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closes #208

Fix crash from Kamek skip-return hooks (Item Rain crash) (#182) added every Kamek BranchLink patch target to lrContinuationCallTargets unconditionally, with no filter analogous to the RetroWfcHookSetsLinkRegister check already used for RetroWFC hooks. Since bl is the ordinary PowerPC call instruction, this made the codegen treat effectively every patched call in the mod as a potential skip-return hook, forcing conservative handling (full register reload, disabled resident-call fast paths, local LR-continuation dispatch tables) onto thousands of calls that just return normally.

For Retro Rewind this inflated total translated mod size by +42% (1,414,327 -> 2,005,284 lines), concentrated in ~10 unrelated overlay functions that happened to call a patched target, and was enough to make one aggregate build shard pathologically slow to compile (hangs Linux install command when building retro rewind).

Instead, only mark a bl target as LR-continuation-aware if a lightweight discovery-only decode of its own body actually finds evidence of skip-return behavior via DiscoverLrRelativeIndirectJumpOffsets. Falls back to the conservative (old) behavior if a target can't be statically analyzed, so no skip-return case is silently missed.

Verified against the real Retro Rewind mod: total mod size returns to 1,416,350 lines (+0.14% vs. pre-fix, down from +42%), all 6 genuinely new continuation functions from the original fix are preserved, zero functions lost, and all 609 existing translator tests still pass.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved branch-link continuation handling for functions that return normally.
    • Improved recognition of direct, indirect, conditional, and chained return patterns.
    • Improved handling of complex indirect jumps when analysis is incomplete or reaches exploration limits.
    • Reduced unnecessary continuation dispatch while preserving conservative handling when return behavior cannot be fully determined.
    • Improved continuation behavior across shared hooks, patched callers, and saved or restored return addresses.

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The translator now uses cached LR continuation analysis for hook targets. Bounded or unresolved exploration remains conservative. Continuation registration occurs during hook processing. New unit and integration tests cover analysis limits and generated dispatch.

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LR continuation analysis

Layer / File(s) Summary
Continuation planner contracts
translator/src/Translator.Core/Mods/ContinuationPlanner.cs
The planner uses a 512-state cap, reports dropped states and unresolved exits, preserves offsets from other paths, and does not traverse conditional call targets.
Cached hook analysis and continuation registration
translator/src/Translator.Core/Mods/LrContinuationAnalysis.cs, translator/src/Translator.Cli/Program.cs
Hook bodies are analyzed through cached LrContinuationAnalysis results. The CLI skips targets that cannot skip returns and eagerly registers continuation addresses, including aligned caller instructions after truncated analysis.
Analysis and translation validation
translator/tests/Translator.Tests/*
Tests cover bounded and exhaustive analysis, tail-call behavior, unresolved paths, skip-return dispatch, ordinary returns, shared hooks, patched callers, and generated continuation entries.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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  participant Translator
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  participant GeneratedSource
  Translator->>EmitModCpp: Process linked hook target
  EmitModCpp->>LrContinuationAnalysis: Analyze hook body
  LrContinuationAnalysis->>ContinuationPlanner: Discover continuation offsets
  ContinuationPlanner-->>LrContinuationAnalysis: Return offsets and completeness status
  LrContinuationAnalysis-->>EmitModCpp: Return cached analysis
  EmitModCpp->>GeneratedSource: Register continuation dispatch
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- Around line 289-291: Update RecordDiscoveredLrRelativeBaseContinuations and
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I compared Retro Rewind output on main at 53d8f71 and this branch at 5de68b1. Same disc, RMCP01 rev 0, Retro Rewind 6.12.8 and the same base manifest.

Continuations stay at 81 and there are still 108 rr_continue symbols. translated_sources.bin drops from 49.0 MB to 33.1 MB, about a third smaller, which lines up with the size regression in #208.

The catch is 0x807EF16C. On main the translated output has a local resume point there. On this branch it's gone. That's the missing_jump_target address from #83, CtrlRaceItemWindow::OnUpdate+0x208, hit when the held item changes. So this may bring #83 back. I only compared translator output and didn't run a build.

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I can confirm that this PR fixes the compile hang I was getting with retro rewind

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2820-2821: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Retain the continuation when exploration reaches the state cap

RecordDiscoveredLrRelativeBaseContinuations calls DiscoverLrRelativeIndirectJumpOffsets without its state-cap callback. ContinuationPlanner can drop a capped state and return no offsets, even though the result is incomplete. The method then enqueues no ContinuationEntry, so a module BranchLink target can lose continuation handling. Propagate the callback and retain the continuation when exploration is capped.

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In `@translator/src/Translator.Cli/Program.cs` around lines 2820 - 2821, Update
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added tests to make sure no regressions happen

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Ive attempted a fix myself, let me know if this fixes everything properly

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@patchzyy what are your thoughts on this?

