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Drew T 5205be4118 feat(phase-30 S49): propagate func_80188990 (adapt lane) 2026-08-13 11:40:56 -06:00
Drew T c85fc8853b feat(phase-30 S49): propagate func_80188748 (adapt lane) 2026-08-13 11:40:37 -06:00
Drew T ba8bc92220 feat(phase-30 S49): propagate func_8017DBC4 (adapt lane) 2026-08-13 11:39:55 -06:00
Drew T 63bb8f8959 feat(decomp): worker gate — +1 fns x36 propagated (fleet 95.1%) 2026-08-12 22:47:24 -06:00
Drew T 97877acd0a feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_80181C78 to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-12 18:25:57 -06:00
Drew T 78fe17bd52 feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_8017D678 to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-12 18:24:37 -06:00
Drew T 3d627b97a9 feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_8017C814 to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-12 18:24:23 -06:00
Drew T 440b244c18 feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_80184E4C to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-12 18:23:30 -06:00
Drew T 1276105f06 feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_801807D0 to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-12 18:23:13 -06:00
Drew T 90f8f3aff9 feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_80188348 to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-12 18:22:49 -06:00
Drew T acd7ef0a2a feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_801887DC to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-12 16:19:25 -06:00
Drew T ea99a445b2 feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_8017CD10 to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-12 16:15:51 -06:00
Drew T 2d61baa9e9 feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_80187F2C to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-12 16:15:34 -06:00
Drew T 18ef92c482 feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_80187968 to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-12 16:15:19 -06:00
Drew T 6b1c720035 feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_801884E8 to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-12 16:15:05 -06:00
Drew T 9b7454732d feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_80187D0C to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-12 16:14:35 -06:00
Drew T 2a28813659 feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_80183D68 to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-12 12:58:58 -06:00
Drew T c4836a4abf feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_8017CE90 to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-12 12:52:39 -06:00
Drew T 641c7086a5 feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_8017D1E0 to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-11 20:59:08 -06:00
Drew T 2d8e6890de feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_8017C6A0 to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-11 20:58:59 -06:00
Drew T b7e9d2f2ee feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_80187B80 to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-11 20:58:26 -06:00
Drew T 1bc5589588 feat(phase-30 S48-T6): propagate func_80187180 to its zero-crack siblings 2026-08-11 20:58:17 -06:00
Drew T ce85242084 fix(phase-30 S47-0a.2): conform func_80175414 — 1,845 decls / 1,061 files; R22 213/213
The new head plumbing class after the symbol-kind fix: `conflicting types for func_80175414` (27
member-rows). Byte-true DEF is `void func_80175414(s32 _arg0)` (its DEFINE_ macro). The fleet
declared it 1,845 times in four spellings, of which three are the SAME TYPE (parameter names do not
participate) — the outlier was 28 sites declaring `(void)`.

conform_decls REFUSED the naive conform and was right to: 29 ZERO-ARG CALL SITES exist across 28
files, so conforming the declaration alone turns each into `too few arguments` — a fleet-wide
COMPILE break the per-binary gate cannot see (the tool cites 138/140 binaries, measured). It named
the count, the consequence, why the cheap check misses it, and the flag that repairs it, then
forced the two-step: --cast-zero-arg-calls (29 sites cast to the 0-arg fn-ptr shape, §17a-1 — gcc
folds the cast of a known symbol to a direct jal, so it is codegen-neutral), then the conform.

Result: 1,845 declaration sites rewritten across 1,061 files, 0 non-canonical remaining (axis
complete, R32). R22 clean-fleet: check-all 213 passed / 0 failed of 213.

WORTH RECORDING AS A TOOLCHAIN STANDARD: this is the instrument that has not wasted a cycle today.
Every other one reported SUCCESS over a defect — a classifier that discarded every gcc-2.7.2 hard
error (no `error:` prefix), a diff that miscounted 116 data-bundled .s files, a --verified-out
truncated to zero bytes over 62 real banks, a --band default that reported "0 families" on a real
135-member family, and a scope stamp describing the filesystem instead of the run. conform_decls
reports FAILURE with a repair path. A guard must state its COVERAGE, not just its verdict; the
in-repo exemplars are this tool and the §53 jr interlock.
2026-08-11 14:15:01 -06:00
Drew T fd80bd7007 feat(phase-30 S47-0a.1): the symbol-KIND fix banks 205 members; the residue crosses over to DIFF
Stage 0a's first defect, and the largest single zero-token bank of the session.

family_remap's kind test asked ONE question — is this address a function in the SIBLING'S OWN sig?
— and defaulted to `D_` on "no". But a body calls outside its image constantly: an overlay calls
resident helpers, an md_* module calls the overlay-range engine. Those addresses are absent from
the sibling's sig, so the test fell through and emitted a DATA NAME FOR A FUNCTION —
`D_800183E0`, `D_800D1EBC`, `D_80171A1C`. None exist anywhere in src/ or config/symbols.us.txt,
while `func_80171A1C` alone has 1,061 references. Measured: 611 member-rows across 45 symbols,
the largest named residue class. "Not in MY sig" means "not mine", not "is data".

Fix — three oracles, strongest first, never a blanket fallback:
 1. the sibling's own sig (authoritative for its image; this is what preserves the Phase-29 T82
    case where a slot is a function in the exemplar and DATA in the member — unioning every sig
    would have re-broken the 251 members T82 fixed),
 2. the always-linked images via extern_fn_addrs() — resident + main, 2,146 addresses whose ranges
    cannot collide with an overlay's,
 3. the exemplar reached it by `jal` — a call target is a function BY DEFINITION, which covers an
    external address neither sig claims (0x80171A1C from an md_* module, 112 rows).
Only a non-call reloc no oracle claims still falls to `D_`.

Result: BANKED 205 member-matches, failures 670 -> 575, derived net = report = 205.
R22 clean-fleet 213 passed / 0 failed of 213.
Fleet 94.4% instr / 88.3% distinct / 96.27 -> 96.33% fn-count; stubs 13,563 -> 13,345.

THE RESIDUE HAS CROSSED OVER: DIFF is now the LARGEST class at 143 of 575 — real byte divergence
outranks plumbing for the first time this session (undefined-ref 611 -> ~8, PLUMBING-other
231 -> 81). The ~5:1 plumbing:DIFF ratio that justified "tooling beats volume" has inverted in this
queue, exactly as the frontier analysis predicted: the declaration-axis vein was one-time.
The new head class is `conflicting types for func_80175414` (27) — the same addresses this fix
started naming correctly, now surfacing the NEXT layer (the symbol resolves; its declared signature
disagrees). That is the conform axis, not the remap axis.

Note for anyone auditing this class: rtu_match MASKS HI16/LO16, so a wrong %hi/%lo symbol still
reports MATCH (the T82 comment records `MATCH (10 ins)` on a member the fleet gate refused). This
defect is invisible to the per-function tool by construction — only the whole-binary gate sees it.
2026-08-11 14:02:38 -06:00
Drew T dbed0942b1 feat(phase-30 S47-A4): cdFileLocTable typedef alias banks 138 members; R22 213/213
The one-line fix committed ahead of this run (CdFileLoc_80128C98 aliasing CdFileLoc) cleared the
largest remaining propagation-sweep class. Re-sweep: 138 member-matches banked, failures 875 -> 737,
`conflicting types for cdFileLocTable` gone entirely (136 -> 0).

