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arcattackandClaude Opus 5 f3bdb3b85a Searchlight + ThermalSight ToggleLamp WIRED (#61) -- and a swapped table attribution ROOT-CAUSED, retracting a false "1995 latent bug"
Both classes' Receiver::MessageHandlerSet were default-constructed blackholes
(input-path audit systemic cause #1): entryCount 0, no parent chain, Find()
returns NullHandler for every id, Receive drops silently.  The new unhandled-
message trace printed it on the first press:

    [btntest] PRESS 0x14 at poll 400
    [msg] UNHANDLED: Searchlight has no handler for message id 3

Each class now has a GetMessageHandlers() function-local static chained to
PowerWatcher's (which name-resolves through HeatWatcher/MechSubsystem to
Receiver's empty ROOT set, so id 3 does NOT collide with HeatSink's
ToggleCooling), plus a correctly-typed forwarder -- Receiver::Handler is
void(const Message*) while the decomp shape is Logical(Message&), so a cast
would be UB that merely happens to work on x86 __thiscall.  DefaultData
re-pointed off the dead empty sets.  MessageArg now reads the NAMED
ReceiverDataMessageOf<int>::dataContents with a static_assert locking it to the
binary's message+0xC (was a raw offset read -- databinding rule).

ROOT CAUSE of a long-standing misattribution: @004b860c is **ThermalSight's**
ToggleLamp (table @0x51120C), NOT Searchlight's.  The two TUs emit parallel
shared-data blocks with identical stride (msg entry, +0x5C attrs, +0x84
Performance triple); what pins each entry to its TU is that "ToggleLamp" is NOT
pooled across them -- two copies exist, each emitted immediately before its own
class-name string ("Searchlight"@0x51144B, "ThermalSight"@0x511475).
[T1: reference/decomp/section_dump.txt:69661-69711]

Searchlight's own handler is @004b838c, which sits in a Ghidra EXPORT GAP (#60).
RECOVERED by raw disassembly of content/BTL4OPT.EXE (scratchpad/dis838c.py, the
EjectAmmo technique) -- and it corrected two things I had inferred wrong:
  * NO ControlsAllowLights/+0x25C novice gate.  Searchlight tests the press
    alone; that lock is ThermalSight-only.  A NOVICE pilot CAN work the lamp.
  * `or word ptr [this+0x18],1` sits AT the jle target -> the graphics-dirty bit
    (updateModel == ForceUpdate(), per #59) is raised UNCONDITIONALLY.

Consequence: the "ORIGINAL 1995 LATENT BUG -- the searchlight can never light"
claim is RETRACTED.  It compared Searchlight's Performance (@004b841c, reads
requestedOn@0x1E0) against ThermalSight's toggle (0x1DC) -- two different
classes -- and so invented a missing 0x1DC->0x1E0 bridge.  Every sibling toggles
the field its own Performance reads.  The searchlight DID light in the arcade,
the searchlight->fog swap was NOT inert there, and building PullFogRenderable is
FAITHFUL rather than a designer-intent deviation (the 2026-07-13 "left as-is"
decision is void; the sim needs no repair).

Verified live, real click seam (BT_BTNTEST):
  0x14 -> [light] requested ON -> reported lightState 0 -> 1     (lamp lights)
  0x12 -> [light] thermal sight requested ON -> thermalActive 0 -> 1
UNHANDLED lines for both classes gone; 40 LNK2019 unchanged (the pre-existing
CreateStreamedSubsystem + Entity__SharedData::DefaultData families only).

Swept the misattribution out of searchlight.cpp/.hpp, thermalsight.cpp/.hpp,
hud.cpp:282 (it had claimed @00511180/@004b838c as HUD's), btplayer.cpp's +0x25C
consumer list, context/{decomp-reference,subsystems,rendering,open-questions,
pod-hardware,experience-levels}.md, docs/{GLASS_COCKPIT,INPUT_PATH_AUDIT}.md.
checkctx.py CLEAN.

Still open (documented, not fixed): ThermalSight has no visible IR effect
(ToggleGlobalThermalVision is a marked no-op, pvision unported, IsLocallyViewed
returns False); ThermalSight publishes "LightState"->0x1D8 where the binary has
"LightOn"->0x1D8 and "LightState"->0x1E0; Searchlight's commandedOn@0x1DC has no
identified role and measured 21 live, hinting our SubsystemResource +0x28 differs
from the binary's.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-25 10:46:59 -05:00

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"""Raw-disassemble Searchlight::ToggleLamp @004b838c -- a Ghidra export gap (#60).
The exported functions_index.tsv jumps straight to 4b83b8, so this body was never
in the pseudocode. It is the handler bound by Searchlight's message table
@0051117c {3, "ToggleLamp"@00511440, @004b838c}. Same technique that recovered
EjectAmmo @004bb9b8 (see context/decomp-reference.md).
Also dumps ThermalSight's @004b860c for a side-by-side, since that one IS exported
and is the structural sibling the reconstruction was inferred from.
"""
import struct
from capstone import *
PATH = r"C:\git\bt411\content\BTL4OPT.EXE"
data = open(PATH, "rb").read()
e_lfanew = struct.unpack_from("<I", data, 0x3C)[0]
coff = e_lfanew + 4
num_sec = struct.unpack_from("<H", data, coff + 2)[0]
opt_size = struct.unpack_from("<H", data, coff + 16)[0]
opt = coff + 20
image_base = struct.unpack_from("<I", data, opt + 28)[0]
sec_tbl = opt + opt_size
secs = []
for i in range(num_sec):
off = sec_tbl + i * 40
vsize, va, rawsize, rawptr = struct.unpack_from("<IIII", data, off + 8)
secs.append((va, vsize, rawptr, rawsize))
def va_to_off(va):
rva = va - image_base
for sva, vsize, rawptr, rawsize in secs:
if sva <= rva < sva + max(vsize, rawsize):
return rawptr + (rva - sva)
return None
md = Cs(CS_ARCH_X86, CS_MODE_32)
for name, va, length in (
("Searchlight::ToggleLamp @004b838c (EXPORT GAP -- ground truth)", 0x004b838c, 0x2c),
("ThermalSight::ToggleLamp @004b860c (exported sibling)", 0x004b860c, 0x3c),
):
off = va_to_off(va)
print("=" * 78)
print(name)
print("=" * 78)
for ins in md.disasm(data[off:off + length], va):
print(" %08x %-22s %s %s" % (ins.address, ins.bytes.hex(), ins.mnemonic, ins.op_str))
print()