes land on, and before that change both ROMs were exact. Two candidate fixes were tried and both rejected by measurement -- flipping the pulse timer's tick phase halved one ROM while breaking the other, and reloading the period divider on $4003 against the wiki's explicit "the period divider is not reset" made both worse. Carried to v2.6.0 with the ROM that exposes it already written. Nine of ten mutations CAUGHT, and the two that were not both indicted the STIMULUS rather than the gate: a halt flag whose channel's length was too long to expire inside the window, and an inhibit bit only ever set in 5-step mode where the IRQ cannot fire anyway. Both ROMs were changed and both are now caught. The tenth is the sweep mute's threshold, out of stimulus regardless -- both ROMs use periods 64 and 84, so any threshold below 64 is inert -- and the mute belongs to the sweep unit this rung defers. Oracle side: --apu-trace on nes_golden_export exports the five integer channel levels per CPU cycle with an EXPLICIT cycle per record, because the records are drained per frame and an index-implied cycle would be wrong the moment a frame boundary shifted anything. rustynes-cosim enables debug-hooks, safe because the crate is excluded from the workspace and cosim_manifest_audit asserts that still holds; the feature is compile-time and the runtime arm is separate, so it changes no emulated behaviour -- VERIFIED, not assumed, with byte-identical obs.bin, index_fb.bin and ram.bin. The release-line chain gate added during the v2.5.8 review caught its first real drift on this cut -- and then failed on its own parser, which is worth recording: it walked back to the nearest `v` before ", the current release", and "Overture" contains one. It now walks back to the nearest `v` that actually BEGINS a version. Re-mutated: stale version, phrase removed entirely (fail-closed), and version removed while the phrase remains -- all three caught. Zero emulation-core changes, so AccuracyCoin holds 141/141 (100.00%, RAM decoder) and nestest stays 0-diff by construction. Gates: cargo fmt clean; clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings clean; release_anchor_audit 9/9, release_state_prose_audit 8/8, release_notes_render_audit 2/2, libretro_info_audit 3/3, cosim_manifest_audit 4/4; markdownlint passed on every changed file. Per the amended upstream cadence this release opens NO libretro/RetroArch sync. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
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Antigravity review (Gemini via Ultra)The code changes are trivial, primarily updating versions and documentation for the v2.5.9 release while adding APU tracing support to the Blocking issuesNone found. Suggestions
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Automated first-pass review by Earlier review rounds (newest first)Round reviewed at 2026-08-24 11:46 UTCAntigravity review (Gemini via Ultra)This PR cuts the v2.5.9 release, bumping versions, updating project documentation, and adding APU trace export capabilities to the co-simulation oracle. Blocking issues
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In `@crates/rustynes-cosim/src/bin/nes_golden_export.rs`:
- Around line 515-517: Reject the incompatible combination of --apu-trace and
--inject-instructions through the existing injection_error validation path
before APU capture is enabled, rather than producing an empty trace; add a
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In `@crates/rustynes-test-harness/tests/release_anchor_audit.rs`:
- Around line 736-737: Add a token-boundary guard to the reverse-scan candidate
in the version extraction flow around parse_version_prefix, rejecting any v
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Four findings, all four verified against the tree before any fix. TWO MAJOR, both real and both the same class -- a check that reports a pass it has not earned. --apu-trace combined with --inject-instructions wrote a well-formed EMPTY .apu.bin with a dropped count of zero. The trace drains at frame boundaries, in advance_frames, and an injection run steps instructions and completes no frames, so drain_apu_frame was never reached. An empty golden whose emptiness is indistinguishable from a run that produced nothing is exactly what this project keeps catching, so the combination is now REFUSED in injection_error rather than warned about -- a warning on stderr is a signal that may never arrive, and this project has already lost one that fired on every run. The release-line chain gate's reverse `v` scan accepted a `v` inside a word: `rev2.5.9, the current release` parsed as version 2.5.9 and satisfied the audit while containing no version token at all. The `v` must START a token. Both now have regression tests that call the REAL validation path, and both are demonstrated to fail. The second one needed the fix this project recorded in v2.4.0: the scan was inline in the audit, so the test restated it as a local closure and would have agreed with itself forever. It is extracted as `version_before` and both the audit and the test call it -- mutating the production function now fails the test, which mutating a copy never could. Worth noting how the two mutation runs went, because both first attempts were worthless in the way this project keeps recording. The --apu-trace mutation reported "test result: ok" from the LIB target while the bin target's result -- the one with the test in it -- was the second line; `head -1` took the empty one. And the scan mutation's pattern did not apply at all, so the run measured unmutated source. Neither was a catch and both were re-run with the test count checked first. TWO MINOR, both real. ROADMAP.md's Last Updated said 2026-08-23 while the same file recorded v2.5.9 as released on the 24th. And to-dos/mister/SPRINT_PLAN.md's results pointer listed rung 1 and rung 3 but not the rung-4 document this release adds -- the sprint plan named a completed rung without pointing at its evidence. Gates: release_anchor_audit 10/10 (the new test included), release_state_prose_audit 8/8, release_notes_render_audit 2/2, libretro_info_audit 3/3, cosim_manifest_audit 4/4; rustynes-cosim's own suite green; cargo fmt clean; clippy -D warnings clean on both the workspace and the excluded cosim crate; markdownlint passed.
