The death-row page fault was the THIRD strike of the uninitialized
zone-array trap: the staged spawn rides the mech family's resourceID, whose
DamageZoneStream makes the Entity base ctor allocate the 20-pointer
damageZones[] array with UNINITIALIZED slots -- the Missile never fills it,
and ~Entity's teardown deleted 20 garbage pointers through trash vtables
(the dtor-chain bisect showed every dtor completing, then EIP-in-heap).
Fix: the Projectile ctor NULLs every inherited zone slot. RULE, now
three-crashes-proven: any entity subclass that does not FILL the allocated
zone array must NULL it -- the engine never initializes the slots, on
construction OR destruction.
Missiles are now the default SRM delivery (BT_MISSILE_INSTANT=1 = the
5.3.18a instant-hit as an A/B opt-out). Verified: 20 launches -> 20
detonations -> 20 clean death-row teardowns over a 110s mutual fight, zero
faults; smoke + novice regressions green.
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The Missile entity family is reconstructed: Projectile : Mover gets a real
make-path ctor; Missile hosts the Seeker + MissleThruster roster (the
AUTHENTIC surviving SEEKER.HPP / MISTHRST.HPP interfaces -- the 1995
misspelling included) and flies the binary's guided integrator (@004bef78):
age/lifetime, seeker re-lead with the decoded loft constants
(200/50/300/0.1), thruster burn, steering (gain 4.0, deadband 1e-4), and
the proximity fuse delivering the cluster damage ONCE with the launcher as
inflictor. Live-verified end-to-end: LAUNCH -> flight telemetry (thruster
visibly accelerating) -> DETONATE on the target ~0.9s out.
OPEN: the first ~Missile off the death row completes, then the frame
page-faults with EIP in the heap -- the first entity/subsystem teardown the
reconstructed sim has ever run. The spawn path is therefore OPT-IN
(BT_MISSILE_FLIGHT=1); default SRM delivery stays the 5.3.18a instant-hit
cluster (verified 1:1, zero exceptions). Forensics + engine truths
(SearchList crashes on non-directory ids; MakeMessages need FAMILY resource
ids; explosionModelFile is a model-list INDEX) in MISSILE.NOTES.md.
Also fixed on the way: the Subsystem NAME ctor left damageZone
UNINITIALIZED (latent garbage for every name-built subsystem).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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