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Detailed reverse-engineering notes and history for nanozip-re — a byte-exact C++17 reconstruction of the NanoZip 0.09a archiver, with no dependency on the original binary at runtime for supported methods.

Start with the README for the overview, status table, usage, build and license. This wiki holds the detail:

• Decode Coverage — how decode is measured (synthetic, multi-file, real-world and the 3000-file stratified sweep) and the bugs each corpus found.
• Console Parity · Performance — the console matrices, damaged-archive behaviour, robustness/fuzzing.
• Architecture — source layout and the decode pipeline.
• Component Status — full per-codec native-decode status, known gaps in detail, and the roadmap to 100% native decode.
• Reverse Engineering Notes — tools, workflow, and the specific findings (addresses, formulas, table contents) discovered along the way.
• Changelog — day-by-day history of every codec's path from "bridges to the original binary" to "byte-exact native", including every bug found and fixed.