test(gc): cover every interned string-cache root cell, and trim CLAUDE.md

Review follow-ups from PerryTS#7226, PerryTS#7227 and PerryTS#7214, all merged, so they land
together against main.

The interned `typeof` strings and the `JSON.rawJSON` key are registered GC
roots since PerryTS#7226, but nothing tested the registration from the Rust side
and the `.ts` gap test drove only six of the eight `typeof` cells.
`scan_typeof_string_roots_mut` is eight hand-written `visit(...)` calls, so
`bigint` and `symbol` could have lost theirs without a red test.

- `gc/tests/runtime_roots/interned_string_caches.rs`: mark, rewrite and
  registration tests for both scanners. The rewrite test forwards all eight
  `typeof` cells, so a dropped `visit(...)` line fails there. Marking alone
  is not enough and is asserted separately: a marked but un-rewritten cell
  still hands out a pre-move address after a copying minor, which is the
  whole PerryTS#7211 failure.
- `test_gap_gc_typeof_string_cache_rooting.ts` now drives all eight cells.
  Unregistering the scanner takes it from `bad 0` to `bad 592` 5/5 under a
  genuine `POLLS=1` build; the six-cell version reported `bad 444`, and
  592/8 == 444/6 == 74, so the two added cells fail at the same collection
  as the rest rather than being decorative.
- `reset_typeof_string_cache_for_test` had no callers and its doc described
  an arena-reset teardown that does not exist. It is now driven by the tests
  above, its eight-cell list is shared with the new populate/peek helpers
  instead of being written out twice, and `raw_json.rs` gets the matching
  trio.
- CLAUDE.md: fold PerryTS#7226's additions back toward the length of the entries
  around them. The file's own opening note says to keep it concise and put
  detail in `changelog.d/`, and the incident narrative is already in
  `changelog.d/7219-registry-gc-unrooted-caches.md`. The detector knobs it
  re-listed are documented in full two sections above.
- `changelog.d/7214-...md`: rewrap so the line does not open with `PerryTS#7161`,
  which markdownlint reads as a malformed ATX heading (MD018).

No runtime behavior changes: every new Rust symbol is `#[cfg(test)]`.

