v4 Capstone: full pipeline wiring

End-to-end stages

  • Lex -> Parse -> Analyze -> Compile -> Encode -> Decode -> Link -> VM

Stage ownership

  • front-end does not execute
  • compiler does not interpret AST semantics
  • VM runs bytecode only
  • linker rewrites closure ids for merged space

Error ordering

  • stop at first failed stage
  • analyzer before encode/link/run
  • decode failure before VM

Determinism

  • preserve declaration order
  • stable export/import order
  • stable closure rebasing and init concatenation

Why encode/decode

  • catch serializer drift early
  • prove compiled output boundary
  • simplify debugging

Practical checks

  • same source -> same final output shape
  • link errors happen before runtime
  • runtime errors only after successful front-end + decode + link
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