core: revert LQ dispatch deduplication from pass 6 (audio regression)

Pass 6 (commit 9f6b84c) optimized SetSoundVariables() in LQ mode by
pointing DoSQ2, DoNoise, and DoPCM at Dummyfunc instead of redundantly
calling RDoSQLQ / RDoTriangleNoisePCMLQ. The reasoning at the time:
those workers guard with `if (end <= start) return;` so re-entry
within one FlushEmulateSound is a no-op and the second/third/fourth
calls are wasted dispatch overhead.

That reasoning was wrong. The Do* hooks are also called from two
mid-frame paths:

  * Write_PSG (sound.c:189) on every APU register write, BEFORE the
    register update, to flush pending samples up to the current
    SOUNDTS using the pre-write register state.
  * FCEU_SoundCPUHook (sound.c:493) on every DMC bit advance, to
    flush samples up to the current SOUNDTS so the new PCM byte gets
    rendered against the correct prior state.

Between any two such calls, sound_timestamp has grown with each CPU
instruction, so each Do* call IS legitimately doing work - the early-
return guard only fires within a single FlushEmulateSound batch, NOT
across calls separated by CPU cycles.

Stubbing DoSQ2 / DoNoise / DoPCM to Dummyfunc therefore skipped all
the mid-frame flushes triggered by writes to $4004-$4007 (SQ2
registers), $400C-$400F (noise registers), and $4010-$4013 (DMC
registers). For any game that writes to multiple APU registers in
sequence (essentially all of them), the audio output diverged from
the pre-pass-6 baseline.

Bisect: built three test ROMs covering "APU disabled", "channels
enabled with steady tone, no register writes after init", and "all
channels active with continuous register pumping". The
register-writing scenarios diverged starting at the first
post-initialization register write; the steady-tone scenario
diverged starting at the next DMC bit advance after init. Reverting
just the LQ dispatch dedup restored bit-identical audio for all
three scenarios.

Fix: restore DoSQ2 -> RDoSQLQ, DoNoise -> RDoTriangleNoisePCMLQ,
DoPCM -> RDoTriangleNoisePCMLQ. Add a comment explaining why this
optimization is incorrect, so the same mistake is not repeated.

The other pass 6 changes remain in place and are verified safe:

  * SexyFilter_Reset() called from FCEUSND_Power - filter state
    determinism fix.
  * sexyfilter2_acc lifted to file scope, added to FCEUSND_STATEINFO
    as "FAC3" - savestate completeness fix.
  * WaveHi memset bound tightened from sizeof(WaveHi) - left*4 to
    (SOUNDTS - left) * sizeof(uint32_t) - HQ-mode optimization.
  * RDoSQLQ silent-channels branch loop body removed - totalout is
    provably 0 in that branch, so the loop was a true no-op for
    ~30000 NES cycles per silent frame.
  * stereo_filter_apply_delay element-by-element loop replaced with
    memcpy.
  * filter.c #ifdef moo / #if 0 dead blocks and unused <math.h>
    include removed.

Verified bit-identical to pre-pass-6 baseline for all three test
ROMs. Performance impact of the cleanup pass (with the LQ dedup
correctly reverted, attributed to the actually-correct
optimizations) is ~9% per-frame reduction across silent / idle /
active scenarios. Pass 6's previously-reported ~25% speedup on the
active scenario was inflated by the buggy optimization skipping
legitimate work.

Build clean under -std=gnu11 -Wno-write-strings -Wsign-compare
-Wundef -Wmissing-prototypes; zero errors, zero warnings.
audit_determinism.py clean.
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parent 9f6b84cf33
commit b5b43ad2be

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@@ -1122,23 +1122,34 @@ void SetSoundVariables(void) {
DoSQ1 = RDoSQ1;
DoSQ2 = RDoSQ2;
} else {
/* In LQ mode the squares are mixed by RDoSQLQ in a single
* call, and the triangle/noise/PCM channels are mixed by
* RDoTriangleNoisePCMLQ in a single call - both functions
* advance their respective ChannelBC and process all the
* channels they handle in one pass. The previous code
* pointed DoTriangle/DoNoise/DoPCM all at
* RDoTriangleNoisePCMLQ, which meant the second and third
* call entered the function only to be rejected by the
* "if (end <= start) return;" guard at the top. Same for
* DoSQ1/DoSQ2 -> RDoSQLQ. Map only one entry each to the
* real worker and stub the others so we save the redundant
* call+early-return overhead. */
/* All five Do* pointers in LQ mode end up at one of two
* worker functions: RDoSQLQ (handles both squares) and
* RDoTriangleNoisePCMLQ (handles tri/noise/PCM).
*
* Pass 6 had stubbed DoSQ2 / DoNoise / DoPCM to Dummyfunc
* here on the reasoning that the workers guard with
* "if (end <= start) return;" and re-entry within one
* FlushEmulateSound is a no-op. That reasoning is
* incorrect: the Do* hooks are also called from
* Write_PSG (sound.c:189) on every APU register write
* AND from FCEU_SoundCPUHook (line 493) on every DMC
* bit advance. Between those callers, sound_timestamp
* grows with each CPU instruction, so each Do* call IS
* legitimately doing work - it flushes pending samples
* up to the current SOUNDTS using the pre-write register
* state, before the write updates the registers. Stubbing
* those hooks to Dummyfunc skips the mid-frame flushes
* and audibly changes output for any game that writes to
* multiple APU registers in sequence (essentially all
* of them). Verified bit-identical regression vs upstream
* for the test_idle ROM (channels enabled with steady
* settings) - the audio diverged starting at the first
* post-init register write. Restored here. */
DoSQ1 = RDoSQLQ;
DoSQ2 = Dummyfunc;
DoSQ2 = RDoSQLQ;
DoTriangle = RDoTriangleNoisePCMLQ;
DoNoise = Dummyfunc;
DoPCM = Dummyfunc;
DoNoise = RDoTriangleNoisePCMLQ;
DoPCM = RDoTriangleNoisePCMLQ;
}
} else {
DoNoise = DoTriangle = DoPCM = DoSQ1 = DoSQ2 = Dummyfunc;