Fix GDI zero-ink glyph handling

docs/phase-b-framework.md

@@ -71,6 +71,28 @@ When the escalation trigger is met:
 End the escalation once the reproduced discrepancy and its relevant contract are explained. Do not expand it
 into reconstructing unused handlers, recovering the whole native engine, or producing a byte-matching C build.
 
+### DEBUGMAP P008/P009 GDI worker-end regression corrected (2026-08-15)
+
+A live `SYSTEM4 > FIELD > SC0270` run first reported `[vm] ended: unknown` while the locator still showed P008
+(`SC0270@0x5b22`). The coordinate is an ordinary `wait-for-input`; its next instruction begins P009. A
+corpus-backed regression and automated portable-text runs crossed that boundary, but those runs did not exercise
+the exact Windows GDI rasterizer used by normal Windows play. The `unknown` message also hid the actionable
+exception because the worker's `finally` set the completion flag while the main loop printed only the unset VM
+halt reason. Godot now retains and prints the complete worker exception and automatically writes a
+`worker-failure` diagnostic snapshot at the last traced script/opcode coordinate.
+
+The next live failure and that snapshot localized the defect to P009's `show-text` at `SC0270@0x5bea`. This line
+contains an ideographic full-width space (`U+3000`, CP932 `0x8140`). With `ＭＳ 明朝` at the active 24-pixel
+style, `GetGlyphOutlineA(GGO_GRAY4_BITMAP)` returns the spacing glyph's advance and a nominal 1x1 metric box but
+reports a zero-byte bitmap requirement. The adapter incorrectly required the reported buffer size to equal the
+four-byte aligned metric box and threw before P009 could be published. It now treats only a zero-byte result as
+a zero-ink glyph: the GDI placement and advance metrics are retained and the implied mask is filled with
+transparent coverage. Nonzero short or oversized payloads remain hard failures. A focused Windows regression
+reproduces the original 0-versus-4 result and verifies that the ideographic space advances without drawing ink;
+the SYSTEM4/DEBUGMAP boundary regression remains in place. The user then repeated the normal exact-GDI
+DEBUGMAP entry and confirmed that the dialogue now continues into the map without the worker failure, accepting
+the fix end to end.
+
 ## Stage B0 — Ground-truth reconnaissance
 
 Before changing runtime architecture, record the original game's path from process start through the first

engine/Age.Engine.Tests/DebugSceneLaunchTests.cs

@@ -7,6 +7,36 @@ using Xunit;
 
 public class DebugSceneLaunchTests
 {
+    private sealed class ReachedDebugMapPage8ContinuationException : Exception { }
+
+    private sealed class LaunchDebugMapAndStopAfterPage8Sink : ITraceSink
+    {
+        public VirtualMachine Vm = null!;
+        public bool TracingSteps => true;
+
+        public void Emit(in TraceEvent e)
+        {
+            if (e.Kind == TraceEventKind.FrameEnter
+                && e.Name?.Equals("TITLE.BIN", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == true)
+            {
+                DebugFrameSnapshot frame = Assert.IsType<DebugFrameSnapshot>(Vm.DebugFrame);
+                Assert.True(Vm.TryRequestDebugFrameReturn(frame.FrameId, new Dictionary<int, long>
+                {
+                    [0] = 1,
+                    [0xaba5c] = -1,
+                    [0x62ccf] = 0,
+                    [0x699] = 0x338c,
+                }));
+            }
+
+            if (e.Kind == TraceEventKind.Step
+                && e.Ins?.Offset == 0x5b25
+                && Vm.DebugFrame?.CurrentScript.Equals(
+                    "SC0270.BIN", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == true)
+                throw new ReachedDebugMapPage8ContinuationException();
+        }
+    }
+
     private static Operand I(long value) => new(0, value);
     private static Operand G(long address) => new(3, address);
     private static (int, Operand[]) Call(Operand id) => (0x3, new[] { id });
@@ -15,6 +45,24 @@ public class DebugSceneLaunchTests
     private static (int, Operand[]) Sleep() => (0xc8, new[] { I(1) });
     private static (int, Operand[]) Exit() => (0x2, Array.Empty<Operand>());
 
