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Follow-up to #1277, which left one rooting hole open and said so in a comment at Converter::pin.

The defect

module_to_object builds a node as self.node(name, range, &[("targets", ...), ("value", ...)]). Rust evaluates that array left to right and every producer allocates, so the list built for the first field sat in the array as a pointer that a collection under a later sibling had already moved past.

Rooting each value at its producer did not fix this, and that is what the old code did: Converter::pin pinned the value and handed back shadow_stack_get(slot) — correct at the instant it returned, stale one sibling later. The slot was the only thing that survived, and the caller threw it away.

The change

struct Rooted(usize) (Copy, get() re-reads the slot). pin returns it, and all 26 producers in the ast-to-object direction return Rooted/RootedResult instead of PyObjectRef. node reads each field at the setattr_str that stores it; list reads its members at the w_list_new that pins them. A bare PyObjectRef is then unspellable inside the builder and the compiler enforces it.

The estimate in #1277's comment — "a change across all 77 node call sites" — was wrong. Every field expression was already a producer call, so 74 node(...) call sites needed no edit at all; only ~15 raw pyre_object::w_* sites needed self.pin(...), plus a none() helper. The int construction number and constant_value shared moves into int_from_str.

Pinning immortals (w_none, w_ellipsis) too is deliberate: uniform beats a per-site movability judgement, and the shadow stack already grew with the tree.

Verification

ast.dump, ast.unparse and compile() over 36 sources, with a helper allocating 200 young lists between steps:

before after
default nursery ok 72 ok 72
PYPY_GC_NURSERY=4096 FAIL ok 72
PYPY_GC_NURSERY=1 FAIL ok 72

#1277 recorded this as reproducing "only under PYPY_GC_NURSERY=1". It also reproduces at =4096, where the signature is clearest: TypeError: descriptor '__iter__' requires a 'list' object but received a 'list' — a receiver whose class check fails while both sides print the same type name is a reused cell.

#1277's two repro scripts still pass (18/18 and 42/42, default and =4096).

The object-to-ast direction (ObjectConverter) copies a list's members out as bare pointers across getattr/isinstance too, so the same window exists on paper. 27 assertions over malformed hand-built trees at three stress levels did not make it fail — the members there are node instances, whose headers do not move — so it is left alone rather than changed on a theory.

Gates

  • cargo test --all --features dynasm --no-fail-fast — rc=0, 140 suites
  • pyre/check.pydynasm 437/437, cranelift 437/437
  • clippy — no finding in convert.rs

Two wasm reds, both base-owned, established from CI rather than from a local A/B:

  • synth/short_circuit_value_kept_stack 5.4x > 4x — main's own CI run 31957132154 (@ affdab0e7e7, ubuntu-24.04, the only runner that exercises wasm) reports the same fixture red at ratio 5.2x > gate 4x.
  • synth/nested_list_comprehension_hot jit-stats — check.py's own detector calls the counter pair unstable on the dynasm arm of the same invocation: "re-running the same binary moved bridges_compiled 6 -> 4, guard_failures 1202 -> 802, so this run's counters are not a property of the tree". macOS runs no wasm job in CI, so this reading has no CI counterpart in either direction.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved AST conversion reliability for complex Python syntax, literals, constants, and integers.
    • Prevented objects from becoming invalid during memory allocation and Python callbacks.
    • Improved stability when creating classes, including base-class processing and initialization hooks.
    • Fixed potential memory-related issues in JSON encoding, pickling, arrays, set operations, and select.select.
    • Added safeguards to detect invalid memory references earlier and prevent related crashes.

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The interpreter now uses shadow-stack roots for movable objects across AST conversion, class construction, serialization, array and select operations, and set operations. The collector also rejects forwarded nursery pointers before shadow metadata access.

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Shadow-stack rooting and stale-pointer safety

Layer / File(s) Summary
Collector validation
majit/majit-gc/src/collector.rs, pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/eval.rs
Collector checks now reject forwarded nursery pointers. Documentation describes native and wasm32 nursery reset behavior.
Rooted AST conversion
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/_ast/convert.rs
AST module, node, literal, pattern, operator, parameter, integer, and joined-value conversion now propagates rooted handles.
Rooted class construction and callbacks
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/call.rs, pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/builtins.rs
Class construction roots bases, MRO-entry tuples, callback arguments, effective bases, and __set_name__ entries across Python execution.
Rooted serialization and array operations
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/_json/mod.rs, pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/_pickle/pickler.rs, pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/array/mod.rs
JSON, pickle, and array paths pin objects before callbacks and reread them from root slots afterward.
Rooted select and set operations
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/select/interp_select.rs, pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/typedef.rs, pyre/pyre-object/src/setobject.rs
Select inputs and results, set results, and temporary accumulators remain pinned across collection points.

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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 1e608

The change improves AST object rooting, but the current code still has several paths that can use stale objects after collection and an error path that can leak file descriptors. Those issues can cause incorrect behavior, crashes, or resource exhaustion, so the PR is not merge-ready until they are addressed.

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In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/_ast/convert.rs`:
- Around line 1850-1852: Root or pin the newly created position integer before
calling setattr_str in the position-field conversion path, ensuring the value
remains valid across allocation during attribute assignment. Apply this
consistently to all four position fields handled by this code, while preserving
the existing field names and setattr_str behavior.
- Around line 1817-1823: Update Converter::none to reuse a cached Rooted
reference to the process-global w_none singleton, preserving safe rooting
without creating duplicate None roots. Do not treat this cache as bounding
shadow-stack growth: Converter::pin still adds slots for other values, so retain
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Comment on lines +1817 to 1823
fn none(&self) -> Rooted {
self.pin(pyre_object::w_none())
}

fn optional(&self, value: Option<Rooted>) -> Rooted {
value.unwrap_or_else(|| self.none())
}

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Cache duplicate None roots, but do not claim this bounds the shadow stack.

w_none() is a process-global immortal singleton, so one Rooted slot is safe. Converter::pin still appends slots for every node, string, and number until the root scope is truncated. Cache w_none() as a narrow root-walk optimization; use slot reclamation to bound total stack growth.

