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Problem

Four constructs the quest left made rust2-ts output fail at run time, or answer wrong, where native Rust goes on:

• alloc's bytes: a block's byte pointer reaching another body threw in rs/alloc.ts, and a realloc whose result was cast to another type than its argument's threw on the cast.
• ptr::eq of an as_chunks run that std's callback gets a copy of answered false where Rust answers true.
• Bytes::slice_ref of bytes from other storage threw in bytesSliceRef.
• bytes' panic sites in a hook program were found by searching bytes' source text, so a --remap-path-prefix of a directory inside bytes failed translation.

Approach

• alloc: a forward use analysis of the pointer each alloc or realloc returns (alloc_leak, alloc_uses in ts/src/lower/mir/alloc.rs). The call is refused unless the pointer goes only to a cast to a pointer to values, dealloc, realloc, is_null, or the NonNull/Option/Result/? steps alloc_root already follows backward. Reads and writes of its bytes stay refused where they are. A realloc of memory cast from T whose result is cast to U is refused too. No block's byte pointer leaves its body now, so Block's byte reads and allocAs's checks are translator guards. allocBytes's check stays a loud run-time check, since it guards a pointer from elsewhere given to dealloc, as the unsafe policy allows.
• as_chunks runs: rs.arraySliceItems and rs.arraySliceAsSlice record each run copy they make against its run in a WeakMap (arraySliceRuns). sliceSame, byteSliceSame, and arraySliceSame resolve a copy to where its run is before comparing. This covers element, byte, and nested-array runs.
• Bytes::slice_ref: refused unless the body shows subset borrowed through Deref, as_ref, or a slice of one, from the same Bytes or from one sharing its storage through slice or clone (bytes_of, storage, lent, referent in ts/src/lower/mir/origin.rs). Two borrows of v[i] by an unchanged index count as one Bytes. arc_of now shares referent. The bytesSliceRef throw is a translator guard.
• bytes' panic sites: each site comes from the MIR bytes compiled for the function, found by path, and picked by position among its own panic calls (panic!, assert!, or a call of its own #[track_caller] function such as range). This is how tokio's oneshot poll site was already found, so rustc names the file as native does under any remap. The source search is deleted, and own_panic now reuses the same panics helper. The debug_assert! site of set_len is skipped when a build without debug assertions leaves it out.

Tests:

• The fixtures now remap bytes' src to bytes/source. The hook snapshot keeps every line and column, and the differential matches native.
• New lang/pointers cases: partition_point over element, byte, and nested-array runs, told apart only by ptr::eq. These failed on 145 differential cases before the runtime fix.
• New reject cases: alloc_leaked, realloc_retyped, and sliced_elsewhere.
• stock now covers slice_ref through as_ref, a slice of one, and clone.
• New lang::panics_without_debug_assertions translates the hook program with CARGO_PROFILE_DEV_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS=false.

Impact

• Breaking for translated crates: these are now translation errors with a span, where they used to throw at run time:

  • an alloc or realloc whose byte pointer leaves the body or goes to another function
  • a realloc cast to another type than its argument's
  • a slice_ref whose subset the body doesn't show to be from that Bytes's storage, including after a mem::swap or mem::replace of its source through a &mut

  To migrate, cast the pointer to a pointer to values in the body that allocates. For slice_ref, slice the Bytes itself (slice), or borrow subset from it in the same body.

• ptr::eq of as_chunks runs inside std's callbacks now matches Rust.

• A hook program translates under a --remap-path-prefix of a directory inside bytes.

• Runtime: rs.ts adds the private arraySliceRuns/arrayRefWhere. No exported API changes. census.rs's VERBATIM gains the new messages' code words.

• moq at the pin: unaffected, since ietf::object is not a translated root. But moq-net/src/ietf/object.rs:130, data.slice_ref(bytes) with bytes read through a Decoder, would be refused once it is a root. model/group.rs's test use through chunks would be refused too.

Decisions

• slice_ref after a mem::swap/mem::replace of the source Bytes through a &mut (let c = a.clone(); swap(&mut a, &mut b); a.slice_ref(&c)): ✅ refuse it in this PR (rejected: accept as is; defer to a follow-up). Settled by the maintainer on 2026-11-09. storage counts a source only when every &mut of it goes to a method of Bytes, its own or a trait's; the reject case buffers::sliced_swapped covers swap and replace.

Choices made without asking

• slice_ref rule widened past the quest's literal "that same Bytes": a Bytes that slice or clone made of it, or that made it, also counts. Under the literal rule a subset is always inside the Bytes, so slice_ref's panics, which lang/panics' hook tests check, could never be reached. A Bytes made by slice or clone shares storage in both Rust and JS, so this stays exact.
• Refusal span: an alloc leak is refused at the alloc/realloc call, as the quest says, not at the use where the pointer escapes.
• allocBytes check kept at run time: it guards a pointer from elsewhere (for example a Box's) given to dealloc/realloc, under m3's unsafe policy.