…rd padding Both raised by the Antigravity reviewer, which found the --apu-trace/injection data loss independently of CodeRabbit -- two reviewers converging on the same defect is worth noting, since it was a silent one. The upstream guard in injection_error refuses the one combination known to produce an empty golden. This adds the invariant underneath it: the trace being ARMED and producing no records is a defect, not a short run, and any future path that arms without draining would otherwise ship a 0-byte golden and report success because `dropped` stays 0. The two fail for different reasons and that is the point -- one states the rule, the other states the invariant. Also names the record padding: 13 data bytes (8 cycle + 5 levels) out to APU_REC_LEN, chosen as a power of two so the comparator's indexing stays trivial and so v2.6.0/v2.6.1's three channels arrive without changing the record size under an existing golden.
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Both suggestions taken, in Blocking issue — confirmed and already fixed in Suggestion 2 (the empty-golden check) — taken, and it earns its place precisely because it is not redundant with the guard above. The guard states the rule for the one combination we know about; this states the invariant for the ones nobody has thought of yet. An Nitpick (the I did not take the alternative of draining after the instruction loop. Injection runs complete no frames by construction, so a final flush would produce a golden covering an arbitrary partial window — a file that looks complete and isn't, which is the same class of problem one level down. |
The `assert!` added for `apu_trace_with_injection_is_refused` exceeded the line budget with its message argument inline, so rustfmt wanted it split across four lines. It was written by hand and never passed through the formatter, which is easy to do in this crate specifically: `rustynes-cosim` is EXCLUDED from the workspace, so `cargo fmt --all` from the repository root does not reach it. CI has a separate "rustfmt (excluded crate: rustynes-cosim)" step for exactly that reason, and that step is what caught this. No behaviour change -- the assertion, its condition and its message are byte-identical, only the line breaks move.
Four findings from the Antigravity review of the v2.5.9 branch, one of them blocking. Each was verified against the source before being fixed rather than taken on the reviewer's word. UNBOUNDED ALLOCATION (blocking, confirmed) parse_apu_cap checked only for zero, while its sibling parse_fetch_cap has bounded against fetch_trace::MAX_CAPACITY since it was written. The capacity reaches Vec::with_capacity(capacity * APU_REC_LEN) inside Oracle::enable_apu_trace, so `--apu-trace 99999999999999` asks the allocator for more memory than exists and aborts the process. The asymmetry between two adjacent parsers is what made it easy to miss. MAX_APU_TRACE_CAPACITY is 1 << 23 records -- one record is one CPU cycle, so 8,388,608 cycles, roughly 281 NTSC frames, 134 MB once multiplied. Comfortably above any legitimate rung-4 stimulus (a 24-frame run wants ~715,000) and bounded. The CLI REFUSES an over-large value rather than clamping it, because a silently clamped capacity produces a short golden that claims to cover the whole run -- the same failure mode the dropped-record check exists to prevent. enable_atrace clamps as well, but only as a library-level backstop for callers that bypass the CLI, and `cap` takes the CLAMPED value so the dropped accounting is measured against what the buffer actually holds. Both halves are pinned by tests and both were demonstrated to fail by mutation: removing the clamp reproduces the allocator abort in the test itself, and storing the unclamped cap alongside a clamped buffer fails the accounting assertion. A ZERO-FRAME RUN PANICKED INSTEAD OF REPORTING BAD INPUT `--frames 0` never reaches a frame boundary, so an armed APU trace is never drained, and write_apu_trace's emptiness invariant then fires with a message blaming "some run path" for what is plainly invalid input. --frames is now rejected at the boundary. The invariant stays: it is the backstop for paths nobody has thought of, and it should not be the first line of defence against an argument. A TRUNCATED GOLDEN WAS WRITTEN BEFORE THE FAILING EXIT write_apu_trace wrote the file and then exited non-zero on a dropped record. The exit code fails a pipeline; the file outlives it, and a truncated .bin looks like every other golden on disk, so the next gate run compares a window shorter than the manifest claims. The dropped check now runs BEFORE the write and says "No file written." write_fetch_trace has the same shape and is deliberately left alone -- it is pre-existing and unrelated to this release's subject, and widening a release PR to touch it is how a scoped change stops being one. DIVISION IN A PER-RECORD LOOP drain_apu_frame tested `acc.bytes.len() / APU_REC_LEN >= acc.cap` on every iteration; it now multiplies the constant instead. Behaviour-identical for every reachable value, and saturating so the bound cannot wrap.
