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Drew T cf7f837231 fix(gate): main's TABLE REJECT verdict was unreachable — SaveLoadRoutine is a CARVE, not plumbing
SaveLoadRoutine (1,165 ins) is the largest open function in the project, 9.2%
of all remaining work, and has been carried as the §434 WALL. Gated alone
through gate_main, with the §376/§378 chain already applied, the verdict layer
says: "SaveLoadRoutine is BYTE-IDENTICAL; all 3989 differing bytes are
ELSEWHERE". The body has been correct the whole time.

What rejects it is where its FOUR jump tables (jtbl_80072ED4/EEC/F0C/F24) land:

    .data/.rodata (jump tables)  3,787 bytes   94.9%
    .text (perturbed code)         202 bytes    5.1%

and the built image is 4 bytes SHORTER than retail (413,692 vs 413,696) --
§446's first diagnostic, firing on a function §446 was not written about.

main_diff_locate.classify() already HAD a TABLE REJECT class, added in S72 under
a docstring reading "THE THIRD CLASS EXISTS BECAUSE THE FIRST TWO MISLABELLED
IT". It could not fire here for two independent reasons:

  * it keyed on the literal string `(.rodata)`, but main's section_order is
    [.rodata, .text, .data, .bss] -- its rodata sits BELOW .text and its jump
    tables live in `.data` objects, so TABLE REJECT was UNREACHABLE BY
    CONSTRUCTION on the binary with the most jump-table functions left. A
    section NAME is not a section ROLE.
  * it demanded purity (ro == outside), so 5% perturbed code defeated an
    all-or-nothing test and dropped the verdict through to PLUMBING REJECT --
    whose advice (fix_arity_callers -> cast_self_callers) addresses the 5% and
    cannot touch the 95% that is data. That chain was run on this function
    TWICE today and fixed nothing, exactly as the evidence predicts.

Now: table bytes counted in (.data) OR (.rodata), and the test is DOMINANCE
(>=60%) rather than purity, reporting the split and naming which part is the
carve problem and which the declaration problem.

Negative control over all five pre-existing verdict shapes (pure BODY, pure
PLUMBING, pure TABLE, MIXED, NOT FOUND) plus the S75 shape: 5 of 6 verdicts
UNCHANGED, only the SaveLoadRoutine shape flips PLUMBING REJECT -> TABLE
REJECT (MIXED).

Cookbook §447. The law: a class that cannot fire is worse than a class that does
not exist -- it converts "I don't know" into confident, specific, wrong advice.
When a verdict names a subsystem, check that subsystem owns the MAJORITY OF THE
BYTES before acting on it.
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Backlog — automation near-misses for hand-finishing

Generated by tools/backlog.py render from .run/backlog.jsonl. These are functions the Phase-21 automation got close on but did NOT byte-match. The whole-binary byte-gate is the sole arbiter (G3/P9): byte-matches bank and are NOT listed here — only genuine near-misses/blockers are. Ranked by hand-session priority: reach (×N propagation leverage) → closeness (match_one mismatch count, lower = closer) → size. Each row's best_draft is the closest C the machine reached — resume from there.

Open near-misses: 22 · by status {'near': 14, 'failed': 8} · by class {None: 22}

# addr reach class nins status closeness where it stuck best draft
1 func_80181804 None None near 0 match_one MATCH but the whole-binary gate rejected — CAUSE NOT DETERMINED. FIRST re-derive the destination TU from the asm subdir: asm//nonmatchings/<TU_stem>/.s => src//<TU_stem>.c (the third path component IS the TU). Only then look for a decl conflict or a codegen residual. .run/backlog_drafts/func_80181804.c
2 func_80181CB8 None None near 0 match_one MATCH but the whole-binary gate rejected — CAUSE NOT DETERMINED. FIRST re-derive the destination TU from the asm subdir: asm//nonmatchings/<TU_stem>/.s => src//<TU_stem>.c (the third path component IS the TU). Only then look for a decl conflict or a codegen residual. .run/backlog_drafts/func_80181CB8.c
3 func_8002B0B4 None None near 0 match_one MATCH but the whole-binary gate rejected — CAUSE NOT DETERMINED. FIRST re-derive the destination TU from the asm subdir: asm//nonmatchings/<TU_stem>/.s => src//<TU_stem>.c (the third path component IS the TU). Only then look for a decl conflict or a codegen residual. .run/backlog_drafts/func_8002B0B4.c
4 func_8017D918 None None near 4 residual: 4 mismatch .run/backlog_drafts/func_8017D918.c
5 func_80182CBC None 28 near 7 resolver DIFF (real-TU rtu_match, 20260825-233820): mine=28 target=28 .run/backlog_drafts/func_80182CBC.c
6 func_80180EC0 None None near 9 residual: 9 mismatch .run/backlog_drafts/func_80180EC0.c
7 func_80181294 None None near 19 residual: 19 mismatch .run/backlog_drafts/func_80181294.c
8 func_80181344 None None near 48 residual: 48 mismatch .run/backlog_drafts/func_80181344.c
9 func_8017DB98 None None near 115 residual: 115 mismatch .run/backlog_drafts/func_8017DB98.c
10 func_80180B3C None 297 near 125 resolver DIFF (real-TU rtu_match, 20260825-233820): mine=296 target=297 .run/wave_eo/shard478/func_80180B3C.c
11 func_800CB00C None 123 near 168 resolver DIFF (real-TU rtu_match, 20260826-053145): mine=174 target=123 .run/wave_g0c/shard30/func_800CB00C.c
12 func_801806F8 None 241 near 235 resolver DIFF (real-TU rtu_match, 20260826-062321): mine=72 target=241 .run/wave_g0d/shard20/func_801806F8.c
13 func_80180ABC None 257 near 250 resolver DIFF (real-TU rtu_match, 20260825-233820): mine=49 target=257 .run/wave_ci/shard141/func_80180ABC.c
14 func_80180B3C None 21 near 287 resolver DIFF (real-TU rtu_match, 20260826-022235): mine=287 target=21 .run/wave_eq/shard63/func_80180B3C.c
15 func_800D06E8 None None failed resolver CC1 (real-TU rtu_match, 20260825-233820): .run/resolver/work/resident__func_800D06E8/c0/rtu/func_800D06E8/t.c:1770: conflicting types for `Struct80078E78' .run/wave_ch/shard62/func_800D06E8.c
16 func_8017FBCC None None failed won't compile standalone (loose-typing / missing decl) .run/backlog_drafts/func_8017FBCC.c
17 func_801832F8 None None failed won't compile standalone (loose-typing / missing decl) .run/backlog_drafts/func_801832F8.c
18 func_8017F018 None None failed won't compile standalone (loose-typing / missing decl) .run/backlog_drafts/func_8017F018.c
19 func_8018095C None None failed won't compile standalone (loose-typing / missing decl) .run/backlog_drafts/func_8018095C.c
20 func_80181720 None None failed won't compile standalone (loose-typing / missing decl) .run/backlog_drafts/func_80181720.c
21 func_8018DFC4 None None failed won't compile standalone (loose-typing / missing decl) .run/backlog_drafts/func_8018DFC4.c
22 func_80062144 None None failed won't compile standalone (loose-typing / missing decl)