ROOT CAUSE (byte-witnessed, P30 S38 — the fifth tool with this same blindness).
A function banked under the §37/§73 DEFINITION-SIDE ASM-LABEL ALIAS form is spelled with a private
C identifier and bound to its real symbol by a GNU asm label:
void aF8018A860(s32, s16 *, u8 *, u8 *) __asm__("func_80183AF8"); <- decl, stays in preamble
void aF8018A860(s32, s16 *, u8 *, u8 *) { ... } <- THIS emits func_80183AF8
overlay_src_split.addr_of() resolves `func_<hex>` arithmetically and everything else through `syms`.
`aF8018A860` matches NEITHER, so it returned None — and partition() keeps only items with a
resolved address, so the definition was dropped from EVERY region. The file was then rewritten
without it and nothing said so. One carve of ov_SC02_028 deleted the definitions emitting BOTH
func_80183AF8 and func_80184268; the overlay stopped linking with `undefined reference`, and six
wave-6 drafts were written off against that as a plumbing/compiler wall.
TWO FIXES:
- CAUSE: overlay_src_split now builds an asm-label alias map from the source and resolves a
definition through its EMITTED SYMBOL rather than its C name (verified: aF8018A860 -> 0x80183AF8,
aF8018AFD0 -> 0x80184268 — exactly the two symbols the link was missing).
- SILENCE: partition() and jr_isolate_all._partition() now REFUSE to rewrite a file when any
construct's address does not resolve (R32), instead of discarding it. That guard alone would
have surfaced this the first time it happened.
RESULT: 3 of the 6 alias-class wave-6 drafts bank immediately, for ZERO agent tokens —
func_801884D8 (137 ins) · func_80180B04 (251) · func_801380E0 (438). R22 clean-fleet 140/140.
The other 3 (the three LARGEST: 557/513/710 ins) have a second, size-correlated cause — open.
NOTE FOR THE FLYWHEEL: family_remap._alias_decl_for ALREADY handled this exact form, and its
docstring records the identical lesson ("that blindness was the WHOLE of the h_seq sweep's 137 'no
matched unit' skips. The tool, not the compiler (R35)"). The fix was never propagated. The alias
form needs ONE shared oracle, the way §134 comment-masking ended up on cdecl._mask — five tools
have now independently rediscovered it.
Drew T
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