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fix(transform): keep cross-module shape barriers in source modules - #9284

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Summary

Cross-module helper-graph localization now keeps object-shape barriers attributed to their source modules. This restores direct argument-shape clones for unrelated safe locals without relaxing the guarded fallback required when a real barrier is present in the caller.

The regression came from the cross-module function-graph localization added in 59a4c9aa: it cloned reshape and its transitive delete helper into main.ts. Module dispatch facts are collected after transformation, so that imported delete armed the caller-wide rule-5 barrier and forced the otherwise contained exact local onto pshape_arg.fallback.

Changes

  • Share the object-shape barrier classifier between HIR transforms and codegen.
  • Decline cross-module function and method relocation when a candidate contains a shape barrier; values passed to the remaining outlined call still go through the existing containment/escape checks.
  • Add a transform regression proving that an otherwise-localizable transitive helper graph is rejected specifically because it contains delete.
  • Add a changelog fragment; no version or release metadata was changed.

Related issue

Fixes #9264

Test plan

Run on root@perrymaster.skelpo.net:

  • cargo build -p perry -p perry-runtime-static -p perry-stdlib-static
  • RUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test -p perry --test issue_8774_argument_shape_clones -- --nocapture (2 passed)
  • cargo test -p perry-codegen unrelated_module_shape_barrier_keeps_guarded_argument_route -- --nocapture
  • cargo test -p perry-hir -p perry-transform
  • RUST_MIN_STACK=33554432 ./scripts/test_affected_crates.sh --base origin/main
  • SKIP_COMPILE_GATES=1 ./scripts/run_lint_gates.sh (all 58 local gates passed; 2 CI-only expressions skipped)
  • cargo clippy -p perry-hir -p perry-transform -p perry-codegen --all-targets

The affected-crates runner needs the larger test-thread stack on this host because statically_reachable_trusted_js_package_is_aot_compiled_without_route_entry also overflows at the default stack on an untouched origin/main; the isolated test and full affected scope pass with the setting above.

  • cargo build --release clean (focused static/compiler dev build used above)
  • Full platform-independent workspace test command (affected-crates scope used above)
  • Added a regression test in the affected transform crate
  • Docs update is not applicable; no CLI, stdlib, runtime API, or platform UI behavior changed

Checklist

  • I have NOT bumped the workspace version or edited CLAUDE.md / CHANGELOG.md
  • My commit follows the repository's fix: prefix convention
  • I've read CONTRIBUTING.md and agree to the Code of Conduct

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved cross-module function optimization to correctly detect object-shape-changing operations.
    • Prevented unsafe localization when code modifies or deletes object properties, changes prototypes, or creates proxies.
    • Preserved safer dispatch behavior for affected functions.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage verifying that shape barriers in helper functions prevent unsafe cross-module localization.

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The change centralizes object-shape barrier detection in perry-hir, re-exports it for codegen, and applies it to three cross-module safety checks. A regression test verifies that helper graphs containing deletion barriers are rejected.

Changes

Shape barrier localization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared shape-barrier analysis
crates/perry-hir/src/analysis.rs, crates/perry-hir/src/lib.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/ptr_shape_entry.rs
expr_is_shape_barrier now lives in perry-hir. The function is publicly exported and re-exported by codegen.
Cross-module safety guards
crates/perry-transform/src/inline/cross_module.rs, changelog.d/9284-cross-module-shape-barriers.md
The standard, helper-graph, and extern-enabled safety checks reject shape-barrier expressions. The changelog records the fix.
Shape-barrier regression coverage
crates/perry-transform/src/inline/mod.rs
A test rejects localization for a helper graph containing a Delete barrier and accepts a barrier-free clone.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8fc4e

Computed proto writes can still be relocated across modules because only literal keys are rejected, potentially mutating prototype chains and invalidating importer shape assumptions. The PR is not merge-ready until dynamic keys are conservatively rejected or handled with equivalent constant folding.

Suggested reviewers: thehypnoo

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: keeping cross-module shape barriers in their source modules.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the required summary, changes, related issue, test plan, checklist, and relevant test results. The unchecked broad build and workspace-test boxes are non-critical because focu…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR addresses issue #9264 by identifying cross-module helper localization as the cause, rejecting barrier-bearing helper graphs, preserving safety checks, and adding regression coverage. The descri…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within scope for issue #9264. The classifier sharing, relocation guards, regression test, and changelog fragment directly support the fix, with no unrelated feature or metadata chan…
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The PR addresses issue #9264 by identifying cross-module helper localization as the cause, rejecting barrier-bearing helper graphs, preserving safety checks, and adding regression coverage. The description reports that the affected argument-shape tests pass.

