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Brummel 9b0eb58cd9 refactor(surface): share the copy-pasted parser sub-productions
Round-trip-preserving — the byte-isomorphic Form-A ↔ JSON-AST tests,
the hash pins, and the full fixture-corpus parse are all green; error
strings passed through verbatim, not homogenised.

- The Int/Float/Str/true/false literal-token match was inlined in three
  parsers; extracted try_parse_literal_token and routed parse_pat_lit
  and the parse_term fallthrough through it.
- parse_doc and parse_export were identical but for the keyword; both
  now go through one parse_string_attr, and the previously
  doc/export-bypassed expect_string helper is back on the shared path.
- parse_effects_clause and parse_forall_constraints_clause shared the
  expect-keyword / collect / reject-empty / expect-rparen shape;
  unified under parse_repeating_clause, with each clause's empty-error
  message passed in.

parse_intrinsic_attr was left inline-able-but-not-inlined: it has two
call sites, so inlining would re-duplicate a documented helper.
2026-06-02 02:17:51 +02:00
Brummel e5534d1532 refactor: clear clippy code lints across the workspace
Machine-applicable clippy fixes plus three by-hand cleanups; all
semantics-preserving (full workspace test suite green).

Auto-applied (cargo clippy --fix):
- dropped `.clone()` on the Copy type ParamMode (ret_mode/param_mode)
- map_or(false, p) -> is_some_and(p)
- removed redundant closures and an explicit .into_iter()
- useless format!, a needless deref, an as_bytes-after-slice

By hand:
- ailang-codegen: named the loop-frame tuple types (LoopFrame /
  LoopBinderSlot) instead of the bare nested
  Vec<(String, Vec<(String, String, String, Type)>)>, clearing the
  type-complexity lint and documenting what each slot holds.
- ailang-check: collapsed the two identical pass-through arms of the
  Type-Con qualifier (already-dotted / primitive) into one `||` guard.
- ailang-core: converted a stale `///` block (it described a test that
  was relocated, documenting nothing) back to a plain `//` comment.

Remaining clippy output is 16 markdown list-indentation nits in prose
doc comments — doc formatting, not code, left for a docs pass.
2026-06-02 02:14:15 +02:00
Brummel d5e69148c6 refactor(check): unify the two Type-Con qualifiers over an is-local predicate
qualify_local_types and qualify_workspace_types were two ~55-line
recursive Type rewriters identical in every arm (Con skip-guards for
already-dotted and primitive names; Fn/Var/Forall recursion) except
the bare-name decision: the local form rewrites iff the name is in
local_types; the workspace form leaves names own to the module bare
and otherwise searches module_types for the defining module.

Factor the recursion into one rewrite_type_cons that takes the bare-
name decision as a `&dyn Fn(&str) -> Option<String>` (Some = rewrite to
this qualified name, None = leave bare). The two public functions are
now thin wrappers passing their respective closure. Recursion order
and Con-arm check order are preserved exactly; cross-module
qualification tests green.
2026-06-02 02:05:57 +02:00
Brummel 7d9ab4d29d refactor(codegen): parameterise the copy-pasted IR-emission families
Emitted IR is byte-identical for every case — proven by the IR-pin
suites (eq_primitives_pin, ord_int_intercept_ir_pin, the raw_buf_*
and drop/leak pins) and the full e2e suite, all green.

intercepts.rs:
- The twelve emit_rawbuf_{new,get,set,size}_{int,float,bool} functions
  were copy-paste across three element types, differing only in the
  element width (8/8/1) and the LLVM load/store type (i64/double/i1).
  Collapsed to four parameterised cores; the element variants are thin
  call sites passing the (width, type) pair.
- Replaced the repeated, off-by-one-prone parameter-SSA extraction
  idiom (`locals[n-2]`, `locals[n-1]`) with an Emitter::last_param_ssas
  helper.
- Factored the shared IR-Str bytes GEP out of emit_eq_str /
  emit_compare_str into emit_str_bytes_gep.

drop.rs:
- The three emit_*_drop_fn_for_type methods shared one wrapping shape
  (monomorphic short-circuit, else loop over instantiations dispatching
  to a *_for_instantiation helper); hoisted into emit_drop_fn_wrapper
  taking the per-instantiation emitter as a fn pointer.
- emit_flat_intrinsic_drop_fn / _partial_drop_fn differed only in the
  symbol prefix and an ignored mask param; merged into one inner
  emitter.

No INTERCEPTS-registry or (intrinsic)-marker changes.
2026-06-02 02:02:17 +02:00
Brummel 7ae92d3e60 refactor(test): hoist duplicated test helpers into ailang-test-support
closes #60

The fixture-corpus filter (NON_PARSEABLE_FIXTURES + list_ail_fixtures)
was copy-pasted across three test crates and drifted out of sync as
new reject fixtures landed; the examples_dir / workspace_root path
walk was reimplemented ~30 more times across the suite, under two
spellings (workspace_root / ws_root).

Introduce crates/ailang-test-support — a zero-dependency, dev-only
leaf crate — as the single home for these helpers:
- NON_PARSEABLE_FIXTURES, list_ail_fixtures
- workspace_root, examples_dir
- canonical_workspace_root (symlink-resolved variant, for the tsan/
  race tests that feed the root into native build steps)

All integration-test copies across ailang-core, ailang-surface,
ailang-prose, ailang-check, and ail now import from the shared crate;
the local definitions and their now-orphaned path imports are removed.
Path helpers resolve via the support crate's own CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR,
so they return the correct absolute paths from any caller.

ail_bin helpers are intentionally left in place: they depend on
env!("CARGO_BIN_EXE_ail"), which Cargo only defines when compiling the
ail crate's own integration tests, so they cannot move to a shared
crate.

Behaviour-identical: same paths, same fixture lists; full workspace
test suite green. Net -177 LOC.
2026-06-02 01:54:37 +02:00
Brummel ac9171ebf0 refactor: collapse duplicated helpers and drop dead code across check/core/codegen
Pure simplification pass, no behaviour change — hashes, canonical
forms, diagnostic codes, and emitted IR are byte-identical (hash-pin
and IR-pin tests unchanged and green).

ailang-check:
- strip_forall and collect_pattern_binders were triplicated verbatim
  across linearity.rs / reuse_shape.rs / uniqueness.rs; hoisted each to
  a single pub(crate) fn in lib.rs.
- mono.rs::pattern_binders was a fourth copy of collect_pattern_binders
  (iterative style, same result for every Pattern shape); deleted, now
  calls the shared fn.
- maybe_instantiate and expect_eq were single-call wrappers; inlined
  at their sole call sites and removed.

ailang-core:
- collect_used_in_pattern was a verbatim duplicate of pattern_binds;
  deleted, call site repointed. pattern_binds made private (no external
  callers; the doc-comment's lift_letrecs claim was stale).
- is_false serde helper replaced by std::ops::Not::not at the four
  skip_serializing_if sites (all plain-bool fields); helper removed.
- test-only any_nested_ctor / any_let_rec folded into one generic
  any_term(t, &pred) walker.
- removed dead test helpers tmp_dir / examples_dir, orphaned when their
  tests relocated to tests/workspace_pin.rs.

ailang-codegen:
- removed the write-only Emitter::types field, its populating loop, and
  the now-unused CtorInfo struct it fed.
- adt_drop_symbol / adt_partial_drop_symbol differed only in a prefix
  literal; folded into one adt_symbol(prefix, ...). Symbol strings
  unchanged.

Net -180 LOC.
2026-06-02 01:39:35 +02:00
Brummel e25580e3a3 test(cutover): live accept/reject corpus for the #55 ownership surface
Wires the #55-cutover fieldtest into a durable regression net. The
fieldtest exercised the post-cutover ParamMode={Own,Borrow} surface as a
downstream LLM author would and produced 12 fixtures + a report; left as
loose files they would be dead fixtures that drift. This commits them as
a protected property.

crates/ail/tests/cut55_cutover_surface.rs — one table-driven test running
each fixture through `ail check` and asserting accept (exit 0) or reject
at the right pipeline stage. Reject rows key on the bracketed diagnostic
CODE (consume-while-borrowed, borrow-over-value, borrow-return-not-permitted,
surface-parse-error), NOT message text, so the test is decoupled from the
diagnostic-wording improvement tracked separately.

examples/fieldtest/cut55_*.ail — the corpus. cut55_2c is the #58 repro
(now correctly rejected). cut55_2b was misanalysed by the fieldtest as a
consume-while-borrowed reject; in fact bump's recursive param is
(borrow List) so the tail is only borrowed, never consumed into an own
slot — `ail check` correctly accepts it. Renamed to
cut55_2b_borrow_traversal_clean and recast as the #58 false-positive
guard (a borrow-position use of a heap sub-binder must stay accepted).
cut55_1b similarly does not fire over-strict-mode (its recursive call
consumes the tail, so the lint's consume_count==0 premise fails) — comment
corrected; it is a plain accept. cut55_1c is the genuine over-strict-mode
example (accepts exit 0, emits the warning).

docs/specs/0065-eliminate-implicit-mode fieldtest report — moved 2c to
the reject set, added the 2b false-positive-guard section, marked the
double-free spec_gap RESOLVED (it shipped as the #58 fix).

Relates to #55.
2026-06-02 00:45:21 +02:00
Brummel 19757480b7 audit(0064/cutover): record shipped drop machinery + retire dead desugar arm
Cycle-close tidy for the #55 cutover (its audit drift-resolution).
Architect drift review found the design ledger out of step with the
codegen that the cutover shipped, plus two debt items; regression green
(733 passed / 0 failed across the workspace).

design/contracts/0008-memory-model.md — the Codegen contract described
the drop-emission *gates* but not the drop machinery the cutover landed.
Added three subsections recording the present state (honesty rule):
- Per-monomorph drop fns for polymorphic ADTs (crates/ailang-codegen/
  src/dropmono.rs: collect_drop_monos / DropAdtMeta, the suffix scheme,
  value-field-skip on the substituted field type). Ratified by
  alloc_rc_value_type_field_is_not_rc_dec_dropped.
- String-literal rep promotion at owned drop sites (StrRep::Static→Heap
  on a Str literal flowing into an Own slot the callee drops; gated
  strictly on Own). Ratified by own_str_literal_arg_is_dropped_exactly_once.
- Same-constructor arm grouping in match desugar (build_chain /
  build_ctor_group bind ctor fields once). Ratified by
  lit_pat_ctor_tail_drop_single_drop + lit_pat_nil_scrutinee_single_drop.

crates/ailang-core/src/desugar.rs — build_chain routes every Ctor-head
arm (including a length-1 run) through build_ctor_group, so
desugar_one_arm's Pattern::Ctor arm was unreachable dead code
duplicating the bind-once lowering. Replaced it with unreachable! naming
the invariant, and corrected two stale doc comments (the module-header
step 4 and the desugar_one_arm doc still described it as handling ctor
arms, and mislabeled the Lit lowering as Term::Match — it is Term::If).
Full workspace stayed green, confirming the arm was dead.

crates/ailang-check/src/linearity.rs — renamed test implicit_fn_is_exempt
→ own_param_consumed_once_is_clean. Post-0062 there is no Implicit and no
exemption; the test pins the ordinary single-Own-consume clean path.

Did the desugar + linearity edits inline rather than via an agent: I had
already loaded build_chain/build_ctor_group/desugar_one_arm to prove the
arm dead, and a sub-agent would have redone the same reading.
2026-06-02 00:45:06 +02:00
Brummel b129af1363 fix(check): inherit borrow on heap sub-binders of a borrowed scrutinee (#58)
The strict linearity check accepted consuming a heap-typed pattern
sub-binder extracted from a `(borrow)`-mode match scrutinee. The
sub-binder aliases the caller-owned interior, so moving it into an
`(own)` slot double-frees at runtime (SIGSEGV) — `ail check` returned
exit 0, `ail build`+run crashed. A pre-existing hole the corpus never
exercised; the #55 cutover's universal activation of the strict check
exposed it (sibling to the #57 / spec 0064 class-2 let-alias-of-borrow
hardening — this is the pattern-sub-binder analog).

Root: `walk_arm` seeded every pattern sub-binder with
`borrow_count = 0` (freely consumable), bypassing the `Borrow`-param
seeding in `check_fn` that starts a borrowed param at `borrow_count = 1`.
The whole-param consume was caught (cut55_2d, correctly rejected); the
moved-out heap sub-binder was not.

Fix: in `Term::Match`, resolve the scrutinee through `resolve_alias`
and record whether it is a borrowed binder; thread that into `walk_arm`,
which now seeds a heap-typed (`!is_value`) sub-binder of a borrowed
scrutinee with `borrow_count = 1`. Value-typed sub-binders (e.g. the
`Int` head) stay at `0` — copied out, no heap alias. Nested matches fall
out for free: the inner match re-derives borrowed status from the
borrow-carrying sub-binder.

Rejected alternative: forcing fieldtest fixture cut55_2b to also reject.
2b is a clean borrow-traversal — `bump`'s recursive param is `(borrow)`,
so the tail `t` is only borrowed, never consumed into an `(own)` slot.
Distorting the fix to reject it would be unsound (false positive on
legitimate borrow-rebuild). The fixture's own comment misdescribed its
recursive param as `(own)`; the code says `(borrow)`.

Verification:
- RED test linearity::tests::consume_heap_sub_binder_of_borrow_scrutinee_is_rejected:
  was left:0 right:1 (check returned []), now green.
- Full workspace: 732 passed / 0 failed (was 731; +1 the new test). No
  committed corpus newly rejected by the sharper check.
- fieldtest repro cut55_2c: exit 0 (wrongly accepted) -> exit 1
  (consume-while-borrowed on `t`).

closes #58
2026-06-02 00:32:58 +02:00
Brummel 76b21c00eb feat(lang): eliminate the Implicit ownership default — totality + the drop-soundness it demasks (#55)
Deletes `ParamMode::Implicit`. `ParamMode` is now `{Own, Borrow}`:
every fn-type slot on every signature carries an explicit `own` or
`borrow`, no defaulted position survives anywhere (model 0008 §2,
spec 0062). The parser rejects a bare fn-type slot; `borrow-return`
and `borrow-over-value` reject at the signature; the corpus is
migrated to minimal-ownership modes (consumed ⇒ own, read-only-heap
⇒ borrow, value ⇒ trivial-own). The documented `Implicit`-ret-mode
leak is fixed: an owned heap return now drops exactly once (live=0,
acceptance criterion 5).

