- level_sweep.sh: frames rendered then frozen with process alive ->
STALLED (froze at N/M frames) instead of a false PASS (the Silo
-level_20 fly-down / D117-D134 load case). Retried once like NO-FRAMES.
- input.c: Input.MouseRawInput=1 (default 0) sets SDL relative
system-scale + warp hints off in inputInit -> no OS pointer accel on aim.
- docs: M-26-QOL-REVIEW.md + HANDOFF section.
The 45s watchdog is now a ceiling, not a flat per-level cost: a level is
killed as soon as its whole GE_PCDUMP frame set is on disk (PASS) or the
ppm count has been frozen for STALL_SECS (default 18). EXPECT_FRAMES is
derived from SWEEP_DUMP (start-end:stride). Full 21-level sweep ~7min
(was ~16).
M-22 full re-sweep after D134: 20/21 PASS. Facility(34) + Jungle(37) --
the M-20 re-verify failures -- both PASS clean, confirming D134 was their
cause. Only Cuba(54) crashes: known D129 residual (bare -level_54 hits the
cast/credits scroll referencing an unloaded text bank), parked with D76.
The frame-2 boot hang blamed on D117 flakiness since M-13 is a real bug:
osSpTaskStartGo posted OS_EVENT_SP/DP with OS_MESG_NOBLOCK into the 8-slot
scheduler interruptQ that the 60 Hz VI pacemaker also fills. A gfx task runs
the whole frame synchronously on the sched thread, so a slow early frame lets
retraces fill the queue and the done event is silently discarded -> curRSPTask
never clears -> pendingGfx never clears -> permanent stall.
portPostEventForce() drops the oldest (stale retrace) message and retries;
portPostVIEvent reserves 2 slots. -level_09: 6/6 boots to frame 600, 0
heartbeats (pre-fix 1/3).
Also hardens tools_pc/level_sweep.sh: 45s watchdog, lockdir serialization,
stray-process kill, one retry on NO-FRAMES.
WS4 level sweep driven to completion: 12/21 solo levels PASS
(load + render + no-crash). Full matrix in docs/LEVEL-STATUS.md,
reusable runner tools_pc/level_sweep.sh, WS6 checklist docs/LEVEL-PLAYTEST.md.
Fixes:
- D123 (tools_pc/d88_propdefs.py): crash class C1 on 6 levels
(Dam/Runway/Frigate/Statue/Streets/Cradle). D122 fallout - the widened
Vehichle/AircraftRecord.ailist slot was zeroed instead of carrying its
read-before-write integer AI-list id, so prop.c -> ailistFindById(0) ->
GAILIST_AIM_AT_BOND -> ai() ran a CHR aim list with a NULL chr ->
chrIsNotDeadOrShot(NULL). New OBJ_ID_WORDS arm. 4 levels -> PASS,
Runway falls through to C2. BUNKER1/Silo unregressed.
- D124 (port/src/gimgfixup.c): crash class C2 on Jungle. Compiled
explosion-DL pointer-sync keyed on an IMAGESEG marker that texLoad()
had already erased -> compiled globalDL_0xNNN arrays kept link-time
IMAGESEG words -> 0xABCDxxxx into fast3d on first explosion draw.
Latent on every level. Detect the slot from the compiled array instead.
Diagnosed, NOT fixed (write-ups in PCPortResearch.md SF):
- C2-GDL (D124-Facility addendum): Facility/Runway - model texture-pool
path yields a garbage tex->data; every model file loads at an odd
bank base (mempAllocBytesInBank does no alignment). Suspect
d43_emit.py/pcmodels sidecar texture-blob offsets (N64 8B vs PC 16B Gfx).
- C3/C6 (D125): Aztec/Bunker2/Surface2 - converted propDefs blob in RAM
doesn't match d88_propdefs.py offline output (garbage after record 0);
runtime sizepropdef() walk drifts ~100 records -> wrong door/modelid.
d88_propdefs.py convert_stream + sizepropdef() PORT strides verified
correct; suspect a dest-offset/pd_end bug in d88_emit.py propdefs emit.
Remaining: 9 crashes / 6 classes (C2-GDL, C3/C6, C2m Jungle G_MTX,
C5 Control BG portal, C4 Depot BG tile/room, C7 Surface1 sndSetupSound).
Priority order in docs/LEVEL-STATUS.md.
Also folds in the in-progress docs restructure (HANDOFF/AGENTS/CLAUDE,
PCPortResearch D121/D122 SF/SH entries, PLAN-linear-level-sweep,
HANDOFF-ARCHIVE, BACKLOG).
James Dansereau