THE DEFECT CHAIN (byte-witnessed, both ends fixed):
1. harvest_verify._reload_corpus re-applied the `--src` filter AFTER a jtbl carve. Following a
carved stub to its NEW TU is that function's entire documented purpose, and it was deleting the
very stub it had just followed. Then:
_stubs loses fn -> render() raises KeyError -> UNCAUGHT -> _jtbl_restore(snap) never runs
-> the carve is STRANDED in config/ + src/ -> every LATER group in the same gate run then
built against a tree the earlier crashes had mutated.
line 136 already calls --src "an optional filter, not a location oracle"; this was the one place
treating it as one. Fix: the filter never drops a draft under verification, wherever it now
lives, + an R32 loud report if a working stub vanishes across a reload (which also repairs
_touched/baseline — a carved fn missing from _stubs left its new TU unbaselined, so the revert
path could not have restored it either).
2. .run/s6f_gate.py never checked the child's returncode — it grepped stdout for VERIFIED:/FAILED:
and booked "neither" as NOTHING, printing a clean-looking tally over 10 missing verdicts. This
is the §136a defect I logged against my own capture tool last session, in the gate itself.
Fix: 1:1 accounting assertion (banked+failed+no-verdict == drafts), the child's rc + output tail
on anything unaccounted, and exit 1 — a crashed child may have stranded a carve, so it must
never look like success.
PROOF THE FIX IS NOT COSMETIC: func_8017EA84 (579 ins) now carves and banks BYTE-IDENTICAL. The old
tool reported it as nothing at all.
BANKED 7 (R22 clean-fleet 140/140 from `make clean` + extract-all + check-all):
func_8017EA84 ov_SC02_000 (579) · func_8017FEE0 ov_SC02_026 (299) · func_80181CE4 ov_SC03_111 (491)
func_80183AE0 ov_SC03_112 (240) · func_80184C74 ov_SC06_018 (288) · func_80180F98 ov_SC03_097 (263)
func_801841C8 ov_SC02_035 (44)
MY OWN ERROR, RECORDED (R37/R14): after reverting the stranded carves I re-extracted ONE overlay,
not all 16 — the Phase-20 R22 corollary (a reverted CONFIG needs a `make extract`, not just a
revert) which I know and skipped. Run 2 therefore read WORSE than run 1: three genuinely-banked
functions failed against stale asm. Re-extracting the 16 touched binaries produced the honest run.
A gate result measured against stale asm is not a measurement (R35).
.run/w6_diag.py: run the REAL gate path for one (ov,fn) with the child's full output. s36_capture.py
splices without the carve, which is the wrong path for a table-bearing fn (§61b: the carve must
follow the splice) and produces a failure that is an artifact of the diagnosis.
Drew T
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