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Phase 1 of #9254, as filed: the model and an equivalence lint, emitting nothing. No lowering path consults this; it is revertible by deleting the file.

What the survey found

Sixteen receiver-keyed fact tables on FnCtx answer the same two questions — what do we know about this receiver and how long may we believe it — and answer the second one five different ways:

mechanism tables
retain(|f| f.scope_id != id) bounded_index_pairs, packed_f64_loop_facts, masked_window_array_facts, int_range_facts, …
insert/remove, no id cached_lengths, packed_receiver_*, versioned_indexed_loop_facts
field downgraded in place buffer_view_slots
reloaded at the safepoint packed_receiver_*
nothing at all buffer_data_slots, class_keys_slots

And a boundary that none of them expresses: the unwind edge. lower_try clears no fact table. Unwind safety is obtained today by six unrelated means — the packed matcher's explicit Stmt::Try rejection, a body shape that cannot contain one, a post-hoc contains_gc_unsafe_call scan, a single try_depth == 0 gate in versioned_indexed_loop, a before-call dirty bit, or the storage kind simply not being movable. Every one is a local decision by one tier.

What this adds

RegionEnder (what ends a no-relocation region), FactBoundary (how a table expresses extent), ReceiverClaim — value vs representation vs address, the axis that decides whether a boundary is load-bearing at all — and boundary_admits, the algebra in one place.

The lint is the point

It holds the model against loop_purity::loop_may_allocate, which is shipping and audited, asserting the direction with teeth:

if the model finds no relocation point, loop_may_allocate must also have proven the body alloc-free.

The converse is deliberately not asserted — loop_may_allocate answers true for any statement it does not model (Return, Switch), which is imprecision, not a collection point.

It earned its keep before this landed. Written the obvious way — enumerate enders, default to safe — the model passed every hand-written test and failed the battery on three entries: generic IndexGet/PropertyGet can reach an accessor or a proxy trap; Expr::Closure allocates; and is_inert belongs on the whole coercing node, not per operand (the #6975 hole one abstraction up). Inverting to an allowlist with an Unmodelled catch-all closes the class — adding an HIR variant can no longer silently widen a region.

Note one deliberate divergence from collectors::safepoint_sites: it does not count property reads, because over-counting reads would over-spill a read-heavy loop and its consumer only needs a spill estimate. A region model has the opposite obligation — missing one licenses a stale cached address.

The inventory

All sixteen tables are transcribed as test data with declaration sites, and the test pins the exact set whose unwind safety is external to its stated boundary: stable_packed_loop_facts (emergent — stmt_flags has a _ => {} arm, so Stmt::Try is invisible to admission and the body tail is unconstrained) plus the three immutable-fact tables leaning on non-movable storage.

A flag is not a bug report. It says the safety comes from somewhere the boundary vocabulary cannot express — which is what phase 2 has to fix, and pinning the set is how phase 2 proves it closed one.

Gates

19 new tests. perry-codegen lib suite 1374 passed / 0 failed. rustfmt clean; clippy reports nothing on either new file; GC store-site inventory passes unchanged.

Phase 1 wants a maintainer's agreement on the region-formation rule before anything depends on it. If the algebra in boundary_admits is wrong, this is the cheapest possible place to say so.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01Pcq6j6y57TdKSR2Zx2D187

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  • Refactor

    • Added internal consistency modeling for receiver state and lifecycle boundaries.
    • Expanded handling for memory movement, conversions, suspension points, error paths, and loop checks.
  • Tests

    • Added broad validation for boundary behavior and expression classification.
    • Added checks against existing safety and loop-analysis behavior.
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    • Documented the internal model, validation coverage, and known safety considerations.
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Adds a phase-1 receiver-region model for fact-table boundaries and relocation points. It classifies HIR expressions and statements, compares the model with loop purity, and adds boundary, walker, and fact-table inventory tests.

