2026-09-03 - the orbistoun backlog is the whole list now

backlog 022    4 entries  ->  504 functions, 717 questions

Written yesterday as four questions orbistoun could not answer. orbistoun's ledger holds 717 open questions across 504 functions, so four was a sample, and a console day against it would have answered four things.

Joined, not curated

orbistoun-cli questions ranks every unverified claim by how often a guest calls the function. Joined against platform.h (callable) and the OBS_SURFACE_* lists (censused), that sorts into three tiers by what blocks the measurement:

tier	blocked on	count	recorded calls
callable	nothing - write the check	137	1,256,209
censused	a signature	63	27,511
absent	a name	303	221,203

Tier 1 is an afternoon of checks against functions guests call a million times. D320 has the reasoning, including why the axis is what-blocks-it rather than which-library.

The join checked itself, and the first one was wrong

A name cannot be both callable and censused - surface.h declares the census as const char precisely so the type system forbids calling it. Overlap must be zero, and the first extraction reported 67: a fact about a loose regex, not about the headers. Tightened to the OBS_WEAK declarations and the X(...) census lists, overlap went to zero, and three entries from each tier were then checked against the headers by hand.

Worth the two minutes. Reporting a tier-1 count of 204 would have promised checks that cannot be written.

What landed in which tier, and one that surprised

_Getpctype is absent - not censused, not declared - and the current run calls it 415 times. sceKernelDebugOutText is absent too, at 220,383 recorded calls. The two loudest functions a guest touches were not on this project's radar at all.

scePthreadSetprio and scePthreadSetaffinity are tier 2, and they are the only two stub calls left in PPSA02664's whole run - 2,075 of 2,077 calls reach a real implementation. A lawful reference unblocks them, not a console run.

State

Identity scan clean. Nothing committed; the day holds D302, D303, D314, D315, D320, worklogs 153-155, the matrix subcommand, the rewritten decisions gate, the doccheck fix, backlog 022, and nine normalised headings.