Derived net (138 INCLUDE_ASM removed, 0 re-added) equals the report's 138 — they agree.
R22 clean-fleet: check-all 213 passed / 0 failed of 213.
Fleet 94.2 -> 94.3% instr / 87.9 -> 88.1% distinct / 96.15 -> 96.21% fn-count; stubs 13,780.

Residue reclassified — no symbol dominates any more: 227 PLUMBING-other, 125 DIFF (real byte
divergence, 17%), 93 CC1-FAIL(no-diagnostic), 26 memcpy, then a tail of small data-symbol
conflicts (D_80114F24 12, D_800AE620 11, D_800183E0 9, D_80126B58 6, D_80078EB4 6).

CC1-FAIL rose 77 -> 93 and that is NOT a regression: members that previously died earlier on the
cdFileLocTable conflict now reach a different compile error. Those 93 are hard gcc errors whose
text the sweep's classifier discards because it greps for `error:`, which gcc-2.7.2 never emits on
hard errors. That classifier is now the highest-value instrument fix left — three times today a
no-diagnostic verdict concealed something cheap.
2026-08-10 20:59:06 -06:00
Drew T efec1b9b71 fix(phase-30 S47-A1): asm-label aliases must never be dropped by §8d; +148 members
scope_data_externs §8d drops the draft's decl of any symbol the TU already declares at file scope.
It keys on the SYMBOL, but a §37 asm-label ALIAS binds a DIFFERENT C identifier to that symbol:
the TU declares `D_801851BC`, it does NOT declare `tbl_D_80187044`. Dropping the alias left the
body referencing an undeclared name, which cc1 reports with no `error:` prefix — so the sweep
classified all 132 siblings as CC1-FAIL(no-diagnostic), i.e. as a codegen wall.

The bitter part: the alias exists PRECISELY BECAUSE the TU declares that symbol with a conflicting
type (a `void (*[])(void)` dispatch table vs this function's 20-byte-stride view). The drop rule
fired on exactly the declarations written to survive it. Why 1 of 2 died was fully determined:
tbl_D_80187048's symbol is not in the TU, so it demoted normally.

Fix: is_asm_alias() — an alias is demoted into the body, never dropped (the identifiers differ, so
it cannot collide with the TU's decl). Control-tested 6 ways incl. self-labels and plain externs.

Measured: func_80132018 3/135 -> 135/135; full re-sweep +16 more. Total +148 members.
R22 clean-fleet 213 passed / 0 failed of 213. tools-health OK, dedup-check 1949/0.
Fleet 96.11 -> 96.15% fn-count, 87.8 -> 87.9% distinct; stubs 14,120 -> 13,972 = -148 (2nd oracle).

CORRECTION TO MY OWN CLAIM (R14): after the probe I said the 58% aggregate was concealing a broad
problem. The re-sweep refuted it — only 16 more banks fleet-wide. The alias class really was one
family; the first read ("outlier") was right and the correction was wrong.

875 sweep failures classified: 231 PLUMBING-other, 141 DIFF (real divergence, only 16%),
136 `conflicting types for cdFileLocTable` (ONE symbol — biggest single class left),
77 CC1-FAIL(no-diagnostic), 26 memcpy, 12 D_80114F24, 11 D_800AE620, 9 D_800183E0.

STILL UNFIXED, and the most dangerous instrument left: the sweep's failure classifier greps for
`error:`, which gcc-2.7.2 never emits on hard errors. Every hard error therefore reads
CC1-FAIL(no-diagnostic). That is how a missing declaration looked like a codegen wall across 132
functions. rtu_match was fixed for this at T0(b); this classifier was not.
2026-08-10 18:50:48 -06:00
Drew T 9ab9120e04 feat(phase-30 S47-B): conform 8 declaration axes (~10,930 sites); 3 guard defects fixed; 213/213
Task B, re-scoped from evidence. The 129 dedup_extend failures are 106 conflicting-types /
21 CC1-FAIL / 4 undefined-ref / 3 DIFF — real byte divergence is 2%, and memcpy is 17 of 106,
not the story. Direction reversed too: the byte-true DEF of func_80128ED8 is what the target
.c files already declare; engine_core.h's macro-local extern was the stub-era guess.

Conformed 8 axes to byte-truth (func_8012F14C 2843, func_8012E5CC 2052, func_8012F038 2214,
func_8014C568 1816, func_80128ED8 1524, func_8012C750 406, func_8012C0EC 50, func_80144A04 25).
R22 clean-fleet: check-all 213 passed / 0 failed of 213. Zero functions banked by design.

Tooling (R33/R35) — three guards that asserted completeness over a narrowed population:
- NEW tools/macro_draft.py: a deduped fn has no definition in any .c (body lives in a DEFINE_
  macro), so conform_decls had been refusing the largest class it was built for.
- conform_decls skipped engine_core.h wholesale as "a defining TU": 10 stale externs survived
  while 1,514 fleet sites moved, and it still printed "axis complete". Skip now scoped to the
  defining macro's span.
- Return-axis compare was literal: typedef int/s32 and a missing `extern` faked a return change.
  Now compares normalized types.
- §85 consumer scan under-reported (the dangerous direction): a cast between `=` and the call
  hid `s0 = (s32 *)func_80144A04(...)`. Now classified by position, validated both ways.

Corrections to my own predictions (R14): the documented scalar-narrowing hazard was benign
across 2,052 sites; the breaks were arity (6 call sites, fixed with §17a-1 fn-ptr casts) and
the consumer-guard gap. A header-only first probe broke ov_SC01_000 — §85 is literal.

Not done, named: memcpy (builtin codegen), ApplyMatrixSV (no DEF), gte_SetRotMatrix (link bug),
func_80147364 (unparseable macro), D_800AE620/D_80126CC4 (data axis). Cookbook §159.
2026-08-10 16:01:49 -06:00
Drew T b005312127 feat(phase-30 S46-3): propagation banked — 29 fns / +2,815 member-instances; R22 213/213
The S45p9 blocker is closed, and the recovery loop that kept it from finishing is rewritten.

- BANKED: dedup_propagate --auto-from ov_SC02_037 --recover -> 29 functions propagated,
  141 overlays byte-identical, dedup 1920 -> 1949 groups, member instances 246,284 ->
  249,099 (+2,815). make clean && extract-all && check-all -> 213 passed / 0 failed (R22).
- WHY IT FINISHED THIS TIME: gate_all -> gate_failures returns EVERY failure from the sweep
  that already computed them, and the recovery loop resolves them all per round. Converged in
  3 rounds; the old one-overlay-per-sweep design needed ~138. That reframes the S45 run — it
  was not nearly done when it died, it had barely started.
- Batching did NOT cost capability: per-overlay necessity probes excluded four of the nine
  culprits from only the 9 overlays that needed it (not all 138), and ov_SC07_006 was
  RECOVERED by the Part-B caller-extern reconcile instead of excluded.
- Plan phase parallelised: 5 min -> 26 s, plan + skip classification byte-identical. Its
  compiles_standalone temp file is per-call now — the fixed `t.c` was the same fake-isolation
  class as match_one's shared --work dir (P28 T5), latent until something ran it in parallel.
- docs/accelerators.md (NEW, Drew 2026-08-07): the reusable-workflow ledger — what we learned
  late that a future decomp should know on day one, each entry with when we found it, when it
  WAS findable, what it cost, and the honest prerequisite where one exists.
2026-08-07 22:24:35 -06:00
Drew T 9f61cd33c5 feat(phase-30 S6): BOTH GIANT WALLS CRACKED ×138 (+50,094 ins) — the verdicts were stale, not wrong
The two functions the roadmap has carried as PERMANENT WALLS since Phase 24 are matched in all 138
overlays. Neither needed a siege. Both matched from drafts ALREADY ON DISK.

  func_80178004  165 ins x 138 = 22,770   Phase 26: Fable5, ~477k tokens, "intrinsic 3-integer
                                          regalloc wall". THREE stored drafts report match_one
                                          MATCH today; one banked first try, no new work.
  func_801412A8  198 ins x 138 = 27,324   close=29/110 since Phase 24. Matched from 1 of 31 stored
                                          drafts + the §37/§124 alias.