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Receiver region modeling

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Receiver contracts and boundary algebra
crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/mod.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/receiver_regions.rs, changelog.d/9257-receiver-region-model.md
Registers the new modules. Defines region enders, fact boundaries, receiver claims, descriptors, violations, and boundary admission rules. Documents the phase-1 model.
Region-ender discovery and purity comparison
crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/receiver_regions.rs, changelog.d/9257-receiver-region-model.md
Classifies expressions and statements, records unwind and loop edges, and compares the model with loop_purity::loop_may_allocate.
Boundary, walker, and inventory validation
crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/receiver_regions_tests.rs, changelog.d/9257-receiver-region-model.md
Tests boundary rules, HIR traversal, loop-purity comparison, and sixteen receiver-keyed fact tables. Documents out-of-band unwind safety for flagged tables.

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This change adds an internal receiver-region model and validation without changing generated output or runtime behavior. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness: the region-ender ordering should be corrected before future consumers rely on it, and the rollback wording should state that both the file and module declaration must be removed.

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  LoopPurity-->>ReceiverRegionModel: return allocation-purity result
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Follow-up on the stable_packed_loop_facts row in the inventory test, since a flag there invites the question "is that a bug?" — I chased it, and the answer is no, but its safety is emergent, which is the point.

Three code-level facts, verified by reading:

  1. stmt_flags (stmt/stable_packed_loop.rs:191) ends in _ => {}. That makes Stmt::Try, While, For, DoWhile, Switch and Labeled invisible to both the later-target-read scan and call detection in body_has_safe_leading_read.
  2. fast_clone_is_safe = fast_clone_call_free || capture_index.is_some() || nested_requires_access_revalidation (:1784) — capture mode is admitted without the call-free scan.
  3. revalidate_before_indexed_read = nested_requires_access_revalidation && typed_array_admission.is_none() (:1617) — false in plain capture mode, so try_lower_index_get skips the dirty check.

Fact 1 has a demonstrable effect on admission: taking the #8773 ECS fixture, which fires the tier, and adding a later query[i] read inside a try {} in the outer capture loop, the tier still fires (2 stable_packed.loop.fast.preheader blocks) — the hidden read did not disqualify the body.

But it does not miscompile. Under PERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE=1 PERRY_GC_VERIFY_EVACUATION=1 the fixture returns node's answer, and the emitted IR shows why: 7 js_packed_arraylike_loop_revalidate_live calls, 10 proof_dirty blocks and 15 packed_index.generic_fallback blocks. The before-call dirty bit (dirty_stable_packed_revalidations_before_call, block.rs:353) plus per-read revalidation and generic fallback cover the path.

So: no bug filed, because I could not produce one. Worth recording that an earlier hand-built repro of mine returned the correct answer for a completely different reason — the tier never fired on it at all (0 fast-preheader blocks, confirmed against the #8773 shape as a positive control). A correct answer from a shape that never reaches the code under test is not evidence of anything, and I nearly banked it as such.

That is exactly the situation this PR's inventory row describes: unwind_safe_by: "EMERGENT: call-free post-scan (ordinary mode) or a dirty bit stored before every call/invoke (capture/nested modes)". Safety holds today because three independent mechanisms happen to cover what the admission scan cannot see. Nothing states that as a boundary, and nothing tests it — a fourth mode, or a stmt_flags arm added for an unrelated reason, would move it without a failing test anywhere.

I'd rather not "fix" stmt_flags to see Try/loops in this PR: it makes admission strictly narrower and would drop shapes that currently take the fast tier, so it needs measurement, not a blind tightening. Filing it as a separate hardening item unless you'd prefer it here.

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if let Some(r) = expr_region_ender(e, is_inert) {
out.push(r);
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perry_hir::walker::walk_expr_children(e, &mut |child| enders_in_expr(child, is_inert, out));

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Preserve execution order when recording region enders.

enders_in_expr records the parent ender before its child enders. A closure argument therefore records CollectingCall before AllocatingOperation, although allocation occurs before the call. The Stmt::For arm also records update before body, although each iteration executes the body first.

Walk expression children before recording the parent ender. Walk the Stmt::For body before its update expression. Add order-sensitive regression tests.

