Files
Sylpheed/tools/re-capture/wave6_probe.py
Sylpheed RE agent 44e9f8dc94 re: eliminate an enemy squadron — no wave follows; add a stall witness
SYLPH_KEEPOUT makes the hunt keep-out a knob instead of a hard-coded 600. At
1400 the pilot both kills and survives: hull 1500 and escorted asset 100 % for
the whole run, ENGAGE throughout, eight loss events against seven in the run
where it died at 83 s.

That let the elimination test actually run. An e007 Turret squadron was ground
18 -> 10 -> 8 -> 4 -> 2 -> 0, reaching zero at t=163 s with deployed falling 41
to 40 -- an enemy squadron destroyed outright for the first time in nine runs.

No arrival followed. ARRIVALS=0 at every sample including all those after t=163.
The hypothesis that a wave is released when a squadron is wiped out rather than
merely damaged does not survive its first test. Two further losses occurred at
t=176 and t=202, so the mission was demonstrably still live and still processing
kills; it simply produced no arrival. This refutes elimination-of-one-squadron
as the trigger. It does not refute event-gating generally -- a threshold across
several squadrons, an objective completion, or a specific squadron could all
still be the gate.

The valid window is smaller than the log suggests, about 90 s after the
elimination rather than 143 s, because the guest stalled around t=255 s. The
pilot's telemetry gives it away: the last 400 log lines contain one distinct
speed value against 236 in the first 400, with no timestamp gaps -- the process
kept logging while the game stopped advancing. Nothing in the probe output
distinguished a stall from a quiet mission, and the same ambiguity affects the
trailing flat samples of earlier runs.

wave6_probe now locates a counter advancing at frame rate, samples it each tick
and prints GUEST STALLED when it fails to advance, so future runs validate
themselves. Implemented but not yet exercised in a run.
2026-08-24 15:41:21 +00:00