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In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/_ast/convert.rs` around lines 1817 - 1823,
Update Converter::none to reuse a cached Rooted reference to the process-global
w_none singleton, preserving safe rooting without creating duplicate None roots.
Do not treat this cache as bounding shadow-stack growth: Converter::pin still
adds slots for other values, so retain or add root-scope slot reclamation where
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🤖 Codex parity review

Static analysis of this diff vs the local RPython/PyPy sources (commit 1e608da).
Updated: 2026-08-17T10:17:00.657Z

Files in the reviewed diff
majit/majit-gc/src/collector.rs
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/builtins.rs
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/call.rs
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/eval.rs
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/_ast/convert.rs
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/_json/mod.rs
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/_pickle/pickler.rs
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/array/mod.rs
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/select/interp_select.rs
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/typedef.rs
pyre/pyre-object/src/setobject.rs

1. Regressions to PyPy parity introduced by this patch

None.

2. Other mismatches introduced by this patch

None.

3. Pre-existing mismatches (already present before this patch)

  • pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/select/interp_select.rs:382 ↔ pypy/module/select/interp_select.py:203-235 — the fourth select() argument remains read from the unrewritten native args slice after the first three iterable conversions can collect. PyPy retains w_timeout as a translated GC reference; pyre can pass a stale movable timeout object to float_w. This was already present in upstream/main; the patch correctly roots only arguments 0–2.

4. Structural adaptations

  • pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/_ast/convert.rs:1779 ↔ rpython/memory/gctransform/framework.py:803-856Rooted(usize) and explicit shadow-stack slots replace RPython’s translator-inserted live-root handling. This is a Rust implementation adaptation; the patch now preserves PyPy’s AST-object construction behavior across moving collections.

  • majit/majit-gc/src/collector.rs:3181 ↔ rpython/memory/gc/incminimark.py:2847-2862 — pyre explicitly rejects a forwarded nursery header before shadow lookup, whereas RPython relies on its GC invariants and later ll_assert. This only strengthens diagnostics for an invalid internal stale-pointer state, not Python-visible GC semantics.

`module_to_object` evaluates a node's field array left to right and every
field's construction allocates, so a list built for an earlier field sat in
the array as a pointer that a collection under a later sibling had left
behind.

`Converter::pin` now returns `Rooted`, the shadow slot the value was
published at, and every producer in the ast-to-object direction returns
`Rooted` in place of `PyObjectRef`.  `node` reads each field out of its slot
at the `setattr_str` that stores it, `list` reads its members back at the
`w_list_new` that pins them, and the call sites that built a value from a
`pyre_object::w_*` constructor publish it the same way.  `pin_slot` and the
note recording the residual window are gone.

`ast.dump`, `ast.unparse` and `compile()` over 36 sources fail under
`PYPY_GC_NURSERY=4096` and `=1` before this commit -- the first with
`TypeError: descriptor '__iter__' requires a 'list' object but received a
'list'` -- and pass after.  The object-to-ast direction copies a list's
members out as bare pointers too, but no stress level made it fail.

Assisted-by: Claude
… keywords

`type_descr_new` copies the finished class dict out with `w_dict_items` and
then calls `__set_name__` on each entry.  That call runs Python, and a class
body's values include lists and dicts -- the two kinds whose headers move --
so the pairs still sitting in the native vector addressed objects that had
been moved.  `PYPY_GC_NURSERY=4096` segfaults in `baseobjspace::set_name`
reading such a value's type pointer, with `builtins::type_descr_new` and
`call::build_class_inner` under it; the whole CPython `test_dictviews`
module goes CRASH -> PASS at that nursery.

`call_init_subclass_on_bases` holds its keyword pairs across `super_check`,
`w_super_new` and the `__init_subclass__` lookup, which run Python for the
same reason, and a class keyword's value can be a list or a dict.  That one
is from reading the function rather than from a backtrace.

Both now pin the flattened pairs and read each back at the call that
consumes it.

The repro builds classes through `type(name, bases, dict)` and through a
metaclass, with class bodies and class keywords holding lists and dicts: 201
assertions, rc=139 under `PYPY_GC_NURSERY=4096` before and clean after, at
the default nursery and at `=1` too.

Assisted-by: Claude
…point

`__build_class__` mints both bases tuples into Rust locals nothing traces, so
a class body long enough to span a major cycle lets Sweeping free the tuple
`w_type_new` then stores into `W_TypeObject.bases`; the crash reproduces at
the default nursery. `real_build_class` pins both at their mints for the whole
of `build_class_inner`, its one caller.

The same shape elsewhere:

- `update_bases` kept the tuples `__mro_entries__` returned in a native vector
  across the next base's `getattr_str`.
- `type_descr_new_with_metaclass` minted the `(object,)` default bases with no
  other referrer and used it through `__set_name__`.
- `array_descr_new` read its initializer out of the native argument slice
  after the 'u' deprecation warning ran Python.
- `array_extend_iterable` held the iterator it minted across `next`.
- `save_global_or_reduce` re-read the object after `__reduce_ex__` ran.
- `_json`'s sequence and dict encoders named `obj` in their `map_err` closures
  after the child encoders ran, so a note reported the type of whatever
  occupied the cell; `encode_dict` also held the `items()` result across
  `sorted`.
- `select.select` collected each fd sequence from the argument slice in turn,
  so the second and third were pre-move addresses once the first had run
  `__iter__` and `fileno()`.
- `set_intersect_update` and `w_set_difference_update_from_set` left their
  accumulators unreferenced across the `__eq__` a bucket probe runs, and
  `set_method_intersection` held the set each `set_intersect_update` returned
  across the next operand's iterable drain.

