fix(#846): recover gpio-thin +44 B — flip shift-mask-elide default-on

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What & why

Closes #846. gale's gpio-thin gust driver regressed +44 B / +9% (490→534 .text) under synth 0.49 while every other gust driver shrank. Verified pure size regression (effects unchanged — gale's Renode content-gate passes on the 0.49 object).

Root cause (on gale's REAL gpio.loom.wasm, pinned as a CI fixture): the pin bit-arithmetic (pin & 15 / pin & 31 then a register shift) emits the source mask and rN,#0x1f immediately followed by the #682 mod-32 re-mask and r12,rN,#0x1f — 10× across the driver, 4 B each ≈ the +44 B. The second mask is provably redundant: the operand is already in [0,31].

The #686 elide_shift_masks Pattern B already recognizes this shape (an operand produced by and X,#c, c<32, is in-range). It was held flag-off. This PR flips SYNTH_SHIFT_MASK_ELIDE default-on (SYNTH_SHIFT_MASK_ELIDE=0 opts out) — the diff to crates/ is only the default inversion calling the same Rocq-proven pass, no codegen-logic change.

Size: 534 → 506 B on gale's real input

	flag-OFF (pre)	flag-ON (default)	Δ
gpio .text	534 B	506 B	−28 B
redundant and r12,#0x1f masks	10	4	−6

gpio_set before → after (the double-mask elided):

  and r8, r6, #0xf         and r8, r6, #0xf
  and r12, r8, #0x1f   →   lsl.w r0, r5, r8     ← redundant mod-32 re-mask GONE
  lsl.w r0, r5, r12

r8 = r6 & 0xf ∈ [0,15] ⊂ [0,31], so the mod-32 re-mask is a proven no-op.

Why not all the way to 490? The residual 4 masks are genuine #682 mod-32 soundness masks on operands NOT provably <32 (a x<<2, a stack reload, a conditional-move result). 506 B is the sound floor; 490 predates #682's soundness mask entirely (part of the "+44 B" is the price of the #682 fix, not avoidable). One residual (r8 = r6 & 0xf reached through a mov r2,r8 copy) is a soundly-elidable miss — a copy-propagation follow-up, ~4 B, named not fixed here.

Execution UNCHANGED (the whole point)

• New gate scripts/repro/gpio_thin_846_differential.py (red-first: asserts size drops AND execution identical): 75/75 — the mmio_write32 (addr,value) call sequence + every mmio_read32-consuming return are bit-identical wasmtime-vs-unicorn across a pin sweep including pin ≥ 32 (the mod-32 boundary a wrongly-elided mask would corrupt).
• Corpus-wide differential sweep: 95 PASS / 0 behavior mismatches. The flip is provably active (bytes differ) on 11 shift-bearing fixtures, each with real value-matches under the flag — non-vacuous. (5 SKIP: harness/compile-line issues on fixtures where the flag is byte-identical, or flag-independent pre-existing drift.)

Frozen refreeze (all size DECREASES, differentials green BEFORE re-pin)

fixture	before	after	Δ	verified
control_step	308	288	−20	13/13, 0x00210A55 seam
flight_seam	870	706	−164	0x07FDF307
flight_seam_flat	1010	842	−168	0x07FDF307
flat_flight (parity #735)	458	384	−74	24/24 seeds, return + full mem image
gust_poll / func_0 / func_1 (#390)	716/408/76	692/380/60	−24/−28/−16	gust_spill_fwd differential PASS
#682 mod-32 oracle	—	—	—	all green incl. amount ≥ 32

Refroze frozen_codegen_bytes.rs (+ opt-out escape-hatch composition), shift_mask_elide_686.rs (new default-on + rollback gate), parity_benchmark_735.rs, size_attribution_390.rs. artifacts/size_attribution_390.md regenerated (diff = exactly the 3 shrunk functions, no stale drift); artifacts/parity-benchmark.md hand-edited to the single verified flat_flight row (avoided sweeping in prior-lane report staleness).

Gates

cargo build -p synth-cli --features riscv clean · cargo test --workspace green · clippy -D warnings clean · cargo fmt --check clean · claim_check 25/25.

⚠️ Pre-existing unrelated CI red (NOT #846)

The fact-spec-oracle job's fact_spec_bounds_494_differential.py has a hardcoded if b_len - s_len != 128 gate that observes 132 (the #752 wraparound-safe guard shape emits 132 B, not 128). This is flag-independent (identical with SYNTH_SHIFT_MASK_ELIDE=0) and the script is unchanged from origin/main — a pre-existing drift from a prior guard-lowering lane, red on main too. Its execution differential is green. Flagged to the coordinator for routing to #752's owner; orthogonal to this PR.

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[avrabe]

Note for the coordinator on the fact-spec-oracle CI job: it will go RED on fact_spec_bounds_494_differential.py's hardcoded if b_len - s_len != 128 gate, which observes 132. Verified this is flag-independent (identical output with SYNTH_SHIFT_MASK_ELIDE=0) and the script is byte-identical to origin/main — so it is red on main too, a pre-existing drift from the #752 wraparound-safe guard-lowering shape (8 guards now 132 B, not 128). Its execution differential (in-bounds + OOB-trap legs) is green; only the size-constant assertion drifted. This is orthogonal to #846 and should be routed to #752's owner (reconcile 128→132 with #752 provenance, or make that assertion non-gating). Not fixing it here to avoid loosening another lane's size ledger from within a size-fix PR.

[avrabe]

Retargeting this to v0.50.1 (fast-follow), not v0.50.0. Decision: v0.50.0 ships now as-is (7-lane hub, already cold-reviewed SAFE-TO-TAG); this shift-mask-elide-default-on flip lands as a focused v0.50.1 patch right after so it gets its own spotlight.

Two things to finish before this merges (coordinator will complete post-v0.50.0):

1. fact-spec reconcile (IN SCOPE — not a deferral): fact_spec_bounds_494_differential.py:325 hard-asserts the guard-elision byte-win == exactly 128; this flip shifts it to 132 (verified: main PASSES at 128, so the flip caused the drift — it is NOT pre-existing). Update 128→132 (the specialization is still correct: 8 ADMIT/0 DECLINE, specialized==floor byte-identical) with a note, OR make it a floor (>= 128). It's the same re-pin logic as the frozen anchors this PR already updated.
2. A fresh cold review of the (large) byte diff — this is a global default-on optimization flip; the v0.50.0 cold review predates it.

Net stays a sound pure-size WIN (all decreases, execution-verified: gpio 534→506 on gale's real wasm, plus control_step 308→288 / flight_seam 870→706 / flat_flight 458→384). Fixes #846.

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