This was the easy half. Removing the default ACTIVATED a family of
drop paths that `Implicit` had silently skipped — the pre-cutover
language was leaking (and in places mis-dropping) here rather than
crashing, because an Implicit scrutinee turned the drop off. Making
the modes explicit (Own) turned those paths on and exposed two
latent-bug clusters, all fixed RED-first as part of this cutover:

Drop-soundness family (four legs):
  A. lit-sub-pattern double-free — the desugar re-matched the same
     owned scrutinee in the lit fall-through; fixed by grouping
     consecutive same-ctor arms into one match (bind fields once),
     in ailang-core desugar.
  B. Cons-husk leak on non-tail arm bodies — the lit-sub-pattern
     desugar rebound the owned scrutinee via `Let $mp = xs`, which
     bumped consume_count and suppressed the existing fn-return
     partial_drop. Fixed by not rebinding a bare-Var scrutinee
     (one husk-freeing mechanism, not two).
  C. polymorphic `drop_<T>` rc_dec'd monomorphised value fields —
     the per-ADT drop fn was emitted once from the polymorphic
     TypeDef, defaulting type-var fields to ptr and rc_dec'ing
     inline Ints (segfault). Fixed with per-monomorph drop
     functions (new ailang-codegen::dropmono): the drop set is
     collected from the lowered MIR, value-type fields are skipped,
     heap fields still freed once; monomorphic-concrete ADTs keep
     their byte-identical un-suffixed drop symbol.
  D. static Str literal passed to an `(own Str)` param — the
     literal lowers to a header-less rodata constant; the callee's
     now-active rc_dec read its length field as a refcount and
     freed a static address (segfault). Fixed with the missing
     fourth StrRep::Static→Heap promotion in lower_to_mir's App arm,
     gated on Own mode (borrow args stay static, no regression).

over-strict-mode lint over-fired: it suggested `(borrow V)` for
value-typed params (which `borrow-over-value` rejects — own is the
only legal mode there) and fired on `(intrinsic)` bodies (whose
consumption the linearity walk cannot observe). Tightened to skip
both; contract 0008 updated to the narrowed firing scope.

Irreversible step — canonical-form hash reset (model 0008 §6,
acceptance criterion 6). Every signature now carries explicit modes,
so the hashable canonical JSON changed for every module. RATIFY:
the corpus-wide hash-pin reset (hash_pin, prelude_module_hash_pin,
mono_hash_stability, eq_ord_e2e, embed_export_hash_stable, the
ct4/iter*/loop_recur schema-extension pins) and the list ir_snapshot
golden were regenerated once, deliberately, as the intended one-time
consequence of removing the mode elision from the canonical form —
not a regression. Each regenerated hash verified deterministic across
two runs.

Also fixes a pre-existing latent failure surfaced by the verification
gate, unrelated to this cutover: the `every_contract_names_a_resolvable_
ratifying_test` resolver (design_index_pin) could not resolve the
" + " dual-link ratifying-test form (`uniqueness.rs + linearity.rs`)
that the #57 audit-close (dfdc65f) introduced — it shipped red on that
commit. Resolver taught the dual-link form, mirroring its sibling.

Verification: cargo test --workspace = 731 passed, 0 failed (twice,
stable); e2e 102 passed, no binary exits non-zero (corpus crash-free);
grep-clean for Implicit/fn_implicit/mode_eq across crates; every drop
fix confirmed via emitted IR + AILANG_RC_STATS balance on the head==K,
head!=K, and Nil paths. Three BLOCKEDs en route (the unsound first
husk-dec attempt, the over-strict derivation premise, the leg-B fix
direction) were each treated as a real design/spec gap and rediagnosed,
not patched over.

Supersedes #54 (return-position-only leak patch). Precondition #57
(linearity hardening) was already met. Spec docs/specs/0062, plan
docs/plans/0121.

closes #55
2026-06-02 00:03:46 +02:00
Brummel 05c3c018de fix(check): branch Float NoInstance addendum on method name (#25)
The Float-aware `NoInstance` addendum emitted the same hint for every
Eq/Ord method at Float: "use float_eq / float_lt (and siblings ...)".
For `eq`/`ne`/`lt`/`le`/`gt`/`ge` that is correct — each has a drop-in
boolean `float_*` sibling. For `compare` it is incomplete and misleading:
`compare` returns three-way `Ordering`, but no `float_compare` ships (a
deliberate non-ship, docs/specs/2026-05-20-operator-routing-eq-ord.md).
An LLM author who reached for `compare` to get three-way ordering was
pointed at boolean siblings as if a drop-in existed, and left guessing
whether to reconstruct it themselves.

Fix: branch the addendum on the called method. The boolean arm keeps the
existing wording; the `compare` arm instead names the deliberate
`float_compare` omission and points at building a three-way `Ordering`
from `float_lt` + `float_eq`. One added branch on the existing
`method` field (already carried by `CheckError::NoInstance`), no new
machinery; the structured `ctx` is untouched.

Out of scope (the issue's deliberate non-ship): shipping a
`float_compare` fn. The friction was that the diagnostic did not
acknowledge the omission — now it does.

RED-first, inline: a one-branch diagnostic-text change at a single site
whose surrounding code was already loaded while working the adjacent #52
fix this session (CLAUDE.md "context already loaded" carve-out). TDD
discipline preserved by the new RED test
`compare_at_float_names_deliberate_no_float_compare` over a new minimal
fixture `examples/compare_float_noinstance.ail` (`compare` at Float); it
failed RED on the old shared wording and passes GREEN on the branch. The
pre-existing `eq_at_float_fires_float_aware_noinstance` still passes (eq
arm unchanged).

Verification: full ailang-check lib suite (121) + full ail test suite
green; live CLI renders both arms correctly.

closes #25
2026-06-01 20:34:20 +02:00
Brummel d8be95dd44 fix(check): render restricted-set diagnostic in AILang set syntax (#52)
The `param-not-in-restricted-set` diagnostic rendered its allowed
element set with `{allowed:?}` — a Rust `{:?}` debug print of the
`Vec<String>`, producing `["Bool", "Float", "Int"]` with quotes,
brackets, and Rust list shape. AILang's audience is an LLM author, so a
language-level diagnostic leaking Rust formatting into its surface is a
quality defect.

Fix: render the set as `{Bool, Float, Int}` via a thiserror trailing-arg
`.allowed.join(", ")` wrapped in literal braces. The set is alphabetical
and stable (unchanged — the source is a sorted BTreeSet projection).

Design decision (set notation, not a union): the allowed set is a
membership set ("one of"), and AILang has no union-type surface syntax,
so brace set-notation `{A, B, C}` reads naturally without implying a
type-level union the language does not have. The structured JSON detail
(CheckError::detail, the `allowed` array) is left untouched — it is
machine-readable and correctly an array, not the cosmetic surface.

RED-first, inline: the bug is a one-line Display-string change at a
single site (lib.rs ~760). The exact lines were already loaded while
assessing the /boss queue, so a debugger subagent would only redo the
same reading (CLAUDE.md "When NOT to delegate: context already loaded").
TDD discipline is preserved by the new RED test
`param_in_reject_message_renders_allowed_set_in_ailang_syntax`, which
asserts the AILang set form and the absence of Rust quotes/brackets;
it failed RED on the old `{allowed:?}` and passes GREEN on the fix. The
pre-existing pin `param_in_reject_message_names_allowed_set` only
asserted substring presence, so it did not pin (or block) the format.

Verification: full ailang-check suite green (121 lib tests + integration
suites); live CLI repro from the issue now renders
`(allowed: one of {Bool, Float, Int})`.

closes #52
2026-06-01 20:29:00 +02:00
Brummel 2769e50a35 fix(examples): destructure partition_eithers result once (#57, 0064 iter 4)
Final iteration of spec 0064 (the #55-cutover hardening, #57). Closes
class 4, the one genuine corpus bug among the four (not a false
positive): std_either_list.partition_eithers projected both
(app Pair.fst rest) and (app Pair.snd rest) from one owned `rest`.
Pair.fst/snd are own-param projections that move a field out, so each
consumes `rest` -> a genuine double-consume that universal linearity
activation (#55) would correctly reject. The fix is a body rewrite
(destructure `rest` once via (match rest (case (pat-ctor MkPair ls rs)
…)) then dispatch on the head), NOT a check change -- the check is
right.

Latent until activation: partition_eithers' param is a bare (Implicit)
slot today, so the check is skipped on it -- no RED->GREEN flip on the
real fixture. The rewrite is a pre-emptive corpus fix. Its correctness
rests on the unchanged 2 3 2 3 E2E output (std_either_list_demo, a
semantically-identical partition) and on the new c4_double_consume
must-stay-RED fixture, which -- with explicit modes, so the check is
active today -- demonstrates the double-projection shape IS rejected.

- examples/std_either_list.ail: partition_eithers Cons arm rewritten;
  doc updated (destructure-once, no longer "projections").
- examples/c4_double_consume.ail: must-stay-RED pin (the rejected
  shape), folded into a generalised
  harden_ownership_heap_double_consume_still_errors loop over
  {real_consume, c4_double_consume}.
- examples/c4_rewrite.ail: stays-clean pin (the accepted
  destructure-once shape), added to
  harden_ownership_false_positives_are_clean.

No hash-pin on std_either_list (verified); the e2e 2 3 2 3 output pin
is the content pin and is preserved. No check/schema/codegen change.
Verified: std_either_list checks clean; demo 2 3 2 3; both harden
assertions green; cargo test --workspace green; bench/check.py 34/34,
compile_check.py 24/24 stable.

This is the last of the four #57 hardening classes. Spec 0064 is now
code-complete: classes 1 (local fn-param modes), 2 (let-alias redirect),
3 (value-typed let-binder), and 4 (this) all shipped. The cycle is ready
for audit; the #55 cutover precondition is met.

refs #57
2026-06-01 18:22:59 +02:00
Brummel be259f9d46 feat(check): let-alias borrow propagation via alias-redirect (#57, 0064 iter 3)
Third iteration of spec 0064 (the #55-cutover hardening, #57). Closes
false-positive class 2: Term::Let walked its value in Position::Consume,
so (let a t (match a …)) over a borrow-mode t consumed t at the binding
and tripped consume-while-borrowed -- a let-alias of a borrowed value
read in a borrow position is not a consume.

Fix: the Checker gains a scoped aliases: HashMap<String,String>. A
(let a t body) whose value is a bare Var resolving to a tracked binder
records a -> root(t) for the body scope and skips the consume walk of
the value. A new resolve_alias helper maps a name to its root,
preferring a real binder at each chain step -- so an inner binder named
`a` (nested let, pattern binder, lam param) automatically shadows the
alias with NO change to with_binder/walk_arm/Lam (the shadowing is
resolved centrally in the resolver, not at three scattered introduction
sites). Every binder-state lookup keyed by name resolves through the
map first: use_var, the App borrow bump + decrement (pushing the
resolved root to `lent` so the decrement matches), callee_arg_modes,
and the reuse-as source.

Design calls (orchestrator):
- Alias REDIRECT, not state clone (spec scope decision 3): consuming
  the alias marks the single root consumed, so a real double-consume
  through an alias is still caught. A clone would track two independent
  binders and miss it (unsound). Pinned by the new
  let_alias_of_owned_double_consume_still_errors unit test:
  (let a p0 (seq a p0)) over an own heap p0 still fires
  use-after-consume.
- resolve_alias prefers binders -> shadowing needs no edits to the
  binder-introduction sites. Lower-risk than clearing aliases at each.
- reuse-as source (linearity.rs:663) is resolved through aliases too:
  it is the 4th binder-state-reading site; the spec's Fix 3 named three
  illustratively. Without it, (reuse-as <alias> …) would mis-fire
  reuse-as-source-not-bare-var on what IS a Var. Faithful completion of
  Fix 3.

The diagnostic now reports the resolved root name (the actual consumed
resource), not the surface alias.

Closes the design/contracts/0008-memory-model.md let-alias carve-out
(was "has not shipped yet") and extends its Ratified-by trailer to name
linearity.rs, where the propagation now lives -- a contract change
riding with the feature that forces it.

RED-first: examples/c2_let_alias.ail added to
harden_ownership_false_positives_are_clean (RED: consume-while-borrowed
on count's t); GREEN after. Verified: c2 RED->GREEN; 120 linearity unit
tests green; the soundness test fires; harden false-positive + heap
double-consume guards green; cargo test --workspace green;
bench/check.py 34/34, compile_check.py 24/24 stable. Diagnostic-only;
no schema/type/codegen change.

Class 4 (partition_eithers body rewrite) remains for the final
iteration of spec 0064.

refs #57
2026-06-01 18:12:25 +02:00
Brummel cc5991eeb3 feat(check): resolve local function-typed binder modes (#57, 0064 iter 2)
Second iteration of spec 0064 (the #55-cutover hardening, #57). Closes
false-positive class 1: applying a local function-typed binder -- a HOF
predicate param like std_list.filter's `p` -- treated its arguments as
Consume because callee_arg_modes resolved only the global symbol table
(locals returned an empty mode vec). So `(app p h)` with `p` a local
(borrow ...) predicate consumed the heap element `h`, and reusing `h`
in the kept Cons false-fired use-after-consume.

Fix: BinderState gains fn_param_modes: Option<Vec<ParamMode>>, seeded
at all three function-typed binder introduction sites via a new
fn_modes_of helper (strip_forall + Type::Fn { param_modes }, None for
non-fn / empty-modes so the caller falls through to globals): params
and lam-params from their signature type (param_tys), let-binders from
the LetBinderTypes table built in iter 1. callee_arg_modes reads a
local Var callee's fn_param_modes before the global lookup (a local
binder shadows a global -- correct lexical scope); the existing App
arg-walk maps a Borrow mode to a borrow walk unchanged, so the fix is
confined to the seeding + the one local-precedence read.

Scope call (orchestrator): all three seeding sites, not just the param
path that unblocks filter -- the point of this hardening cycle is to
leave no latent class (the #57-from-0063-deferral lesson), and the
extraction is uniform with the table already built.