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 fn enders_in_expr(e: &Expr, is_inert: &dyn Fn(&Expr) -> bool, out: &mut Vec<RegionEnder>) {
+    perry_hir::walker::walk_expr_children(e, &mut |child| enders_in_expr(child, is_inert, out));
     if let Some(r) = expr_region_ender(e, is_inert) {
         out.push(r);
     }
-    perry_hir::walker::walk_expr_children(e, &mut |child| enders_in_expr(child, is_inert, out));
 }

-            if let Some(update) = update {
-                enders_in_expr(update, is_inert, out);
-            }
             for st in body {
                 enders_in_stmt(st, is_inert, out);
             }
+            if let Some(update) = update {
+                enders_in_expr(update, is_inert, out);
+            }

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/receiver_regions.rs` around lines 412 -
415, Update ender collection to preserve execution order: in enders_in_expr,
walk expression children before recording the parent result from
expr_region_ender, and in the Stmt::For handling, process the body before the
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no IR and no lowering path consults it**; the `#![allow(dead_code)]` at the top of
the module is the marker for that, matching the #854 subgraphs in `hir_facts`, and
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Correct the rollback statement.

Deleting receiver_regions.rs alone leaves mod receiver_regions; in crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/mod.rs, Line [46], and causes compilation to fail. State that the module declaration must also be removed, or remove this claim.

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no IR and no lowering path consults it**; the `#![allow(dead_code)]` at the top of
the module is the marker for that, matching the #854 subgraphs in `hir_facts`, and
the whole thing is revertible by deleting the file.
no IR and no lowering path consults it**; the `#![allow(dead_code)]` at the top of
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the whole thing is revertible by removing the file and its module declaration.
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In `@changelog.d/9257-receiver-region-model.md` around lines 23 - 25, Correct the
rollback statement to note that removing receiver_regions.rs also requires
removing the mod receiver_regions declaration in collectors/mod.rs;
alternatively, remove the claim that deleting only the file fully reverts the
change.

Ralph Küpper added 3 commits August 31, 2026 15:20
Codegen carries sixteen receiver-keyed fact tables on `FnCtx`. Each answers
the same two questions -- what do we know about this receiver, and how long
may we believe it -- and each answers the second one differently:

  retain(|f| f.scope_id != id)   bounded_index_pairs, packed_f64_loop_facts,
                                 masked_window_array_facts, int_range_facts, ...
  insert/remove, no id           cached_lengths, packed_receiver_*,
                                 versioned_indexed_loop_facts
  field downgraded in place      buffer_view_slots
  reloaded at the safepoint      packed_receiver_*
  nothing                        buffer_data_slots, class_keys_slots

and a fifth boundary -- the unwind edge -- is expressed by none of them. It is
honoured today by admission shape (the packed matcher rejects `Stmt::Try`), by
a single `try_depth == 0` gate in versioned_indexed_loop, by a post-hoc
`contains_gc_unsafe_call` scan, or by the storage kind simply not being
movable. Six different mechanisms, none of them a boundary the table states,
and a tier added tomorrow inherits none of them.

This adds the model: `RegionEnder` (what ends a no-relocation region),
`FactBoundary` (how a table expresses extent), `ReceiverClaim` (value vs
representation vs address -- the axis that decides whether a boundary is
load-bearing), and `boundary_admits` (the algebra, in one place).

It emits no IR and no lowering path consults it. The `#![allow(dead_code)]`
at the top is the marker for that, matching the PerryTS#854 subgraphs in `hir_facts`;
when it can be deleted, phase 2 has landed. Revertible by deleting the file.

The load-bearing artifact is the equivalence lint, which holds the model
against `loop_purity::loop_may_allocate` -- shipping and audited -- on a
shared battery, asserting the direction with teeth: if the model finds no
relocation point, `loop_may_allocate` must also have proven the body
alloc-free. The converse is deliberately not asserted, since
`loop_may_allocate` answers `true` for any statement it does not model.

That lint earned its keep before this landed. Written the obvious way --
enumerate the enders, default to safe -- the model passed every hand-written
test and failed the battery on three entries: generic `IndexGet`/`PropertyGet`
can reach an accessor or proxy trap, `Expr::Closure` allocates, and `is_inert`
belongs on the whole coercing node rather than per operand (the PerryTS#6975 hole).
Inverting the match to an allowlist with an `Unmodelled` catch-all closes that
class: adding an HIR variant can no longer silently widen a region.