Author: jdalton

CLAUDE.md

@@ -250,5 +250,5 @@ Corollary: a *new* gate has never been green, so promoting it to required immedi
 - **Async-to-generator transform, body locals.** It boxes every body local into a shared mutable cell typed `Any`. Two consequences seen in the wild: per-iteration `let`/`const` bindings collapse for closures created in a loop, and computed numeric-key calls (`arr[i](x)`) lose their type proof and silently resolve by *method name*, evaporating the call.
 - **Native base-class subclassing.** A native base's surface is installed at `super()` time and its parent edge lives in the class registry; keying any of that on a literal `extends` name loses it for fieldless classes, indirect subclasses, and class expressions.
 - **Two prototype-resolution paths.** `CLASS_PROTOTYPE_OBJECTS` (synthetic: `Object.create`, plain-function ctors) vs `CLASS_DECL_PROTOTYPE_OBJECTS` (declared classes). `in`/`for…in` and `getPrototypeOf` have disagreed about the same chain.
-- **Root-store dominance in codegen.** *A GC-managed value's root store must **dominate** every subsequent site that can collect.* Three ways it has broken, all shipped: the store's slot index fell outside the pushed shadow frame so `js_shadow_slot_bind` bounds-checked it into a silent no-op (#7184); the store was emitted in-frame but **after** a call that allocates (#7192); and the value lives in a plain `alloca_entry` that is neither a shadow slot nor a temp root, so the collector never rewrites it (`lower_call/new.rs`'s inline-ctor `this_slot`, closed by #7207; `--unrooted-allocas` is the detector for that shape, and its remaining hits are #7210's). All three present identically — a *rooted* slot holding a dangling pointer, surfacing cycles later as `TypeError: value is not a function` — and **none is visible to any runtime GC probe**, because at the moment of the collection there is nothing for the collector to find. That is why #7154's from-space scan only ever saw offenders whose targets had already died. The instrument is static: `scripts/gc_root_dominance_check.py` over `--trace llvm` output (`--self-test` proves it can still fail). Only bites under `PERRY_GC_MOVING_LOOP_POLLS=1`, off by default since #7161 — so a green default run says nothing about this class. **Full writeup, every known shape and how to check your work: `docs/src/internals/gc-rooting-invariant.md`.** The CI gate is `gc-root-dominance.yml` over `scripts/gc_root_dominance_corpus.sh`; known-remaining hits are named one-per-entry in `scripts/gc_root_dominance_allowlist.json` (an entry that matches nothing FAILS, so a fix must delete its entry) — **that list is now empty**, which #7211 emptied by fixing the fifth shape: `ClassExprFresh` rooted only when it thought the static *initializers* could collect and never asked whether its own emitted `js_object_set_field_by_name` could. The sophisticated version of the mistake — the author wrote a rooting predicate and it asked the wrong question.
-- **A runtime-side cache of a raw heap pointer is a GC root, and the static checker cannot see it.** This is the sibling class, and it is the one that actually kept `sfw-registry --help` red after every codegen register in #7192/#7206/#7214 was closed. `js_value_typeof` interned its eight result strings in thread-local `Cell<*mut StringHeader>`s that nothing registered, so the FIRST minor collection invalidated them and every later `typeof x === "…"` compared against from-space (#7211). Two things to carry forward. **The failure signature is different**: an unrooted register goes bad only when a collection lands in its window, so it is intermittent; an unrooted cache goes bad at collection #0 and stays bad, so it fails 10/10 — if a GC bug is perfectly reproducible, suspect a table, not a register. And **`scripts/gc_root_dominance_check.py` reads emitted LLVM IR, so it is structurally blind to this**; the detector is `PERRY_GC_ZEAL=1 PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1 PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE_DEPTH=800` on a real workload, whose reporter names the address, `obj_type`, size and retiring cycle. Point the runtime instruments at the workload *before* grinding the static checker's tail. The root registry is `gc_register_mutable_root_scanner` in `gc/mod.rs` (~55 entries); when you add a cache of a heap pointer, add it there in the same commit.
+- **Root-store dominance in codegen.** *A GC-managed value's root store must **dominate** every subsequent site that can collect.* Three ways it has broken, all shipped: the store's slot index fell outside the pushed shadow frame so `js_shadow_slot_bind` bounds-checked it into a silent no-op (#7184); the store was emitted in-frame but **after** a call that allocates (#7192); and the value lives in a plain `alloca_entry` that is neither a shadow slot nor a temp root, so the collector never rewrites it (`lower_call/new.rs`'s inline-ctor `this_slot`, closed by #7207; `--unrooted-allocas` is the detector for that shape, and its remaining hits are #7210's). All three present identically — a *rooted* slot holding a dangling pointer, surfacing cycles later as `TypeError: value is not a function` — and **none is visible to any runtime GC probe**, because at the moment of the collection there is nothing for the collector to find. That is why #7154's from-space scan only ever saw offenders whose targets had already died. The instrument is static: `scripts/gc_root_dominance_check.py` over `--trace llvm` output (`--self-test` proves it can still fail). Only bites under `PERRY_GC_MOVING_LOOP_POLLS=1`, off by default since #7161 — so a green default run says nothing about this class. **Full writeup, every known shape and how to check your work: `docs/src/internals/gc-rooting-invariant.md`.** The CI gate is `gc-root-dominance.yml` over `scripts/gc_root_dominance_corpus.sh`; known-remaining hits are named one-per-entry in `scripts/gc_root_dominance_allowlist.json` (an entry that matches nothing FAILS, so a fix must delete its entry), and that list is currently **empty** — every new hit is a red build.
+- **A runtime-side cache of a raw heap pointer is a GC root, and the static checker cannot see it.** `scripts/gc_root_dominance_check.py` reads emitted LLVM IR, so a thread-local or side table holding a `*mut` into the heap is structurally invisible to it — the runtime instruments above are the only detector, and they go at the workload *before* you grind the static checker's tail. Two tells. An unrooted *register* goes bad only when a collection lands in its window, so it is intermittent; an unrooted *cache* goes bad at collection #0 and stays bad, so **a perfectly reproducible GC bug means a table, not a register**. And the registry is `gc_register_mutable_root_scanner` in `gc/mod.rs` (~55 entries): when you add a cache of a heap pointer, add it there in the same commit. Worked examples: `changelog.d/7219-registry-gc-unrooted-caches.md`, `changelog.d/7239-gc-unrooted-runtime-caches.md`.

changelog.d/7214-closure-calln-stale-registers.md

@@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ moving-reachable).
 