RED-first: examples/c1_local_hof.ail added to
harden_ownership_false_positives_are_clean (RED: use-after-consume on
filter_box's h) before the fix; GREEN after. Two in-source unit tests
pin both seeding paths (param via signature, let via a hand-built
table). Verified: c1 RED->GREEN; 119 linearity unit tests green;
harden_ownership_false_positives_are_clean green (now c1 + c3); the
heap-double-consume must-stay-RED guard still fires; cargo test
--workspace green; bench/check.py 34/34, compile_check.py 24/24 stable.
Diagnostic-only; no schema/type/codegen change.

The stale `// Locals never carry fn-types in 18c.2` comment in
callee_arg_modes (and the fn's doc header) is rewritten to the accurate
local-precedence behaviour -- it sat in the replaced lines and directly
contradicted the new path.

Classes 2 (let-alias redirect) and 4 (partition_eithers rewrite) remain
for later iterations of spec 0064.

refs #57
2026-06-01 17:57:40 +02:00
Brummel 47964abf7c feat(check): tee let-binder types, exempt value-typed let-binders (#57, 0064 iter 1)
First iteration of spec 0064 (the #55-cutover hardening, #57). Closes
false-positive class 3: a value-typed `let`-binder (e.g. a `Float`
result bound and read more than once) tripped `use-after-consume`
because the linearity walk installed every `let`-binder as a default
heap-tracked BinderState. Spec 0063 deferred exactly this class
("value-typed let-binders ... deferred until a corpus shape demands
it"); eqord_3_newton_sqrt.iterate's `(let xnew (app / …) …)` is that
shape.

Mechanism (the design call, user-delegated): the let-binder's type is
ALREADY computed at synth's Let arm and discarded. Stop discarding it.
synth gains a (def,binder)->Type out-param (LetBinderTypes, defined in
linearity.rs); the Let arm records `subst.apply(&v)`. The table is
allocated per-module in check_workspace, threaded through
check_in_workspace -> check_def -> check_fn/check_const/check_instance
-> synth, and passed (immutable) into check_module_with_visible ->
Checker. linearity's Term::Let seeds BinderState.is_value from the
table via the existing type_is_value predicate -- the same per-binder
flag #56 seeds at param/pattern/lam sites, now extended to the let
site. No schema change, no hash shift, no codegen change; the check
stays diagnostic-only.

Not a re-run of inference in the walk (ruled out by aaa70d4 / 0063):
the type is teed from the one pass that already knows it.

RED-first: examples/c3_value_let.ail added to
harden_ownership_false_positives_are_clean (RED: use-after-consume on
xnew) before the fix; GREEN after. Two in-source unit tests pin the
seeding (value-typed let clean via a hand-built Float table) and its
type-gating (heap-typed let still errors). Full ailang-check suite
green (117 linearity + 14 workspace); cargo test --workspace green;
the heap-double-consume must-stay-RED guard still fires.

Implementation notes (verified against the diff):
- The live call graph routes check_in_workspace through check_def, not
  directly to check_fn (the plan's fixed line numbers predated that);
  the table is threaded through check_def's three arms. Required to
  reach every synth, not an extra.
- Step-10 compiler enumeration surfaced 26 synth call sites: 22
  recursive (the plan's "~22") plus 4 post-typecheck re-synth
  re-entries (lift.rs, lower_to_mir.rs, mono.rs x2). The four are
  write-only re-synth callers that discard their side-channels and
  never query the table, so each got a throwaway table -- the typed-MIR
  re-synth path (it re-enters canonical synth), consistent with the
  plan's const-def/test-caller pattern.

Fixes 1 (local fn-param modes), 2 (let-alias redirect), 4
(partition_eithers rewrite) are later iterations of spec 0064.

refs #57
2026-06-01 17:44:40 +02:00
Brummel 39b674c1ec chore: throwaway mode-migration tool for the Implicit cutover (#55, 0121 task 3)
Adds `ail migrate-modes <file>` (a throwaway CLI subcommand) and the AST
walker `ailang_core::ast::for_each_fn_type_mut` it drives: parse a .ail,
map every bare/Implicit fn-type slot to Own, preserve explicit
Own/Borrow, print back. Semantically invisible today (PartialEq treats
Implicit == Own), but it materialises the modes so the post-cutover
parser — which will reject bare slots — accepts the migrated corpus.

Both are throwaway: removed in task 4 once ParamMode::Implicit is
deleted (the closure references Implicit and would not compile).
RED-first: migrate_modes.rs failed to compile (missing walker) before
for_each_fn_type_mut was added. Additive; full workspace suite green.

refs #55
2026-06-01 16:41:21 +02:00
Brummel e1c908912b feat(check): reject borrow-returns at the signature (#55, 0121 task 1)
`(ret (borrow T))` is now a check error (CheckError::BorrowReturnNotPermitted,
code `borrow-return-not-permitted`), fired on the fn signature before
body dataflow. Borrow-returns are refcount-invisible and can outlive
their source; re-enabling them needs the escape/liveness axis, which is
out of scope (spec 0062). The diagnostic names that gap as an honest
"not yet".

The check_fn signature destructure now also binds `ret_mode` (param_modes
stays under `..`; the borrow-over-value reject that reads it is folded
into the cutover, task 4). RED-first: examples/borrow_return_reject.ail
checked clean (exit 0) before the reject landed, exits 1 after. New
CLI-boundary E2E pin crates/ail/tests/mode_signature_rejects.rs, modelled
on raw_buf_new_type_arg_pin.rs. Additive — ParamMode::Implicit still
present; full workspace suite green, bench/check.py 0 regressed.

refs #55
2026-06-01 16:41:21 +02:00
Brummel aaa70d4c35 feat(check): harden the ownership analysis for universal activation (0063)
The strict linearity check (use-after-consume / consume-while-borrowed,
linearity.rs) runs today only on the ~45 of 258 all-explicit-mode fns;
its activation gate skips any fn with a bare/Implicit param. Deleting
ParamMode::Implicit (#55) would turn it on universally and surface ~21%
false positives in two classes. This closes both, making the core
ownership analysis sharp across the whole codebase for the first time —
the precondition for #55. Diagnostic-only: no schema, no hash, no
codegen change; the two existing diagnostic codes simply fire on a
smaller, more correct set.

Fix 1 — value-type exemption. A new is_value_type predicate
(ailang-core::primitives) names the unboxed set {Int,Bool,Float,Unit};
BinderState gains an is_value flag seeded from the binder's locally
available type (param signatures, ctor field types for pattern binders,
lam typed-params), and use_var short-circuits the Consume arm for it. A
value type has no refcount and is never consumed, so multi-read is
always legal.

  Str is deliberately NOT in the value set, though is_primitive_name
  includes it: drop.rs:490-492 lowers only Int/Bool/Float/Unit to
  non-ptr; Str is a ptr, RC-dec'd, so a multi-consume of Str without
  clone is a real use-after-free. is_value_type is the Str-excluding
  subset of is_primitive_name, pinned by a unit test. is_heap_type and
  the over-strict-mode lint are left untouched (separate concern).

Fix 2 — application is a borrow. Term::App walks its callee in
Position::Borrow (was Consume). Applying a function value reads it; it
stays live for further applications. Global fn-refs are untracked
(no-op); a tracked function-typed binder (a HOF param) is no longer
consumed by application. This fixes both the own-f-param
use-after-consume and the borrow-f-param consume-while-borrowed in the
recursion-passing HOF shape (map_int f t). Passing a function value as
an arg is unchanged — it follows the callee param_modes.

Scope decision: value-typed let-binders stay conservatively tracked as
heap (their type is inferred, not annotated, and the linearity walk
does not re-run inference). This is soundness-safe — over-strict, never
unsound — and not a measured corpus shape; lifting it would need a full
binder->type table out of the type-checker.

Verification: all three false-positive classes reproduced today against
explicit-mode fns and shipped as RED->GREEN fixtures
(examples/fp_{value,hof,map}.ail); examples/real_consume.ail stays RED
(heap double-consume still fires) to prove the exemption is type-gated.
715 workspace tests green; bench/check.py 0/34 and bench/compile_check.py
0/24 regressed. merge_states carries is_value so the flag survives
branch merges. RED-first verified per task.

closes #56
2026-06-01 15:38:32 +02:00
Brummel a378dad0aa docs(design): ratify the check→codegen boundary (mir.5, typed-MIR close)
mir.5 is the typed-MIR milestone's closing iteration. Its CODE half had
already converged before the iteration began, so mir.5 ships no code —
it ratifies into the design/ ledger the boundary the code already holds.

Verified at iteration entry (empirically, not from the spec sketch):
  - all four named re-derivers grep-clean in codegen: synth_with_extras,
    synth_arg_type, type_home_module, the second infer_module_with_cross;
  - lower_workspace takes &MirWorkspace (codegen consumes MIR);
  - MTerm::New is unreachable!() — raw-buf.4 desugars Term::New to
    (app T.new …) before codegen, so there is no element-type
    re-derivation left to relocate;
  - #51 / #53 (the element-type / new-T codegen crashes) are closed;
    their residue was fixed by ee4107c / 420f75f plus the New-desugar,
    not by a separate raw-buf patch track.

Ledger work (the mir.5 deliverable):
  - NEW design/contracts/0018-check-codegen-boundary.md: the invariant
    "codegen re-derives nothing; MIR is total over what check proved;
    a codegen arm that recomputes a fact instead of reading MIR is
    drift." Ratifier: lower_to_mir_ty.rs::callee_classification_builtin_and_static.
  - 0013-typeclasses invariant 2 retracted: codegen no longer re-resolves
    cross-module names via an import_map fallback; lower_to_mir::classify_callee
    resolves the reference once into Callee::Static and codegen consumes it.
  - 0003-pipeline.md: the "lower to MIR" line names the real stage
    (elaborate_workspace → MirWorkspace → lower_workspace) and a new
    paragraph states the boundary, cross-referencing 0018.
  - INDEX.md: boundary contract row added; qualified-xref re-pointed at
    lower_to_mir + 0018.
  - codegen_import_map_fallback_pin.rs doc-comment made honest — it pins
    the post-mono AST precondition classify_callee relies on, not a
    codegen-side resolution that no longer exists. Assertions unchanged;
    the test stays green.
  - spec 0060 gains a mir.5 refinement note recording the early code
    convergence.

Acceptance criteria 1-7 of docs/specs/0060-typed-mir.md are all met.
Full workspace suite green (exit 0, 0 failed, 2 ignored); 708 passed
carried from mir.4 (no test added or removed).

Not done here (deliberately): the milestone #7 (raw-buf) subsumption
note is an external Gitea tracker write; the /boss auto-mode classifier
declined it as an unauthorised external write and it is surfaced to the
user rather than worked around. The end-to-end milestone fieldtest
remains the deliberate manual close-gate before the tracker milestone
is marked done.

refs #51 #53
2026-06-01 01:34:37 +02:00
Brummel c5fd16a4eb feat(codegen): StrRep loop-carried Str ⇒ Heap, close the #49 recur leak
mir.4 closes bug #49 (a heap-Str loop binder replaced across `recur`
leaks every superseded slab; the loop result leaks too) structurally,
by making every Str a loop binder holds OR a loop returns an owned heap
slab — then deleting the `!is_str` carve-out from BOTH codegen gates
that carried it. The leg-by-leg `!is_str` patches are gone.

Mechanism (the milestone thesis: representation in MIR, codegen reads
it). lower_to_mir sets rep = StrRep::Heap on every Str literal in a
loop-carried position; codegen's MTerm::Str arm promotes a Heap literal
via ailang_str_clone (a fresh ailang_rc_alloc slab, rc_header refcount
1). Three promotion positions, all in the Loop/Recur lowering:
  1. binder seed inits (is_str_ty on the binder type);
  2. recur args at Str-binder positions (read off the innermost
     loop_stack frame);
  3. exit-arm tail result literals (promote_tail_str_literals walks the
     loop body's tail positions when the loop returns Str).
With every loop-carried Str now owned-heap, both gates lose !is_str:
the recur superseded-value dec (lib.rs) frees each intermediate slab;
the loop-result trackability gate (drop.rs:493) lets the caller's
scope-close free the final slab.

Why both gates, and the planning-time error this corrects. The original
plan/spec scoped the deletion to the recur dec gate only, reasoning the
#49 loop result is "consumed by print". The implement-orchestrator
landed that scope (Tasks 1-2) clean and correctly BLOCKED: it took #49
from live=3 to live=1, the residual being the loop RESULT. I verified
the diagnosis empirically:
  - print BORROWS its arg (prelude: `(let s (show x) (do io/print_str
    s))`, the eob.1 heap-Str discipline), so `(print s)` does not free
    the loop result; the caller's let-binder does, via drop.rs:493.
    "consumed by print" != "freed by print" — that was the error.
  - Deleting drop.rs:493's !is_str takes #49 and the recur-literal
    fixture to live=0.
  - Deleting drop.rs:493 WITHOUT exit-arm promotion SIGSEGVs (exit 139)
    on a loop returning a static Str literal — hence the third
    promotion position and the static-exit witness.
The agent surfaced a real spec defect via an empirical BLOCK rather
than guessing; I corrected the spec refinement note (both gates, three
positions) and completed the loop-result leg inline, the context
already loaded from verifying the BLOCK (CLAUDE.md "already loaded
context" carve-out). drop.rs:493's Str carve-out is now sound to delete.

Boundary (asserted ill-typed, not constructible): a borrowed static-Str
Var seeded/recur'd into a consumed Str loop binder — rejected upstream
by uniqueness (a consumed binder position is owned).

Verification (orchestrator-run): all four leak fixtures reach live=0
under AILANG_RC_STATS — #49 (xyyy), recur-literal (reset), static-exit
(result), and the f488d31 boxed-ADT guard (2, no regression). The #49
#[ignore] is lifted. Full workspace: 708 passed / 0 failed / 2 ignored
(mir.3b baseline 702/0/3; +6 passed, -1 ignored = #49 lifted; the 2
remaining ignores are doctests). ir_snapshot: no drift (the Heap
promotion does not reach non-loop-carried literals — the
non_loop_str_literal_stays_static pin confirms at the unit level).
Neither CLAUDE.md lockstep pair touches Str representation.