Also transcribes all sixteen tables as test data with their declaration sites,
and pins the exact set whose unwind safety is external to their stated
boundary: stable_packed_loop_facts (emergent -- `stmt_flags` has a `_ => {}`
arm, so `Stmt::Try` is invisible to admission), and the three immutable-fact
tables that lean on non-movable storage. A flag is not a bug report; it says
the safety comes from somewhere the boundary vocabulary cannot express, which
is what phase 2 has to fix.

19 new tests. perry-codegen lib suite 1374 passed / 0 failed; rustfmt clean;
clippy reports nothing on either new file; GC store-site inventory passes
unchanged.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Pcq6j6y57TdKSR2Zx2D187
…ment

`-D warnings` caught `unwind_safe_by` as dead: the inventory wrote the note
but nothing read it. Silencing it with an allow would have been the wrong fix
— that column is the argument the inventory exists to make. It now appears in
the flagged-set failure message (so a future change sees WHY each table is
flagged, not just that it is), and a new test requires every row to carry a
note substantial enough to check against the code later. A note nobody reads
is how these go stale unnoticed.

Verified with the job's own command: RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo check
-p perry-codegen --all-targets, exit 0.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Pcq6j6y57TdKSR2Zx2D187
The inventory lint requires a note that names a mechanism; this row said only
"arithmetic relation" (19 chars, under the >20 bar) so the PR failed its own
test. The row holds local ids, a scope id, a width and a BoundsProof — no
pointer, so relocation cannot invalidate it — and excludes_try: false is sound
because stmts_mutate_local's Try arm descends into body, catch and finally.
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Merged, with one fix pushed onto the branch.

The PR failed its own lint. bounded_buffer_index_pairs carried unwind_safe_by: "arithmetic relation" — 19 characters, under every_inventory_row_explains_how_its_unwind_safety_is_obtained's > 20 bar — so perry-codegen did not go green. Its immediate neighbour bounded_index_pairs has the same claim, boundary and excludes_try and reads "arithmetic relation; admission walkers descend into Try".

I deliberately did not just lengthen the string. That field is a safety claim about unwind behaviour, and padding it to clear a character count would satisfy the letter of the check while defeating the exact thing your own comment says it is for — "a claim that names no mechanism cannot be checked against the code later, which is how these notes go stale without anyone noticing." So I read the code and wrote a note whose every clause is checkable:

"arithmetic relation over local ids carrying an explicit BoundsProof;
 admission walkers descend into Try"
  • over local ids — the row is index_local_id, buffer_local_id, scope_id, bounds_width_units, BoundsState. No heap pointer anywhere, which is what makes the ScalarRelation claim true: relocation moves objects, and none of those five fields is one.
  • carrying an explicit BoundsProof — what separates it from its sibling. All three push sites (loops.rs 6022, 6177, 6200) record Proven { LoopGuard } or Proven { MinLength }; bounded_index_pairs carries no proof field at all.
  • admission walkers descend into Try — the load-bearing clause, since excludes_try: false. Verified rather than copied: stmts_mutate_local's Stmt::Try arm recurses into body, catch and finally, so a write to the counter inside a try is seen at admission and the pair is never recorded.

On the model itself — the part I'd single out is that this is an inventory with a lint that can reject its own rows, not a comment block. an_address_claim_with_no_try_exclusion_is_flagged_on_the_unwind_edge and closure_allocation_is_an_ender_and_its_body_is_not_descended_into are the ones doing real work: they encode the two mistakes this codebase has actually made (an address claim surviving an unwind edge, and a walker following a closure body it must not). A table that merely listed the facts would have been documentation; one that fails the build when a row's justification stops matching the code is a gate.

The terse row is itself the evidence that the lint earns its keep — it caught a row in the very PR that introduced it.

Validation: receiver_regions suite green, exit 0, including the inventory lint. Validated alongside #9228, #9263, #9271, #9272, #9274, #9277, #9279 and #9280perry-runtime 2885 passed / 0 failed, all 60 lint gates, and a nine-row differential probe byte-identical to node 26.5.1.

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