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Hojun-Cho f80927201b tools/sizelint + CLAUDE.md rule 13: gate hardcoded size literals
Drew's Hare-discipline framing: "no hardcoded size literals anywhere in
the compiler." This session spent 32 commits sweeping after-the-fact
and STILL kept introducing new bypass sites in our own structural
work (A.5's tupleelemslot/fieldslotsize most recently). The cure is a
gate that catches new violations at commit time, not a deeper sweep.

tools/sizelint (sh+gawk):
- Always-on: `.size = NN` / `->size = NN` / `prim(...,"name",NN,...)`.
- Context-gated literals (NN(u64|i64) and `return NN`) in files or fns
  matching size|slot|elem|field|stride|paramfield|tinfo|primtype|
  slotsize|letemit|tagged.
- Allow-list via `// sizelint-ok: <reason>` or `/* sizelint-ok: ... */`.
- Comment strip happens after allow-list match so prose mentions of
  16/24 stay quiet.

Makefile: `test: all sizelint $(TESTS)` so the gate runs before any
binary builds.

CLAUDE.md rule 13 documents the discipline + escape hatch + optional
pre-commit-hook symlink.

Audit caught 3 real cstage bugs (cmd/wcc/check.c resolve_type:1002,
1079, 1531 hardcoded `tt->size = 16` / `= 32` for tagged-with-ptr and
tagged-with-slice payloads — should read `8 + sub.size`). Fixed
inline; behavioral no-op today (pt->size=16, st->size=24, sub.size=24
match the prior literals) but the SSoT seam carries forward through
#1/#34/#65.

8 SSoT-seed allow-lists added (cstage type.c ty_str/ty_slice prim
factories; wwstage primtypesize/tyslicesize; lib/ww/typ.ww tystr +
slice fields + their main.combined.ww mirrors). One amalloc-overalloc
allow-list at lib/ww/typ.ww:273 cites pending #36 (typed amalloc).

#66 filed for extending the filter once #65 routes lib/bytes +
lib/getopt's sizeof(slice) / sizeof(option) literals through SSoT —
naive line-pattern extension would false-positive on 22+ ELF wire-
format sites in dynout.ww.

131/131 + 994 + 995 + bootstrap green with `make sizelint` exit 0.
2026-05-20 15:22:21 +09:00

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#!/bin/sh
# tools/sizelint — gate against hardcoded size literals in size-computation
# contexts. Per Drew's framing of Hare's discipline and ww task #64:
# every byte size that names a type's footprint must route through the
# type table (tinfo.size / Type.size / ty_*->size / size(T)). Bare
# numerics encode the layout twice and silently desync (#1, #43, #60,
# #65 sweeps caught one site at a time post-hoc).
#
# Patterns are matched in two tiers:
# 1) Always-on strong signals — direct writes to a type's size /
# slotsize / align field, the `prim(...,size,align)` factory call,
# and any literal in the rhs of `*->size = ` style assignments.
# 2) Context-gated literals — bare 16/24/32 (suffix-tagged or not) only
# inside files or functions whose name matches one of:
# size|slot|elem|field|stride|paramfield|tinfo|primtype|slotsize|
# letemit|tagged
#
# Exempt a single line with an end-of-line `// sizelint-ok: <reason>`
# comment. Use sparingly and cite a task or structural reason.
#
# Scope: cmd/ selfhost/ lib/ (skip ref/ out/ bootstrap/ .combined.ww).
# Exit code: 0 if clean, 1 with one diagnostic per violation.
set -u
ROOT=${ROOT:-$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd)}
cd "$ROOT"
files=$(find cmd selfhost lib \
\( -type d -name out -prune \) -o \
\( -type d -name bootstrap -prune \) -o \
\( -type d -name ref -prune \) -o \
\( -type d -name .git -prune \) -o \
\( -type d -name .claude -prune \) -o \
\( -type d -name .ai -prune \) -o \
\( -type f \( -name '*.c' -o -name '*.h' -o -name '*.ww' \) \
! -name '*.combined.ww' -print \) )
exec awk '
BEGIN {
ctx_re = "size|slot|elem|field|stride|paramfield|tinfo|primtype|slotsize|letemit|tagged"
tagged_lit_re = "(16|24|32)(u64|i64)"
return_lit_re = "return[ \t]+(16|24|32)[ \t]*[;}]"
# Strong signal: assignment to .size / ->size / .slotsize / ->slotsize.
# Value 8 is the natural pointer/scalar size — leave un-flagged so
# typeptr/typechan stay quiet without an allow-list per assignment.
size_assign_re = "(\\.|->)[ \t]*(size|slotsize)[ \t]*=[ \t]*(16|24|32)([^0-9]|$)"
# Strong signal: type-table factory `prim(arena, kind, "name", SIZE, ALIGN)`.
prim_call_re = "\\<prim[ \t]*\\([^)]*\"[A-Za-z_<>]+\"[ \t]*,[ \t]*(16|24|32)"
nviol = 0
}
FNR == 1 {
cur_file = FILENAME
file_in_ctx = (tolower(cur_file) ~ ctx_re)
is_c = (cur_file ~ /\.(c|h)$/)
fn_name = ""
fn_in_ctx = 0
}
# Track function context (ww + C styles).
{
if (match($0, /^[ \t]*(export[ \t]+)?fn[ \t]+[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*/)) {
s = substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH)
sub(/^[ \t]*(export[ \t]+)?fn[ \t]+/, "", s)
fn_name = s
fn_in_ctx = (tolower(fn_name) ~ ctx_re)
} else if (is_c && match($0, /^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*\(/)) {
s = substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH - 1)
fn_name = s
fn_in_ctx = (tolower(fn_name) ~ ctx_re)
}
}
# Allow-list (case-insensitive on the keyword) — check the raw line so a
# doc comment can still exempt itself. Accepts both `// sizelint-ok:` (ww
# and C99) and `/* sizelint-ok: ... */` (Plan 9 C style).
tolower($0) ~ /sizelint-ok:/ { next }
# Strip line and block comments before pattern matching — a comment that
# quotes a hardcoded size in prose is not a violation. Single-line block
# comments only; multi-line `/* ... */` spans rarely contain assignments
# we care about.
{
code = $0
sub(/\/\/.*$/, "", code)
gsub(/\/\*[^*]*\*+([^/*][^*]*\*+)*\//, "", code)
}
# Always-on strong-signal patterns.
{
if (match(code, size_assign_re)) {
report(substr(code, RSTART, RLENGTH),
"assignment to .size/.slotsize with literal; route via type SSoT (tinfo.size / ty_*->size)")
}
if (match(code, prim_call_re)) {
report(substr(code, RSTART, RLENGTH),
"literal in prim(...) size slot; type-table is SSoT (cmd/wcc/type.c, lib/ww/typ.ww)")
}
}
# Context-gated patterns.
file_in_ctx || fn_in_ctx {
line = code
while (match(line, tagged_lit_re)) {
report(substr(line, RSTART, RLENGTH),
"size literal in size-context; route via size(T) / primtypesize / tyslicesize SSoT")
line = substr(line, RSTART + RLENGTH)
}
if (match(code, return_lit_re)) {
report(substr(code, RSTART, RLENGTH),
"return of bare size literal in size-context; route via type SSoT")
}
}
function report(snip, msg) {
# Trim trailing newline / extra whitespace from snippet.
gsub(/[ \t]+$/, "", snip)
printf("%s:%d: %s; suggest: %s\n", cur_file, FNR, snip, msg)
nviol++
}
END { exit (nviol > 0 ? 1 : 0) }
' $files