clean up and standardize types across the codebase, unify atomic operations, improve UTF-8 handling throughout the system, remove obsolete input and named queue interfaces, redesign process preparation and creation, tighten IPC and service boundaries, improve error handling and reliability, minor documentation cleanup, fix doom surfaces, fix panic in ini parsing.

code/public/ntlite/memory_map.h

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #pragma once
 // memory_map.h - shared between bootx64.efi and kernel.exe
 // Describes physical memory layout passed from bootloader to kernel.
+#include <stddef.h>
 #include <stdint.h>
 
 #define MEMORY_MAP_MAGIC    0x4D454D4D41500000ULL  // 'MEMMAP\0\0'
@@ -30,3 +31,10 @@ typedef struct MEMORY_MAP {
     uint32_t       _pad;
     MEMORY_REGION  Regions[MEMORY_MAX_REGIONS];
 } MEMORY_MAP;
+
+// The bootloader and kernel must agree on physical memory handoff layout.
+_Static_assert(sizeof(MEMORY_TYPE) == 4u, "MEMORY_TYPE ABI width changed");
+_Static_assert(sizeof(MEMORY_REGION) == 24u, "MEMORY_REGION ABI size changed");
+_Static_assert(offsetof(MEMORY_REGION, Type) == 16u, "MEMORY_REGION Type offset changed");
+_Static_assert(offsetof(MEMORY_MAP, Regions) == 16u, "MEMORY_MAP Regions offset changed");
+_Static_assert(sizeof(MEMORY_MAP) == 6160u, "MEMORY_MAP ABI size changed");