New witness fixtures: examples/loop_str_recur_literal_no_leak_pin.ail
(recur-arg leg) and examples/loop_str_static_exit_no_leak_pin.ail
(loop-result leg / static-exit soundness). New pins: lower_to_mir_ty
exit-arm producer pin + the flipped seed/recur-arg pins; two runtime
leak pins alongside the lifted #49.

closes #49
2026-06-01 00:54:44 +02:00
Brummel eba1be8d9d feat(codegen): fill MArg.mode for App args, read the anon-temp drop gate off it, delete module_def_ail_types (mir.3b)
Second of two iterations delivering spec 0060's mir.3 row (plan
docs/plans/0118-mir.3b-marg-mode-and-table-delete.md). lower_to_mir's
Term::App arm fills each MArg.mode from the resolved callee's
param_modes (the sig = synth_pure(callee) it already holds); codegen's
emit_call anon-temp borrow-slot drop gate reads arg.mode instead of
re-looking-up the callee's param_modes from the module_def_ail_types
table; and — since that gate was the table's only reader — the
module_def_ail_types field plus all its construction and threading are
deleted.

Two refinements to the spec's mir.3b sketch, settled in planning from a
focused recon and recorded in spec 0060:

1. module_def_ail_types is deleted in mir.3b, not mir.5. A grep proved
   self.module_def_ail_types had exactly ONE reader (the anon-temp
   gate); the own-param drop reads param_modes from the def's own f.ty,
   not this table. Once the gate moves onto MArg.mode the table is dead,
   so it is removed now rather than carried as dead code to mir.5. The
   mir.5 row's "last re-derivation residue" shrinks to the
   element-type / Term::New (New.elem) work.

2. MArg.mode is filled for App args only; MTerm::Let.mode is not filled.
   Only App args have a real per-arg mode source (the callee
   Type::Fn.param_modes). Do args (EffectOpSig has no param modes), Ctor
   args (no per-field mode), and Recur args (loop binders carry no mode)
   stay Mode::Owned. Let.mode has no source (ast::Term::Let has no mode
   field) and no consumer (the let-drop gate reads consume, not
   Let.mode), so it stays Owned — filling it would invent a value
   nobody reads.

Safety property held: MArg.mode is filled from the same callee fn-type
the gate read from the table, so the drop fires identically. For
(app RawBuf.get (app RawBuf.set …) 0), RawBuf.get's param 0 is borrow,
so args[0].mode = Borrow — exactly the value module_def_ail_types
yielded. Confirmed by the anon-temp witness staying green.

ParamMode -> Mode conversion: Borrow -> Mode::Borrow; Own and Implicit
(the Implicit ≡ Own contract) -> Mode::Owned. The own-param drop keeps
reading ParamMode off f.ty (Type/ParamMode imports retained, live
readers at lib.rs:1356/1507).

Also retires three now-stale doc comments that named the deleted
module_def_ail_types field (ailang-check/src/lib.rs, uniqueness.rs, and
the codegen_import_map_fallback_pin test doc) — a direct consequence of
the deletion, reworded to the current architecture.

Verification (orchestrator, post-implement inspect): diff matches the
plan (App-arg m_args built before m_callee consumes sig — the benign
borrow-order deviation the plan's note flagged); module_def_ail_types
grep-clean across all of crates/; cargo build --workspace clean (no
unused/dead_code); cargo test --workspace 702 passed / 0 failed / 3
ignored (+1 = the new producer pin app_arg_carries_callee_borrow_mode;
no #[ignore] added). The anon-temp drop-correctness witness
raw_buf_owned_drop_balances_rc_stats stays live=0, now driven by
MArg.mode; the other RC-stats leak pins green; #49 stays #[ignore]
(mir.4); #51/#53 build guards green.

mir.3 is now complete (3a relocated consume_count + deleted the second
uniqueness run; 3b filled the mode annotation + deleted
module_def_ail_types). Remaining: mir.4 (#49 StrRep RED->GREEN),
mir.5 (element-type/Term::New + ledger).
2026-05-31 20:10:25 +02:00
Brummel 6bc0b501cb feat(codegen): relocate per-binder consume_count into MIR; delete codegen's second uniqueness run (mir.3a)
First of two iterations delivering spec 0060's mir.3 row (plan
docs/plans/0117-mir.3a-consume-count-relocation.md). The per-binder
consume_count — the only thing codegen read from its second
infer_module_with_cross run — now lives on a new binder-keyed
MirDef.consume: BTreeMap<String,u32>, filled once by lower_to_mir on the
post-mono body. Codegen builds its existing (def,binder)->consume_count
lookup from those maps and the three scope-close drop sites (own-param,
let-binder, match-arm) read it; the codegen uniqueness run, its
UniquenessTable field, and the import are deleted.

mir.3 is split into two iterations (recorded in spec 0060): the named
deletion depends ONLY on consume_count. All three drop sites read
consume_count from self.uniqueness, while the modes they also gate on
(param_modes for the own-param dec, scrutinee_is_owned for the match
dec) come from the type, not the uniqueness pass (UniquenessInfo carries
no mode). So mir.3a relocates consume_count and ships the deletion;
mir.3b (next) fills MArg.mode/MTerm::Let.mode and switches emit_call's
anon-temp gate onto MArg.mode. The split halves the change at the
codebase's highest-risk surface (RC/drop correctness, the raw-buf leak
saga) and makes each half independently verifiable against the live=0
leak pins.

Design: consume_count lands on MirDef (binder-keyed), NOT on MArg. The
drop sites key by (def, binder_name) — a per-binder aggregate — while the
spec-sketched MArg.consume_count is per-arg-position and never reaches
them; the per-def map matches the UniquenessTable's own keying and all
three binder kinds (param/let/pattern) uniformly. MArg.consume_count
stays a mir.1 default. Source = run check's infer_module_with_cross
inside lower_to_mir post-mono (the synth_pure single-engine-re-walked
pattern); retaining a check-time result is blocked (check's uniqueness
is pre-mono and runs on-demand-from-codegen, never in check_workspace,
so it would miss the mono specialisations). cross_module_types
(= codegen's module_def_ail_types) is rebuilt in elaborate_workspace
from the post-mono workspace.

Safety property held: this is a PURE RELOCATION of an identical
computation — infer_module_with_cross ran on the post-mono module in
codegen and now runs on the same post-mono module in lower_to_mir, so
drop placement is byte-identical. cross_module_types matches
module_def_ail_types exactly (both insert f.name->f.ty over post-mono
Def::Fn), confirmed by the leak pins staying green.

Verification (orchestrator, post-implement inspect): diff matches the
plan; codegen grep-clean for infer_module_with_cross + UniquenessTable
(now ailang-check-internal); cargo build --workspace clean (no errors,
no unused warnings — module_def_ail_types survives for emit_call's
anon-temp param_modes gate); cargo test --workspace 701 passed / 0
failed / 3 ignored (+1 = the new producer pin
mirdef_consume_is_populated_for_let_binder; no #[ignore] added). The
live=0 drop-correctness witnesses all green:
alloc_rc_loop_valued_rawbuf_binder_drops_at_scope_close (#43/#47),
alloc_rc_heap_loop_binder_replaced_by_recur_does_not_leak,
alloc_rc_print_int_does_not_leak_show_result_str. #49 stays #[ignore]
(mir.4); #51/#53 build guards green.
2026-05-31 19:48:57 +02:00
Brummel a6fd93adba feat(codegen): pre-resolve the App callee in MIR; delete is_static_callee + type_home_module (mir.2)
Second re-deriver removal of the typed-MIR milestone (spec
docs/specs/0060-typed-mir.md, plan docs/plans/0116-mir.2-callee-static.md).
Static-callee resolution moves out of codegen and into lower_to_mir:
every Term::App callee is classified once, mirroring check's own synth
Term::Var ladder (lib.rs:3409-3582), and emitted as a resolved Callee.
Codegen reads the callee identity off MIR and routes each kind to the
right lowering. The codegen re-derivers is_static_callee and
type_home_module are deleted, and the lower_app <-> is_static_callee
lockstep pair is struck from CLAUDE.md.

Callee reshape (beyond the spec's original {module, fn_name} sketch —
spec 0060's Concrete-code-shapes block is updated in this iteration):

  pub enum Callee {
      Static  { module, fn_name, sig: Type },  // user/prelude fn -> emit_call, module pre-resolved
      Builtin { name, sig: Type },             // operator/intrinsic -> inline opcode lowering
      Indirect(Box<MTerm>),                    // dynamic: fn-pointer / closure / shadowed name
  }

Two forced refinements, both settled in planning:

- sig:Type on each resolved variant. drop::synth_callee_ret_mode reads
  the callee ret_mode, today off Callee::Indirect(inner).ty(). A
  resolved callee has no sub-term, so the sig (= synth_pure(callee),
  mode-preserving) is the lossless replacement. This is NOT a mir.3
  pull-forward: the MArg param-mode / consume_count fields stay at their
  mir.1 defaults. Without it, every statically-resolved call would lose
  its drop signal and the RawBuf / int_to_str RC-stats pins mir.1b fixed
  would regress.

- Builtin variant. Operators and the str-num builtins (+, not,
  str_concat, ...) are lowered inline by name and have no module/fn_name;
  a separate variant is cleaner than a sentinel module. The classifier
  decides Builtin vs Static from CHECK'S OWN resolution (a name in
  env.globals with no owning module is a builtin), never a copy of
  codegen's old is_static_callee allowlist. The recon's divergence audit
  confirmed check's builtin set and codegen's inline-arm set match
  exactly, so the single-engine rule is mechanically satisfiable with no
  env threading gap.

type_home_module is fully deletable: a workspace-wide grep confirmed no
program references a type-scoped T.fn as a value, so its only other
consumer (resolve_top_level_fn) collapses to the module-name fallback
with no behaviour change. (The spec's "x3 mirrors" wording over-counted;
the live surface was the definition plus two call sites.)

Alternatives rejected during planning: sentinel module in Static
(ugly); builtins left as Indirect (breaks — no fn-pointer for an
operator); name-rewrite Static{name,sig} keeping lower_app's by-name
dispatch (blurs builtin/user and still needs sig). The mir.1b
re-synth-strictness trap (post-mono synth_pure re-unify surfacing
mode-strip / bare-vs-qualified / metavar leaks) did NOT fire under the
new producer path — qualify_local_types mode-preservation and the $u
wildcard normalisation from mir.1b held.

Verification (orchestrator, post-implement inspect): diff matches the
plan; grep-clean for is_static_callee + type_home_module across
ailang-codegen and ail; cargo build --workspace green; cargo test
--workspace 700 passed / 0 failed / 3 ignored (no #[ignore] added this
iteration — the 3 are the pre-existing #49 Str-leg pin + two doctests).
Acceptance witnesses green: #53 (mono_new_over_user_adt_builds_and_runs),
#51 (rawbuf_new_int_size_only_builds_and_runs still builds), show_print
cross-module (print_user_adt_runs_end_to_end), the new mir.2 pins
(mir2_resolved_callee_kinds_run_end_to_end, callee_classification_*,
strengthened new_over_user_adt_carries_node_types asserting Callee::Static).
#49 heap-Str loop binder stays #[ignore] (lifts at mir.4).

Two new examples/ fixtures back the new pins (classify_pin.ail for the
producer classification pin, mir2_callee_kinds.ail for the E2E),
ail-parse / round-trip clean.

Forward note (cycle-close architect): crates/ail/tests/codegen_import_map_fallback_pin.rs:14-15
doc prose names lower_app's cross-module arm and synth_with_extras as
failure-mode targets — both now deleted (mir.2 / mir.1b). The pin's
protected invariant is still valid and green; the prose is stale and
wants a doc-honesty reword, left out of this iteration's footprint.
2026-05-31 19:27:56 +02:00
Brummel 895ba846e8 feat(codegen): switch the lowering walk from &Term to typed &MTerm (mir.1b)
Atomic completion of spec iteration mir.1 (docs/specs/0060-typed-mir.md):
codegen now consumes the typed MIR produced by `lower_to_mir` instead of
re-deriving types from the bare `ast::Term`. Every codegen helper that
took `&Term` (lower_term, lower_app, drop.rs, match_lower.rs) takes
`&MTerm` and reads each node's checker-proved type off `MTerm::ty()`.
The build path is `Workspace -> elaborate_workspace -> MirWorkspace ->
lower_workspace`; the public `lower_workspace*` entry points and their 18
call sites thread `&MirWorkspace`. The codegen-side type re-derivers
`synth_with_extras` + `synth_arg_type` (and the `builtin_ail_type` /
`builtin_effect_op_ret` mirror tables) are deleted — grep-clean. The
three re-derivers the spec keeps until mir.2/mir.3 (`type_home_module`,
`is_static_callee`, the second `infer_module_with_cross`) stay.

The mechanical Term->MTerm match-arm conversion was straightforward and
compiler-enforced. The substance was a set of producer-side correctness
gaps that only surface once codegen reads `MTerm::ty()` and once the
build path re-synthesises the post-mono AST through the canonical
`synth` (which, unlike the old codegen, fully re-unifies). Each was
root-caused against a failing e2e fixture:

1. `qualify_local_types` stripped fn-type modes (rebuilt `Type::Fn` with
   empty `param_modes` / `Implicit` `ret_mode`), so a monomorphised
   polymorphic intrinsic (`RawBuf.set`) lost its `Own` ret-mode and the
   owned temporary leaked at the call site. Made mode-preserving, like
   its sister `qualify_workspace_types` and `Subst::apply` (449df13).

2. `lower_to_mir::synth_pure` synthesises each node in isolation, so a
   nullary polymorphic ctor (`Nil : List<a>`) left its element type an
   unbound `$m` metavar that the canonical synth never pins. Codegen's
   mono unifier (`unify_for_subst`) already has a wildcard for exactly
   this — `$u`, the spelling the now-deleted codegen synth used — so the
   typed-MIR boundary normalises every residual `$m` to `$u` once
   (`wildcard_residual_metavars`), rather than teaching each consumer to
   tolerate a raw metavar.

3. The class-method mono arm (`synthesise_mono_fn`) substituted the
   registry-canonical *qualified* instance type into a method appended to
   the instance's own module, minting a `show_user_adt.IntBox` param
   against a bare-`IntBox` body. Localised to bare before substitution,
   symmetric to the free-fn arm (600565d).

4. Monomorphisation synthesises *downward* class-dispatch references —
   prelude's `print__<IntBox>` names the instance module `show_user_adt`
   that prelude never imports. The post-mono re-synth in `lower_module`
   seeds every workspace module name as an identity import (excluding the
   current module, to keep own types bare) so the qualified-var path
   resolves these; the canonical `synth` used by `check_workspace` stays
   strict.

