[purabshah8]

Before

Stash allocation and transfers were split between storage, world data and a generic resource module. LookupResourceEntry actually returned a stash reservation length, while duplicate table views hid that relationship. Send's two lengths were also easy to confuse: one controls DMA size and the other reserves IOP space.

After

Group the four helpers under storage/stash, give the shared state and table one layout, and rename the count helper to stash_get_reserved_qwords in both callers. Keep its linker symbol, transfer types, expression order, compiler routes and retail preconditions. Add EE layout checks and a module guide with source evidence and research limits. Correct the source-layout note: send submits direct SIF DMA, not stash RPC command 0.

Built on merged #233. No new recovery or native gameplay behavior is claimed.

Verification

• Full boot byte equality, pinned SHA-256 and symbol-address checks pass.
• Full overlays pass: 3,001 C functions, 18,736 additional placements and 6,630 level-data objects.
• All 101 public tests, report/map generation and cleanup checks pass.
• Five freshly rebuilt objects (1,236 bytes) match retail and the aggregate objects, including relocations.
• All 20 EE layout checks pass with the verified game compiler profile.

The optional legacy compiler profile remains unset; two unrelated boot units retain their documented oracle fallback. Renamed units reuse unchanged retail reference objects under their new paths. No reference bytes or checker rules changed.

Verification ran on a31e2851a5a91df821d09c889346a8819379a20b. Candidate 4f5578a080351b578c105109e1510eb3ed150bad differs only by the reviewed docs/audio-voices.md trim: all build inputs are byte-identical, so the existing exact-match receipts apply. The branch is based on merge commit 064099d7; it merges cleanly into current main, but the newer compiler-patch rewrite in #235 is not covered by these receipts.

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Decompilation progress

	C_EXACT	Change	Matched bytes	Functions	C_FUZZY
All code	98.72 %	—	3,502,500 / 3,547,932 B (—)	4,218 / 4,244 (—)	98.86 %
Boot executable	98.04 %	—	347,548 / 354,504 B (—)	1,222 / 1,230 (—)	99.46 %
Game	98.36 %	—	268,988 / 273,476 B (—)	904 / 909 (—)	99.73 %
SDK	96.95 %	—	78,560 / 81,028 B (—)	318 / 321 (—)	98.55 %
Level overlays	98.80 %	—	3,154,952 / 3,193,428 B (—)	2,996 / 3,014 (—)	98.80 %
Shared level code	97.34 %	—	1,100,468 / 1,130,492 B (—)	1,569 / 1,583 (—)	97.34 %
Per-level code	99.59 %	—	2,054,484 / 2,062,936 B (—)	1,427 / 1,431 (—)	99.59 %

	Data in C	Change	Matched bytes
All data	43.58 %	—	5,418,333 / 12,433,372 B (—)
Boot executable	2.32 %	—	16,238 / 699,136 B (—)
Level overlays	46.04 %	—	5,402,095 / 11,734,236 B (—)

No function changed its match state compared with main (064099d).

_{Compared with main (064099d). C_FUZZY uses main's last measurement.}