Alternatives

• slice_ref: keep the literal rule and delete slice_ref's panic sites and tests as unreachable. Rejected, since it refuses valid sharing code to no benefit.
• as_chunks: Uint8Array views instead of copies for byte runs. Rejected: it only helps bytes, and readers of arraySliceItems treat its arrays as owned in places such as remaining().

Caused by

• moq-dev/rust2#608: rs.arraySliceItems gives callbacks copies of as_chunks runs, whose ptr::eq answers false.
• moq-dev/rust2#573: found bytes' panics by searching its source text, which a remap inside bytes breaks.

Follow-ups

• moq's ietf/object.rs slice_ref through a Decoder: drop as a rust2 quest. Following the "general, not moq-specific" rule, moq adapts in its own tree when ietf becomes a root, for example with data.slice(start..end) from the decoder's offsets.

Checks

just ci passed locally on the head with the swap/replace refusal (92 fixture tests, including every differential).

Models

Size: M
Implementer: Claude Code, Opus 5.5, medium effort
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, low effort (iterate, S)

(Written by Opus 5.5 with medium)

Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort
• Session: 01a1c6a8-61b4-7451-ae18-50c39aa97b0c, round 2
• Head: 06d5884
• Base: origin/main at 4245475
• Score: 9/10, Inspection of the incremental changes found no actionable defects, and the new rejection fixture covers the pointer-cast escape; builds and tests were not run, as instructed.
• Findings: none

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Walkthrough

The translator adds checks for allocation-pointer escapes, realloc pointer retyping, and Bytes::slice_ref storage provenance. The runtime tracks copied array-slice runs when comparing pointer locations. Panic locations for bytes are resolved from compiled MIR, and fixture source paths are remapped to repository-relative paths. The changes also update documentation, rejection fixtures, and expected output.

Merge Risk: Low · up to c2fbf

A narrow gap remains in the slice_ref provenance check. A pointer cast could hide a storage-replacing edit, so a call that should be refused at translation would be accepted and fail at runtime. This is a rare pattern, and it is worth closing before or soon after merge.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main changes: allocation and slice_ref translation refusals, as_chunks pointer comparisons, and MIR-based panic locations. It is long, but specific and relevant.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 98.33% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentati…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description clearly explains the changes to allocation handling, as_chunks pointer comparisons, Bytes::slice_ref, and panic-site detection. These topics match the changeset.

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ts/src/lower/caller.rs: 1

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panics scans optimized MIR but excludes calls inside inlined scopes. The new bytes lookup may therefore lose a required panic site when optimization inlines a tracked helper such as the range helper used by Bytes::slice.

A valid program may fail translation with a missing indexed-panic diagnostic.

This can occur when: Translate a program installing a panic hook with bytes compiled under an optimization profile that inlines the tracked helper.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @ts/runtime/rs.ts:
- Line 1300: Reduce per-run allocation in the flat-backed path selected by
`r.items === undefined`: update `arraySliceRuns` or its caller so repeated
slices do not create a wrapper and WeakMap entry for every run. Preserve slice
results and iterator formatting behavior while reusing or avoiding per-run
tracking.

Review comments at @ts/src/lower/caller.rs:
- Around line 555-563: Update the Cargo configuration that supplies `bytes`
package-specific rustflags so overrides retain the required MIR-serialization
flag used by translation. Preserve the `BYTES` panic lookup and `panics`
handling in this loop; fix the flag propagation rather than changing panic
extraction.

Review comments at @ts/src/lower/mir/alloc.rs:
- Around line 287-288: Update the `alloc_uses` handling for `Rvalue::Aggregate`
so it also tracks repeated-array operands, not just operands in `ops`. Ensure an
allocation pointer repeated into an array is followed and escapes through that
array are rejected before translation, preserving the existing behavior for
other aggregates.
- Around line 244-247: The `reads` closure in `alloc_uses` excludes
dereferences, so reassigned allocation pointers can pass validation even though
`alloc_bytes` cannot trace their byte accesses. Update the forward allocation
analysis to detect and reject byte accesses through dereferenced pointers when
their allocation provenance cannot be followed, preventing an invalid access
from reaching `Block.v`.
- Line 308: Update the allocation-type use checking around the
alloc/dealloc/realloc match so it follows a realloc result when checking the
uses of the prior realloc result; ensure chained reallocations are traced
through to the eventual cast, so a type mismatch is rejected during translation
rather than surfacing in generated allocAs.

Review comments at @ts/src/lower/mir/call.rs:
- Line 1209: Update bytes_of, used by the Bytes slice_ref translation check, to
trace moved Bytes handles when determining whether the slice shares the
receiver’s storage. Preserve the existing storage check and accept the
relationship when a moved clone still shares the receiver’s storage.

Review comments at @ts/src/lower/mir/origin.rs:
- Around line 611-614: Update the clone-source handling in the
`args.first().filter(|_| shares)` match so it equates storage with `from` only
when the source is known to remain unchanged after cloning; otherwise preserve
the separate `place` storage. Use the existing mechanism for determining source
mutation, without assuming that `referent` alone guarantees the clone source is
unchanged.

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