WRITTEN + VALIDATED, DELIBERATELY NOT WIRED IN (inert; nothing imports it). Wiring + byte-gating is the
first item of the integration fix pass, AFTER the tooling-integrity audit Drew gated it behind.
The successor to reconcile_decls.py for the templating/banking path. Two things are wrong with that tool,
and the second is structural, not a typo (Phase-26 scanner audit):
1. BLIND TO FUNCTION POINTERS. DATA_DECL_LINE_RE wants `extern <type-words> D_x[];`, so the `(` in
extern void (*D_801DA75C)(void); <- fn-ptr scalar
extern void (*D_801812A4[])(void *); <- fn-ptr array (a dispatch table)
breaks its type run; the line never matches; the tool SILENTLY SKIPS exactly the symbols that are
failing and reports success. Blocking func_8017A4AC (536 ins x134 = 287 KB) today.
2. ITS ORACLE ASKS THE WRONG QUESTION. It elects a canonical decl by FLEET MAJORITY. But 34.4% of fleet
symbols carry >=2 mutually incompatible spellings, so a single fleet-wide answer is PROVABLY WRONG FOR
SOME TU BY CONSTRUCTION — and it is worse than a skip: it returns an ACTIVELY WRONG decl (measured:
3,717 symbols) that then collides with the very macro it was meant to conform to.
The only question that matters is what gcc compares the draft against: WHAT CAN THIS TU SEE. So reconcile_tu
reconstructs the TU's visible file-scope decl environment from BOTH §8c sources — col-0 decls AND the externs
INJECTED BY engine_core.h MACRO INVOCATIONS (a DEFINE_func_*() expands at file scope, so its leading externs
are genuine file-scope decls of the invoking TU, invisible to any col-0 scan: 544 visible syms from 1801
macros) — then conforms the draft's decl to it and CASTS AT EVERY USE (gcc folds a compile-time cast of a
known symbol, so the emitted bytes are unchanged; the whole-binary byte-gate remains the sole arbiter).
Carries a COVERAGE ASSERTION (R32): every line that LOOKS like an extern of a D_ symbol must parse, or it is
reported LOUDLY (--strict exits non-zero). A silent skip is a defect, not a no-op.
Validated read-only on func_8017A4AC: resolves D_801DA75C (fn-ptr -> `extern s32` + call-site cast),
D_80126B58 (struct), D_801DA734 (ptr).
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