Full arena1 mission on the pod rig (podrun.sh pod_render_norio, 5.3.83-86
staged), run clean to steady state with no fault. Operator: "the artifact
appears to be gone and the bleed from the control mode seems to be gone as
well."
Both reported symptoms -- the yellow-orange bar on the colour head and the
bleed into the MFDs -- from the one uninitialised read, closed by the one
zero-fill.
WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE, stated plainly rather than banked as a win:
This is ONE run of an INTERMITTENT, heap-content-dependent artifact. A
clean run is exactly what the UNFIXED build also produced on the gauge A/B
rig, three boots running, which is the whole reason the fix could not be
verified there. So the observation is not logically airtight on its own.
What makes it convincing anyway is the shape of the fix rather than the
count of runs: after it, no index in 64..255 can return anything but zero,
whatever the heap holds. The behaviour is deterministic by construction,
where before it was a lottery. Combined with the operator having seen the
artifact repeatedly across BOTH this reconstruction and BT411, one clean
run on the rig that was showing it is meaningful.
Further clean runs strengthen it. A recurrence would mean a SECOND source
-- most likely whatever blits the *CRIT/*HEAT silhouettes, still
unidentified, still carrying 1500-2500px of index 231 apiece -- and NOT a
failed fix. That distinction is worth keeping straight if it ever comes
back.
Still open and unchanged by this: the 354px runtime-generated cluster, and
which widget blits the 231-bearing avatar art.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CydandClaude Fable 5
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