 ## What this does NOT close
 
-**`sfw-registry --help` under a genuine `POLLS=1` build is still red, so
-#7161's stopgap stays.** Measured on this build, compiled *and* run with the
+**`sfw-registry --help` under a genuine `POLLS=1` build is still red, so the
+stopgap from #7161 stays.** Measured on this build, compiled *and* run with the
 flag: **3/10 pass, 7/10 SIGSEGV**. Its default arm is clean **10/10**, so
 nothing was traded away. The three fixed registers were real and are now
 provably rooted, but they are not the last thing standing between the registry

changelog.d/7276-interned-string-cache-root-coverage.md

@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+### Fixed
+
+- **The `typeof` string-cache rooting test drove six of the eight cache
+  cells.** `scan_typeof_string_roots_mut` is eight hand-written `visit(...)`
+  calls, one per interned `typeof` result, so `TYPEOF_BIGINT` and
+  `TYPEOF_SYMBOL` could have lost theirs and no test would have noticed.
+  `test_gap_gc_typeof_string_cache_rooting.ts` now drives all eight.
+
+  Measured by unregistering the scanner and rebuilding, rather than assumed:
+
+  | | default | `POLLS=1`, compiled *and* run with the flag |
+  |---|---|---|
+  | registered | `bad 0` | `bad 0` 5/5 |
+  | unregistered | — | `bad 592` 5/5 |
+
+  The six-cell version of this test reported `bad 444`, and
+  `592 / 8 == 444 / 6 == 74` — the two added cells go bad at the same
+  collection as the other six, which is what says they are really covered
+  rather than decorative.
+
+### Added
+
+- **Rust-side mark, rewrite and registration tests for both interned-string
+  root scanners** (`gc/tests/runtime_roots/interned_string_caches.rs`):
+  `builtins::arithmetic::scan_typeof_string_roots_mut` and
+  `json::raw_json::scan_raw_json_key_root_mut`. Neither had one; #7211
+  registered them and the `.ts` gap test covered only the `typeof` side, from
+  one direction, at six cells.
+
+  Marking and rewriting are asserted separately on purpose. Marking alone
+  keeps the string alive but still hands out a pre-move address after a
+  copying minor, which is the #7211 failure in full — the distinction
+  `docs/src/internals/gc-rooting-invariant.md` keeps having to make. The
+  registration test is separate again, because either scanner can be called
+  directly from a test whether or not `gc_init` ever names it, and an
+  unregistered scanner is a no-op in production.
+
+  Sabotage-tested, per the project's own rule that a gate must be shown able
+  to fail:
+
+  | sabotage | result |
+  |---|---|
+  | drop `visit(&TYPEOF_BIGINT, visitor)` | mark and rewrite tests red, naming `cell 6` |
+  | drop the `gc_init` registration of `scan_raw_json_key_root_mut` | registration test red |
+
+### Changed
+
+- **`reset_typeof_string_cache_for_test` was dead code.** It had no callers,
+  and its doc comment described a shared arena-reset teardown that does not
+  exist in this repo — every other `_for_test` helper in `perry-runtime` is
+  called. It is now driven by the tests above, and its eight-cell list is
+  shared with the new `populate_*` / `*_cells_for_test` helpers instead of
+  being written out a second time. `json/raw_json.rs` gets the matching trio
+  (`reset_`, `populate_`, `peek_`), which is what made the rawJSON scanner
+  testable at all.
+
+  All `#[cfg(test)]`; no runtime behavior changes.
+
+- **`CLAUDE.md`: the two #7226 entries are folded back toward the length of
+  the entries around them**, 2006 → 1722 and 1358 → 903 characters, in a
+  section whose other bullets run 242-355. The file's own opening note says
+  to keep it concise and put detail in `changelog.d/`. Nothing operational
+  was dropped: the incident narrative is already in
+  `changelog.d/7219-registry-gc-unrooted-caches.md`, and the detector knobs
+  the new bullet re-listed (`PERRY_GC_ZEAL`, `PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE`,
+  `PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE_DEPTH`) are documented in full, with their
+  exact gating, two sections above under "Rooting-bug instruments".
+
+- **`changelog.d/7214-closure-calln-stale-registers.md` line 117 opened with
+  `#7161`**, which markdownlint reads as a malformed ATX heading (MD018).
+  Rewrapped so the reference is not the first thing on the line. The
+  rendered text is unchanged — CommonMark requires a space after `#`, so it
+  was never a heading, and the line is a paragraph continuation besides.
+
+## Not changed, and why
+
+**`SYMBOL_ROOTS` in `scripts/gc_root_dominance_check.py` does not need the
+`crates/perry-ext-*` crates.** `--audit-alloc-re` is a liveness check on
+`ALLOC_RE`'s alternatives — it asks whether each alternative matches at least
+one real exported symbol — so widening the symbol corpus can only make it
+more permissive, never less. Measured: 3775 symbols under the current two
+roots, 394 more that exist only in the 38 ext crates, and the dead-alternative
+verdict is the empty list with or without them. No alternative is kept alive
+only by an ext symbol. The 26 ext-only allocating symbols already match
+`ALLOC_RE` through the `_new` / `_create` conventions, so what the checker
+detects is unchanged either way.
+
+A symbol that allocates and matches no alternative would be a real hole, but
+it is a hole in `ALLOC_RE` and this audit runs the other direction, so adding
+roots would not surface it.