A tuple, type, set and array are allocated stable and never move, so those
sites pin for liveness and keep reading the local; a list or dict header
moves, so those read the value back from its slot at each consumer.

Assisted-by: Claude
`FORWARDED_MARKER` sets every bit `has_flag` reads, so a forwarded header
answers `HAS_SHADOW` and the map lookup behind it fails with "GCFLAG_HAS_SHADOW
but no shadow found". `find_shadow` and the major marking visitor assert the
header is not forwarded before that test. `has_flag` is unchanged:
incminimark.py:2167-2216 relies on the all-bits form and orders `is_forwarded`
ahead of the shadow arm instead, which `copy_nursery_object` already mirrors.

`walk_raw_function_roots`' comment attributed a stale nursery ref to
`Nursery::reset` zero-filling the region; on native it only rewinds the free
pointer, and the zero fill is the wasm32 arm.

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pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/call.rs (1)

4038-4199: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reload bases from w_orig_bases after callbacks.

getattr_str and __mro_entries__ can run Python and collect. base_args is a native slice, so its entries are not rewritten. The later nb.push(w_base) and base_args[..i].to_vec() can retain pre-collection pointers.

Read each current base from the rooted w_orig_bases tuple. Rebuild any copied prefix from that tuple after callbacks.

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In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/call.rs` around lines 4038 - 4199, Update
update_bases to reload each base from the rooted w_orig_bases tuple after
getattr_str or __mro_entries__ callbacks return, rather than using stale
base_args pointers. Use the reloaded value for nb.push and rebuild the copied
prefix from the tuple so all retained bases remain valid after collection.
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/_pickle/pickler.rs (1)

1390-1413: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reload rooted reduction inputs before every call.

dispatch_table_reduce can execute Python. The later save_global(ctx, buf, w_obj, None) and findattr_result(w_obj, "__reduce_ex__") still use the pre-collection w_obj pointer.

Also, w_int_new(ctx.proto) can collect after reduce_ex is pinned but before call_fn consumes it. Pin the protocol object, then load both the method and protocol argument from shadow slots at the call site.

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In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/_pickle/pickler.rs` around lines 1390 -
1413, Reload w_obj from shadow_stack_get(obj_slot) after dispatch_table_reduce
returns and before save_global or findattr_result, since that call may collect.
In the __reduce_ex__ branch, pin the bound method and protocol integer in shadow
slots, then reload both immediately before call_fn; preserve the existing
__reduce__ fallback behavior.
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/eval.rs (2)

2276-2288: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Rename this predicate and correct its doc comment.

The name states an action, but the body performs no finalization. It only tests whether the receiver's type defines __del__. The doc also states that a reachability pass rather than a type shortcut makes the decision, while the body is exactly a type lookup. The reachability pass lives in run_failed_attr_finalizers, so that sentence belongs there.

Both call sites (line 2381 and line 4751) read as if the finalizer runs here.

♻️ Proposed rename and doc fix
-/// CPython 3.14's failed-attribute refcount boundary: once `LOAD_ATTR` has
-/// popped a finalizable receiver, an otherwise-unreferenced temporary runs its
-/// finalizer before the surrounding exception handler continues. This is
-/// observable in `test_io.test_error_through_destructor` for both native and
-/// `_pyio` streams. A reachability pass, rather than an IO/type shortcut,
-/// decides whether the receiver is actually dead.
-#[majit_macros::dont_look_inside]
-pub(crate) fn finalize_failed_attr_receiver_now(obj: PyObjectRef) -> bool {
+/// Whether a receiver consumed by a failing `LOAD_ATTR` can need a deferred
+/// finalizer, i.e. whether its type defines `__del__`.
+///
+/// CPython 3.14's failed-attribute refcount boundary runs the finalizer of an
+/// otherwise-unreferenced temporary before the surrounding exception handler
+/// continues (`test_io.test_error_through_destructor`, native and `_pyio`).
+/// This predicate only selects candidates; `run_failed_attr_finalizers` owns
+/// the reachability pass that decides whether the receiver is actually dead.
+#[majit_macros::dont_look_inside]
+pub(crate) fn failed_attr_receiver_may_finalize(obj: PyObjectRef) -> bool {
     crate::typedef::r#type(obj).is_some_and(|w_type| unsafe {
         crate::baseobjspace::lookup_in_type(w_type.as_ptr(), "__del__").is_some()
     })
 }
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In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/eval.rs` around lines 2276 - 2288, Rename
finalize_failed_attr_receiver_now to a predicate name that reflects checking
whether the receiver type defines __del__, and update both call sites in
run_failed_attr_finalizers and the other caller. Replace its misleading
reachability/finalization doc comment with documentation describing the type
lookup; keep the actual reachability and finalization behavior in
run_failed_attr_finalizers.

3396-3401: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Account for direct stack cleanup in the deferred failed-attribute state.
POP_EXCEPT changes failed_attr_cleanup to 3, but cleanup_throw, end_finally, end_send, and end_async_for remove stack values without advancing that state. If exception handling reaches one of these opcodes, finalization can run late or not at all. Advance the state for each discarded value.

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In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/eval.rs` around lines 3396 - 3401, Update the
direct stack-cleanup paths in cleanup_throw, end_finally, end_send, and
end_async_for to advance failed_attr_cleanup once for every value they discard,
matching pop_top’s failed_attr_after_stack_pop behavior and preserving correct
deferred failed-attribute finalization.
majit/majit-gc/src/collector.rs (1)

3353-3356: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clamp the child_words read to the nursery arena.

