diff --git a/phase-ends/CURRENT_PHASE.md b/phase-ends/CURRENT_PHASE.md
index 39e223d38..fe2d8e680 100644
--- a/phase-ends/CURRENT_PHASE.md
+++ b/phase-ends/CURRENT_PHASE.md
@@ -334,6 +334,45 @@ gcc-2.7.2 never emits on hard errors, so every hard error reads `CC1-FAIL(no-dia
 blindness: it is how cheap declaration faults get filed as codegen walls. `rtu_match` was fixed for
 this at T0(b); this classifier was not. **Fix it before reading any future 0% as a wall.**
 
+## ✅ TASK A3 (jr set) — **56 siblings banked / 11 families**; R22 213/213. Carve BLOCKED at layer 4.
+`jtbl_family_bank` over 50 matched-exemplar jr families (183 member-slots), one commit per family
+(its per-sibling revert restores from HEAD, so an uncommitted prior family would be destroyed).
+**Outcome: BANKED 56 · isolate-fail 112 · gate-fail 10 · carve-fail 4.** R22 **213 passed / 0 of 213**.
+
+**The 112 isolate-fails were NOT a wall and NOT the reconciled-body trap I predicted.** They fall in
+exactly THREE overlays — `ov_SC02_037` (39), `ov_SC03_107` (38), `ov_MAIN_012` (36), zero elsewhere —
+the newly-onboarded binaries from task C, which are **monolithic (0 jr splits vs ~27 elsewhere)**.
+`jr_isolate_all` cannot carve them, so every member located there fails before the byte-gate runs.
+**⚠ I recommended `--raw` retries on the reconciled-body hypothesis. That was WRONG** — 39 families
+scored 0 because their entire member set is those 3 binaries (3 members, 3 failures). Corrected
+before spending the run, but it was my second bad call of the session (cf. the A1 over-claim).
+
+### The carve: 3 REAL defects found+fixed, then a 4th that is out of scope
+My scoping said "one unplaceable construct". **That was wrong — it was the first of four layers.**
+1. **`asm_label_aliases` scan starts inside a `#define`.** `#define gte_SetRotMatrix(r0) __asm__
+   volatile ("lw $12, 0( %0 );" …)` is textually `ident(…) __asm__(…)`, and `cdecl._mask` blanks
+   string CONTENT — deleting the `;`s that would stop the greedy `[^;{}]*`. The match ran **116
+   lines**, swallowing the real `aF8012EFB8 … __asm__("func_8012EFB8");`, so the alias never entered
+   the map, `addr_of` returned None, and the carve refused (R32, correctly). **Fixed:
+   `_mask_cpp_directives()`** — a preprocessor directive is the other place a match must not START.
+2. **`_split_macro_body` returned a `static inline` HELPER as the macro's definition**, so
+   `_proto_from_lines` hoisted `extern static inline void tail_8012F274(…);` into all 41 regions —
+   invalid C (`multiple storage classes`) AND the wrong function (the exported def sits below it and
+   lost its implied declaration). **Fixed:** skip `static` definitions brace-balanced on the masked
+   body; a static helper needs no hoisted decl (internal linkage, each region gets its own copy).
+3. **A declaration that WRAPS across continuation lines** (`extern void aF801466F0(…) \` +
+   `__asm__("func_801466F0"); \`) was taken as one line, so half became a `;`-less extern and the
+   continuation was read as THE DEFINITION HEADER → `extern __asm__(""); void aF801466F0(…);` in 22
+   regions. **Fixed:** accumulate until the statement terminates, tested on the MASKED text.
+   *This is the SAME wrapped-declaration blindness `family_remap._alias_decl_for` records fixing at
+   S33 — never propagated here. Third instance of one class in one file (cookbook §134/§139).*
+4. **BLOCKED — `jtbl_rodata_pads: consumed 0 rodata .align(s) but 4 pad spec(s) given — table-count
+   drift vs the carve`.** The carve moves jtbl-owning fns into `_jr_` regions but leaves the pad
+   specs on the residual gap object. **`jr_isolate_all`'s own docstring says this class is NOT
+   isolate-fixable.** It needs JTBL_PADS repointing in `overlays.mk` — a separate, larger job.
+**Carve reverted; tree clean. Fixes 1-3 kept** (regression-checked: 1,948 macros parse, 0 malformed
+externs; alias maps unchanged on 3 already-carved overlays). **122 jr member-slots remain blocked.**
+
 ## ▶ RESUME HERE — D (and the leftovers below)
 **C is DONE.** For reference, the command was:
 `.venv/bin/python tools/dedup_extend.py --binaries ov_SC03_107,ov_MAIN_012,ov_SC02_037`
diff --git a/tools/overlay_src_split.py b/tools/overlay_src_split.py
index 1f885d57d..5582fdf56 100644
--- a/tools/overlay_src_split.py
+++ b/tools/overlay_src_split.py
@@ -79,6 +79,23 @@ _ALIAS_SCAN = re.compile(
     r'\b([A-Za-z_]\w*)\s*\([^;{}]*\)\s*__asm__\s*\([^;{}]*\)\s*;', re.S)
 
 
+def _mask_cpp_directives(text):
+    """Length-preserving blank of every preprocessor directive, including `\\` continuations.
+
+    A `#define` body is not C declaration text, but it can look exactly like one. Blanking it is
+    the same move `cdecl._mask` makes for comments and strings, for the same reason: a scanner must
+    not be able to START a match somewhere the C grammar does not apply. Newlines are preserved so
+    offsets and line numbers into the original text remain valid."""
+    out, cont = [], False
+    for ln in text.split('\n'):
+        if cont or ln.lstrip().startswith('#'):
+            cont = ln.rstrip().endswith('\\')
+            out.append(' ' * len(ln))
+        else:
+            out.append(ln)
+    return '\n'.join(out)
+
+
 def asm_label_aliases(src):
     """{C identifier -> emitted symbol} for every definition-side asm-label alias in `src`.
 