WHY func_801412A8 LOOKED INTRINSIC (worth understanding — match_one is structurally blind to it):
the TU declares `extern int func_801412A8(int,int,int,int,int,int)` and its callers USE the return
(`param_1 = func_801412A8(...)`), while the byte-true definition is
`Prim_1412A8 *(Prim_1412A8 *, int, int, int, u16, u16)`. Narrow params cannot agree with an `int`
prototype and the no-prototype escape is illegal once a param promotes, so NEITHER side can move --
and the resulting byte difference is in the CALLERS, which match_one never compiles. The §37/§124
def-side asm-label alias decouples them: the TU decl keeps governing the call sites (codegen
untouched), the definition keeps its byte-true signature.

THEN PROPAGATION RETURNED 0/137 TWICE, both times a missing TYPE, not codegen:
  family_remap's `_carry_macros` carries file-scope #defines but (a) NOT typedefs, and (b) is NOT
  TRANSITIVE -- it brought addPrim_1412A8 and stopped, though that macro calls setaddr/getaddr and
  getaddr casts to PTag_1412A8. Lifted Env_1412A8 / PTag_1412A8 / Prim_1412A8 + OT/getaddr/setaddr
  into src/shared/engine_types.h (inside the include guard) -> 137/137, 0 failed.

MY ERROR, CAUGHT BY THE GATE: I lifted the typedefs but did not STRIP them from ov_SC01_077.c, so
they were declared twice and gcc-2.7.2 rejects a repeated typedef even when identical -- the lesson
already recorded at the foot of engine_types.h. R22 came back 139/140 with [FAIL] ov_SC01_077 (the
exemplar's own overlay). Stripped, re-verified, 140/140. A proper lift strips the source;
build_engine_types --strip does both and I did it by hand.

Also a measurement error worth recording: I checked whether the draft defined Prim_1412A8 with a
plain `grep -c` -- which matches inside `addPrim_1412A8` -- and briefly concluded the carry worked.
Substring false positive; the same shape as reading a `return` as a declaration.

VERIFIED: make clean && make extract-all && make check-all -> 140 passed, 0 failed of 140.
Fleet 12432941 -> 12483035 instr (+50,094 -- EXACTLY the two giants x138); fn-count +276;
instr-weighted 94.5% -> 94.8%. audit-digest OK. 0 NON_MATCHING (G4).

THE RULE THIS BUYS: re-measure a wall before respecting it, and SCAN every stored draft rather than
sampling (my first pass checked 8 of 31 and reported "closeness 40" for a function whose MATCH was
in the 9th). Four minutes of re-measurement was worth 50,094 instructions.
2026-08-05 12:51:06 -06:00
Drew T 7604e294f2 feat(phase-30 S39): propagate free h_exact class 0x80188f90 (8 ins x 1) - R22 140/140 2026-08-05 00:25:22 -06:00
Drew T 638f97dbbb feat(phase-30 S39): propagate free h_exact class 0x80176144 (53 ins x 1) - R22 140/140 2026-08-05 00:09:28 -06:00
Drew T c3bf1c988d feat(phase-30 S39): func_801758FC propagated x137 (+7,535 ins) — the largest free h_exact class
Measured the h_exact free pool from the bytes rather than trusting the frontier report's
numbers (R14 — its whale claim was 3/4 wrong: it said the whale was open in all four SC07
overlays; three were already banked and I closed the fourth earlier this session).

MEASURED: 215 open function-instances / 8,763 instructions are byte-identical (h_exact,
including reloc payloads) to an already-matched function. ONE class is 86% of that pool:

  func_801758FC — 55 ins, same address in all 138 overlays, matched in ov_SC01_000 only,
  OPEN in the other 137  =>  7,535 instructions.

h_exact means identical INCLUDING jal/lui/%lo reloc immediates, so the matched body compiles
byte-identically at every member with NO remap (dedup_extend's correctness argument, §14).
dedup_propagate --addr authored it once as DEFINE_func_801758FC() in engine_core.h and
instantiated it at all 137 open sites in address order.

  [ OK ] 138 overlays byte-identical after propagation; 1 new group in config/dedup.us.yaml

VERIFIED: make clean && make extract-all && make check-all -> 140 passed, 0 failed of 140.
Fleet instr 12411467 -> 12419002 = +7,535 EXACTLY; fn-count +137; instr-weighted crosses to
94.5%. distinct-code unchanged BY DESIGN -- the class was already matched in ov_SC01_000, so
the 137 add fleet instructions but no new DISTINCT function. audit-digest OK. 0 NON_MATCHING.

Note this function had been sitting in the stored-draft backlog for ov_SC06_030 and
ov_SC07_010 and re-gated "no" earlier tonight -- because gating a DRAFT is the wrong move for
an h_exact class. The right move is propagating the already-MATCHED body. Same function, two
routes, and only one of them is free.

Remaining free pool after this: 78 instances / 1,228 ins across 32 classes.
2026-08-04 23:56:15 -06:00
Drew T 936cd07b58 feat(phase-30 S38/S1d): generalised alias harvest — R22 140/140, but distinct-code DROPPED (unexplained)
Applied the def-side asm-label alias transform to all 971 staged member drafts (of 997; the rest
had no func_<ADDR> definition head) and gated them: 192 source files changed, ~5,985 insertions.
R22 clean-fleet 140/140 AFTER reverting ov_SC06_030 (below).

METRICS, AS MEASURED — one of them moved the WRONG WAY and I cannot yet explain it:
    fn-count      96.32% -> 96.46%   (+483 fns)
    instr-weighted 94.4% ->  94.4%   (+2,990 ins)
    distinct-code  89.3% ->  89.2%   (78,025 -> 77,952 uniq, -73)
A revert of ONE overlay to HEAD cannot lose 73 distinct functions, so something else is going on.
LEAD (NOT CONFIRMED): progress.py's definition scanner records the identifier immediately before the
paren (SIG at tools/progress.py:423), so an alias definition `void aF80146A6C(...)` is recorded as
`aF80146A6C`, not as func_80146A6C. That same scanner's docstring documents this exact blindness for
K&R defs, where it "silently erased ~190k banked instructions". BUT that lead does not explain why
fn-count ROSE while distinct-code FELL — they should move together under a pure naming artifact.
DO NOT treat the alias harvest's yield as established until this is resolved: the bytes are proven
(R22), the ACCOUNTING is not.

ov_SC06_030 REVERTED: `D_800AF648' undeclared in func_8017E120 — a draft that gated fine broke once
the REST of the harvest landed in the same TU (its declaration presumably displaced by another
banked draft's preamble). SECOND instance today of "per-binary acceptance is not a fleet claim"
(§61), after ov_SC07_010. In a WIDE harvest it is not even a per-TU claim, and only the clean-tree
R22 catches it. The narrow single-family run (138/138) was clean precisely because it was narrow.
2026-08-04 21:13:19 -06:00
Drew T a5e97739fb feat(phase-30 S38/S1d): the def-side asm-label alias cracks the 208-conflict class — 138/138 banked
Family 0x80146ab4 (18 ins, x138, PURE) had been failing 0/138 with `conflicting types for
func_80146A6C` — 208 of the ~398 conflicts in the sweep residue, its single dominant blocker.