The loop reads eight words from obj_addr without a bound test. obj_addr passed only a range check on its base, so an object near the arena end makes obj_addr + 56 read past the nursery. A fault there replaces the panic message with a segfault, and this diagnostic exists to deliver that message.

🛡️ Proposed bound test
             let mut child_words = [0usize; 8];
-            for (index, word) in child_words.iter_mut().enumerate() {
-                *word = unsafe { *((obj_addr as *const usize).add(index)) };
-            }
+            let nursery_end = self.nursery.start_ptr() as usize + self.nursery.size();
+            for (index, word) in child_words.iter_mut().enumerate() {
+                let slot = obj_addr + index * std::mem::size_of::<usize>();
+                if slot + std::mem::size_of::<usize>() > nursery_end {
+                    break;
+                }
+                *word = unsafe { *(slot as *const usize) };
+            }
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In `@majit/majit-gc/src/collector.rs` around lines 3353 - 3356, Update the
child_words read in the collector’s object-inspection logic to verify that the
full eight-word span from obj_addr remains within the nursery arena before
dereferencing it. Preserve the existing diagnostic panic path for objects that
would extend past the arena, preventing an out-of-bounds read near the nursery
end.
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/builtins.rs (2)

16669-16710: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

A failing file_set_closed leaks the file descriptor.

file_set_closed falls back to setattr_str(self_obj, "closed", ...), so a subclass that exposes closed as a read-only property makes it raise. The ? at line 16673 then returns before the libc::close at line 16684 runs. The descriptor leaks for the process lifetime and the stream still reports itself as open. The same early return also discards base_close_error.

CPython's _io_FileIO_close_impl always reaches internal_close and chains the base-close exception; it never skips the descriptor close.

Capture the error instead of propagating it, and preserve the existing precedence order.

🐛 Proposed fix
     let base_close_error = crate::module::_io::iobase_close(&[current()]).err();
-    file_set_closed(current(), true)?;
+    let set_closed_error = file_set_closed(current(), true).err();
 
     let close_result: Result<(), crate::PyError> = if let Some(fd) = file_get_fd(current()) {
     close_result?;
     if let Some(error) = base_close_error {
         return Err(error);
     }
+    if let Some(error) = set_closed_error {
+        return Err(error);
+    }
     Ok(w_none())
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In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/builtins.rs` around lines 16669 - 16710, Update the
FileIO close flow around file_set_closed and close_result to capture any
file_set_closed error instead of returning early, always execute the
descriptor-closing path, and then preserve the existing error precedence by
reporting the captured close-state error alongside or ahead of base_close_error
as required. Ensure the stream’s closed state and descriptor cleanup are still
attempted when the closed attribute is read-only.

16489-16496: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the non-Windows unused_mut. The #[cfg(windows)] assignment is absent on other targets, so let mut count emits a warning. Use cfg-scoped shadowing; this fails only when the build enables -D warnings.

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In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/builtins.rs` around lines 16489 - 16496, Update
crt_write_once so count is immutable on non-Windows targets and cfg-scoped
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♻️ Duplicate comments (1)
pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/_ast/convert.rs (1)

1848-1852: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Pin the position int before setattr_str stores it.

w_value is never published as a root. node.get() is re-read correctly, but the int stays only in a Rust local. setattr_str runs Python attribute assignment, which can allocate and trigger a minor collection. The unrooted young int is then moved or reclaimed, and the store writes a stale pointer. Every other value handed to setattr_str in this file comes out of a shadow slot, so these four position fields are the remaining hole.

This was raised on an earlier commit and marked as addressed, but the current code still passes a bare PyObjectRef.

🐛 Proposed fix: root the position int
-                let w_value = pyre_object::w_int_new(value as i64);
-                crate::baseobjspace::setattr_str(node.get(), field, w_value)?;
+                let w_value = self.pin(pyre_object::w_int_new(value as i64));
+                crate::baseobjspace::setattr_str(node.get(), field, w_value.get())?;
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In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/_ast/convert.rs` around lines 1848 - 1852,
Root the newly allocated position integer before calling setattr_str in the
position-field conversion branches. Update the four affected fields to obtain
w_value from an appropriate shadow/rooted slot, preserving the existing
node.get() reread and attribute-assignment behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/call.rs`:
- Around line 5077-5106: In the __init_subclass__ keyword-building flow, pin
both w_type and the generated w_super before any Python execution, including
super_check and getattr_str. Reload each object from its GC-root slot after
every callback boundary before reuse, and ensure descriptor lookup and
call_with_kwargs_in_ctx use the reloaded rooted references.

In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/select/interp_select.rs`:
- Around line 344-359: In the select argument handling around collect_fds, pin
args[3] when the optional timeout is present alongside the file-descriptor
arguments. In the timeout branch, pass the timeout object retrieved from its
pinned shadow slot to float_w instead of reading args[3] directly after
collection.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@majit/majit-gc/src/collector.rs`:
- Around line 3353-3356: Update the child_words read in the collector’s
object-inspection logic to verify that the full eight-word span from obj_addr
remains within the nursery arena before dereferencing it. Preserve the existing
diagnostic panic path for objects that would extend past the arena, preventing
an out-of-bounds read near the nursery end.

In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/builtins.rs`:
- Around line 16669-16710: Update the FileIO close flow around file_set_closed
and close_result to capture any file_set_closed error instead of returning
early, always execute the descriptor-closing path, and then preserve the
existing error precedence by reporting the captured close-state error alongside
or ahead of base_close_error as required. Ensure the stream’s closed state and
descriptor cleanup are still attempted when the closed attribute is read-only.
- Around line 16489-16496: Update crt_write_once so count is immutable on
non-Windows targets and cfg-scoped shadowing provides the mutable Windows value
needed for the console-size adjustment, eliminating the unused_mut warning
without changing behavior.

