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wcet: two opcodes (I64Const, I64Str) account for all 9 unmodeled-op declines on a whole OS — and 11 cascades behind them #936

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@avrabe

Follow-up to #921 / #922. The fix did exactly what was needed — thank you. Reporting the result, because it turns out to be a very small ask.

What #922 revealed

Re-ran --emit-wcet on the same object (a whole dissolved gust:os composite, 31 functions) with synth 0.55.0. The 9 previously-opaque unmodeled-op declines resolve to two opcodes:

opcode functions
I64Const 6
I64Str 3

With byte offsets, exactly as specified:

gust:os/time@0.1.0#elapsed      op=I64Const  offset=62
gust:os/time@0.1.0#resolution   op=I64Const  offset=56
exec_admit                      op=I64Str    offset=118
exec_poll_round                 op=I64Const  offset=24
func_26                         op=I64Const  offset=374

Before #922 the only way to learn this was to hand-bisect a 31-function object. It took one run afterwards.

The ask, now that it's concrete

Add cycle costs for I64Const and I64Str to the Cortex-M3/M4 model. Both look like they should be mechanical — an immediate materialisation and a 64-bit store, neither data-dependent.

The leverage is disproportionate. Current state of that object:

BOUNDED            1
callee-unbounded  11    cascade — resolves when its leaves do
unmodeled-op       9    <- these two opcodes
loop               8    needs trip counts (scry loop-bound inference)
call               2    by design — those two reach imports

The 11 callee-unbounded are downstream of the 17 leaves. So two opcodes plausibly unblock 9 functions directly and contribute to freeing 11 more — from 1 bounded toward roughly 20, with the residue being the 8 genuine loop-bound cases and the 2 seam calls that should decline.

Minor observation, not a request

reason=loop declines carry no extra fields — no head_offset in the payload for these. #922's comment mentions head_offset on bounded functions sharing the same coordinate space, so possibly it's only emitted there by design. If a loop decline could carry the backward-branch offset, locating the trip-count candidate would be as cheap as locating these opcodes just became.

Reproducible in three commands from a committed input; happy to re-run against any candidate.

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