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Also, I did test this PR (at its current state) with the original bug (never tested myself before) by enabling only banana's and blue shells and can't get a crash. (I've verified in game that blue shells exploding on bananas don't crash the game)

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Fix crash from Kamek skip-return hooks (Item Rain crash) (patchzyy#182) added every
Kamek BranchLink patch target to lrContinuationCallTargets unconditionally,
with no filter analogous to the RetroWfcHookSetsLinkRegister check already
used for RetroWFC hooks. Since bl is the ordinary PowerPC call instruction,
this made the codegen treat effectively every patched call in the mod as a
potential skip-return hook, forcing conservative handling (full register
reload, disabled resident-call fast paths, local LR-continuation dispatch
tables) onto thousands of calls that just return normally.

For Retro Rewind this inflated total translated mod size by +42%
(1,414,327 -> 2,005,284 lines), concentrated in ~10 unrelated overlay
functions that happened to call a patched target, and was enough to make
one aggregate build shard pathologically slow to compile (hangs Linux CI).

Instead, only mark a bl target as LR-continuation-aware if a lightweight
discovery-only decode of its own body actually finds evidence of
skip-return behavior via DiscoverLrRelativeIndirectJumpOffsets. Falls back
to the conservative (old) behavior if a target can't be statically
analyzed, so no skip-return case is silently missed.

Verified against the real Retro Rewind mod: total mod size returns to
1,416,350 lines (+0.14% vs. pre-fix, down from +42%), all 6 genuinely new
continuation functions from the original fix are preserved, zero
functions lost, and all 609 existing translator tests still pass.
CodeRabbit flagged that TargetExhibitsLrSkipReturn (added in ad2d4e7) treated
an empty DiscoverLrRelativeIndirectJumpOffsets result as a verified "this
target never skip-returns," but the analysis silently drops any path state
once more than MaxStatesPerInstruction (16) distinct states reach one
instruction - a bctr/return on a dropped state can never contribute its
offset, so an empty result could be an incomplete search rather than a real
negative. Treating every capped case as "skip-return possible" outright was
rejected as too broad a fallback given how conservative/expensive that path
already is.

Instead: raise MaxStatesPerInstruction 16 -> 512 (an arbitrary conservative
bound to begin with, not something correctness depended on) so genuinely
branchy functions have far more headroom to reach an exhaustive answer, and
give DiscoverLrRelativeIndirectJumpOffsets an optional onStateCapExceeded
callback that fires exactly when a state is dropped. TargetExhibitsLrSkipReturn
now only falls back to the conservative "treat as skip-return" answer when
the search both found nothing and the cap was actually hit during that run -
not whenever the cap merely exists - so a target is trusted as clean once the
search genuinely exhausts it.

Verified: all 609 translator tests pass, and a full translate-mod run against
the real Retro Rewind mod produces byte-for-byte identical output to the
prior fix (same 4,065 functions, 1,416,350 total lines) - confirming the
16-state cap was never actually the limiting factor in practice and this
change is a pure safety-net closure, not a behavior change for this mod.
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rebase on main

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patchzyy merged commit 8e0cc96 into patchzyy:main Sep 14, 2026
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@patchzyy what are your thoughts on this?

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Worst case the translator generates extra possible outcomes to avoid missing the correct one. + it doesnt happen, i dont consider it a blocker, you could make a PR fixing it but i dont see the reason to right now to block it

iChris4 added a commit to iChris4/Wiicompiled_VR that referenced this pull request Sep 18, 2026
Brings in the keyboard/mouse rebinding overhaul (patchzyy#162), the Kamek
skip-return hook fixes (patchzyy#182, patchzyy#218), the exit button and controller LED
fix (patchzyy#221), the autohide-cursor and mute hotkey fix (patchzyy#211), the Linux
--sysroot plumbing (patchzyy#224) and the switch to the theofficialgman
dawn-build fork (patchzyy#215).

Conflicts resolved to keep the VR integration intact:

- settings_overlay.cpp/.h: kept both new declarations. The controller
  rebinding UI takes upstream's click-to-rebind widgets wholesale - our
  only edit there was wrapping the combo width in Scaled(), and
  upstream's bindingWidth is already font-relative, so the headset
  panel still scales. Kept our DrawResolutionMenu() extraction (the VR
  panel reuses it) while adopting upstream's DrawExitPrompt() and its
  new DrawTopBar() prologue; kept our Diagnostics menu alongside
  upstream's exit-button width math. HandleEvents merges both keyboard
  paths, with the VR recenter hotkey now guarded by !g_rebind.active so
  it cannot fire while a binding is being captured.

- AuroraDawnProvider.cmake: dropped our now-dead Android hash block.
  Upstream restructured the pins into an if/elseif chain that already
  covers android/aarch64, with the digest for the new dawn-build fork;
  our leftover block was unreachable and carried the old encounter
  digest.

- Version plumbing (Build-Installer.ps1, Setup.Windows Program.cs and
  csproj): kept this fork's own line, which is 0.2.39 and centralised in
  Launcher/Directory.Build.props, rather than regressing to upstream's
  hardcoded 0.2.32.

Verified: translator 654/654; runtime ctest 14/14 including every VR
test; WiiCompiled and RetroRewind link; aurora gx_fifo_tests 262/263,
the one failure being the TevRegisterLiveness case already documented as
pre-existing on this branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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