In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/call.rs`:
- Around line 4038-4199: Update update_bases to reload each base from the rooted
w_orig_bases tuple after getattr_str or __mro_entries__ callbacks return, rather
than using stale base_args pointers. Use the reloaded value for nb.push and
rebuild the copied prefix from the tuple so all retained bases remain valid
after collection.

In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/eval.rs`:
- Around line 2276-2288: Rename finalize_failed_attr_receiver_now to a predicate
name that reflects checking whether the receiver type defines __del__, and
update both call sites in run_failed_attr_finalizers and the other caller.
Replace its misleading reachability/finalization doc comment with documentation
describing the type lookup; keep the actual reachability and finalization
behavior in run_failed_attr_finalizers.
- Around line 3396-3401: Update the direct stack-cleanup paths in cleanup_throw,
end_finally, end_send, and end_async_for to advance failed_attr_cleanup once for
every value they discard, matching pop_top’s failed_attr_after_stack_pop
behavior and preserving correct deferred failed-attribute finalization.

In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/_pickle/pickler.rs`:
- Around line 1390-1413: Reload w_obj from shadow_stack_get(obj_slot) after
dispatch_table_reduce returns and before save_global or findattr_result, since
that call may collect. In the __reduce_ex__ branch, pin the bound method and
protocol integer in shadow slots, then reload both immediately before call_fn;
preserve the existing __reduce__ fallback behavior.

---

Duplicate comments:
In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/_ast/convert.rs`:
- Around line 1848-1852: Root the newly allocated position integer before
calling setattr_str in the position-field conversion branches. Update the four
affected fields to obtain w_value from an appropriate shadow/rooted slot,
preserving the existing node.get() reread and attribute-assignment behavior.
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Comment on lines +5077 to 5106
// The keywords are a raw copy the collector cannot see, and `super_check`,
// the `__init_subclass__` lookup and a `__getattr__` under it all run
// Python. A class keyword's value can be a list or a dict, so pin the
// pairs here and read them back where the call's keywords are built.
let _roots = pyre_object::gc_roots::push_roots();
let flat: Vec<PyObjectRef> = init_subclass_kwargs
.iter()
.flat_map(|&(key, value)| [key, value])
.collect();
let kwarg_base = pyre_object::gc_roots::pin_roots(&flat);
let w_objtype = crate::builtins::super_check(w_type, w_type)?;
let w_super = pyre_object::descriptor::w_super_new(w_type, w_objtype, w_type);
let w_func = crate::baseobjspace::getattr_str(w_super, "__init_subclass__")?;
// typeobject.py:1025-1026 — `args = __args__.replace_arguments([])` then
// `space.call_args(w_func, args)`: keywords only, no positionals, and no
// frame, because `call_args` (descroperation.py:189) never takes one.
let kwds: Vec<(Wtf8Buf, PyObjectRef)> = init_subclass_kwargs
.iter()
.filter(|(k, _)| unsafe { pyre_object::is_str(*k) })
.map(|(k, v)| (unsafe { pyre_object::w_str_get_wtf8(*k) }.to_owned(), *v))
let kwds: Vec<(Wtf8Buf, PyObjectRef)> = (0..init_subclass_kwargs.len())
.filter_map(|index| {
let key = pyre_object::gc_roots::shadow_stack_get(kwarg_base + index * 2);
if !unsafe { pyre_object::is_str(key) } {
return None;
}
let value = pyre_object::gc_roots::shadow_stack_get(kwarg_base + index * 2 + 1);
Some((
unsafe { pyre_object::w_str_get_wtf8(key) }.to_owned(),
value,
))
})
.collect();
call_with_kwargs_in_ctx(take_last_exec_ctx(), w_func, &[], &kwds)?;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Pin the class and the generated super proxy across callbacks.

The new w_type has no guaranteed external referrer while super_check, getattr_str, and __init_subclass__ execution run Python. The new w_super also remains unrooted during descriptor lookup. Pin both objects and reload them from their slots before each callback boundary.

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In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/call.rs` around lines 5077 - 5106, In the
__init_subclass__ keyword-building flow, pin both w_type and the generated
w_super before any Python execution, including super_check and getattr_str.
Reload each object from its GC-root slot after every callback boundary before
reuse, and ensure descriptor lookup and call_with_kwargs_in_ctx use the reloaded
rooted references.

Comment on lines +344 to +359
// `args` is a native slice the gateway copied out of its own
// slots: it keeps the arguments alive but cannot rewrite this
// copy, and each `collect_fds` runs Python twice — the
// iteration protocol and `fileno()`. The three fd sequences
// are usually lists, whose header moves, so reading the second
// and third out of the slice after the first was collected
// hands `unpackiterable` a pre-move address. Pin them here and
// read each back at its own call.
let arg_roots = pyre_object::gc_roots::push_roots();
let args_base = arg_roots.base();
arg_roots.pin_root(args[0]);
arg_roots.pin_root(args[1]);
arg_roots.pin_root(args[2]);
let rfds = collect_fds(arg_roots.get(args_base))?;
let wfds = collect_fds(arg_roots.get(args_base + 1))?;
let xfds = collect_fds(arg_roots.get(args_base + 2))?;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Pin the optional timeout before collecting file descriptors.

Each collect_fds call can execute Python and collect. args[3] is then read from the unrewritten native slice and passed to float_w. A movable timeout object can therefore be dereferenced through a stale pointer.

Pin the fourth argument when present. Read it from its shadow slot in the timeout branch.