5. Post-mono, a cross-module callee can name the consumer's *own* ADT
   qualified (`show_user_adt.IntBox`) where the consumer synthesises it
   bare — a spelling split that cannot exist pre-mono (the param is
   polymorphic there). synth's App arm strips the current module's own
   qualifier from both sides before unifying (`strip_own_module_qual`),
   a no-op pre-mono.

Acceptance: whole workspace suite green (698 tests); `e2e` 98/98 and
`show_print_e2e` 3/3; `synth_with_extras`/`synth_arg_type` grep-clean in
codegen; #51/#53 fixtures build and run; lower_to_mir_ty pins green. The
#49 heap-Str loop-binder leak remains ignored (lifts at mir.4).

Builds on the standalone producer fix (600565d, free-fn own-ADT
localisation) and the two standalone mode-preservation fixes
(449df13 Subst::apply); those landed separately as they are
independently correct and inert on the old codegen.
2026-05-31 18:29:36 +02:00
Brummel 449df13c9c fix(check): preserve fn-type modes through Subst::apply
`Subst::apply` rebuilt every `Type::Fn` with `param_modes: vec![]`
and `ret_mode: Implicit`, discarding the modes the surrounding type
carried. That was harmless while nothing downstream of inference read
fn-type modes — but it is a latent under-specification: substitution
is meant to be type-preserving, and a fn type's modes are part of its
identity (an `(own T) -> (own U)` contract is not the same contract as
its borrow-returning sibling). Modes are positional over `params`, and
substitution remaps each param type element-wise without changing the
arity, so the mode lists stay aligned — preserving them is a clone, not
a re-derivation.

The typed-MIR boundary (milestone 0060) makes this load-bearing: a node
type synthesised by `lower_to_mir::synth_pure` ends with `subst.apply`,
and the codegen drop path reads `ret_mode == Own` off a call's callee
node to decide RC trackability. With the modes stripped here, an
Own-returning call read back `Implicit`, nothing was trackable, and a
heap-allocated binder leaked at scope close. Preserving the modes
restores that signal at the source rather than re-deriving it in codegen
(which is exactly the re-derivation the milestone exists to delete).

Safe by construction: `unify`'s Fn arm destructures modes with `..` and
compares only params/ret/effects, so carrying modes through `apply`
cannot change unification; and `Type`'s custom `PartialEq` already
treats `Implicit` and `Own` as interchangeable (only `Borrow` is
distinct), so equality outcomes are unaffected except where preserving
a `Borrow` is the more correct answer anyway. Whole `ailang-check`
suite stays green.

RED pin: crates/ailang-check/tests/subst_preserves_modes.rs.
2026-05-31 18:01:24 +02:00
Brummel 600565d356 fix(check): localize own-ADT type-args in free-fn mono; complete the lower_to_mir producer
Additive producer-side work for the typed-MIR milestone (spec
docs/specs/0060-typed-mir.md), surfaced while building the mir.1b
codegen-consumption switch. Nothing here consumes MIR — codegen is
untouched; the whole existing suite stays green and one new RED pin
goes green. The mir.1b codegen switch itself stays in the working tree.

Headline fix — own-ADT type-arg localization in free-fn mono:

  monomorphise_workspace's free-fn arm normalises every observed
  type-arg through Registry::normalize_type_for_lookup. That
  normalisation is load-bearing for cross-module dedup and a stable
  specialisation symbol name, but it qualifies a *defining-module-own*
  ADT to `<module>.<T>`. synthesise_mono_fn_for_free_fn then substitutes
  those qualified type-args into the polymorphic source signature and
  body, which are in the module's own *bare* convention (the qualify
  pre-pass deliberately leaves own-module type-cons bare — lib.rs:4358,
  "the current module sees its own types bare"). The result is a
  self-inconsistent specialisation: e.g. fold_left specialised with
  accumulator b := List<Int> minted
    ((std_list.List<Int>, Int) -> std_list.List<Int>,
     std_list.List<Int>, List<Int>) -> std_list.List<Int>
  — a qualified accumulator parameter against a bare list argument and a
  bare Lam body. check_workspace never hits this (it synths the pre-mono
  bodies, bare throughout); the old codegen tolerated it via the
  now-deleted synth_arg_type's loose type-tracking. The post-mono synth
  re-entry in lower_to_mir does full unification and correctly rejects
  it: `expected std_list.List<Int>, got List<Int>`.

  Fix: localize_own_types (mono.rs) strips the `<defining_module>.`
  prefix back to bare for the module's own ADTs, applied to the type-args
  before they are substituted, so the synthesised signature and body stay
  uniformly bare-own. The *stored* type_args remain normalised, so the
  symbol name and the Phase-3 rewrite-cursor key on the same canonical
  form — the byte-identity invariant between synthesis and rewrite is
  untouched. The ClassMethod arm needs no analogue: it already
  substitutes the un-normalised target.type_ (mono.rs:841).

  Alternatives rejected: (a) drop the normalisation in the shared
  apply_subst_and_normalize helper — breaks cross-module dedup, mints
  duplicate specialisations under divergent names. (b) Make
  lower_to_mir's synth treat `<owner>.T` and bare `T` as equal during
  unification — papers over the producer inconsistency in the consumer
  and contradicts the established own-types-stay-bare invariant the rest
  of check relies on. (c) Qualify the whole synthesised def own->qualified
  — fights lib.rs:4358 and would require the lower path to also flip,
  cascading the convention change through synth.

Producer completeness (additive, mirrors existing guards):

  - lower_module skips Type::Forall defs (lower_to_mir.rs), mirroring
    emit_module's guard. Polymorphic defs are stale source kept for
    round-trip; their bodies carry mono-rewritten call names for
    specialisations that were never synthesised, so a synth re-entry
    would hit UnknownIdentifier.
  - lower_module lowers non-literal const bodies to typed MTerm, carried
    in MirModule.consts (+ MirConst in ailang-mir). A non-literal const
    (e.g. a List ctor expression) needs a typed body once the consumer
    walk takes &MTerm; literal consts emit a global and need no body.
  - MirModule gains `ast: Module`, populated by lower_module — forward
    scaffolding the mir.1b codegen consumption reads for module
    structure. Populated here, consumed by the in-tree switch.

Verification: full `cargo test --workspace` green (697 passed, 0 failed)
with the codegen-consumption switch stashed out, including the new pin
crates/ailang-check/tests/lower_to_mir_ty.rs::poly_free_fn_accumulating_into_own_adt_elaborates
(RED before the localize fix with the exact mismatch above, GREEN after)
and the full e2e corpus (the own-ADT-poly demos elaborate clean and run
through the old codegen). This proves the producer fix is
regression-free and the remaining 22 e2e reds in the working tree are
codegen-consumption defects, not producer defects.
2026-05-31 17:41:05 +02:00
Brummel 135f4ceed7 feat(check): mir.1a — typed-MIR types + post-mono lower_to_mir + elaborate_workspace (additive)
First half of spec iteration mir.1 (docs/specs/0060-typed-mir.md,
plan docs/plans/0114-mir.1a-mir-infrastructure.md). Purely additive: a
new leaf crate plus a post-mono lowering walk plus the front-end entry.
Nothing consumes MIR yet — codegen and the CLI are untouched — so the
whole existing suite stays green (102 test-result-ok lines, 0 failed;
the one ignored is the #49 pin, which lifts at mir.4). mir.1b flips
codegen to consume MIR and deletes the synth_with_extras mirror.

What lands:
- `ailang-mir` (new leaf crate, depends only on ailang-core): MTerm /
  MArg / MArm / MLoopBinder / MNewArg / Callee / Mode / StrRep / MirDef
  / MirModule / MirWorkspace, structurally complete over all 17 Term
  variants plus the dedicated Str split (MTerm::Str{lit,rep}). Every
  later-iteration annotation field exists now at a mir.1 default
  (App.callee = Indirect, MArg.mode/consume_count = Owned/1, Str.rep =
  Static, New.elem = None); the struct shape will not change across
  mir.2–mir.5, only the values. MTerm::ty() reads the carried type.
- `ailang-check::lower_to_mir`: the post-mono walk. Carries no second
  type engine — it calls the canonical `synth` per node with fresh
  throwaway inference scaffolding (subst/counter/residuals/…), applies
  the substitution, and threads only the lexical locals/loop_stack,
  maintained by the same push/pop rules synth uses (Let, Loop, Lam,
  LetRec, and Match via synth's own type_check_pattern). This is the
  "one engine, not two" property the milestone buys, on the producer
  side.
- `ailang-check::elaborate_workspace`: the single front-end entry —
  check (diagnostics gate) → desugar+lift → monomorphise → lower_to_mir
  — transcribed from the CLI build path. check_workspace stays for the
  diagnostics-only callers.
- Three ty-fill pins (crates/ailang-check/tests/lower_to_mir_ty.rs)
  load the #51/#53/#49 witnesses as fixtures and elaborate the whole
  workspace, so lower_to_mir is exercised over the full prelude+kernel,
  not just the tiny witness. Two new witness fixtures
  (examples/new_{rawbuf_size_only,counter_user_adt}.ail); #49 reuses the
  existing loop_recur_str_binder_no_leak_pin.ail.

Deviations from the plan, all forced by ground truth and verified
against the live code before commit:
- FnDef.export is Option<String>, not bool — dropped from MirDef (the
  plan's note allowed this fallback). Codegen reads FnDef.export
  directly, unaffected.
- fn_param_types did not exist — lifted the param-type extraction into
  a shared pub(crate) fn and rewired both mono.rs sites
  (collect_mono_targets, collect_rewrite_targets) to it, so the
  param-type source cannot drift between mono and lower_to_mir. The
  helper unwraps a top-level Forall then reads Type::Fn.params —
  identical to the inner_ty extraction it replaces; the early-return
  non-fn guard is preserved at both sites. Behaviour-preserving (whole
  suite green; this is the only edit to existing mono behaviour).
- lower_module mirrors two more mono.rs scaffolding rules the plan
  under-transcribed: skip intrinsic-bodied fns (they are
  signature-only; lowering them would hit synth's Term::Intrinsic
  guard) and seed env.current_module + env.globals + env.imports per
  module so synth's Var lookup resolves post-mono specialisations
  (e.g. compare__Int) in the prelude.
- The #53 pin asserts the lowered (new Counter 42) init carries ty
  Counter, not that it is an MTerm::New: a monomorphic `new` over a
  user ADT is desugared to a dotted call `(app Counter.new 42)` before
  lower_to_mir runs (desugar.rs:1078-1098), so it lowers to MTerm::App.
  MTerm::New survives only for a polymorphic `new` carrying a written
  NewArg::Type (the #51 RawBuf path, covered by the rawbuf pin). The
  pin's intent — ty-fill correctness — is preserved; the structural
  variant is mir.2/mir.5 territory.
- ailang-mir uses workspace-inherited Cargo fields for consistency with
  the existing crates (added it to [workspace.dependencies]).

refs #49
2026-05-31 14:04:03 +02:00
Brummel 02775b58ca test(codegen): mark the #49 Str-leg RED pin #[ignore] pending the representation spec
The Str-leg pin (committed 04f75c8) is RED on main: a heap-Str loop
binder replaced by `recur` leaks every superseded slab (live=3). Closing
it turned out NOT to be a mechanical fix. The "clone the static seed"
approach only covers the common accumulator shape (a fresh `str_concat`
result each iteration); it does not cover a `recur` arg or loop result
that is itself static, nor a phi-join of (static, heap) Str whose runtime
value may be static — and `ailang_rc_dec` on a static-Str pointer is UB
(no rc_header; rc.c has no runtime guard, per
design/contracts/0011-str-abi.md). A correct fix needs the deliberate
"every Str in loop-carried state is heap" representation decision that
commit f488d31 flagged as pending — routed through brainstorm.

This `#[ignore]` keeps `main`'s `cargo test --workspace` green while that
design cycle runs. The assertion body — the live=0 contract — is
unchanged; the GREEN implementation removes the `#[ignore]`. The ADT-leg
guard stays an active green test. Forward-fix only; main HEAD untouched.

refs #49
2026-05-31 11:21:52 +02:00
Brummel 04f75c8b71 test(codegen): RED-pin #49 Str leg — heap-Str loop binder must not leak across recur
A heap-Str accumulator threaded through a `(loop …)`/`recur` as a loop
binder leaks: each iteration's superseded `str_concat` slab is never
RC-dec'd, even when the loop's final result is consumed. The fixture
reports `allocs=4 frees=1 live=3` under AILANG_RC_STATS (stdout `xyyy`
is correct).

Root (data-flow traced): the `Term::Recur` arm in
crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs (~2131) gates its superseded-value dec
behind `!is_str`. That exclusion exists because a `Str` loop seed may be
a static-literal Str — a constexpr GEP into a packed-struct global with
no rc_header (lib.rs:1612) — and `ailang_rc_dec` on a static pointer
reads garbage at `payload-8` and aborts on underflow (rc.c:221, no
runtime guard, per design/contracts/0011-str-abi.md). So the Str binder's
prior heap slab is overwritten by a plain `store` with no dec.

Distinct from the loop-RESULT scope-close drop (8bcdae1, which also
excluded Str) and from the ADT leg already fixed in f488d31 — this is
the per-iteration leak of the *intermediate* Str binder values, which
f488d31 explicitly left open pending a representation decision.

RED test crates/ail/tests/loop_recur_str_binder_no_leak_pin.rs with
fixture examples/loop_recur_str_binder_no_leak_pin.ail: the Str leg
asserts live=0 (RED at HEAD, live=3); the ADT leg (f488d31) is re-pinned
as a green guard so a regression on the shared Term::Recur dec path is
caught with it.

GREEN side (chosen direction): promote a static-literal Str seed to heap
via str_clone at loop entry so every Str binder slot holds a heap Str
with a valid rc_header, then lift the `!is_str` recur-dec exclusion. This
UPHOLDS the 0011-str-abi codegen-proof invariant (extends "static Str
never reaches dec" to the loop case) rather than adding a runtime guard.

refs #49
2026-05-31 04:09:44 +02:00
Brummel 420703d321 fix(codegen): resolve the dotted T.new user-ADT callee, symmetric to check
A monomorphic `(new Counter 42)` over a user-defined ADT that declares a
`new` fn passed `ail check` but crashed `ail build --alloc=rc` with
`unknown variable: Counter.new` (RED-pinned in 1eff055).

