Same defect as the release runtime: \uXXXX was skipped and a literal '?'
emitted, destroying every non-ASCII character in JSON entering the runtime.
Two copies of one parser bug is how this class of fault survives a fix, so
it lands in both.
NOTE: this file also carries pre-existing uncommitted work from 2026-07-15/16
that this commit preserves rather than authors - loopback bind hardening
(EL_HTTP_BIND_HOST) and per-install API-key auth (EL_HTTP_AUTH_KEY) for the
shipped desktop build, plus goal-bias and node-json changes. It had been
sitting in the working tree for three weeks. Committing it because
uncommitted work is work that does not survive, which is the same durability
lesson as yesterday's Hebbian write-back finding. It needs review on its own
terms - see the backlog item for reconciling the two runtime copies.
http_handler_fn / http_handler4_fn were defined only inside el_runtime.c, so soul
modules (routes/chat/...) that reference them via cross-module forward declarations
couldn't see the types — which broke the Windows link of every module. Moving the
public function-pointer types to the shared header is the correct home and unblocks
the build on all platforms (identical typedef, C11-safe redefinition in el_runtime.c).
With this, the soul links into a native Windows neuron.exe (mingw, static) that boots
and serves HTTP on :7770 — verified /health → 200 {"status":"alive",...} in a Win11 VM.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
parse_html_children consumed the closing `}` of the outer El function as
HTML text content when a tag was left open across a function boundary
(e.g. `page_open()` opens `<body>` without a closing `</body>`). Fix:
stop the children loop when the current token is RBrace — that token
belongs to the El function, not the HTML tree.
Add html_raw() and html_escape() builtins to el_runtime so templates
can interpolate trusted raw HTML and safely escape user-supplied content.
Rename elc-new.c → elc.c as the canonical compiler source; rebuild
elc binary from it.
Add el_mem_check() to el_runtime.c: reads ELC_MAX_MEM_MB (default 512),
checks RSS via getrusage (macOS bytes / Linux KB normalised to MB), prints
a clear diagnostic to stderr and exits(1) if exceeded.
Wire it into two places:
- compiler.el: upfront check at --emit-header entry point
- codegen.el: per-function check in the streaming loop after each
el_arena_pop, so runaway growth is caught at the earliest function
boundary rather than after the machine is already dying.
el-install.el generates calls to __http_do_map_to_file (HTTP request
with JSON headers map, streaming response to file). Add it to both
the HAVE_CURL implementation and the no-curl stub section.
El compiler generates calls to println, print, exit_program,
http_set_handler, http_serve, http_set_handler_v2, and http_serve_v2
as el_val_t-returning functions. The runtime declared them void,
causing conflicting-type errors when el-install.c was compiled.
Change all seven to return el_val_t (side-effect functions return 0).
Also update el_runtime.h declarations to match.
Add native_str_to_int (El compiler alias for str_to_int) and
http_post_json_with_headers (JSON POST with additional headers map)
which epm.el generates calls to but were absent from el_runtime.c.
Implement compile_test() entry point that emits a C test harness instead
of a normal program. Test blocks (previously skipped) now compile to
static functions with per-assertion pass/fail tracking. Assert statement
added to parser and codegen. Runtime extended with now_ns, fs_list_json,
json_build_object, json_build_array, json_escape_string, state_has,
state_get_or. Fix float negation codegen, float equality comparisons,
time_to_parts return type (JSON string), time_format empty-fmt, json_set
raw-value semantics, state_keys JSON array return. All 310 native tests
pass across 9 suites (core, text, string, math, env, state, json, time, fs).
Adds EL_TRUE/EL_FALSE convenience macros to el_runtime.h alongside the
existing EL_NULL, making boolean-returning builtins readable without
raw (el_val_t) casts. Documents all value macros in the header comment.
Also lands el_arena_push/el_arena_pop — a scoped string arena for CLI
programs that never call el_request_start/end. The compiler can push a
mark before a compilation unit and pop it after to free intermediate
strings, reducing peak RSS during long compile runs.
will.anderson
Tim Lingo