134 lines
5.7 KiB
Python
Executable File

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Per-record arrival/loss watch against the verified 116/300 baseline.
Supersedes wave5_probe.py, which reported 42 records in a run nobody could
reproduce. Changes:
* refuses to interpret a run whose roster count is not the reproduced
baseline (mission-per-record-strength.md: discard, do not interpret);
* keys records by file offset rather than by primary VA;
* samples faster and for longer, since losses appear at ~1 per 10 s and no
arrival has been seen in five runs.
An arrival is a record going 0 -> n; a loss is n -> n-1.
"""
import os, sys, time, struct, collections, importlib.util
SD = __file__.rsplit('/', 1)[0]
sys.path.insert(0, SD)
import gmem, gworld, entities2
_w3 = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location('w3', SD + '/wave3_probe.py')
wave3 = importlib.util.module_from_spec(_w3); _w3.loader.exec_module(wave3)
ROSTER_VT = struct.pack('>I', 0x820AF030)
# A guest that has stalled produces flat samples that read exactly like a quiet
# mission -- that happened at t~255 in the keep-out run and was only caught by
# eyeballing the pilot log afterwards. timer_probe found counters advancing at
# frame rate; sampling one of them makes every run self-validating.
TICK_LO, TICK_HI = 0xBC000000, 0xBE000000
DELTA, WIN, LINK = 0x130, 0x400, 0x08
BASELINE = 116
def scan_vt(fd, size, vt):
out = []
for a, b in gmem.extents(fd, size):
pos = a
while pos < b:
m = min(1 << 24, b - pos)
blob = os.pread(fd, m, pos)
i = blob.find(vt)
while i != -1:
if (pos + i) % 4 == 0: out.append(pos + i)
i = blob.find(vt, i + 1)
pos += m
return sorted(out)
def find_tick(fd, dt=3.0):
"""One word that advances steadily: the guest-is-running witness."""
lo, hi = gmem.va_to_off(TICK_LO), gmem.va_to_off(TICK_LO + 0x400000)
a = os.pread(fd, hi - lo, lo)
time.sleep(dt)
b = os.pread(fd, hi - lo, lo)
best = None
for k in range(0, min(len(a), len(b)) - 3, 4):
va = struct.unpack_from('>I', a, k)[0]
vb = struct.unpack_from('>I', b, k)[0]
if va < vb and (vb - va) / dt > 5 and (vb - va) < 1 << 20:
best = (lo + k, (vb - va) / dt); break
return best
def sample(fd, defs, want):
lo, hi = gmem.va_to_off(entities2.ENT_VA_LO), gmem.va_to_off(entities2.ENT_VA_HI)
per = collections.Counter(); tot = 0; pos = lo
while pos < hi:
m = min(1 << 24, hi - pos)
blob = os.pread(fd, m, pos)
for k in range(0, len(blob) - 3, 4):
if blob[k:k+4] not in defs: continue
tot += 1
head = os.pread(fd, WIN, pos + k - DELTA)
for j in range(0, len(head) - 3, 4):
(p,) = struct.unpack_from('>I', head, j)
if p in want:
per[want[p]] += 1; break
pos += m
return per, tot
def main():
secs = int(sys.argv[1]) if len(sys.argv) > 1 else 240
every = int(sys.argv[2]) if len(sys.argv) > 2 else 10
w = gworld.World(); fd = w.fd
defs = entities2.definitions(w)
if not defs: print('NOT IN A MISSION'); return 2
roster = scan_vt(fd, w.size, ROSTER_VT)
print('roster records: %d (baseline %d)' % (len(roster), BASELINE))
if len(roster) != BASELINE:
print('DISCARD: roster count is not the reproduced baseline. '
'Per mission-per-record-strength.md this run is not interpreted.')
return 3
f = os.fdopen(os.dup(fd), 'rb')
label, want = {}, {}
for o in roster:
va = gmem.primary_va(o)
if va is None: continue
label[o] = wave3.resolve_id(f, w.size, o)[0] or '?'
want[va + LINK] = o
tick = find_tick(fd)
if tick: print('tick witness at %#x, ~%.1f/s' % (tick[0], tick[1]))
else: print('WARNING: no advancing counter found; stalls cannot be detected')
last_tick = struct.unpack('>I', os.pread(fd, 4, tick[0]))[0] if tick else 0
log = open('/tmp/wave6.tsv', 'w'); log.write('t\tkind\toff\tunit\tfrom\tto\n')
prev = None; t0 = time.time(); arr_n = loss_n = 0
while time.time() - t0 < secs:
per, tot = sample(fd, defs, want)
el = round(time.time() - t0)
if prev is None:
print('t=%4ds craft=%d deployed=%d/%d strengths %s'
% (el, tot, len(per), len(roster),
sorted(collections.Counter(per.values()).items())), flush=True)
else:
arr = [(o, per[o]) for o in per if prev.get(o, 0) == 0 < per[o]]
los = [(o, prev[o], per.get(o, 0)) for o in prev if per.get(o, 0) < prev[o]]
arr_n += len(arr); loss_n += len(los)
stalled = ''
if tick:
now = struct.unpack('>I', os.pread(fd, 4, tick[0]))[0]
if now <= last_tick: stalled = ' *** GUEST STALLED ***'
last_tick = now
print('t=%4ds craft=%d deployed=%d ARRIVALS=%d losses=%d (cum %d/%d)%s'
% (el, tot, len(per), len(arr), len(los), arr_n, loss_n, stalled),
flush=True)
for o, c in arr:
print(' ARRIVAL %-30s 0 -> %d' % (label.get(o, '?'), c), flush=True)
log.write('%d\tarrival\t%#x\t%s\t0\t%d\n' % (el, o, label.get(o, '?'), c))
for o, a, b in los:
print(' loss %-30s %d -> %d' % (label.get(o, '?'), a, b), flush=True)
log.write('%d\tloss\t%#x\t%s\t%d\t%d\n' % (el, o, label.get(o, '?'), a, b))
log.flush()
prev = per
time.sleep(max(0, every - (time.time() - t0 - el)))
log.close()
print('\nTOTAL arrivals=%d losses=%d over %ds' % (arr_n, loss_n, secs))
return 0
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())