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diag(codegen): name the range matcher's rejection reason under PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_TRACE - #9258

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Diagnostic only, no behaviour change. Refs #9248.

Why

match_packed_f64_range_loop has 23 independent return None sites and no way to tell which one declined a given loop. #9204 gave match_packed_f64_versioned_loop exactly this treatment, after three separate attempts on #9151 each guessed a different gate. The range matcher never got the equivalent.

I then repeated the mistake, at cost. Investigating why s = s + a[k + 8] runs 4× slower than s = s + a[k], I widened the range matcher's index recognizer to accept a loop-invariant base (a[base + k]), verified it against seven adversarial cases — base assigned mid-loop, negative base, base pushing the window past i32::MAX, two different bases for one array — and it was completely inert. The loop was never being declined where I assumed. I discarded that branch.

With the trace, the same question took one run:

$ PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_TRACE=1 perry build probe.ts
[range-loop] rejected: body_not_admissible

What it does

Each of the 23 sites returns through range_loop_reject("<reason>") instead of a bare None, naming the condition that failed — counter_not_integer, bound_not_loop_invariant, body_not_admissible, counter_window_out_of_i32, store_not_fact_eligible, and so on. Same env var as #9204, distinct [range-loop] prefix so the two matchers are separable in one run.

Off unless PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_TRACE=1; reasons are &'static str, the check is a OnceLock read, and every replaced site returns None exactly as before.

Validation

  • RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo check -p perry-codegen --all-targets: 0 errors
  • Verified the trace answers the motivating question on first use, and that it distinguishes admitted from declined loops on single-loop fixtures

Note for whoever continues #9248

The trace establishes that a[k + 8] is admitted by the range matcher — so the 4× cost is not an admission failure, and two of my attempted fixes were inert for that reason. It is also not the emitted fast path: the hot loop bodies are 11 instructions for a[k] against 13 for a[k + 8]. The remaining candidate is that the fast clone is not entered at runtime, or that a different matcher claims the loop first and publishes a fact with window_validated: falselower_packed_f64_versioned_for (which does) runs at loops.rs:5854, before the range lowering at :5861, and packed_f64_loop_fact_for_index declines any non-zero offset unless the fact carries window_validated or allow_holes. I have not confirmed that, and say so rather than leave it as an assertion in the issue.

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  • Diagnostics
    • Added optional tracing for packed numeric range-loop matching decisions.
    • When enabled, rejected matches now report a specific reason.
    • Loop matching behavior remains unchanged by default.

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The packed numeric range-loop matcher now logs specific rejection reasons when PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_TRACE=1. The matcher’s admission behavior remains unchanged.

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Packed range-loop tracing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Add rejection diagnostics
crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/loops.rs
Adds conditional tracing for rejected labels, initialization, bounds, counter updates, counter types, body shapes, array bindings, access windows, stores, and static array types.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to dcbc8

The change preserves loop-matching behavior, but some opt-in trace messages may identify the wrong rejection reason, which could mislead debugging of code-generation decisions. This is a bounded follow-up risk and the PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness.

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/loops.rs`:
- Line 1213: Update the rejection reasons in the range-loop validation logic so
each matches the predicate that failed: distinguish a let binding with no
initializer from a non-let initializer near the init matcher, separate counter
storage/boxing, bound-safety, and entry-range failures near the counter checks,
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make each rejection reason match the failed predicate.

Line 1213 reports init_not_a_let for Stmt::Let { init: None }. Line 1276 reports counter_not_integer for storage, boxing, bound-safety, and entry-range failures. Lines 1346 and 1354 report scalar-replaced arrays as *_not_addressable. Split these conditions or rename the reasons. Otherwise, trace output can point debugging at the wrong matcher gate.

Also applies to: 1276-1276, 1346-1346, 1354-1354

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/loops.rs` at line 1213, Update the rejection
reasons in the range-loop validation logic so each matches the predicate that
failed: distinguish a let binding with no initializer from a non-let initializer
near the init matcher, separate counter storage/boxing, bound-safety, and
entry-range failures near the counter checks, and use an appropriate reason for
scalar-replaced arrays when they are not addressable. Preserve the existing
rejection behavior while correcting the diagnostic reason strings.

…PACKED_LOOP_TRACE

`match_packed_f64_range_loop` has 23 independent `return None` sites and no
way to tell which one declined a loop. PerryTS#9204 gave `match_packed_f64_versioned_loop`
exactly this treatment after three attempts on PerryTS#9151 each guessed a different
gate; the range matcher was left without it, and I promptly repeated the
mistake — I widened its index recognizer to accept a loop-invariant base
(`a[base + k]`), got it correct against seven adversarial cases, and it was
completely inert, because the loop was never being declined where I assumed.

With the trace the same question took one run:

    $ PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_TRACE=1 perry build probe.ts
    [range-loop] rejected: body_not_admissible

Each site gets a name describing the condition that failed, so a declined
loop reports which of the 23 gates it hit instead of requiring a bisect
through the matcher. Off unless the env var is set; reasons are
`&'static str` and the check is a `OnceLock` read.

No behaviour change: every replaced site returns `None` exactly as before.
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Merged, with one fix pushed onto the branch.

The motivation is the right one and it is the second time this exact argument has paid: #9204 gave the versioned matcher a named rejection reason after three attempts on #9151 each guessed a different gate, and #9248 then guessed on the range matcher — widening a predicate that was never the thing rejecting the loop. An admission chain of independent conditions where the only feedback is "it didn't fire" costs hours, repeatedly, and a one-line eprintln! ends it.

Verified the diagnostic actually works in both directions, because a diagnostic that never prints is indistinguishable from a dead one and I have merged an inert instrument before:

  • flag off → zero [range-loop] lines
  • flag on → four distinct reasons on shapes chosen to hit different gates: init_not_integer_literal (non-literal init), pending_labels (labelled loop), start_out_of_i32_range (negative start), written_binding_not_eligible

So it discriminates rather than printing one catch-all.

What I fixed: the new range_loop_reject was inserted between match_packed_f64_range_loop's 14-line doc comment and the function itself, which silently reassigns that whole block — the receiver-guard explanation, the runtime index-window rationale, the one-statement body restriction — to the helper, and leaves the matcher undocumented. Rustdoc does not complain; the only symptom is that the docs are attached to the wrong thing. I moved the helper above the matcher's doc block so both keep their own.

Worth flagging because it is now the third time I have seen it in this repo (#9161, and again here after a rebase re-applied the same insertion): adding a function immediately above an existing one silently steals its doc comment. Cheap to check — git diff shows the + lines landing between a /// run and its fn.

No build-cache work needed: PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_TRACE is already in BUILD_CACHE_ENV_EXCLUSIONS from #9204, and correctly so — range_loop_reject prints and returns None either way, so emitted code is identical with the flag on and off.

Validation: perry-codegen 31 suites / 0 failures; perry-runtime 2872 passed / 0 failed at RUST_TEST_THREADS=1; all 60 lint gates plus the TLS checkers green.

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