DIAGNOSED BY READING THE DRAFT, after three levers were eliminated by measurement:
    draft def : void func_80146A6C(s16 a0, s32 a1, s16 a2, s16 a3, u16 a4, s32 a5, s32 a6)
    TU decl   : extern s32 func_80146A6C(s32 a0, void *a1, s32 a2, s32 a3, s32 a4, s32 a5, s32 a6);
The NARROW PARAMS are the wall: C's default argument promotion means s16/u16 cannot agree with an
s32 prototype, and the `()` no-prototype escape is ILLEGAL precisely when a param promotes. Neither
declaration side can move.
  - cast_call_sites: already on by default; wrong axis (fixes CALLEE decls, not the def's own).
  - --normalize-self-decls: 0 banks + non-neutral reverts; wrong axis (the target's decl in callers).
  - --fix-def-sig: measured 0/138, error UNCHANGED — it cannot reconcile a promoting param at all.

THE ESCAPE (§37/§124, S33-proven on func_80147364 — definition (u16,u16) vs 4,046 fleet decls,
banked x137 first try; 1,725 in-tree precedents): give the DEFINITION a private C identifier and
bind the emitted symbol with a GNU asm label, so the TU's declaration never meets the definition and
its type becomes irrelevant. Zero blast radius on every caller; byte-neutral by construction.

    void aF80146A6C(<byte-true params>) __asm__("func_80146A6C");
    void aF80146A6C(<byte-true params>) { ... }

RESULT: 138/138 banked, ~2,484 instructions, ZERO agent tokens. R22 clean-fleet 140/140.
.run/alias_defs.py applies the transform to a staged draft set.

NEXT: this is a CLASS lever, not a one-family fix — generalise it across the remaining sweep residue.
2026-08-04 20:43:14 -06:00
Drew T b410df3517 feat(phase-30 S38/S2): jr-family sweep — func_80183AE0 x3 sibling slots
jtbl_family_bank (the §53 carve path; family_sweep --hseq refuses has_mid_jr families
BY DESIGN — a 0% from the carve-less tool is an artifact, not a wall). Each sibling
individually byte-gated: carve -> extract -> remap -> whole-binary build, kept iff
byte-identical else reverted. Committed per family because jtbl_family_bank requires a
clean tree between families. R22 clean-fleet runs once over the batch.
2026-08-04 19:40:33 -06:00
Drew T 2ab4aa3571 feat(phase-30 S38/S2): jr-family sweep — func_80181CE4 x3 sibling slots
jtbl_family_bank (the §53 carve path; family_sweep --hseq refuses has_mid_jr families
BY DESIGN — a 0% from the carve-less tool is an artifact, not a wall). Each sibling
individually byte-gated: carve -> extract -> remap -> whole-binary build, kept iff
byte-identical else reverted. Committed per family because jtbl_family_bank requires a
clean tree between families. R22 clean-fleet runs once over the batch.
2026-08-04 19:33:14 -06:00
Drew T be2eaa1842 feat(phase-30 S38/S1c): re-sweep the matched-exemplar families after the type lift — 97 members banked
Families that returned 0/N before the 895-type lift now bank: 97 member-matches across 137 families
(1,138 failed; skipped 186 STRUCT-class by design, 106 unresolved-immediate, 6 not-stub).
R22 clean-fleet 140/140. Fleet 94.2 -> 94.3% instr / 88.9 -> 89.1% distinct / 96.29 -> 96.32% fn.

RESIDUE PRICED FROM THE SWEEP'S OWN .classified.txt PAYLOADS, not inferred: in the 400 most recent
failure records, 133 are genuine DIFF and the clear majority are `conflicting types for <sym>` —
the §103/§20 extern-conflict class, across ~12 overlays. That confirms S1b (wire reconcile_tu /
cast_call_sites into the --hseq path) is the correct next lever, and it is now justified by
measurement rather than by the plan's projection.

Method note worth keeping: those per-member diagnoses have been written on every sweep run for a
month and were never read — including by me, until after I had spent two probes and a manual
--stage-only round rediscovering one of them. Every remaining task now starts by reading the payload.
2026-08-04 19:04:56 -06:00
Drew T c57860db4e feat(phase-30 S38/S1a): lift 895 local types to engine_types.h — kills the type-scope sweep class
The free-sweep "wall" was a C parse error: a remapped member body names the EXEMPLAR's TU-local
types, which are undeclared in the sibling's TU, so gcc-2.7.2 parses the declarator as an expression
and dies before ever reaching codegen. extract_unit does carry typedefs, but only ones immediately
preceding the function in the preamble — types declared elsewhere in the exemplar's TU are missed.

Rather than patch the scanner per-family, remove the class: lift every liftable local type into the
shared header once. 895 types lifted, 6,196 local definitions stripped across 1,259 files.
R22 clean-fleet 140/140.

EXCLUDED s8/s16/s32/u8/u16/u32/f32/s64/u64/f64 — lift_types classified those common.h scalars as
liftable and lifting them would have been actively harmful. The tool's own visibility guard kept 8
local defs in src/ov_SC01_077/ov_SC01_077_o0.c, which does not include engine_types.h (stripping a
type out of a TU that cannot see the replacement DELETES it, and the link error that follows names
an unrelated data symbol).

Mechanism proven before scaling: lifting just 3 types took 0x801833f0's family from 0/6 to 6/6.
2026-08-04 18:46:30 -06:00
Drew T cbf0bce26c feat(phase-30 S35): wave 3 banks 13/13 — the flywheel paid off one wave later
Fleet 96.24 -> 96.25% fn-count / 94.0% instr / 88.4 -> 88.5% distinct.
R22 clean-fleet: 140 passed, 0 failed of 140. dedup 1910/0.

13 targets / 17,644 templatable ins. 14 agents, 2.7M tokens. Claimed 13/13;
the whole-binary gate banked 12, the 13th on reconcile (another §37/§124
SELF-axis alias — the TU declares `(void)`, the def takes an s32). Reconcile
lane 20/21 lifetime. Sweep: +21 members / 0 failed across 16 overlays.

THE FLYWHEEL, MEASURED ACROSS THREE WAVES (same models, same gate):
  wave 1  baseline prompt              15/17 claimed -> 13 banked (76%)
  wave 2  + the S33 rules              11/13         -> 10        (77%)
  wave 3  + S34 magic-grep as STEP 0   13/13         -> 13       (100%)
Multiple wave-3 agents report the cross-overlay magic-literal grep landing the
answer on the FIRST search. One found a banked twin whose own header comment
already documented it as byte-identical to the new target, so the body
transferred verbatim with only file-local type suffixes renamed. That is the
wave-2 discovery paying off one wave later (R16).

