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Drew T 4fbe768798 docs(phase-30 S50-Max): func_8017C294 — the ordered Max finish: five new axes opened, all byte-refuted; §172 rewritten v2 + §172a tells (the idiom deliverable)
The crack was NOT achieved; the wall is now mechanism-complete instead of inferred:

- caller-save.c setup_save_areas DISCOVERED as a second never-referenced-slot producer:
  eager 4-byte areas per call-clobbered hard reg carrying a call-crossing pseudo at ANY
  reload iteration (-fcaller-saves is on at -O2), emitted code or not.
- Alignment math corrected: alter_reg slots 8B (align -1), save areas 4B (align 0).
- The whole-binary gate run on v_best/v_dialfree for the FIRST time: both rejected —
  the standalone NEAR-2/NEAR-25 verdicts are faithful, no TU-state leak.
- 200-variant randomized structural sweep: swapped-arm recomputes are the ONE dimension
  that moves vars upward (cse does not merge the swapped select) at ~1:1 real-code cost;
  four coincidental vars=256 hits, all heavy-drift.
- Proof: cross-jump cannot delete slot-bearing code (identical-offset requirement) —
  the last no-residue mechanism branch closed by argument, not probe.
- Inline forms collapse the chain 246->209 ins: the bytes REQUIRE textual macro repeats.
- cc1 flag axis (-fforce-addr/-fno-force-mem/-fno-caller-saves/-fno-schedule-insns):
  vars=224 invariant.

Idioms delivered (Drew's second ask): §172 v2 (complete frame-residue model: producers,
alignment, orphan rule, the three-layer canonicalization wall with its honest bound) +
§172a (the lhu/lh typing tell: movhi=lhu copy vs extendhisi2=lh promotion, the double-load
signature; the macro-vs-inline tell: re-evaluated compares in arms = textually repeating
macros, load-bearing redundancy). The 0x801F1CD8/0x8017D290 family idioms were §171a/b.

Floor stays NEAR 2/246. Parked for P32 with the siege kit: tools/cc1_dumps.sh, the §172-v2
model, sweep_gen.py, the swaprepeat lead. ~240 cumulative refutations, each byte-grounded.
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