+    [Fact]
+    [Trait("Category", "Workspace")]
+    public void RealDebugMapLaunchContinuesPastSc0270Page8Wait()
+    {
+        var table = OpcodeTableJson.Load(Paths.OpcodesJson);
+        var scripts = Sys4ScriptProvider.Load(table);
+        var sink = new LaunchDebugMapAndStopAfterPage8Sink();
+        var vm = new VirtualMachine(
+            scripts.RequireByName("SYSTEM4.BIN"), table, new CaptureHost(),
+            new VmOptions(MaxSteps: 1_000_000), scripts, sink);
+        sink.Vm = vm;
+
+        Exception? exception = Record.Exception(() => vm.Run());
+
+        Assert.IsType<ReachedDebugMapPage8ContinuationException>(exception);
+        Assert.Null(vm.HaltReason);
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public async Task ParkedTitleFrameReturnsToCoordinatorWhichDispatchesSelectedScript()
     {

engine/Age.Engine.Tests/WindowsGdiGlyphMaskRasterizerTests.cs

@@ -60,6 +60,19 @@ public class WindowsGdiGlyphMaskRasterizerTests
         Assert.All(actual.Coverage.ToArray(), value => Assert.InRange(value, (byte)0, (byte)16));
     }
 
+    [Fact]
+    public void IdeographicSpacePreservesAdvanceWithTransparentCoverage()
+    {
+        if (!WindowsGdiGlyphMaskRasterizer.TryGetAvailability(out _)) return;
+
+        using var rasterizer = new WindowsGdiGlyphMaskRasterizer();
+        GlyphMask space = rasterizer.Rasterize(
+            NativeRequest("ＭＳ 明朝", 24, -12, 0, 0x3000));
+
+        Assert.True(space.CellAdvanceX > 0);
+        Assert.All(space.Coverage.ToArray(), value => Assert.Equal(0, value));
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public void FontHandlesUseTheSharedBoundedLruAndDisposeCleanly()
     {

engine/Age.Engine.Text.Windows/WindowsGdiGlyphMaskRasterizer.cs

@@ -124,7 +124,11 @@ public sealed class WindowsGdiGlyphMaskRasterizer
         int height = checked((int)metrics.BlackBoxY);
         int stride = checked((width + 3) & ~3);
         int expectedBytes = checked(stride * height);
-        if (size != expectedBytes)
+        // CP932 0x8140 (U+3000 IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE) is a zero-ink spacing glyph. GDI reports
+        // its placement as a nominal 1x1 black box but returns a zero-byte required buffer.
+        // Preserve those metrics and materialize the implied transparent mask; a nonzero
+        // short/oversized payload still means that the bitmap contract is inconsistent.
+        if (size != 0 && size != expectedBytes)
             throw new InvalidOperationException(
                 $"GDI gray-4 buffer size {size} disagrees with {width}x{height}, stride {stride}.");
 

godot/Main.cs

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ public partial class Main : Godot.Control
     private volatile bool _done;
     private bool _ended;
     private Task? _vmTask;
+    private Exception? _vmFailure;
     private bool _selftest;
     private string? _shotPath;                 // --shot <png>: capture a page then quit (dev tool)
     private int _shotPage = 1;                  // --shot-page <n>: which page to capture (default 1)
@@ -455,6 +456,7 @@ public partial class Main : Godot.Control
         _vmTask = Task.Run(() =>
         {
             try { _vm.Run(); }
+            catch (Exception error) { _vmFailure = error; }
             finally { _done = true; }
         });
 
@@ -560,14 +562,24 @@ public partial class Main : Godot.Control
             {
                 _ended = true;
                 DumpHistogram();
-                GD.Print($"[vm] ended: {_vm!.HaltReason ?? "unknown"} after {_vm.Steps} steps");
+                if (_vmFailure != null)
-                ReportSubroutines();
-                ShowEnd();
-                if (_vm.HaltReason == "STEP-LIMIT")
                 {
-                    GodotTraceSnapshot haltTrace = _trace.HaltSnapshot ?? _trace.Snapshot();
+                    GD.PushError($"[vm] worker failed after {_vm!.Steps} steps: {_vmFailure}");
-                    GD.Print(StepLimitDiagnosticFormatter.Format(haltTrace, _table!));
+                    ReportSubroutines();
-                    CaptureStallDiagnostic(haltTrace, "step-limit");
+                    if (!_selftest)
+                        CaptureStallDiagnostic(_trace.Snapshot(), "worker-failure");
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    GD.Print($"[vm] ended: {_vm!.HaltReason ?? "unknown"} after {_vm.Steps} steps");
+                    ReportSubroutines();
+                    ShowEnd();
+                    if (_vm.HaltReason == "STEP-LIMIT")
+                    {
+                        GodotTraceSnapshot haltTrace = _trace.HaltSnapshot ?? _trace.Snapshot();
+                        GD.Print(StepLimitDiagnosticFormatter.Format(haltTrace, _table!));
+                        CaptureStallDiagnostic(haltTrace, "step-limit");
+                    }
                 }
                 if (_selftest) RunSelfTestAndQuitOnFailure();
             }