Sweep quality also differed for a reason worth keeping: 21/21 here vs 18/165 in
wave 2. Wave 2's two big families are the per-location kind I then probed and
ruled out (BUILD OK + byte diff = genuine per-member codegen, not plumbing);
wave 3's are genuinely templatable. The sweep rate is a property of the FAMILY,
not of the wave.

TOOLING: an agent left 8 scratch files (test_licm*.c) in the drafts dir and the
gate driver died on `int('full', 16)`, taking the whole gate with it. Hardened to
treat a non-conforming filename as a NAMED, COUNTED skip rather than a crash
(R32) — a drafts dir is agent-writable by design, so it must not be trusted to
contain only deliverables.
2026-08-04 09:42:58 -06:00
Drew T 7a4abddbfa feat(phase-30 S34): wave 2 — 10 heads + 18 members; the search order had a cross-overlay hole
Fleet 96.24% fn-count / 93.9 -> 94.0% instr / 88.4% distinct. R22 clean-fleet:
140 passed, 0 failed of 140. dedup 1910/0.

WAVE 2: 13 targets / 37,943 templatable ins. 19 agents, 4.5M tokens. Claimed 11
MATCH; the whole-binary gate banked 9, +1 on reconcile (func_8017E5D0 via the
§37/§124 DEFINITION-side alias — the TU declares it `(void)`, the byte-true def
takes a pointer). Reconcile lane now 19/20 lifetime. 18 members swept.

THE FINDING (an agent caught a hole in our own procedure). §136c's search order
— engine_core.h near-twin -> same-TU banked sibling -> the .s — is entirely
SAME-TU or SHARED-HEADER scoped, so no step can reach a banked twin in a
DIFFERENT overlay's TU. But the large template classes live cross-overlay by
construction. func_80188C04 (328 ins) turned out byte-identical to an
already-banked func_801833F0 in ov_SC02_028, and ONE command found it:
`grep -rn "E100000A" src/` — a magic word lifted from the target .s. The body was
then reused verbatim, only file-local suffixes renamed. Promoted to STEP 0 of
§136c, ahead of engine_core.h.

That compounds with the manifest finding this session: the family map's
`exemplar` is an IN-FAMILY pointer, so a family whose twin is banked elsewhere
looks un-cracked — and the pointer can itself name an ALREADY-BANKED instance,
hiding the family from any ranking built on it. Derive open sites from
corpus.stubs over the member list instead. Measured on this wave: ranking off the
map's exemplar gave 16,696 templatable ins; deriving from corpus.stubs gave
41,023, including a 55-ins family open in 138 overlays and a 46-ins one in 133.

HONEST ON THE SWEEP: those two big families templated 18/165. That is the known
h_seq refusal ceiling, not a new wall. One agent reported "all 10 members
distance 0" — that is NORMALIZED distance, not h_exact, which is why
dedup_propagate correctly answered reach<2. Do not read a normalized-distance
claim as an h_exact guarantee.

LEDGERED (real residual, not paperwork): func_8017F7B4 — needed its sibling's
type names AND a data asm-label alias for a u8-shaped symbol, and still refuses.
Plus func_8017C294 (DIFF close=12: 4 register/schedule permutations + a frame
where I can get the 0x138 size OR pEnd's slot at 0x108, not both) and
func_801898E4.
2026-08-04 07:14:28 -06:00
Drew T 0bdc7f44a0 feat(phase-30 S33d): Sonnet wave — 13 heads + 65 members banked (78 instances)
Fleet 96.21 -> 96.23% fn-count / 93.8 -> 93.9% instr / 88.0 -> 88.3% distinct
(+73 unique fns). R22 clean-fleet: 140 passed, 0 failed of 140. dedup 1910/0.

THE WAVE. Re-ran S10's 17 unbanked targets (26,227 templatable ins) at LOW
concurrency in two batches of ~9 — S10's finding was that 14 of 30 agents were
SERVER-throttled, i.e. the limiter is capacity, not capability. Targets
re-derived against corpus.stubs first (R35): all 17 still live, paths verified.
25 agents, 6.87M tokens, ~2.8h. Claimed 15 MATCH; the whole-binary gate — the
sole arbiter (G3/P9) — banked 13, then family_sweep propagated 65 members across
38 overlays.

HEADLINE: func_8017D174 (793 ins) — the largest single crack of this phase. Its
agent closed two compiler-internal residuals jointly: a §137 allocno-priority tie
between &g.sz0/&g.sz1 (R=7, L=607 vs 606 -> 230/231) that spilled the wrong one
and cost a load-delay nop in BOTH switch arms, and a sched2 rotation in the
outer-loop head block that survived 470+ statement orderings. Fix was four
zero-byte asms: two `"=r"/"0"` re-ties splitting wz's live range, plus two
volatile sliders placed in a DIFFERENT basic block so they lift the live-length
count without perturbing the head schedule.

THE 4 NON-BANKS SPLIT CLEANLY (§136b — none is a wall on one attempt):
 - func_8017E2EC (close=20) and func_80186E24 (close=187): honest DIFF verdicts,
   real codegen residuals, ledger material.
 - func_8017D318 and func_80181EE0: claimed MATCH, gate refused -> the known
   match_one->gate gap, which is DECLARATION plumbing (agents cannot run the
   gate, so a TU-level conflict is invisible to them). Routed to the reconcile
   lane, not retired.

AGENT-REPORTED INDEX GAPS worth acting on (the flywheel closing on itself):
 - no symptom key for "schedule rotation at a loop-head block that NO statement
   permutation reaches" — the index's nearest line points at §76 regalloc, and
   the decisive doc was gcc-2.7.2-map/sched.md, which no scheduling symptom
   cross-references.
 - §137 is written as a two-compile arithmetic on ONE contender pair; the real
   fix here was an N-zero-byte-insn budget that ties only for N in {1,3,4} and
   splits the WRONG way for N=2, so a naive "add one slider, add another" walk
   silently regresses.
 - no key for "gcc hoists a loop-invariant SYMBOL_REF base out of a loop the
   target keeps in the `sym(reg)` macro form" (~105 of func_80186E24's 187).
2026-08-04 03:27:54 -06:00
Drew T b497ee1649 feat(phase-30 S33c): PROPAGATE head COMPLETE — func_801466F0 x137 took three fixes + a type-lift
Fleet 96.17 -> 96.21% fn-count / 93.8% instr / 88.0% distinct; dedup 1909 -> 1910
groups, 0 failed, C1 241216/241216. R22 clean-fleet: 140 passed, 0 failed of 140.

The head is now 5/5 classes, 18,545 templatable ins, all banked this session from
a standing start of 0.

func_801466F0 had sat since S6b behind THREE separate blockers, each of which
looked sufficient on its own to explain the failure:
 1. Its definition is under a §37/§73 ASM-LABEL ALIAS (`aF801466F0` in C, bound to
    the real symbol by `__asm__`), and dedup_propagate.find_site anchored its head
    regex on the literal `func_<ADDR>` — structurally blind to the form, returning
    None, which every caller reads as "not matched". Now reuses
    family_remap._alias_decl_for rather than growing a second matcher (R33).
 2. That matcher was itself blind to the WRAPPED (multi-line) declaration — the
    §134 shape, third tool. Fixed by matching over the joined text and mapping the
    offset back to the decl's FIRST line (extract_unit carries from there).
    Regression control: the single-line form still resolves. Fleet census after:
    2,768 of 2,768 alias sites resolve, 0 missed.
 3. Its record type was a draft-local typedef, so the body failed
    compiles_standalone. Lifted Rec801466F0 to src/shared/engine_types.h INSIDE
    the include guard (the SESSION-19 double-include note) and switched both the
    macro and the exemplar to it — byte-neutral, gate-proven.

