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Drew T c05ea15cbe feat(tools): asm_in_c.py — 154 game functions are assembly wearing a .c extension
A .c file in src/ looks decompiled. 199 functions are not: they are the target
assembly pasted into a C string literal (§265), byte-identical BY CONSTRUCTION
and completely unexplained. 45 are PsyQ/CRT routines where that is defensible;
154 are GAME CODE, 171 of the 199 in main, the largest being SaveLoadRoutine at
1,165 instructions.

They were invisible because progress.py's classify() matched INCLUDE_ASM,
INCLUDE_RODATA and C definitions, and a file-scope __asm__ block is none of
those -- so each landed in NO bucket, either swallowed by a surrounding
construct or surfacing as the single `UNPLACED (parse hole)` line the tool has
been printing all along.

progress.py gains a VERBATIM __asm__ bodies line: counted byte-identical (it is,
by construction) but NEVER as REAL. main's headline moves 45.88% -> 42.15%.
Nothing regressed and no work was lost -- the denominator was missing 173
functions that are real remaining work.

THE COUNTING LESSON IS THE REUSABLE PART. Counting these by hand went
116 -> 112 -> 108 -> 178 -> 199 across five attempts in one session, every
intermediate number reported confidently. All five errors were one shape, a
pattern narrower than the claim it supported:
  * the sources use BOTH ".ent\tNAME\n" and ".ent NAME\n" -- anchoring on either
    silently drops every instance of the other;
  * a bare ".ent\t" fragment yields a phantom function literally named `t`, six
    times, which is the only reason the error was noticed;
  * __asm__ appears in 3,182 of 4,224 sources, almost all the §3a barrier, so
    counting files or counting __asm__ measures nothing;
  * `.globl NAME` + `NAME:` proves EXPORT, not CODE -- the first real run
    reported jtbl_80072ED4/EEC/F0C/F24 as four "functions";
  * a hand-written SDK name list reported 170 game functions because it did not
    know VectorNormalSS / SquareRoot12 / OuterProduct12 are libgte.

So the tool does not trust one regex: THREE independent detectors that must
agree with disagreement reported as a defect (R34 -- that is what caught the
jump tables); SDK-ness DERIVED from the 14 shipped PsyQ archives via nm (2,227
symbols) rather than a list (R33); coverage asserted so a definition-shaped
block no detector claims fails loudly (R32/R43); and --selftest carrying a
known-true case of every spelling plus the phantom `t` and the jtbl regression.

Cookbook §448, SETUP row. Law: when a count comes from a text pattern, the
pattern has a denominator too -- validate it against one known-true case of
every FORM the corpus contains before quoting the number.
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