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All four addressed in Blocking — unbounded allocation: confirmed and fixed. You were right, and the specific shape is worth recording:
The CLI refuses an over-large value rather than clamping, because a silently clamped capacity produces a short golden that claims to cover the whole run — the same failure the dropped-record check exists to prevent. Both halves are pinned by tests, and both were demonstrated to fail by mutation. Removing the clamp reproduces the abort inside the test itself:
Truncated file before Division in the drain loop: taken, now a saturating multiply of the constant. One note on the earlier round's |
The two `--apu-trace` capacity tests were inserted at the wrong offset and landed INSIDE the doc comment of `five_frames_requested_is_five_frames_of_ cycles`, truncating it mid-sentence at "A bare" and orphaning its last line above the following test. clippy's `empty_line_after_doc_comments` caught it, correctly, as a doc comment separated from the item it documents. The tests move to after that function; the comment is rejoined verbatim. WHY IT REACHED CI. I verified locally with `cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings 2>&1 | grep -E "^(error|warning)"` and read the empty output as clean. clippy emits ANSI colour codes at the start of every diagnostic line, so the anchored pattern could not match -- the filter was structurally incapable of reporting the failure it was written to catch. That is the project's own recurring trap: a pattern that cannot match looks exactly like content that is not there. The verification here reads the EXIT CODE instead, which is the only signal that cannot be filtered away.
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Cuts v2.5.9 "Overture" — rung 4 opens with the two pulse channels and the frame counter.
The partition, fixed before the rung
The APU is the hardest chip in the console to gate honestly: what it produces is an analog level and what an emulator computes is a number. So the sibling's
docs/rung4-apu.mdwas written before anyrtl/apu2a03.svexisted.Gates: the
$4015read value, the/IRQpin, each channel's integer DAC input — all per CPU cycle.Diagnostics:
MixRecord'sf32mixed/external(RustyNES's non-linear mixer, decimator, expansion gain), the frame-sequencer step index,apu_phase.What the stimulus measurement caught, before any gate ran
2, not254— the table alternates; the index is not the countCLI, zero IRQs are taken despite five real line edges0x7D, soCMP #3never matchedFindings in the DUT
The duty sequencer counts up; the 4-step constants must be consistently 0-based (the last was the wiki's own number, putting the frame IRQ 3 cycles late);
$4017bit 7 clocks a quarter+half frame immediately; and the$4017reset delay depends on bit 7, which the wiki's "3 or 4 CPU clock cycles" does not settle.Gates
apulen027channel levels · busapupulse026busapupulse026channel levelsNine of ten mutations CAUGHT. The two that weren't both indicted the stimulus, not the gate; both ROMs were changed and both are now caught. The tenth is out of stimulus and belongs to the sweep unit this rung defers.
The residual, characterised
500 runs of exactly two cycles, one per pulse edge — a uniform one-tick offset, and a phase sensitivity the first stimulus hid: adding a five-cycle initialisation (an odd number) flipped which
apu_phasethe$4003writes land on. Two fixes tried, both rejected by measurement. v2.6.0's first item, with the ROM that exposes it already written.Also here
The release-line chain gate added during #454's review caught its first real drift on this cut — and then failed on its own parser, because it walked back to the nearest
vand "Overture" contains one. It now finds the nearestvthat actually begins a version, re-mutated three ways (stale version, phrase removed, version removed) and all three caught.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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