Root: the `Term::New` desugar lowers a no-type-arg monomorphic
`(new Counter 42)` to `(app Counter.new 42)` — a type-scoped `Var`
callee `Counter.new`. The checker resolves that dotted callee via its
TypeDef-first ladder (so check is clean), but codegen had no equivalent
resolution: the name was absent from the import map and the current
module's def list, so it fell through to `CodegenError::UnknownVar`. The
user `new` fn body IS codegen'd — only the dotted call-site failed to
resolve. The error surfaced first in the arg-type pre-pass
(`synth_with_extras`'s dotted-Var branch), which `lower_term`'s
`Term::Let` arm runs before lowering the call.

Fix (crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs, all `// #53`):
- New `Emitter::type_home_module(type_name)`: returns the module
  declaring the named TypeDef (current module first, then any import
  target) by scanning `module_ctor_index` for a matching
  `CtorRef.type_name`. This mirrors the checker's TypeDef-first ladder.
- A dotted `T.def` fallback (resolve via the type's home module) added
  to the three sites that needed it: `resolve_top_level_fn` (the
  fn-pointer / lower_app resolution path), `is_static_callee` (its
  lockstep partner), and the `synth_with_extras` dotted-Var branch (the
  path that actually fired for this fixture).

Lockstep (CLAUDE.md `lower_app` ↔ `is_static_callee`): `is_static_callee`
now returns true for a dotted `T.def` whose `T` is a user ADT declared
in this or an imported module, exactly matching `resolve_top_level_fn`'s
new fallback — so no name is claimed static without being lowerable.

Distinct root from #51 (the polymorphic `(new T <elem> …)` type-arg
drop, ee4107c) — that fix deliberately left the monomorphic
app-lowering path unchanged; this completes it.

Verification: the #53 pin (crates/ail/tests/user_adt_new_mono_pin.rs)
is green; the original 3-module reproducer
examples/fieldtest/kem_2_counter_new.ail builds, runs, prints 42;
ailang-codegen/check/core suites, the intercepts bijection, and both
hash-pins are green; full workspace green.

closes #53
2026-05-31 03:52:23 +02:00
Brummel 1eff055a0e test(codegen): RED-pin #53 — monomorphic (new T args) over a user ADT must build
A monomorphic `(new Counter 42)` over a user-defined ADT that declares a
`new` fn passes `ail check` but crashes `ail build --alloc=rc` with
`unknown variable: Counter.new`. Distinct root from #51 (the polymorphic
type-arg drop, fixed by ee4107c) — the #51 fix deliberately left the
monomorphic app-lowering path unchanged.

Root (data-flow traced): the `Term::New` desugar
(crates/ailang-core/src/desugar.rs ~1091) lowers the no-type-arg
monomorphic `(new Counter 42)` to `Term::App { callee:
Var("Counter.new") }`. The checker's TypeDef-first ladder resolves that
dotted callee, so `ail check` is clean; codegen's call-lowering
(`lower_app` / `is_static_callee` in crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs)
does not recognise the dotted `Counter.new` user-ADT constructor callee,
so the `Term::Var` arm falls through to `CodegenError::UnknownVar`
(lib.rs:1712). The documented `lower_app`↔`is_static_callee` lockstep
pair — a check↔codegen disagreement on whether `Counter.new` resolves.
The user `new` fn body IS codegen'd; only the dotted call-site is
unrecognised.

The RED test is minimal and autonomous: a single inline module (user
ADT + `new` fn + a `main` calling `(new Counter 42)`), minimised from
the 3-module 35-symbol kem_2_counter_new.ail reproducer — the
match/print scaffolding is dropped because the crash is at the
call-site lowering, independent of how the result is consumed. Asserts
check passes, build succeeds, the binary runs and prints `ok`. RED at
HEAD (fails at build with the exact symptom). GREEN side resolves the
dotted T.new user-ADT callee at codegen, symmetric to the checker.

refs #53
2026-05-31 03:33:03 +02:00
Brummel ee4107c721 fix(check): honour the written element type-arg on polymorphic (new T …)
A `(new RawBuf (con Int) 3)` whose buffer is never observed by a later
get/set passed `ail check` but crashed `ail build` with
`RawBuf_new__Unit has no registered intercept`, and a forbidden
`(new RawBuf (con Unit) 3)` was wrongly accepted at check. Both legs
share one root: the `Term::New` desugar discarded the author's written
`NewArg::Type` before anything could use it.

This was never an inference problem. The element type is EXPLICITLY
known — the author wrote `(con Int)`. The defect was that the desugar
threw that known type away and relied on re-discovering it from
downstream use; with no use (size-only), `RawBuf.new`'s result-only
forall var stayed unpinned, mono Unit-defaulted it, and codegen aborted
on the unregistered `RawBuf_new__Unit` intercept. The fix USES the
written type instead of inferring it.

Mechanism:
- desugar.rs: a polymorphic `(new T <elem> …)` (carrying a written
  `NewArg::Type`) now SURVIVES into check instead of being lowered to
  `(app T.new …)`. A monomorphic `(new Counter 42)` (no type-arg) keeps
  the raw-buf.4 app-lowering unchanged.
- lib.rs synth `Term::New` arm: (a) validates the written element type
  against the constructed type's `param_in` set via
  `check_type_well_formed`, firing `ParamNotInRestrictedSet` naming the
  forbidden element (leg 2) — synth is the correct site because it has
  Env/registry access, unlike `pre_desugar_validation`; (b) binds the
  result-only forall var DIRECTLY to the written type (`?a := Int`, a
  trivial binding, no inference channel) by pushing a `FreeFnCall` whose
  metas are the written concrete types, so mono mints
  `RawBuf_new__<elem>` and never `__Unit`.
- mono.rs: `rewrite_mono_calls` and `interleave_slots` gain matching
  `Term::New` arms that each consume exactly one free-fn slot at a
  type-arg-bearing `Term::New` (mirroring synth's single observation,
  pushed before the value-args), and `rewrite_mono_calls` reduces the
  node to `(app <mangled> <value-args>)` so codegen never sees
  `Term::New` and the lib.rs:2200 `unreachable!` stays valid. The two
  walkers stay in lockstep.

The Unit-default policy in mono stays correct for genuinely-unobservable
vars (`is_empty(Nil)` etc.); only the case with a written `NewArg::Type`
is changed.

Alternatives rejected: an additive `type_args` field on `Term::App`
(~100 construction sites across 7 crates — a detour that builds a new
transport slot only to copy the already-known type into it); a runtime
type-witness parameter on `RawBuf.new` (invents a runtime value for a
pure type property); an identity-lambda wrapper carrying the element in
its param-type (hides a semantic property in a runtime construct). The
written type belongs where the author put it, carried to the one point
that consumes it.

Verification: both RED legs (committed 61b9d3f) now green; full
check/codegen/core/surface suites green; intercepts bijection and
hash-pin tests green; existing raw-buf int/float/bool fixtures still
build and run leak-clean (live=0).

Out of scope (pre-existing at HEAD, separate issue): a monomorphic
`(new Counter 42)` over a user ADT fails with `unknown variable:
Counter.new` — unrelated to the type-arg drop fixed here.

closes #51
2026-05-31 03:03:14 +02:00
Brummel 61b9d3f513 test(raw-buf): RED-pin #51 — (new T <elem> …) must honour the element type-arg
Two failing E2E tests pinning the two legs of the #51 codegen crash,
both rooted in the `Term::New` desugar dropping `NewArg::Type`
(crates/ailang-core/src/desugar.rs:1053):

- Leg 1 (legitimate): `(new RawBuf (con Int) 3)` used only via
  `RawBuf.size` — never observed by get/set, so the dropped `(con Int)`
  is the sole element-type carrier. The unpinned forall var defaults to
  Unit in mono and `ail build --alloc=rc` aborts on the unregistered
  `RawBuf_new__Unit` intercept. Pins build+run printing `3`.

- Leg 2 (forbidden): `(new RawBuf (con Unit) 3)` — Unit is outside the
  param-in set {Int, Float, Bool}, but the dropped type-arg never reaches
  param-in enforcement, so `ail check` wrongly passes. Pins a
  `param-not-in-restricted-set` rejection naming Unit at check time.

Both RED at HEAD. GREEN side carries the explicit element type from
Term::New through to monomorphisation (must not mint __Unit) and adds the
leg-2 reject pre-desugar per the Term::New/desugar lockstep.

refs #51
2026-05-31 02:05:02 +02:00
Brummel f488d314e8 fix(codegen): dec superseded heap loop-binder values across recur (ADT leg)
A heap value threaded through a `(loop ...)`/`recur` as a loop binder
leaked: the `Term::Recur` arm stored each new arg into the binder's
loop-carried alloca with a plain `store` and never RC-dec'd the heap
value already in that slot, so every iteration's superseded value was
lost. The scope-close drop path (drop.rs, commit 8bcdae1) only ever
sees the loop's FINAL result, never the intermediates.

The recur store now decs the prior value before overwriting it, gated
by the SAME predicate the scope-close path uses — RC-heap AND lowers
to `ptr` AND not `Str`. The binder slot tuple is widened to carry the
binder's AILang type so the gate and the typed drop-symbol lookup
(`field_drop_call`) are available at the store. A same-pointer guard
(`icmp eq prior, new`) skips the dec when a `recur` threads the
identical pointer back — the own->own case (RawBuf fill loops, where
`RawBuf.set` mutates in place), so a retained buffer is never freed.

Scope: the boxed-ADT leg only. Every ADT value is heap-allocated, so
dec'ing a superseded ADT binder is unambiguously UB-free. A `Str`
accumulator is deliberately NOT covered: `Str` literals lower to
constexpr-GEPs into static globals (no rc_header), so a `Str` loop
seed may be static and dec'ing it would be UB. That is the same
static-vs-heap-`Str` obstacle behind 8bcdae1's deliberate `Str`
exclusion; the `Str` accumulator leak remains open in #49 pending a
runtime representation decision.

RED test in crates/ail/tests/loop_recur_heap_binder_no_leak_pin.rs
threads a boxed `Cell` through three recurs: pre-fix allocs=5 frees=2
live=3, post-fix live=0, stdout 2. Verified: zero-recur ADT control
live=0 (no spurious dec), Int loops (isqrt/collatz/gcd) live=0
(non-ptr, no dec), RawBuf fill loops live=0 out 35/16 (same-pointer
guard), Str accumulator unchanged (live=3, no crash).

refs #49
2026-05-30 17:48:51 +02:00
Brummel a92bcaf969 fix(check): qualify cross-module kernel type-cons in user ADT fields
A consumer module's ADT field could reference a kernel-tier
auto-imported type by its bare name in op/value positions
(`(new RawBuf ...)`, `RawBuf.get`) but NOT in the type-constructor
position of the field declaration: `(con RawBuf (con Int))` stayed
the unqualified `RawBuf<Int>` and failed to unify with the
constructor argument's `raw_buf.RawBuf<Int>`, so a RawBuf could not
be stored in a user ADT field without spelling the qualified
`raw_buf.RawBuf`.

`qualify_workspace_module` skipped `Def::Type` entirely, and the
`Term::Ctor` arm only qualified field types of cross-module *owning*
types — a *local* type carrying a cross-module field was the
uncovered case. The fix qualifies each ctor field type in the
`Def::Type` arm via the existing `qualify_workspace_types`, which
upgrades only genuinely cross-module type-cons (skips
`own_local_types` and primitives), so a purely-local field is never
spuriously rewritten. This is a check-side workspace transform, not
the on-disk canonical form, so no module hash drifts (both hash-pin
tests stay green).

RED test `rawbuf_in_user_adt_field_resolves_bare_name` in
crates/ailang-check/tests/workspace.rs, with the bare-name fixture
(now checks/builds/runs -> 42, live=0, the ADT drop cascade frees
the buffer slab) and the qualified control twin.

This is the Series-substrate shape (a RawBuf wrapped in a user ADT),
so the inconsistency would have bitten the pending series milestone.

closes #50
2026-05-30 17:48:34 +02:00
Brummel 8bcdae1b53 fix(codegen): drop a let-bound owned loop result at scope close
An owned heap value whose `let`-binding value is a `(loop ...)` result,
afterwards only borrow-read (or unused), was never dropped at scope close
— a memory leak (AILANG_RC_STATS live=1). Newly observable once #47 made
fill-loops build: rawbuf_2_running_max leaked one buffer per run.

Root cause: is_rc_heap_allocated — the predicate the let-lowering uses to
decide a scope-close `dec` — matched only Term::Ctor, Term::Lam and
Own-returning Term::App. A Term::Loop-valued binder fell through to false,
so it was never registered for drop. (Sibling of the #47 synth gap: the
Term::Loop arm under-handled in yet another pass.)

Fix: add a Term::Loop arm that tracks the binder iff the loop's static
result type lowers to llvm `ptr` (boxed/heap) AND is not Str — and widen
drop_symbol_for_binder's App arm to cover Term::Loop so it resolves the
per-type drop symbol. Two load-bearing safety gates:
  - the `ptr` gate excludes unboxed primitives (Int/Bool/Float/Unit), so
    an Int-returning loop is not handed to a drop fn;
  - Str is excluded because a loop can return a *static* Str (a seed
    literal threaded unchanged) and ailang_rc_dec on a static-Str pointer
    is UB; an Own-App can never return a static Str, which is why the App
    arm may track Str but the Loop arm must not.
The loop's seed binders are consumed (moved in), so nothing else tracks
the result; linearity guarantees no alias, so the new drop is single.

Verified leak-clean and double-free-free across the fieldtest RawBuf set,
the consumed case, the Int-gate case, and the escape case (a fn returning
a loop-built owned RawBuf to its caller).

The separate per-iteration leak of superseded heap loop-binder values
(e.g. a Str accumulator threaded through recur) is a distinct, broader
pre-existing bug, filed separately — not addressed here.

RED-first: raw_buf_loop_no_leak_pin.
2026-05-30 17:14:28 +02:00
Brummel db710b1a73 fix(codegen): replay loop binders in synth_with_extras (closes #47)
A `let`-bound `loop` whose body references one of its own loop binders on
the non-recur exit passed `ail check` but failed `ail build` with
`unknown variable`. The fieldtest surfaced this with an owned RawBuf loop
binder, but the trigger is element-type-independent.

