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ReaperOfVeriod 27891ce5b4 Cross-reference scan by raw immediate: the method cannot tell
Sought the moby class loader by counting raw u16 occurrences of each chunk offset
in .text. moby_classes 0xc0 hits 49,230 times, tie_classes 0x1e80 hits 111 --
and that contrast means nothing.

Small u16 values are simply common: the most frequent value in .text occurs
1,834,535 times. A two-byte value that is frequent by construction beats a rarer
one regardless of what either references, so the comparison has no shared
denominator. Rule 3a again, one level below where it has bitten before -- not the
measurement being wrong but the comparison being uninterpretable.

Recorded as a methodological negative rather than a finding. Doing it properly
means counting immediates only where the instruction decoder says they are
immediates, which is what tools/overlay-anchors exists for.

No test added: a test asserting a meaningless comparison would make the next
reader trust it.
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