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Sylpheed RE agent
3cdf2b24b2 re: locate both guest hash routines; IXUD solved; two corrections
Found the routines in the disassembly DB rather than guessing from data:
  sub_82447DF0  IDXD tag hash  (lbz+extsb, modulus 0x00FFFFDF, magic 0x2101)
  sub_82447E70  IXUD tag hash  (lhz, 64-bit, modulus 0xFFFFFF67 then 0x00FFFFDF)
Both transcribed instruction-for-instruction into Python and Rust.

IXUD SOLVED. It defeated every single-modulus search because it chains TWO
exact moduli -- the loop reduces mod 2^32-153 in 64-bit arithmetic and only the
result is folded mod 2^24-33. A polynomial mod M1 folded through M2 is not a
polynomial mod anything, which is exactly why the gcd test returned 1. Verified
independently: 86/86 record keys and 108,261/108,261 field tags in
GP_MAIN_GAME_E.pak, and NoRecord -> 0x1c6d9c96.

CORRECTION 1: tag_hash must SIGN-EXTEND each byte (extsb). My reconstruction
used unsigned bytes and matched all 1.27M disc names -- every one is ASCII --
while disagreeing on ~90% of random inputs with a byte >= 0x80 (verified:
18096/20000). The disc could never have caught this; only the disassembly did.

CORRECTION 2: name_hash's reduction is EXACT, not lossy. The module doc claimed
the missing conditional subtract made it something other than %. rlwinm r6,r6,
9,23,31 is just hi>>23, and with RECIP = floor(2^55/M)+1 that is Granlund-
Montgomery magic division -- 0 wrong at every quotient boundary across the full
32-bit domain. Retracted.

cargo test -p sylpheed-formats --lib hash: 10/10.
2026-08-25 11:28:35 +00:00
Sylpheed RE agent
508db8e99f re: recover the IDXD record-key / field-tag hash (8643/8643)
Closes the 4-byte record key. tag_hash is name_hash's shape -- byte-sum
checksum in the top byte over a 24-bit modular polynomial -- with two different
constants: modulus 0x00FFFFDF (2^24-33, prime) instead of 0x00FFF9D7, and no
lowercasing, so tags are case-sensitive. name_hash explains 0 of 8643.

Recovered from the tables rather than the executable: every inline field name
is a known (name -> tag) pair, and comparing names differing in one character
gives the per-position weights 1, 0x100, 0x10000, 0x21, 0x2100, ... -- a byte
leaving bit 24 re-enters as 33, i.e. reduction mod 2^24-33. Holds where it is
easy to get wrong (distance 8 and 9 carry correctly).

A record's key is the tag of its own name: FormationSet rosters 362/362,
UnitGroup rosters 281/281, S02 squadron names 111/111 -- so records can be
addressed by name without reading the roster first.

Implemented in Python (unitgroup.tag_hash) and Rust
(sylpheed_formats::hash::tag_hash) with 3 new unit tests carrying disc-derived
vectors; cargo test -p sylpheed-formats --lib hash is 8/8 green.

Not settled: the guest routine is unlocated, so this uses exact modular
arithmetic where the game may use a Barrett step without final fixup.
2026-08-25 10:38:18 +00:00
Sylpheed RE agent
0b7fd59489 re: the frozen wait-object capture, and screen_id was never a freeze test
Caught the freeze by waiting for the event (frozen.py + in_flight) instead of
sleeping a guessed interval; freeze_waitobj.sh splits into boot/watch so the
wait is not capped by one Bash call. Verified hard: a frame minutes later is
byte-identical to the capture.

Healthy vs frozen, same run: 20 -> 24 wait frames, XEvent 19 -> 23,
XSemaphore 8 -> 7. The signature is per-thread -- 17 of 24 threads sit on the
exact object they were on, four previously-running threads park, and T74/T75
move off a semaphore onto an event. So the freeze is not a whole-emulator stall.

Also corrects the previous entry's test: screen_id reads 'flight' during a
freeze by design, which is why frozen.py exists. Re-testing the saved frames
says that run was genuinely healthy, but it was right by luck.

heavy_read.py added to test whether the instrument provokes the freeze: I/O is
free (371 MB in 0.1s, page cache), the cost is Python-level CPU. One data point
-- 670s clean, then frozen 54s after the inducer started -- recorded as n=1, not
as causation.
2026-08-25 09:02:48 +00:00
Sylpheed RE agent
da562cabfd re: WaitMultiple read confirmed on a live capture; XTimer is a third type
23 wait frames, 30 objects, nothing unresolved -- the second deref turns every
former miss into a resolved object, as predicted. XEvent 20 / XSemaphore 9 /
XTimer 1; every WaitMultiple thread waits on a pair, and 78/79/80 and 64/65 are
worker groups sharing a handle.

%ebp does not survive as the count -- WaitMultiple reuses it at 8fc158 -- so the
array is bounded by reading until an entry stops resolving instead.

The frozen capture is still not taken: screen_id reads 'flight' at the second
capture and out to ~470s, so the mission never black-screened. The diff in the
data file is two healthy captures and is recorded as such.
2026-08-25 08:34:46 +00:00
Sylpheed RE agent
3f23ceb8e7 re: withdraw the 'unrestorable rbx' claim — the misses are WaitMultiple
The 8 threads whose [rbx] did not resolve to a vtable were never in
XObject::Wait. The backtrace grep matched WaitMultiple as a substring, and
there %rbx is the XObject** array (mov %rsi,%rbx) with the count in %ebp, so
[rbx] is objects[0] -- an object pointer, needing a second deref -- not a
vtable. The unwind restored rbx correctly for all 18.

freeze_waitobj.sh now takes the function and frame index from the backtrace and
applies the matching read, and captures twice in one run (healthy and after the
~270s black-screen) so the comparison is within-run. waitobj_report.py tabulates
both and diffs them, discarding any value info symbol cannot resolve.
2026-08-25 08:20:21 +00:00