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In `@crates/perry-hir/src/analysis.rs`:
- Around line 59-64: Update cross_function_expr_is_safe’s Expr::PutValueSet
handling to conservatively reject unresolved computed keys that may evaluate to
"__proto__", or reuse the existing constant-folding logic to identify that
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Comment on lines +59 to +64
Expr::PutValueSet { key, .. } => {
matches!(key.as_ref(), Expr::String(k) if k == "__proto__")
}
Expr::IndexSet { index, .. } => {
matches!(index.as_ref(), Expr::String(k) if k == "__proto__")
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Classify computed __proto__ writes in PutValueSet as shape barriers. A computed assignment preserves its runtime key in Expr::PutValueSet, whose contract performs ordinary [[Set]]. A key expression that evaluates to "__proto__" can mutate the prototype chain. cross_function_expr_is_safe rejects only a literal Expr::String("__proto__"), so it can admit relocation and invalidate importer shape proofs. Reject unresolved computed writes conservatively, or apply the same constant-folding rules here. Add a regression test for a dynamic key.

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In `@crates/perry-hir/src/analysis.rs` around lines 59 - 64, Update
cross_function_expr_is_safe’s Expr::PutValueSet handling to conservatively
reject unresolved computed keys that may evaluate to "__proto__", or reuse the
existing constant-folding logic to identify that value; keep literal-safe writes
unchanged and add a regression test covering a dynamic key.

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Audited the diff. The change looks sound and the mechanism is plausible — but the stated attribution does not hold, and I'd like that resolved before merge because it affects whether the fix is complete.

The attribution gap

The summary says:

The regression came from the cross-module function-graph localization added in 59a4c9aa

59a4c9aa landed 2026-08-27, and it is an ancestor of candidate 01463b8161 (2026-08-31) — where this test passed:

guard_failures_match_node_and_unsafe_parameters_stay_generic ... ok

(run 33346563641, cargo-test-perry (1/8))

It then fails at 83754818ea. So the localization was already present in the passing state, and 59a4c9aa alone cannot be what changed the verdict. Something else in 01463b8161..83754818ea made that localization actually fire for this fixture — a change to the localization heuristics, or to what makes reshape/delete a relocation candidate.

I flag this specifically because I made the same class of error on this issue earlier today: I attributed it to #9242 on "only commit touching this file in the window" reasoning, and had to retract publicly after testing the suspect in three states and getting the same failure in all three. #9264 records that ruled-out hypothesis for exactly this reason. Window-presence is not causation, and a commit present in the passing state cannot be the whole story.

Why it still matters for this PR

If the real trigger is whatever made the candidate relocatable, then declining relocation for barrier-containing candidates may fix this fixture while leaving the trigger free to surface elsewhere. Conversely, if the mechanism is right and only the commit is misidentified, the fix is fine and the summary just needs correcting.

Worth confirming empirically rather than by reading: revert or disable the suspected trigger on a coherent tree and re-measure, the way #9264's ruled-out hypothesis was settled. (Note the archive trap when doing that: after any checkout, rebuild -p perry -p perry-runtime-static -p perry-stdlib-static, or the coherence check refuses every fixture and you get a fast, meaningless failure.)

The change itself

Sharing expr_is_shape_barrier between HIR transforms and codegen is a clear improvement over the duplicated 30-line matcher — one definition, no drift between the transform's view of a barrier and codegen's.

Declining relocation when a candidate contains a shape barrier is conservative in the right direction: it gives up an optimization rather than a correctness property, and values passed to the remaining outlined call still go through the existing containment/escape checks. The transform regression proving a transitive helper graph is rejected specifically because it contains delete is the right shape of test — it pins the reason, not just the outcome.

Cross-module helper localization made source-local delete and reflection barriers look module-wide in importers, disabling direct argument-shape routes for unrelated fresh locals. Reject barrier-bearing helper graphs at the relocation boundary while retaining ordinary containment checks on the outlined call.
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Merged.

The root cause is the interesting part: cross-module localization cloned reshape and its transitive delete helper into main.ts, but module dispatch facts are collected after transformation — so the barrier those helpers introduce was attributed to the destination module rather than its source, and unrelated safe locals in the caller lost their direct argument-shape clones.

That ordering hazard (a fact collected after a pass that moves the code the fact describes) is worth the comment it got, because it is invisible in any single-module test.

Probed the shape it names: a reshape(o) helper doing delete o.a; o.b = 9 applied to half of 100 objects, then reading a/b/k back across all of them, plus the same after GC churn. 7900 and the exact per-object JSON match node 26.5.1 ({"k":0,"b":9} for reshaped, {"a":1,"k":1} for untouched), so the guarded fallback still fires where a real barrier is present while the unrelated locals keep their clone.

Validation: perry-runtime 2886 passed / 0 failed; perry-codegen 31 suites / 0 failures; all 60 lint gates. Six earlier regression probes at zero diff lines. Validated alongside #9283, #9286 and #9288.

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proggeramlug merged commit 3a9b203 into PerryTS:main Aug 31, 2026
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release blocker: argument-shape routes fall back to pshape_arg.fallback (issue_8774, shard 3)

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