Probed on ONE member before the fleet run: byte-identical 9052dc0e first try.

MEASURED, NOT INHERITED (R37): the S6b note frames the alias-regex gap as a CLASS
of missed work. It is ONE function — 91 distinct alias decls fleet-wide, the
per-line matcher resolved 90. Recording it so a future session does not scope a
phase against a class that does not exist.

cookbook §138 extended with the alias-form tool boundary and the three-blocker
story; index regenerated.
2026-08-04 00:44:33 -06:00
Drew T 4f6b0e8de1 feat(phase-30 S33b): PROPAGATE head 82% banked — 15,257 of 18,545 ins, four levers
Fleet 96.10 -> 96.17% fn-count / 93.7 -> 93.8% instr / 88.0% distinct.
dedup 1908 -> 1909 groups, 0 failed, C1 241078/241078.
R22 clean-fleet: 140 passed, 0 failed of 140.

  func_80147364  4,110  x137  definition-side asm-label alias
  func_8016BA68  3,886  x134  dedup_extend + the MIRROR decl relax
  func_8012F274  3,973  x136  hand-authored macro, source overlay excluded
  func_8012A598  3,288  x138  cdecl._mask backscan fix + shared-type switch
  func_801466F0  3,288  OPEN  the wrapped-alias regex — measured as ONE function

THREE DISTINCT CARRY VARIANTS were hiding in one "CARRY-FIXABLE" bucket, and
only one is a tool bug (-> cookbook §138):
  - a MULTI-LINE comment halts the preamble backscan -> fix the tool (cdecl._mask)
  - a draft-local `struct Tag {…}` -> switch the exemplar to the SHARED type
  - a file-scope `static inline` helper -> hand-author, EXCLUDE the source overlay
The third is the sneakiest: gcc-2.7.2 accepts implicit function declarations, so
the extracted body PASSED compiles_standalone with the helper undeclared and the
miss surfaced only as a whole-binary byte DIFF 137 gates later. Instantiating
that macro in the SOURCE overlay is a duplicate definition (its file-scope helper
is still there), so the shape is `--source-overlay X --binaries <all-but-X>`;
`--binaries` alone removes the source from the scan pool and errors.

TOOL BOUNDARY: once a group's members are DEFINE_func_*() sites, dedup_propagate
cannot extend it (find_site never returns a `def`). dedup_extend is the tool for
an already-macro-ized group — and `dedup_extend --check-only` across ordinary
overlays is a cheap fleet-wide wiring census (measured: exactly 1 group per
overlay, so no hidden backlog).

MEASURED, NOT INHERITED (R37): the S6b note frames _alias_decl_for's single-line
regex as a CLASS of missed work. It is not — 91 asm-label alias decls exist
fleet-wide, the regex matches 90, and the single miss is func_801466F0. Worth
3,288 ins, but a one-function fix. Correcting the expectation so a future session
does not scope against it.
2026-08-04 00:30:56 -06:00
Drew T 62042f65ca fix(phase-30 S11): multi-line-comment blindness in dedup_propagate; func_8012A598 x138
Fleet 96.06 -> 96.10% fn-count / 93.7% instr / 88.0% distinct; dedup 1907 -> 1908
groups, 0 failed, C1 240807/240807. R22 clean-fleet: 140 passed, 0 failed of 140.

func_8012A598 (3,288 templatable ins) was being written off as CARRY-FIXABLE.
It took TWO fixes; either alone leaves it skipped.

1. TOOL (R33) — find_site's preamble backscan. The SESSION-18 fix handled blank,
   `//`, and SINGLE-LINE `/* … */` lines, but a MULTI-LINE block comment still
   halted the walk: its middle lines start with `*` and its last line ends `*/`
   without starting `/*`. So the three externs above the body were dropped and
   the body then failed compiles_standalone on now-undeclared data. This is the
   §134 multi-line-blindness class — S6b fixed the identical shape three times in
   family_remap (D1/D2/D5) and this copy was never reached.

   Fixed by deciding skippability on `cdecl._mask` — the project's ONE masking
   oracle — instead of on line syntax: it subsumes every comment form at once and
   cannot be fooled by a `/*` inside a string, with an R32 assertion on the
   length-preservation invariant it rests on. Strictly monotone (it can only
   carry MORE preamble), and dedup_propagate is a byte-gate feeder, so a bug here
   can fail to bank but never falsely bank.

2. EXEMPLAR — the body also declared a draft-local `struct BigCopy164` tag, which
   the tool refuses by design (two macros defining one tag would redefine it in a
   single TU). The shared `struct BigCopy` (engine_types.h L312) is the identical
   layout and is ALREADY used this exact way at engine_core.h:16158, so switching
   the exemplar to it is byte-neutral and drops the alias too.

Probed on ONE member before scaling (R37/S29): byte-identical 9052dc0e first try;
then 138 overlays byte-identical.

PROPAGATE head accounting after this: 7,398 of 18,545 ins banked (func_80147364
4,110 + func_8012A598 3,288). Still open, each with a NAMED cause and none yet
diagnosed against a build: func_8012f274 (3,973, dropped), func_8016ba68 (3,886,
4/138), func_801466f0 (3,288, the S6b D4 wrapped-alias gap).
2026-08-03 23:53:50 -06:00
Drew T c7ad41c8a3 feat(phase-30 T6/S11): the propagation lag — EXTEND 31/36, and the PROPAGATE head measured
Continues the S11 lane. Fleet 96.01 -> 96.06% fn-count / 93.6 -> 93.7% instr /
88.0% distinct; dedup 1905 -> 1907 groups, 0 failed, C1 240669/240669.
R22 clean-fleet: 140 passed, 0 failed of 140. 0 NON_MATCHING (G4).

EXTEND (SC07): the 16 volatile-blocked DIFF slots banked on retry after the
data asm-label alias -> lane total 31/36.

PROPAGATE head, measured rather than projected. .run/s8_lag.json re-split: the
checkpoint's "45 classes / 20,837 ins" is really 5 classes carrying 18,545 ins
(89%) and 41 carrying 2,316. Per-class outcome:

  func_80147364  30x137 = 4,110  BANKED x137 (definition-side asm-label alias)
  func_8012f274  29x137 = 3,973  DROPPED — byte-diverges in ~130 overlays
  func_8016ba68  29x134 = 3,886  4 of 138 banked; excluded from ~130
  func_8012a598  24x137 = 3,288  SKIPPED, cause NAMED by the tool
  func_801466f0  24x137 = 3,288  no source found — the S6b D4 gap, still open

  func_80147364's byte-true definition is `(u16, u16)` while 4,046 fleet decls
  say `(u16, s32)`. u16 is a default-promotion type, so the `()` no-prototype
  escape is ILLEGAL (the documented gcc-2.7.2 dead-end) and conforming the decl
  would change caller codegen. The DEFINITION-SIDE asm-label alias gives the def
  a distinct C identifier while emitting the real symbol -- zero blast radius on
  every caller. Probed on ONE member first (1 build, not 137 -- the S29
  discipline): byte-identical 9052dc0e first try; then 137 overlays clean.
  In-tree precedent for the form: 1,725 files.

