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Drew T 79c327b2a2 docs(phase-29): T34 — regalloc.md re-derived vs real gcc-2.7.2; 7 corrections, 14 false alarms caught
26 agents (5 derive + 21 adversarial refute), 1.73M subagent tokens. Two guards, because a false
REFUTED deletes a working lever and is worse than a stale line number:

- MECHANICAL FABRICATION CHECK (.run/verify_regalloc_findings.py, NEW): every claim had to carry a
  verbatim source_quote + file + line; I re-opened each file at each line and compared. 184 checked,
  **0 FABRICATED** (27 exact, 153 NEAR = quote real but line arithmetic off by +2..+19, 4 declared
  unverifiable). Distinguishes NEAR from FABRICATED because the 2.8.1->2.7.2 drift (+300..+600 in
  reload1.c) can land a lookup inside a DIFFERENT function and still read plausibly.
- ADVERSARIAL SECOND STAGE: every REFUTED claim went to an independent agent told to refute the
  refutation, defaulting to upholding the map. **Of 21 REFUTED, 14 OVERTURNED, 7 stand.** The raw
  audit output would have deleted 14 CORRECT levers (RC-6's verdict, the decoy-qty lever, the
  <=3-qty creation-order rule, the keepalive-read lever).

FINAL: 119 CONFIRMED / 40 LINE-DRIFT / 7 REFUTED-upheld / 4 UNVERIFIABLE. The model is sound.

The 7, marked [A23] inline:
1. K4 flag_caller_saves is ON (toplev.c:3387-3394 at -O2), BYTE-PROVEN on the real cc1 — a
   call-crossing value is not confined to $s0-$s7-or-spill. Added the missing diagnostic:
   caller-save slots are 4-BYTE-PACKED vs reload spill slots 8-ROUNDED (misreading one as the other
   sends you to RC-1 + decl reordering, the wrong lever entirely).
2. RC-7's premise false: a frame address is never CONSTANT_P (rtl.h:237-240 excludes PLUS), so it
   gets a real slot + lw. THIS EXPLAINS T31's byte-tested failure today — cse_expr.md §2's remat
   recipe could not dissolve func_80132F40's hoist (47->40, never 0) because the promised mechanism
   does not apply to frame addresses. Independent audit and live byte-test converged.
3. The "init MOVED to just before its use" pass is 2.8.1-only; 2.7.2 deletes the init instead.
4. K2 refs are LOOP-DEPTH-WEIGHTED (reg_n_refs += loop_depth), not per-insn-mention.
5. K1 qty numbers come from BIRTH order, not regno order.
6. RC-15/K2: allocno_live_length is the DENOMINATOR — priority is a density.
7. Pins do NOT kill the S2 boost — independently reproducing yesterday's sched.md finding from a
   different agent/section, plus the decisive detail that sched.c:423 DOES add the pseudo guard
   where it wants one, so the omission at :2478 is deliberate.

NOT applied: the 40 LINE-DRIFT fixes wholesale — generic quotes match several places, so publishing
all 40 risks replacing 2.8.1 drift with fresh 2.7.2 drift. Header carries 12 hand-verified anchors +
an instruction to grep before citing. Struck text preserved, not deleted (H5).
Docs-only: no src/ or config/ touched, R22 not re-run and not claimed.
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