sots-re/findings/subsystems
alex 49fa5501ba lane T2: the treaty-turn stamp, and Player.Status's real writer
findings/subsystems/treaty-turn-stamp.md. Briefed on the post-combat tail, ranked its
phases by leaves-closed-per-effort against the standalone's 158-leaf residual, and found
that every tail phase which moves a leaf in this corpus is blocked on another lane
(ship construction, the budget) or on the tail's vtable blind spot. Section 5 lists that
ranking with the numbers. The two items below are what a lane holding no VM could close.

1. StrategyServer_StampTreatyTurns 0x007898c0, read as instructions. The diplomacy
   ledger's per-turn stamp over every ordered pair of players holding a treaty, creating
   the entry on demand. Sole caller is ApplyTurnCommands, so it is a HOST step and not a
   tail phase. Three corrections to strategic-turn-internals.md 5.2, which is flagged in
   place: the relation codes are 3=ally / 2=NAP / 1=cease-fire and not the reverse (which
   combat-done-tail.md 2A already implied independently); the stamped value is Frame, not
   ModCount; and the bit is the PlyrIdx field, not the player's vector position -- the
   opposite convention from the shared-vision mask.

   Modelled in sots-engine as host phase H02. Predicted 26 leaves on the reference pair
   and 14 on pair 2 before building; measured exactly 26 and 14, 0 regressed, and +12 on
   each of three further pairs from a different game at turns 2, 15 and 16 that the model
   was never fitted to. 76 closed / 0 regressed over five pairs, 0 RNG words. The rule
   also reproduces the ledger of ten of the eleven corpus saves entry for entry.

2. Player.Status. backlog.md item 6 has it blocked on "the writer between tail 31 and the
   autosave -- watchpoint". There is no such writer. A whole-image scan for immediate
   stores to ServerPlayer+0x164 finds exactly three: ProcessTurn's encounter loop writes
   1, ResumePlaying writes 0 on load (the 4 -> 0 the determinism note recorded), and
   StrategyServer_MarkPlayerTurnEnded 0x00821a40 writes 4 from the three End Turn
   SUBMISSION paths, which run before the turn is processed. Item 6 needs one predicate,
   not a watchpoint -- and an entry probe on that function names the set directly.

   NOT written. The only two saves in the corpus with a non-zero Status agree with
   Species != 4 on all eight players, and that is eight observations on a 1-bit predicate
   that nine of the eleven saves do not exercise at all. Evaluated and reported.

Seven addresses in ghidra/addresses.d/lane-t2.json, validated to a scratch path against
the merged set (1,095 entries, no duplicate). verify/results/standalone/{report,status}
deliberately untouched: lane C3 published into them minutes before this run.
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.keep.md scaffold RE campaign: board, backlog, findings template, verify tree 2026-09-07 14:40:44 -04:00
ai-task-system.md lane AI2: the AI's task selection loop, the priority table, and the order-method -> TurnCommands map 2026-09-08 14:43:41 -04:00
ai-turn-logic.md lane H: five live probes, the oracle restored, and a harness perturbation bisected to one hook 2026-09-08 13:53:36 -04:00
battle-load-profile.md battle-load: profile filed, bug parked; sampler + resume recipe kept 2026-09-07 16:43:14 -04:00
data-model.md data-model: fix example section path (CRAIC, caught by vfs oracle) 2026-09-07 17:41:45 -04:00
data-parsers.md verify: mars data parsers proven 100% on 1595 files; catalogs; tech-tree graph 2026-09-07 15:22:55 -04:00
determinism-oracle.md lane H: five live probes, the oracle restored, and a harness perturbation bisected to one hook 2026-09-08 13:53:36 -04:00
eventlive-verification.md lane V: live verification of the event-posting model against an advance prediction 2026-09-08 05:59:22 -04:00
events.md events: 161 call sites are spread over 113 functions, not 110 2026-09-08 02:47:42 -04:00
formula-gaps.md income-term: the output -> money chain read from the instruction stream; the BnkEl oracle goes 6/25 -> 25/25 2026-09-08 13:49:48 -04:00
fpu-precision-sensitivity.md lane F: x87 precision sensitivity measured; STATE_CHECKSUM 3.5 closed 2026-09-08 05:07:53 -04:00
golden-trace-recapture.md lane X: x86 displacement xref scanner; pin sizeof(ObservedTech) and its append site 2026-09-08 04:44:18 -04:00
income-term.md lane C3: ComputeOutput on the turn path -- the money ComputeBudget actually sums 2026-09-08 14:50:50 -04:00
loader-prototypes.md lane S: std::string is 0x1c binary-wide; ObservedTech element fully mapped 2026-09-08 05:09:33 -04:00
movefleet-position-rounding.md lane M: MoveFleet position rounding closed; VM140 released; types 2-5 still uncovered 2026-09-08 03:51:39 -04:00
multiplayer-gamespy.md board: lane P2 nav classifier; type 2 is the Liir drive, a naming error not a gap 2026-09-08 12:45:27 -04:00
observedtech-append.md lane S: std::string is 0x1c binary-wide; ObservedTech element fully mapped 2026-09-08 05:09:33 -04:00
output-term.md lane C3: ComputeOutput on the turn path -- the money ComputeBudget actually sums 2026-09-08 14:50:50 -04:00
output-turn-path.md lane C3: ComputeOutput on the turn path -- the money ComputeBudget actually sums 2026-09-08 14:50:50 -04:00
path-solver.md lane P2: the path solver read from the instruction stream, and OrderFleetMove's three failure bits 2026-09-08 12:43:34 -04:00
running-the-game.md verified: real saves parse; ServerPlayer/StarFleet/StarShip confirmed, ServerSystem conditional gaps listed; game-run recipe 2026-09-07 16:09:28 -04:00
setresearched-cascade.md lane U: the unlock cascade, implemented and live-verified 2026-09-08 06:57:37 -04:00
strategic-turn-internals.md lane T2: the treaty-turn stamp, and Player.Status's real writer 2026-09-08 14:52:44 -04:00
strings-and-config.md strings/config: battle-load smoking gun (affinity), lockstep sim, net map, Mods override 2026-09-07 14:58:36 -04:00
system-visibility-prediction.md lane E3: the prediction's outcome, leaf for leaf 2026-09-08 13:39:30 -04:00
system-visibility-record.md lane E3: the per-system visibility record read from the instruction stream, and the prediction before the build 2026-09-08 13:26:46 -04:00
tech-effects.md b2 static findings: tech effects corrections, full g_TechIdNames dump; contract 176->211 2026-09-08 00:01:04 -04:00
treaty-turn-stamp.md lane T2: the treaty-turn stamp, and Player.Status's real writer 2026-09-08 14:52:44 -04:00
ui-screen-map.md board: lane P2 nav classifier; type 2 is the Liir drive, a naming error not a gap 2026-09-08 12:45:27 -04:00
unlock-cascade.md lane K: StrategyServer::OnAllCombatDone_Tail mapped, 36 phases from the instruction stream 2026-09-08 08:47:08 -04:00