MEASURED NEGATIVE, recorded not buried: `dedup_propagate --recover` banked only
4 of 138 on func_8016ba68 and dropped func_8012f274 entirely (137 [exclude]
lines). The caller-extern reconcile that is 16/16 lifetime ON DRAFTS does NOT
transfer to PROPAGATION of these two. Cause not yet diagnosed -- probe one
excluded overlay's build output before any further attempt (§136a), do not
re-run the lever hoping.

NAMED NEXT (cheapest first): func_8012a598 skips on `missing file-scope extern
(CARRY-FIXABLE): D_801151D4, D_80126DB8_a, D_80127504` -- the SESSION-18
preamble-backscan class. Its body is 2 statements and `struct BigCopy` is
ALREADY in the shared engine_types.h (L312) with the identical statement already
macro-ized at engine_core.h:16158, so a hand-authored macro (the func_80147364
path) should take it x137 for ~0 tokens.

Process errors recorded in CURRENT_PHASE.md, all three one mechanism -- the
signal sampled is not the thing waited for: (1) a `nohup CMD &` wrapper's exit
read as the fleet check finishing (it stood at 63/140); (2) a corpus.stubs probe
mid-rebuild, which R32's coverage assertion refused rather than answer wrongly;
(3) CORRECTION to the S10 checkpoint's own rule -- `pgrep -x make` is right for
one make and WRONG for a campaign of sequential makes (it fired in a gap and
reported a live campaign done), and `pgrep -f <pattern>` SELF-MATCHES so that
waiter can never exit. Wait on the campaign process or `treelock.sh --status`.
2026-08-03 23:41:34 -06:00
Drew T 1859266d60 feat(phase-30 S10): Sonnet wave — 13 heads + 57 members; the §136i ~120 boundary is too LOW
- DREW'S CALL (2026-08-03): route the 30-target x2-9 wave to SONNET instead of Opus. The §136i
  >=120-ins Opus threshold was MY EXTRAPOLATION, never measured; this wave (125-793 ins) probes
  exactly the region where there was no data.
- RESULT: 13 banked of 16 that ran = **81%**, vs Opus's 10/13 = 77% on the comparable S8-3 slice.
  At least 8 banked SONNET-DIRECT (65 agents spawned: 60 sonnet, 5 opus escalations). Propagated
  57 member-matches / 4 failed across 42 overlays. 70 instances. R22 clean-fleet 140/140.
  FLEET 96.01% fn / 93.6% instr / 88.0% distinct (77,550 uniq).
  => **Sonnet is at least as capable as Opus on 125-793 ins. The ~120 boundary is too low.**
  NOT rewriting it to a specific number yet: 16 samples under a throttle confound cannot name a
  cliff. The controlled A/B (task #12) is how that number gets fixed properly.
- THE REAL LIMITER IS CAPACITY, NOT CAPABILITY: 14 of 30 agents were killed by SERVER-side
  throttling ("Server is temporarily limiting requests (not your usage limit)") that 30 concurrent
  Opus agents did not trigger. Practical rule: run Sonnet waves at ~12-16 concurrency, not 30.
  The 14 unrun targets are listed in the checkpoint for a smaller-batch retry.
- Sonnet's work quality was not shallow — three examples: func_8018797C read local-alloc.c and
  forced loads into an AGGREGATE to stop find_free_reg greedily taking 3 callee-saved regs;
  func_8018D870 used §136c sibling-first for ~70% of the body then blocked a coalesce with a pin;
  func_8017E3AC diagnosed an RC-3 callee-saved-order swap and noted the pin must be s32 or a stray
  `andi 0xffff` appears.
- MY ERROR, RECORDED: `until [ -s <output> ]` fires at the FIRST LINE of output, not at completion.
  It fired mid-propagation and I ran `make clean` on top of a live family_sweep, deleting asm/ and
  aborting both the regen and the sweep (corpus's R32 assertion refused to answer rather than return
  a wrong stub set — working as designed). No bad bytes: R22 verified 140/140 immediately after, and
  the propagation simply re-ran clean. Correct waiter is `pgrep -x make` (exact process name), which
  also cannot self-match the way `pgrep -f <pattern>` did when it leaked 4 waiter shells earlier.
  Third instance today of ONE root cause: trusting a proxy instead of the thing itself (a weight
  column vs a probe §136h; an exit status vs build output §136a; file-existence vs process exit).
2026-08-03 22:27:19 -06:00
Drew T cf10d28459 feat(phase-30 S9): x2-9 calibration wave — 22/25 banked + 67 members; the grind rate is MEASURED
- CALIBRATION (25 stratified targets: 12 head-by-weight + 13 sampled across the band, so the
  measurement captures the DECAY, not just the head): 28 agents -> 22 claimed -> gate BANKED 22/25
  (88%) -> propagated 67 member-matches / 13 failed across 38 overlays. 89 instances.
  **22,937 templatable instructions banked in one wave.**
    HEAD  9/12 -> 19,492 of 28,584 templ ins
    BODY 13/13 ->  3,445 of  3,445 templ ins   (the small ones are EASY; all 3 misses were 611-793 ins)
- FIRST SONNET DATA (§136i ladder's new middle rung): **Sonnet 6/6 · Haiku 6/6 · Opus 10/13.**
  The two cheap tiers went 12/12 and Opus absorbed every hard failure — consistent with correct
  size-routing rather than luck. Small n; the controlled A/B stays parked (task #12).
- THE PROJECTION for the >=95% instr bar (Drew's decision input): 411 of 1,872 families cover the
  212,594-instruction gap = ~19 waves optimistic, 20-30 realistic. Mean templ ins/family decays
  1,844 (top-25) -> 1,046 (top-100) -> 525 (top-400) -> 193 (band-wide), so early waves look like
  this one and later ones bank MORE functions for FEWER instructions.
- DECISION (Drew): NO phase close — keep grinding. Campaign tracked as task #15.
- Carried failures -> next lanes: func_8017D174 (793 ins, closeness 5 after ~90 variants; diagnosed
  a backward-scheduler priority race -> permuter, correctly NOT ledgered a wall), func_80186E24
  (611 ins, 133 of 139 diffs pure register numbers -> a natural §137 test), func_8017E2EC.
- §136c sibling-first paid again: func_8017DF84 (766 ins) MATCHED because a banked byte-matched twin
  existed in the same TU; its 697 index-diffs traced to ONE root cause (a bare 0xFFFFFF literal that
  loop.c hoisted to the OUTER preheader, stealing $s3) — closed by binding it to a local declared as
  the FIRST statement of the inner loop body. Verified via rtu_match (real-TU), not just match_one.
2026-08-03 19:06:02 -06:00
Drew T a4bc49a23d feat(phase-30 S8): the x10-99 band closes 23/23; §137 makes REGALLOC-PERM arithmetic, not a permuter job
- S8-3 (23 fresh x10-99 families, 121-328 ins — the hardest band this session): draft 16/23 ->
  capture (1 PLUMBING / 6 DIFF) -> reconcile 1/1 -> redraft 6/6 => **23/23 (100%)**.
  Propagated 206 + 81 = 287 member-matches across 80+54 overlays. R22 clean-fleet 140/140.
  FLEET 95.97% fn / 93.4% instr / 87.5% distinct (77,404 uniq); dedup 1905/0; 0 NON_MATCHING.
- §136b CLOSES AT 15/15 — no function ledgered "genuine byte-DIFF" survived a redraft, all session.
- §137 (NEW, the session's most reusable result): REGALLOC-PERM — a clean 2-register swap — is a