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In `@pyre/pyre-interpreter/src/module/select/interp_select.rs` around lines 344 -
359, In the select argument handling around collect_fds, pin args[3] when the
optional timeout is present alongside the file-descriptor arguments. In the
timeout branch, pass the timeout object retrieved from its pinned shadow slot to
float_w instead of reading args[3] directly after collection.

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`type_descr_new_with_metaclass` publishes the `__set_name__` entries on the
shadow stack and reads each pair back at the call that consumes it, but the
owner passed to every one of those calls stayed a bare local.  A type never
moves, so the address keeps pointing at the object; what the local lacks is a
referrer.  The classcell is bound only when the class body captured
`__class__`, and `w_type_ready` links the type into each base's
`weak_subclasses`, which is weak, so a major collection under a hook has
nothing holding a class this young.  Push the owner into the same `pin_roots`
snapshot as the entries, and leave that scope open to the end of the branch so
it also covers `__init_subclass__`.

`baseobjspace::set_name` has the same shape on its failure path: the note it
builds names the descriptor, the descriptor's type and the owner, all read from
addresses captured before the hook ran.  Pin the three operands and reload them
in the `Err` arm, deriving the type name from the reloaded value.

`test.test_unittest.testmock` under `MAJIT_GC_NURSERY_POISON=1
PYPY_GC_NURSERY=65536` segfaulted 3/3 at `set_name` reading `0xaaaa..aa`, and
stopped reaching that frame, when both halves were measured together against
`83a34e3aa5f`.  The entry pinning has since landed separately in #1290, so that
figure does not isolate the owner pin; it is recorded here as the origin of the
change, not as a measurement of what remains.

Assisted-by: Claude
youknowone added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 17, 2026
… body

`build_class_inner` took `bases` and `w_orig_bases` as raw parameter copies
and first pinned the bases at the effective-bases selection, which runs after
`metaclass.__prepare__` and after the class body frame has executed.  Both
execute Python.  A tuple does not move, but one with no heap edge is
sweepable rather than merely immobile, so the copy could name freed memory by
the time `is_tuple` / `w_tuple_len` read it — reaching the caller as
`bases must be types` on a class statement that declares no bases, or as
`instance layout conflicts in multiple inheritance`.

Publish both at function entry and read them back at each consuming site:
the two `__prepare__` calls, the `__orig_bases__` namespace writes, the
effective-bases selection, and the three metaclass call paths.  The reads sit
after the `w_str_new` calls that share those argument arrays, since those
allocate.

This is a different window from the two `__build_class__` sites already
rooted upstream: `real_build_class` publishes the declared bases on
`bases_roots`, and #1290 pinned the `__mro_entries__` results `update_bases`
accumulates.  Neither covers the copies `build_class_inner` holds across
`__prepare__` and the body frame.

Importing 15 stdlib modules under `PYPY_GC_NURSERY=1` (the 15th reaches
`ipaddress`) failed 2/2 without this change and 0/3 with it, same-length decoy
0/2 throughout, measured against `5cb620dfeca`.  Both sibling windows above
have been rooted since, so that run no longer attributes to this commit alone;
the window here is established by the code path, not by that figure.

Assisted-by: Claude
youknowone added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
`type_descr_new_with_metaclass` publishes the `__set_name__` entries on the
shadow stack and reads each pair back at the call that consumes it, but the
owner passed to every one of those calls stayed a bare local.  A type never
moves, so the address keeps pointing at the object; what the local lacks is a
referrer.  The classcell is bound only when the class body captured
`__class__`, and `w_type_ready` links the type into each base's
`weak_subclasses`, which is weak, so a major collection under a hook has
nothing holding a class this young.  Push the owner into the same `pin_roots`
snapshot as the entries, and leave that scope open to the end of the branch so
it also covers `__init_subclass__`.

`baseobjspace::set_name` has the same shape on its failure path: the note it
builds names the descriptor, the descriptor's type and the owner, all read from
addresses captured before the hook ran.  Pin the three operands and reload them
in the `Err` arm, deriving the type name from the reloaded value.

`test.test_unittest.testmock` under `MAJIT_GC_NURSERY_POISON=1
PYPY_GC_NURSERY=65536` segfaulted 3/3 at `set_name` reading `0xaaaa..aa`, and
stopped reaching that frame, when both halves were measured together against
`83a34e3aa5f`.  The entry pinning has since landed separately in #1290, so that
figure does not isolate the owner pin; it is recorded here as the origin of the
change, not as a measurement of what remains.

Assisted-by: Claude
youknowone added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
… body

`build_class_inner` took `bases` and `w_orig_bases` as raw parameter copies
and first pinned the bases at the effective-bases selection, which runs after
`metaclass.__prepare__` and after the class body frame has executed.  Both
execute Python.  A tuple does not move, but one with no heap edge is
sweepable rather than merely immobile, so the copy could name freed memory by
the time `is_tuple` / `w_tuple_len` read it — reaching the caller as
`bases must be types` on a class statement that declares no bases, or as
`instance layout conflicts in multiple inheritance`.

Publish both at function entry and read them back at each consuming site:
the two `__prepare__` calls, the `__orig_bases__` namespace writes, the
effective-bases selection, and the three metaclass call paths.  The reads sit
after the `w_str_new` calls that share those argument arrays, since those
allocate.

This is a different window from the two `__build_class__` sites already
rooted upstream: `real_build_class` publishes the declared bases on
`bases_roots`, and #1290 pinned the `__mro_entries__` results `update_bases`
accumulates.  Neither covers the copies `build_class_inner` holds across
`__prepare__` and the body frame.