Root cause: the Term::Loop arm of synth_with_extras (the type-replay walk
the let-lowering runs via synth_arg_type on every let value) descended
into the loop body WITHOUT adding the loop binders to `extras`, unlike the
Term::Let arm which pushes its binder. A loop binder referenced on the
non-recur exit then resolved to UnknownVar during the type replay.

Fix: clone `extras`, push each loop binder's (name, ty), and thread the
augmented extras into the recursive synth of the body — mirroring the
Term::Let arm exactly. General fix; a plain Int let-bound loop that
references its binder also builds now.

This restores check<->codegen agreement for the natural fill-loop (thread
an owned buffer of runtime length through a loop/recur, one RawBuf.set per
iteration) — the way to populate a buffer whose length is not a fixed set
of literal indices.

Surfaced by the raw-buf fieldtest (finding B2, docs/specs/0058).
RED-first: loop_let_bound_binder_reference_builds.
2026-05-30 17:14:07 +02:00
Brummel 744ad41e47 fix(check): resolve type-scoped borrow-receiver ops in linearity (closes #46)
A function whose parameter is `borrow (RawBuf a)` and which calls
RawBuf.get or RawBuf.size on that parameter even once was rejected at
`ail check` with [consume-while-borrowed] — the exact borrow-receiver
use the ledger advertises for get/size. The diagnostic also misnamed the
cause: the receiver is read, not consumed.

Root cause: the linearity walk's callee_arg_modes looked up the callee
under its spelled name. A type-scoped polymorphic op is spelled
`RawBuf.get` at the call site, but check_module_with_visible registers
the kernel raw_buf ops under their bare def names (get/size). The lookup
missed, the receiver arg defaulted to Consume, and consuming a binder
whose borrow_count==1 (the Borrow param) fired the false positive. The
kernel signatures themselves are correct (receiver slot is `borrow`); the
only defect was the name-resolution gap in the linearity globals lookup.

Fix: on a direct-lookup miss, fall back to the bare method name via the
existing parse_method_qualifier + qualifier_is_class_shape resolvers,
gated on a class/type-shaped qualifier so lowercase cross-module-fn
qualifiers (std_list.length) are excluded. This is how the rest of the
checker already treats type-scoped polymorphic ops; the fix is general,
not RawBuf-specific.

This unblocks the natural borrow-helper decomposition (a shared
read-only buffer behind a helper fn) — the shape the downstream series
milestone's Series.at / Series.total_count need.

Surfaced by the raw-buf fieldtest (finding B1, docs/specs/0058).
RED-first: rawbuf_borrow_receiver_read_is_linearity_clean.
2026-05-30 17:13:56 +02:00
Brummel 75109f171d fix(check): param-not-in-restricted-set names the allowed set (closes #48)
The ParamNotInRestrictedSet diagnostic named the offending type, the
type-variable and the home type, but not the allowed set {Int, Float,
Bool} that design/models/0007 §4 promises it names. A downstream author
was told what is wrong but not what is right, and the kernel source that
carries the set is not available to a downstream consumer.

The allowed set already travels on the error struct (it flows into the
JSON `details.allowed`); only the human-readable `#[error]` render
dropped it. Append it to the Display string. JSON details unchanged.

Surfaced by the raw-buf fieldtest (finding B3, docs/specs/0058).
RED-first: param_in_reject_message_names_allowed_set pins the message
content before the one-line render fix.
2026-05-30 17:13:40 +02:00
Brummel 13e590cb46 iter raw-buf.6 kernel-stub-retirement (DONE 5/5): retire the stub, raw_buf is the sole base extension (refs #7)
Closes the raw-buf milestone. raw_buf (shipped raw-buf.1-.5; the
owned-drop resolution landed under bug #42/#43) has subsumed every
ratification role kernel_stub held -- Term::New end-to-end, the
param-in reject, kernel-tier auto-import, the monomorphic intrinsic
path, and the type-scoped polymorphic intrinsic mechanism (RawBuf's
four ops). The stub is now redundant; this iteration removes it.

Pure removal (-636/+49 across 22 files, 7 deleted):
- Rust surface: drop `mod kernel_stub` + `STUB_AIL` re-export
  (ailang-kernel), `parse_kernel_stub` + its workspace injection
  (ailang-surface), the `answer` + two `StubT_peek__{Int,Float}`
  INTERCEPTS entries + their three emit fns (ailang-codegen). The
  (intrinsic) markers leave with the deleted source, so the
  marker<->entry bijection holds in lockstep.
- Source + tests: delete crates/ailang-kernel/src/kernel_stub/,
  kernel_stub_module_round_trips, the two stub-consumer e2e tests,
  and mono_scoped_symbol.rs (its scope-qualified-mono mechanism is
  now pinned by RawBuf's ops + the intercepts bijection).
- Fixtures: delete kernel_answer.ail, new_stubt_smoke.ail,
  peek_mono_pin_smoke.ail, and fieldtest kem_3_stub_consumer.ail
  (referenced the deleted StubT; documented a since-fixed bug).
- Pins: re-baseline both workspace-count content-pins 5 -> 4
  (workspace_pin.rs + the e2e.rs twin) and regenerate all five IR
  snapshots (400 stub-IR lines removed; no user IR changed -- the
  stub auto-injected into every build).
- Ledger: design/INDEX.md + design/models/0007 to present-state
  (raw_buf is the live ratifier; raw-buf milestone shipped, series
  pending), plus architecture-comment sweep across workspace.rs,
  mono.rs, check/codegen lib.rs, workspace_kernel.rs.

Scope decisions (orchestrator, pre-plan): the self-contained inline
serde_json check-layer fixtures in ailang-check/src/lib.rs keep their
incidental StubT/kernel_stub sample names (they construct what they
reference; not stub-ratification) -- the one permitted residual.
kem_4 fieldtest kept (uses a user NumBox ADT, comment-only edit).
hash.rs `name: "answer"` left (generic serde doc example).

Plan-gap caught at implement: the planner's verbatim edit list
under-enumerated four honesty sites; one (mono.rs:562) carried a
literal `StubT_peek__Int` -- a hard-gate symbol the verbatim list
missed, which would have failed Task 4's removal gate. Filled
(comment-only, no behaviour). Confirms the planner self-review
filter-completeness risk; the implement gate caught it.

Verification: full workspace suite green (0 failed); hard symbol gate
(STUB_AIL|parse_kernel_stub|emit_answer|emit_stubt_peek|StubT_peek__)
zero matches across crates/ examples/ design/; soft gate residual only
the kept inline fixtures; kernel crate is lib.rs + raw_buf/ only.
Regression: compile_check 24/24 stable (exit 0; uniform downward
check_ms within tol -- stub no longer parsed per compile), cross_lang
25/25, check 34/34 stable (exit 0; an earlier exit-1 on
rc_over_bump was machine-load ratio noise -- denominator bump_s got
faster, rc_s also improved -- confirmed green on re-run, not
baselined).
2026-05-30 16:07:29 +02:00
Brummel 11e4c4624d feat: reserve $ in the Form-A lexer (closes #44)
Enforces the `$`-in-authored-names reservation that fresh_binder
(ailang-core::desugar) silently relied on. `fresh_binder` mints
shadow-rename binders as <base>$<n>; its collision probe could not see
an authored binder literally named <base>$<n> that binds later under
the same (def, name) uniqueness key — the exact collapse class #43
closed. The `$`-for-synthetic convention (`$mp_N`, <hint>$lr_N,
<base>$<n>) was held by discipline only.

This makes it a lexer-enforced invariant: no Form-A identifier token
may contain `$`. A one-line guard in tokenize rejects any token run
containing `$` before int/float/ident classification, raising the new
LexError::ReservedDollar { token, start }. It surfaces through the
existing ParseError::Lex -> W::SurfaceParse -> surface-parse-error
channel with zero new wiring — no new CheckError, no AST walker, no
entry-point threading.

Placement rationale (the load-bearing call): the threat vector is
Form-A source only. The client LLM author is forbidden from emitting
canonical .ail.json directly — it writes Form A exclusively; only the
orchestrator hand-authors JSON in rare exceptions. So every authored
identifier a hallucinating client could produce flows through the
lexer. `$` is a reserved character (like parens) with no legitimate
authored use in any position — unlike `.`/`/`, which DO have
legitimate uses (std_list.map) and therefore live in the check layer
(InvalidDefName) with AST-aware positional logic. No positional split
for `$` means no walker; the lexer is the right boundary. An earlier
draft put the reject in pre_desugar_validation justified by "a client
could build .ail.json directly" — false under the authoring contract,
so the simpler lexer reservation replaced it.

Exemptions by scan order, not special-case: `$` inside string literals
and comments stays legal because both are consumed by earlier branches
of the scan loop, before a run is ever sliced. The six checked-in
example files mentioning loop$lr_0 in comments keep parsing.

Documented non-goals (honesty rule): the .ail.json deserialization
path stays unguarded (the orchestrator's self-responsible channel);
the fresh_binder probe-body simplification (issue Q4) is not bundled —
only its now-false doc-comment is corrected to state the enforced
invariant, scoped to Form-A authored identifiers.

Verification (all run, all green):
- 3 in-source lexer tests: reject on x$1, exemption for $ in string,
  exemption for $ in comment. RED confirmed pre-guard (tokenize("x$1")
  returned Ok([Ident]), expect_err panicked); GREEN after.
- 2 integration tests (reserved_dollar_pin.rs): the reject reaches the
  public parse entry as ParseError::Lex(ReservedDollar); string
  exemption survives at parse level.
- cargo test --workspace: green, 0 failed.
- CLI: check on the comment-$ example (exit 0) and on the #43 shadow
  idiom raw_buf_int.ail (exit 0, buf->buf$1 rename minted post-parse,
  never re-lexed); a fresh $-binder source now rejected with the
  surface-parse-error diagnostic naming the token and byte offset.

Spec: docs/specs/0057-reserved-dollar-in-names.md (grounding-check
PASS). Plan: docs/plans/0112-reserved-dollar-in-names.md.
2026-05-30 15:00:17 +02:00
Brummel b151990028 audit: raw-buf close-fixes — honesty + ledger for the binder-rename (refs #43)
Architect drift review at raw-buf milestone close (after 55d76ae closed
#43) surfaced three items; this commit clears them. All three lockstep-
invariant pairs were confirmed intact and the effective-name keying was
confirmed consistent across the desugar→lift boundary (lift_letrecs reads
the desugared tree's effective names too).

1. [high] Honesty fix. `fresh_binder`'s doc-comment (and 55d76ae's body)
   claimed "authored names cannot contain `$` — the lexer reserves it".
   False: the lexer (ailang-surface) reserves only `.`, not `$`. The
   `$`-for-synthetic convention is not enforced. So collision-freedom
   rests solely on the `used` + in-scope-`scope` probe, which does not
   see an authored `<base>$<n>` that is out of scope at mint time but
   later binds under the same `(def, name)` key — the very collision
   class this fix closes. Latent (no fixture uses a `$` binder), but the
   stated rationale was wrong. Doc-comment now describes the probe
   honestly and names the gap + its two possible closures (enforce the
   reservation, or seed `used` with every authored binder name in the
   def). The enforce-or-retract decision is the next-direction follow-up.

2. [medium] design/models/0003-pipeline.md — "desugar currently only
   flattens nested constructor patterns" no longer matches the code
   (it now also alpha-renames shadowing binders). Corrected to current
   state (honesty-rule).

3. [low] design/contracts/0008-memory-model.md — the three drop gates
   all key on `(def_name, binder_name)` consume_count, silently relying
   on per-fn binder-name injectivity, which the ledger never stated.
   Added that invariant as an explicit precondition of the gates, with
   the desugar guarantee and its ratifying tests.

No code-logic change; doc-comment + ledger only.
2026-05-30 12:50:55 +02:00
Brummel 55d76ae4a1 fix: alpha-rename shadowing binders at desugar — A2b leg (closes #43)
The last open leg of the RawBuf owned-heap drop-leak cluster #43: the
UniquenessTable shadow-name collapse. The side-table keys by
(def_name, binder_name); a fn that shadows a binder name — the shipped
`(let buf (new…) (let buf (set buf…) … (get buf)))` idiom — collapses
every shadow onto one key. The outermost binding records last (on pop)
and overwrites the inner ones, so codegen's scope-close drop gates read
the collapsed consume_count for the innermost binding, misjudge its
ownership, and suppress its drop. The owned slab leaked (live==1).

Fix: desugar now alpha-renames any binder whose authored name shadows
an enclosing binding to a fresh `<name>$<n>`, making the (def, name)
key injective per fn. The rename is on-shadow-only and uniform across
binder kinds (Let, flat-Match pattern-binders, Lam params, Loop
binders); non-shadowing binders keep their authored name, so every
existing fixture's desugared output is byte-identical (evidenced by the
full pre-existing desugar suite passing unchanged). IR-neutral: codegen
names heap by fresh SSA, never by the source binder name.

No consumer of the uniqueness table changes — they all key by name, and
the name is now a per-fn injective identity (acceptance criterion 5).
The fix is entirely internal to ailang-core::desugar; uniqueness.rs gets
only a doc-comment correction (its old text was wrong on two counts:
"last = innermost by pop-order" was backwards, and "every shipping
fixture has unique binder names" was false).

Mechanism (vs. the spec's sketch): the threaded lexical scope became a
`Scope` struct carrying `entries` keyed by each binder's EFFECTIVE
(post-rename) name and `rename` mapping authored→effective. Keying
entries by effective name is load-bearing, not cosmetic: the LetRec
capture-detection reads `free_vars_in_term` of the desugared body
(effective names) and filters by `scope.contains_key` — had entries
stayed keyed by authored name, renaming an enclosing let would have made
a captured shadowed binder invisible to capture detection (UnknownVar in
the lifted fn). `insert_fixed` records identity renames for never-renamed
binders (fn-params, LetRec name/params) so an inner renamable binder that
shadows them is still detected.

Alternatives rejected: (A) an AST id field and (B) a derived
binding-path — both solve the deeper, SEPARATE problem of persistent AST
provenance back to the authored form, which is certain to be needed
eventually but is not required here; conflating the internal naming
collision with provenance is a category error. C′ (this) reuses the
existing fresh-name machinery and touches one pass.