@@ -102,7 +119,21 @@ def asm_label_aliases(src):
     # `_mask` also blanks string CONTENT *and its quotes*, so the scan pattern cannot require them —
     # `_ALIAS_SCAN` accepts any `__asm__( … )`, and the real symbol is then read back out of `src`
     # at the same offsets (the mask is length-preserving, which is what makes that legal).
-    masked = cdecl._mask(src)
+    # ...AND A PREPROCESSOR DIRECTIVE IS THE OTHER PLACE A MATCH MUST NOT START (P30 S47).
+    # Masking comments/strings fixed the comment case and left this one. A macro definition
+    #     #define gte_SetRotMatrix(r0) __asm__ volatile ( "lw $12, 0( %0 );" … )
+    # is textually `ident( … ) __asm__( … )` — indistinguishable from an alias declaration to
+    # `_ALIAS_SCAN` — and `_mask` blanks string CONTENT, which DELETES the `;` characters inside
+    # those asm strings that would otherwise have stopped the greedy `[^;{}]*`. So the scan starts
+    # in the macro body and runs until the next real `;` **116 lines later**, swallowing the genuine
+    # `s32 aF8012EFB8(…) __asm__("func_8012EFB8");` on the way; `finditer` resumes past the end, so
+    # the alias never enters the map and `addr_of` returns None for its definition.
+    # Consequence measured: `jr_isolate_all` refused to carve ov_SC02_037 / ov_SC03_107 / ov_MAIN_012
+    # (R32, correctly — it will not rewrite a file it cannot fully place), which left 121 jr
+    # functions uncarved and 122 jr member-slots unreachable, presenting as 112 `isolate-fail`s that
+    # looked like a per-binary wall.
+    # The mask is length-preserving, so offsets into `src` stay valid.
+    masked = _mask_cpp_directives(cdecl._mask(src))
     out = {}
     for m in _ALIAS_SCAN.finditer(masked):
         real = _ALIAS_DECL.search(src[m.start():m.end()])
@@ -413,12 +444,48 @@ def _split_macro_body(body):
     if len(mbody) != len(body):
         mbody = body
     out = []
-    for k, ln in enumerate(body):
-        s = ln.strip()
+    k, n = 0, len(body)
+    while k < n:
+        s = body[k].strip()
         if mbody[k].strip() == "":
+            k += 1
             continue
         if s.startswith("extern"):
-            out.append(s)
+            # A DECLARATION MAY WRAP ACROSS CONTINUATION LINES (P30 S47, byte-witnessed):
+            #     extern void aF801466F0(u16 a0, …) \
+            #         __asm__("func_801466F0"); \
+            # Taking one line as one declaration emitted the first half as a `;`-less extern AND
+            # then treated `__asm__("func_801466F0");` as THE DEFINITION HEADER — so the proto
+            # generator produced `extern __asm__(""); void aF801466F0(…);` in all 22 regions that
+            # hoist it. Accumulate until the statement actually terminates, testing the MASKED text
+            # so a `;` inside a string or comment cannot end it early.
+            # Same line-oriented blindness `family_remap._alias_decl_for` records fixing at S33 for
+            # this exact wrapped-alias shape; it was never propagated here (cookbook §134/§139).
+            acc = [s]
+            while ";" not in mbody[k] and k + 1 < n:
+                k += 1
+                acc.append(body[k].strip())
+            out.append(" ".join(acc))
+            k += 1
+            continue
+        # A `static` DEFINITION inside a macro body is an INTERNAL HELPER, not the macro's
+        # principal definition (P30 S47, byte-witnessed). Stopping here returned the helper as
+        # "the definition", so `_proto_from_lines` hoisted `extern static inline void
+        # tail_8012F274(s32 *in, s32 e);` into all 41 carved regions of ov_SC02_037 — which is
+        # BOTH invalid C (`multiple storage classes`) and the wrong function: the macro's exported
+        # definition sits BELOW the helper and lost its implied declaration entirely.
+        # A static helper needs no hoisted declaration at all: it has internal linkage, and every
+        # region that instantiates the macro gets its own copy from the expansion.
+        # Skip it brace-balanced (on the MASKED body, so a brace in a string or comment cannot
+        # unbalance the scan) and keep looking for the exported definition.
+        if re.match(r'static\b', s):
+            depth, seen = 0, False
+            while k < n:
+                depth += mbody[k].count("{") - mbody[k].count("}")
+                seen = seen or "{" in mbody[k]
+                k += 1
+                if seen and depth <= 0:
+                    break
             continue
         return out, body[k:]        # the definition header — the body starts here
     return out, []