Importing 15 stdlib modules under `PYPY_GC_NURSERY=1` (the 15th reaches
`ipaddress`) failed 2/2 without this change and 0/3 with it, same-length decoy
0/2 throughout, measured against `5cb620dfeca`.  Both sibling windows above
have been rooted since, so that run no longer attributes to this commit alone;
the window here is established by the code path, not by that figure.

Assisted-by: Claude
youknowone added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
`type_descr_new_with_metaclass` publishes the `__set_name__` entries on the
shadow stack and reads each pair back at the call that consumes it, but the
owner passed to every one of those calls stayed a bare local.  A type never
moves, so the address keeps pointing at the object; what the local lacks is a
referrer.  The classcell is bound only when the class body captured
`__class__`, and `w_type_ready` links the type into each base's
`weak_subclasses`, which is weak, so a major collection under a hook has
nothing holding a class this young.  Push the owner into the same `pin_roots`
snapshot as the entries, and leave that scope open to the end of the branch so
it also covers `__init_subclass__`.

`baseobjspace::set_name` has the same shape on its failure path: the note it
builds names the descriptor, the descriptor's type and the owner, all read from
addresses captured before the hook ran.  Pin the three operands and reload them
in the `Err` arm, deriving the type name from the reloaded value.

`test.test_unittest.testmock` under `MAJIT_GC_NURSERY_POISON=1
PYPY_GC_NURSERY=65536` segfaulted 3/3 at `set_name` reading `0xaaaa..aa`, and
stopped reaching that frame, when both halves were measured together against
`83a34e3aa5f`.  The entry pinning has since landed separately in #1290, so that
figure does not isolate the owner pin; it is recorded here as the origin of the
change, not as a measurement of what remains.

Assisted-by: Claude
youknowone added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
… body

`build_class_inner` took `bases` and `w_orig_bases` as raw parameter copies
and first pinned the bases at the effective-bases selection, which runs after
`metaclass.__prepare__` and after the class body frame has executed.  Both
execute Python.  A tuple does not move, but one with no heap edge is
sweepable rather than merely immobile, so the copy could name freed memory by
the time `is_tuple` / `w_tuple_len` read it — reaching the caller as
`bases must be types` on a class statement that declares no bases, or as
`instance layout conflicts in multiple inheritance`.

Publish both at function entry and read them back at each consuming site:
the two `__prepare__` calls, the `__orig_bases__` namespace writes, the
effective-bases selection, and the three metaclass call paths.  The reads sit
after the `w_str_new` calls that share those argument arrays, since those
allocate.

This is a different window from the two `__build_class__` sites already
rooted upstream: `real_build_class` publishes the declared bases on
`bases_roots`, and #1290 pinned the `__mro_entries__` results `update_bases`
accumulates.  Neither covers the copies `build_class_inner` holds across
`__prepare__` and the body frame.

Importing 15 stdlib modules under `PYPY_GC_NURSERY=1` (the 15th reaches
`ipaddress`) failed 2/2 without this change and 0/3 with it, same-length decoy
0/2 throughout, measured against `5cb620dfeca`.  Both sibling windows above
have been rooted since, so that run no longer attributes to this commit alone;
the window here is established by the code path, not by that figure.

Assisted-by: Claude
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* type: root the __set_name__ owner, and the failure note's operands

`type_descr_new_with_metaclass` publishes the `__set_name__` entries on the
shadow stack and reads each pair back at the call that consumes it, but the
owner passed to every one of those calls stayed a bare local.  A type never
moves, so the address keeps pointing at the object; what the local lacks is a
referrer.  The classcell is bound only when the class body captured
`__class__`, and `w_type_ready` links the type into each base's
`weak_subclasses`, which is weak, so a major collection under a hook has
nothing holding a class this young.  Push the owner into the same `pin_roots`
snapshot as the entries, and leave that scope open to the end of the branch so
it also covers `__init_subclass__`.

`baseobjspace::set_name` has the same shape on its failure path: the note it
builds names the descriptor, the descriptor's type and the owner, all read from
addresses captured before the hook ran.  Pin the three operands and reload them
in the `Err` arm, deriving the type name from the reloaded value.

`test.test_unittest.testmock` under `MAJIT_GC_NURSERY_POISON=1
PYPY_GC_NURSERY=65536` segfaulted 3/3 at `set_name` reading `0xaaaa..aa`, and
stopped reaching that frame, when both halves were measured together against
`83a34e3aa5f`.  The entry pinning has since landed separately in #1290, so that
figure does not isolate the owner pin; it is recorded here as the origin of the
change, not as a measurement of what remains.

Assisted-by: Claude

* majit-gc: restrict the post-minor probe to reachable holders and declared slots

`bh_probe_check_no_young_refs` scanned every recorded old-generation block
word by word. A block the mutator abandoned keeps its last contents until the
sweep frees it, and a word of padding or a non-reference field can fall inside
the nursery range, so most of what it reported was neither reachable nor a
reference.

Walk the roots instead: `bh_probe_stale_young_slots` visits declared slots
through `visit_referent_slots` and reports the holder, the slot, and the
object the holder was first reached through. `BhProbeViolation` carries the
parent's type and barrier state alongside the holder's.

Add `bh_probe_check_barriers_before_minor`, run at the top of
`do_collect_nursery`: it reports a traced slot that already names a managed
address with no valid type id, and an old holder with a young reference that
is on neither the remembered set nor a remembered parent. It also scans the
remembered set as its own population, since the minor traces those entries
whether or not anything still points at them.

`MAJIT_GC_BH_PROBE_FROM` skips the minors before the one under investigation;
the walk is whole-heap and cannot stay on for a full run. The invalid-type_id
panic now names the minor it fired in.