Verification: the three shipped Let-shadow tests
(raw_buf_{int,float,bool}_shadow_rebind_drop_balances_rc_stats) reach
live==0 (were RED at live==1); the flat-pattern differential
(flat_pat_shadow_binder_does_not_leak_more_than_alpha_renamed) reaches
its alpha-renamed control's live count (was 5 vs 3); a new desugar unit
test (shadowing_let_is_alpha_renamed) pins the rename + reference
resolution; full workspace suite green, no fixture output drift. Both
no-change consumers re-verified by hand: match_lower.rs keys by the
emitted (renamed) pattern binder, linearity builds table and lookups
from the same desugared tree.

Spec: docs/specs/0056-unique-binder-names.md.
Plan: docs/plans/0111-unique-binder-names.md.
2026-05-30 12:42:44 +02:00
Brummel 0015f3dad1 spec: unique binder names per fn — A2b leg of RawBuf drop-leak (refs #43)
The last open leg of the #43 owned-heap drop-leak cluster is the
UniquenessTable shadow-name collapse: the side-table keys by
(def_name, binder_name), so a fn that shadows a binder name collapses
every shadow onto one key. The outermost binding (records last, on pop)
overwrites the inner ones; codegen's scope-close drop gates then read
the collapsed consume_count for the innermost binding and suppress its
drop, leaking the owned slab.

Spec 0056 resolves this as a compiler-internal naming collision — NOT
the deeper, separate problem of persistent AST provenance back to the
authored form (certain to be needed eventually, deliberately deferred;
conflating the two is a category error). Fix: alpha-rename shadowing
binders during desugar (reusing the existing fresh-name machinery that
already mints $mp_N / $lr_N), making the (def, name) key injective
again. No consumer of the uniqueness table changes — they all key by
name, and the name becomes a per-fn injective identity. IR-neutral:
codegen names heap by fresh SSA, never by source binder name. The
pre-desugar hashed form is untouched, so module identity and hash-pin
tests are unaffected.

RED fixtures securing the binder-kind class (the user's gating
condition before proceeding to the uniform-across-kinds fix):
- Let-shadow: the three raw_buf_{int,float,bool}_shadow_rebind tests
  (already in tree, committed f7f4c3b) — assert live == 0.
- Flat-pattern-shadow: a differential test plus its two fixtures
  (flat_pat_shadow_leak.ail shadows the outer binder; _control.ail
  alpha-renames it to a distinct name). The shadow must reach the
  control's live count. Differential by design, to isolate the
  shadow-collapse drop from unrelated baseline drop gaps out of
  #43's scope.

Grounding-check PASS; ail-check parse-gate green on every fenced block.
2026-05-30 12:21:27 +02:00
Brummel 0f6108e428 fix: resolve cross-module borrow modes in the uniqueness pass (refs #43)
A2a leg of the owned-RawBuf drop-leak. Prerequisite: regression-free
and independently correct, but does NOT alone close the leak — the
three shadow_rebind RED tests (f7f4c3b) stay RED pending the A2b
shadow-collapse leg, which needs a UniquenessTable contract change and
its own spec.

The leg. The uniqueness pass infer_module runs strictly per module
(called per-Emitter from codegen lib.rs:993 with a single Module). The
module holding `main` registers only its own + builtin signatures in
`globals`; the monomorphised intrinsic signatures (RawBuf_get__Int with
param_modes=[Borrow,Implicit], etc.) live exclusively in the raw_buf
module's separate pass. So a qualified cross-module callee
`raw_buf.RawBuf_get__Int` missed `main`'s globals entirely, returned
vec![], and the walk defaulted every arg to Position::Consume —
mis-counting the borrowed `buf` arg as a consume and inflating the
binder's consume_count, which gates off the scope-close drop. This is a
latent over-conservative default affecting ANY cross-module borrow
callee, not just RawBuf.

The fix (additive, two files). infer_module is kept as a thin wrapper
over a new infer_module_with_cross(m, &cross_module_types) that threads
the workspace-flat module->def->Type table (the same module_def_ail_types
codegen already builds and the A1 emit_call rule already reads). On a
same-module globals miss, callee_arg_modes now falls back to
cross_module_callee_ty: split the callee on the last `.`, resolve
<mod>.<def> positionally against the cross-module table, and read its
Type::Fn.param_modes. Same-module + builtin lookup stays the first
resort; unqualified names and absent entries fall through to the
existing all-consume default unchanged. Modes are matched positionally,
so RawBuf.set's Own first param still counts as a consume (the
new/set-chain binders keep consume_count==1 and are not dropped —
correct, set is in-place, same slab).

Verified: full workspace green except the three intended-RED
shadow_rebind tests; ailang-check and ailang-codegen (incl.
intercepts_bijection_with_intrinsic_markers) green; A1's
raw_buf_owned_drop_balances_rc_stats still green. raw_buf_int.ail still
leaks (live=1) — that is the A2b leg, addressed next.
2026-05-30 11:19:49 +02:00
Brummel f7f4c3b237 test: RED shadow-rebind RawBuf drop-leak on shipped fixtures (refs #43)
raw_buf_{int,float,bool}_shadow_rebind_drop_balances_rc_stats guard
the three shipped milestone fixtures (the LLM-natural shadow-rebind
idiom `(let buf (new...) (let buf (set buf...) ...(get buf)))`) with a
live==0 RC-stats assertion alongside their existing stdout check.

This is a SECOND, distinct leak mechanism (A2), separate from the
anonymous-temp path fixed in 62cd4b4 (A1). The A1 call-site drop does
not cover it: here `get`'s arg is the BOUND `buf` (a Term::Var), not an
anonymous temp, so the A1 rule (which excludes Var args) correctly does
not fire, and the leak persists — allocs=2 frees=1 live=1.

Cause (A2). The uniqueness pass runs post-monomorphisation
(infer_module called from codegen lib.rs:993). It registers the
intrinsic monomorph signatures in `globals` under their bare local
name `RawBuf_get__Int` (uniqueness.rs:128), but callee_arg_modes
(uniqueness.rs:390-410) looks them up by the cross-module-qualified
callee-Var name `raw_buf.RawBuf_get__Int` -> MISS -> vec![] -> every arg
defaults to Position::Consume (walk arm uniqueness.rs:240-242). The
borrow-mode RawBuf param of `get`/`size` is thus mis-counted as a
consume, inflating the final `buf` binder's consume_count from 0 to 1,
which suppresses the Term::Let drop gate at codegen lib.rs:1795. The
param_modes in the registered Type::Fn are correct ([Borrow, Implicit]);
the only defect is the name-key mismatch that hides them from the
lookup.

NOT issue #42's "shadow-name collapse": #42's own evidence shows the
distinct-name (b0/b1/...) variant leaks identically, so the defect is
the borrow-counted-as-consume default, not name-keyed ownership.

RED until callee_arg_modes resolves the qualified intrinsic name to the
registered signature. The A1 test (raw_buf_owned_drop_balances_rc_stats)
and the four stdout _e2e tests stay green.
2026-05-30 10:58:07 +02:00
Brummel 62cd4b4ee7 fix: drop owned temp passed to a borrow slot at the call site (closes #43)
GREEN side of the owned-RawBuf drop-leak. RED test
raw_buf_owned_drop_balances_rc_stats (47efbdb) now passes:
allocs=2 frees=2 live=0, stdout still "10".

The leak. An owned temporary returned by an Own-ret call and then
passed only to a `borrow`-mode parameter is dead after that call but
was dropped by no one. In the repro, RawBuf.set returns (own RawBuf)
in-place (the intercept emits `ret ptr %b`, the same slab it received),
and that result is passed to RawBuf.get whose RawBuf param is `borrow`,
so get does not consume it and returns an i64. After get the owned
slab is dead. Codegen's two scope-close drop emitters cover only
Term::Let binders (the let gate) and Own fn-params; the general call
lowerer emit_call spliced args without inspecting per-arg modes, so an
owned arg landing in a borrow slot was never dec'd. The leak is
binder-independent — the fully inline form with no `let` at all leaks
byte-identically, which is why the fix lives at the call site, not at
the let gate.

The fix (emit_call, codegen-only, +50 lines, uniqueness.rs untouched).
After a non-tail call, for each argument that is itself an
is_rc_heap_allocated owned temporary (Own-ret call / fresh escaping
ctor / lambda — never a plain Var alias, whose owner is some other
binder dropped elsewhere) AND lands in a Borrow-mode param slot, emit
a drop of that argument's SSA through the same per-type drop symbol the
let gate uses (drop_symbol_for_binder). Per-param modes are read from
the Ail-level Type::Fn.param_modes in module_def_ail_types (which
survives monomorphisation: RawBuf_get__Int -> [Borrow, Implicit]);
note FnSig itself carries only LLVM type strings, not modes.

Why it cannot double-drop or drop a live value:
- set's buffer param is Own, not Borrow, so the rule does not fire for
  the new->set link; the single drop lands on the final temp after get.
  set is in-place (same pointer in and out), so that one drop frees the
  one slab exactly once.
- the rule excludes Var args, so it never races the let/Own-param
  emitters for a named binder.
- the dropped SSA is an input arg, always distinct from the fresh call
  result, and the rule is gated on !tail, so it can never dec a value
  that flows out as the surrounding fn's result.

Known limitation (advisory, no fixture exercises it, stated in a code
comment): a musttail call passing an owned temp into a borrow slot
still leaks — a tail call terminates the block, leaving no post-call
emission point.

Verified: full workspace green; ail e2e 95/95 incl. the 4 raw_buf
fixtures (60/4.0/42/reject) and the now-GREEN drop test; codegen
intercepts_bijection_with_intrinsic_markers green.
2026-05-30 10:49:49 +02:00
Brummel 47efbdb5c0 test: RED owned-RawBuf drop-leak repro (refs #43)
raw_buf_owned_drop_balances_rc_stats + examples/raw_buf_drop_min.ail:
a single owned 1-slot Int RawBuf, written once and read once. Prints
10 correctly but under AILANG_RC_STATS shows allocs=2 frees=1 live=1 —
the slab leaks. Asserts stdout=="10" (green) and live==0 (RED until
the owned-temp drop call is emitted).

Root cause (verified, supersedes #42's disproven diagnosis). The
leaked value is the anonymous owned temporary produced by RawBuf.set
(own-ret, in-place: intercepts.rs emit_rawbuf_set_int does `ret ptr
%b`, same slab as its input), then passed to RawBuf.get whose RawBuf
param is `borrow`. After get borrows and returns an i64 the temp is
dead, but no one drops it: codegen's only two scope-close drop
emitters cover Term::Let binders (lib.rs:1785-1822) and Own fn-params
(lib.rs:1426-1502); the general call lowerer emit_call (lib.rs:2552)
splices args without inspecting per-arg own/borrow modes and emits no
post-call drop for an owned arg landing in a borrow slot.

Binder-independent, contra #42: the fully inline form with no `let`
at all produces byte-identical leaking IR (no Term::Let exists, so the
1785 gate is never reached). The defect is the drop-CALL-site emission
raw-buf.4 deferred to raw-buf.5; uniqueness.rs is not implicated.
2026-05-30 10:41:52 +02:00
Brummel 8ac8756682 iter raw-buf.4 rawbuf-payload-termnew-desugar (DONE, drop-call deferred to .5): RawBuf works, prints 60 (refs #7)
Ships RawBuf end-to-end as a consumer of the raw-buf.3 scope-qualified
intrinsic mechanism, plus the general Term::New construction sugar.
Working subset committed; the drop-CALL ratification (no-leak) is
re-carved to raw-buf.5 (see b49f57d) — the flat drop FUNCTION ships here,
its call-insertion needs a codegen resolution mechanism.

What ships (all green):
- raw_buf kernel-tier submodule (crates/ailang-kernel/src/raw_buf/):
  RawBuf TypeDef (param-in {Int,Float,Bool}, ctor B a) + four
  (intrinsic) ops new/get/set/size. parse_raw_buf + workspace injection
  (kernel-tier auto-imported); workspace count 4 -> 5.
- 12 scope-qualified INTERCEPTS entries RawBuf_{new,get,set,size}__{Int,
  Float,Bool} + emit fns: new allocs an @ailang_rc_alloc slab
  (8-byte i64 size header + n*width element bytes), get/set
  getelementptr+load/store at offset 8 + i*width, size loads the header.
  Mechanical on the raw-buf.3 naming + bijection machinery; bijection
  green (4 markers -> 12 entries).
- Term::New desugar (crates/ailang-core/src/desugar.rs): (new T <types>
  <values>) -> (app T.new <values>), runs before check so the
  type-scoped callee flows through the raw-buf.3 scope threading to
  RawBuf_new__T; drops the NewArg::Type (element type inferred from
  use). Both codegen Term::New deferral arms removed (replaced with
  unreachable!). Ratified by new_stubt_builds_and_runs.
- Flat intrinsic-storage drop FUNCTION @drop_raw_buf_RawBuf (single
  @ailang_rc_dec on the slab), emitted for any TypeDef whose new op is
  (intrinsic)-bodied — distinguishes RawBuf (intrinsic new) from StubT
  (real-body new -> generic ADT drop).
- E2E: raw_buf_int (-> 60), raw_buf_float (-> 4.0), raw_buf_bool
  (-> 42), raw_buf_param_in_reject (param-not-in-restricted-set).

In-scope additions beyond the literal plan (both sound, ratified):
- qualify_workspace_term now normalises a monomorphic cross-module
  type-scoped callee (StubT.new) to <home>.f; without it
  new_stubt_builds_and_runs cannot build (StubT.new is monomorphic, so
  the raw-buf.3 poly-mono path mints no symbol). Same-module + polymorphic
  callees carved out.
- diagnostic-behaviour: (new T ..) missing-new-op now surfaces
  type-scoped-member-not-found (desugar runs before check, bypassing
  synth's Term::New arm); new-arg-kind-mismatch obsoleted. Two unit
  tests updated to the new behaviour. param-in reject unaffected.

The 5 .ll snapshots gained @drop_raw_buf_RawBuf (+ partial) — injecting
raw_buf emits its drop fn into every program; benign, regenerated to the
final IR. (The plan's "snapshots stay green" assumption was wrong.)

Verification (orchestrator, this session): cargo test --workspace 676
passed / 0 failed / 2 ignored. raw_buf_int_e2e prints 60; bijection,
round-trip, new_stubt, float/bool/reject all green. The raw_buf_no_leak
test is NOT in this commit — it moves to raw-buf.5 with the drop-call
resolution that makes it pass (the slab currently leaks at scope close;
tracked, fixed next iter; milestone not released until close).
2026-05-30 00:49:51 +02:00