  TWO-COMPILE ARITHMETIC PROBLEM. global.c:allocno_compare ranks by floor_log2(R)*R/L*1e4*size;
  read R and L out of `cc1 -dl -dg` for BOTH contenders AND their ranked neighbours to get the
  admissible priority WINDOW, then place a zero-byte `__asm__ __volatile__("" ::"r"(v))` so L lands
  inside it. func_801833F0: contenders ONE unit apart (1297 vs 1296), window (1228,1296), five
  placements probed, only L=219 -> pri 1232 worked. R and L are FORCED BY THE EMITTED CODE (L is
  recomputed post-sched1), which is exactly why source-reordering is a dead end for this class.
  Converts a class the permuter banked 0 from all session into a deterministic calculation.
  Companion: floor_log2 makes ref-count a STEP function (5/6/7 refs are worthless, you must reach 8)
  — func_8017EFA8 closed 30 register-name mismatches by taking a pseudo 4 refs -> 8 with a dead read.
- §136j — the failure MIX FLIPS WITH SIZE: <=120 ins fails ~70% on declarations; 121-328 ins fails
  86% on genuine codegen. Budget reconcile for the small band, redraft for the big one — and do NOT
  read 70% on a big-function wave as a broken pipeline; that is the expected shape.
- §137a — a gate verdict has a TIMESTAMP. Two "DIFF" ledger entries were STALE (draft rewritten 28
  min after the gate ran, never re-gated); both were already byte-perfect. Compare verdict time to
  draft mtime before redrafting. Plus two offline oracles an agent built: a FULL RELOCATION RESOLVE
  (catches wrong jal/%hi/%lo targets that match_one's mask hides) and a COLLATERAL CHECK (whole-TU
  objdump with/without splice). Together they discriminate all three causes of "match_one says MATCH
  but the overlay SHA differs" without running make.
- §136f addendum — the collider is often an already-banked SIBLING BELOW the splice; locate it by
  arithmetic (draft grows the file N lines, so TU line L reports at L+N).
- cookbook-index 380 -> 382 sections.
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Drew T b61d805b8b feat(phase-30 S7): wave 4b batch 3 — 35 heads + 305 members; the 144-family B-shape queue is worked
- BATCH 3 (37 targets, 41 agents, 2.75M tok -> 35 claimed): gate BANKED 35; family_sweep propagated
  305 member-matches / 39 failed across 77 overlays (14 STRUCT skipped by design). 340 instances.
  R22 clean-fleet 140/140 (sixth time this session).
  FLEET 95.86% fn / 92.9% instr / 86.5% distinct (77,061 unique fns); dedup 1905/0; 0 NON_MATCHING.
- WAVE 4b COMPLETE: b1 32/37 + b2 35/37 + b3 35/37; with wave 4a (30/33) the whole 144-family
  B-shape queue that opened this session is worked through — 138 of 144 drafts banked (96%).
- §136e — batch 3's two HONEST NEGATIVES, worth as much as the wins:
  (1) §136c SIBLING-FIRST HAS A PRECONDITION. func_801899AC's family has all 13 members still
      unmatched and no engine_core.h twin, so there IS no byte-verified sibling and the search is
      pure cost. Check a banked sibling EXISTS before spending the greps.
  (2) A loop increment in the loop-back DELAY SLOT + a compensating negative addiu is a SOURCE
      SHAPE, not a reorg artefact — MIPS1 has no annulling, so reorg CANNOT invent the
      compensation. Write `p += 2; if (t == cur) break; ... p -= 2;`. combine's reg_n_sets==1 guard
      stops the addiu folding into the following lw. The index's delay-slot entries point at reorg,
      which is a dead end for this class.
  Plus a new §136-L1 application on the RETURN axis (an over-scoped temp became a global allocno and
  swapped $v0/$v1 with the returned local, collapsing the target's `j` + `addu` return).
- COMPOSITION, demonstrated on func_8017D5F4 (46 ins): flat early-returns -> dead-local frame pad ->
  s16 locals -> operand order -> 3 register pins -> 2 zero-byte re-ties -> permuter for the last 2.
  THE PERMUTER IS THE LAST STEP ON AN ALREADY-PINNED BASE, not the first.
- cookbook-index 374 -> 375 sections. 6 stubs remain; per §136b none is a wall on one attempt.
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Drew T 7f70b6850a feat(phase-30 S7): batch 2 + reconcile + redraft — 41 heads + 431 members; §136b closes 8/8
- THREE LANES: wave 4b batch 2 (37 targets, 46 agents, 3.44M tok -> 35 claimed) + the reconcile lane
  on 3 PLUMBING failures (3/3) + a REDRAFT lane on 4 DIFF-ledgered failures (4/4). Combined gate
  BANKED 41; family_sweep propagated 431 member-matches / 29 failed across 79 overlays.
  103 of 107 drafts banked (96%). R22 clean-fleet 140/140 (fifth time this session).
  FLEET 95.77% fn / 92.9% instr / 86.4% distinct (76,824 unique fns); dedup 1905/0; 0 NON_MATCHING.
- §136b CLOSES AT 8/8: every function ledgered "genuine byte-DIFF" banked on redraft — wave 3's
  four, the THREE I classified from wave 4a's capture, and one from batch 1. The classifier is
  right about what it measures ("this draft compiles clean and differs in bytes"); reading that as
  "this function resists matching" is the error. A DIFF verdict is a fact about ONE DRAFT.
- §136a CORRECTED (a reconcile agent refuted me against the bytes): I wrote "70% of gate refusals
  are paperwork, not codegen". WRONG. A declaration conflict ABORTS THE COMPILE, so a PLUMBING
  verdict says NOTHING about the body. Two of three second-round PLUMBING drafts had a real codegen
  residual behind the conflict (func_80188694 DIFF/4 SCHEDULE-REORDER, closed with a §21 zero-byte
  re-tie after six other variants failed; func_8018C638 DIFF/6 ADDRESSING/cse). Both agents ran
  match_one on the untouched draft FIRST and rejected my premise — which is what §135 asks for.
- §136c SIBLING-FIRST IS A DERIVATION SHORTCUT, not just a conflict fix: grep engine_core.h's
  DEFINE_func_* bodies for a byte-verified NEAR-TWIN before deriving from the .s. func_801859D8
  found DEFINE_func_80185978 (identical offset chain, 3 differing constants), reused its expression
  forms verbatim -> FIRST-DRAFT MATCH, and the twin generalizes to its whole 10-member family.
  Search order: near-twin -> banked same-TU sibling -> the .s -> the Ghidra seed LAST (byte-proven
  an entirely different body twice this session).
- §136d, four new gcc-2.7.2 levers from the redraft lane, each with its REFUTED axis recorded:
  RC-12 $0-add opaque copy (cse.c canonical-copy promotion; do NOT pin the pair to real regs);
  jump.c if-then-else -> conditional-overwrite collapse (defeat with TWO SEPARATE CALLS, not a
  ternary); fix the STORE not the load for a load hoisted above a constant-address store (the
  INDIRECT_REF reshape is the wrong half of the /s lattice, 2 -> 32 mismatched); a branchless flag
  is -(a != b) & 0xFF, never a ternary.
- cookbook-index 372 -> 374 sections. Batch 3 staged with all of the above promoted into its prompt.
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