Assisted-by: Claude

* call: root build_class's bases tuple across __prepare__ and the class body

`build_class_inner` took `bases` and `w_orig_bases` as raw parameter copies
and first pinned the bases at the effective-bases selection, which runs after
`metaclass.__prepare__` and after the class body frame has executed.  Both
execute Python.  A tuple does not move, but one with no heap edge is
sweepable rather than merely immobile, so the copy could name freed memory by
the time `is_tuple` / `w_tuple_len` read it — reaching the caller as
`bases must be types` on a class statement that declares no bases, or as
`instance layout conflicts in multiple inheritance`.

Publish both at function entry and read them back at each consuming site:
the two `__prepare__` calls, the `__orig_bases__` namespace writes, the
effective-bases selection, and the three metaclass call paths.  The reads sit
after the `w_str_new` calls that share those argument arrays, since those
allocate.

This is a different window from the two `__build_class__` sites already
rooted upstream: `real_build_class` publishes the declared bases on
`bases_roots`, and #1290 pinned the `__mro_entries__` results `update_bases`
accumulates.  Neither covers the copies `build_class_inner` holds across
`__prepare__` and the body frame.

Importing 15 stdlib modules under `PYPY_GC_NURSERY=1` (the 15th reaches
`ipaddress`) failed 2/2 without this change and 0/3 with it, same-length decoy
0/2 throughout, measured against `5cb620dfeca`.  Both sibling windows above
have been rooted since, so that run no longer attributes to this commit alone;
the window here is established by the code path, not by that figure.

Assisted-by: Claude

* mapdict: read the storage block back after the trace visitor may forward it

`instance_walk_boxed_storage` hands the visitor the `storage` field slot and
then walks the block's items, but computed `len` and `base` from the value it
read before that call, so a visitor that forwarded the slot left the walk
addressing the old block.

Read the block out of the slot after the call.  Both forms stay: unlike
`list_object_custom_trace`, which picks between handing over the slot and
walking in place, the slot hand-off here only forwards the block pointer, and
the block is `alloc_stable`, so a minor never descends into it to reach the
attribute values — the item walk is what keeps them alive.  Note that in the
comment, since the twins' shape reads as the obvious cleanup and drops every
attribute reference.

Assisted-by: Claude

* gc: re-grey a nursery object promoted into a shadow that marking already blackened

`allocate_shadow` sets `flags::VISITED` on a shadow it reserves during
`GcState::Marking`, so `copy_nursery_object` promotes into an object the marker
has already accounted for as black.  The copy replaces every field with values
nothing has traced, and `grey_child` never pushes a black object again, so the
children stayed white and the sweep freed them while the promoted object still
pointed at them.

Push the promoted object onto `more_gray_stack` when the collector is marking,
which is what `_add_to_more_objects_to_trace` (incminimark.py:2357-2360) does
for every other mid-cycle mutation of a black object.

Assisted-by: Claude

* cranelift: spill the paired GUARD_NOT_FORCED's fail args before CALL_ASSEMBLER

The `CallAssembler*` arm stored the paired guard's descr into `jf_force_descr`
and zeroed `jf_descr`, but did not write that guard's `fail_arg_refs` into
`JF_FRAME_ITEM0_OFS + i*8` — which the `CallMayForce*` and `CallReleaseGil*`
arms do (regalloc.py:812-820 `before_call`).  A callee that reached
`force_virtualizable_token` on the caller's frame made `force()` copy
`jf_force_descr` into `jf_descr`, and `ResumeDataDirectReader` then decoded
`TAGBOX(n)` against slots still holding the compiled loop's entry inputs.

Extract the spill the two existing arms shared into `spill_guard_fail_args` and
call it from all three, record the published slots in `dense_ref_bindings` so
later `get_gcmap` calls keep them marked, and extend `paired_guard_not_forced`
(was `paired_may_force`) with the four `CallAssembler*` opcodes so the per-call
gcmap covers those slots.

Assisted-by: Claude

* cranelift: reload a demoted LABEL arg from its ref-root slot on the fall-through edge

`compute_loop_phi_keep` can demote an arg at one LABEL while a later LABEL in
the same trace keeps it as a block parameter.  `demoted_failarg_slots` is
global, so from the first demotion on, `spill_ref_roots` and `reload_ref_roots`
both skip that var — its ref-root slot is the copy the collector forwards, and
its SSA variable is left unmaintained.

The local JUMP into such a LABEL already reads the slot through
`resolve_local_jump_arg`; the LABEL fall-through built its block args with
`resolve_opref`, so it passed the address the value held before the last
collection.  The header's `sync_ref_root_var` then stored that address back
over the forwarded one, and every guard exit below published it as a `Ref`
fail arg: `blackhole_from_resumedata` decoded a forwarded-marker header and
wrote it into `PyFrame.locals_cells_stack_w`, which the next minor collection
reported as an invalid child.

Use `resolve_local_jump_arg` on the fall-through edge too.

Assisted-by: Claude

* jit-trace: pin the exception's w_class in the check_exc_match fold

`check_exc_match_against` resolves the exception's class through
`typedef::type`, which reads `w_class`; the fold pinned `ob_type`.
Every exception of one `ExcKind` carries the same `ob_type`, so two
direct `Exception` subclasses share a layout and that guard admits
either one where the recorded answer holds for only one of them.

Read `w_class` and pin its value, behind the layout guard that makes the
field read name what it was recorded against, and decline the fold when
`typedef::type` answered from the kind registry rather than from the
slot. Also drop the `is_class_known` skip on the clause operand: every
class object shares the one `type` layout, so the flag does not say
which class the operand holds.

test.test_pickle under dynasm goes from `FAILED (errors=2, skipped=68)`
to `OK (skipped=68)`; the gated CPython suite is 208 PASS / 0 FAIL.

Assisted-by: Claude
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