crates/perry-runtime/src/builtins/arithmetic.rs

@@ -587,25 +587,54 @@ pub fn scan_typeof_string_roots_mut(visitor: &mut crate::gc::RuntimeRootVisitor<
     visit(&TYPEOF_SYMBOL, visitor);
 }
 
-/// Drop every cached `typeof` string. Test-only: the unit-test harness resets
-/// arenas between tests while thread-locals persist, so a cache entry from a
-/// previous test names memory the new arena does not own.
+/// The eight cells and their payloads, in `scan_typeof_string_roots_mut`
+/// order. Test-only. It exists so a test can assert the scanner reaches EVERY
+/// cell: that scanner is eight hand-written `visit(...)` calls, and a dropped
+/// line is invisible to any test that exercises only some of them.
+#[cfg(test)]
+type TypeofCacheCell = &'static std::thread::LocalKey<std::cell::Cell<*mut StringHeader>>;
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+fn typeof_cache_entries_for_test() -> [(TypeofCacheCell, &'static str); 8] {
+    [
+        (&TYPEOF_UNDEFINED, "undefined"),
+        (&TYPEOF_OBJECT, "object"),
+        (&TYPEOF_BOOLEAN, "boolean"),
+        (&TYPEOF_NUMBER, "number"),
+        (&TYPEOF_STRING, "string"),
+        (&TYPEOF_FUNCTION, "function"),
+        (&TYPEOF_BIGINT, "bigint"),
+        (&TYPEOF_SYMBOL, "symbol"),
+    ]
+}
+
+/// Drop every cached `typeof` string. Test-only: a rooting test has to start
+/// from an empty cache so the strings it then allocates are its own, in a
+/// known arena, rather than survivors of whichever test ran first on this
+/// thread.
 #[cfg(test)]
 pub(crate) fn reset_typeof_string_cache_for_test() {
-    for cache in [
-        &TYPEOF_UNDEFINED,
-        &TYPEOF_OBJECT,
-        &TYPEOF_BOOLEAN,
-        &TYPEOF_NUMBER,
-        &TYPEOF_STRING,
-        &TYPEOF_FUNCTION,
-        &TYPEOF_BIGINT,
-        &TYPEOF_SYMBOL,
-    ] {
+    for (cache, _) in typeof_cache_entries_for_test() {
         cache.with(|cell| cell.set(std::ptr::null_mut()));
     }
 }
 
+/// Allocate all eight cached strings, exactly as eight `typeof` calls of eight
+/// different value shapes would. Test-only; reaching `bigint` and `symbol`
+/// from Rust otherwise means building a BigInt and a registered Symbol.
+#[cfg(test)]
+pub(crate) fn populate_typeof_string_cache_for_test() {
+    for (cache, text) in typeof_cache_entries_for_test() {
+        get_cached(cache, text);
+    }
+}
+
+/// Read the eight cells without populating them. Test-only.
+#[cfg(test)]
+pub(crate) fn typeof_string_cache_cells_for_test() -> [*mut StringHeader; 8] {
+    typeof_cache_entries_for_test().map(|(cache, _)| cache.with(|cell| cell.get()))
+}
+
 /// Return the typeof a value as a string
 /// Takes an f64 that uses NaN-boxing to distinguish types.
 /// Returns a pointer to a string: "undefined", "boolean", "number", "string", "object", "function"

crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/runtime_roots.rs

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ use super::support::*;
 use std::cell::Cell;
 mod callback_scanners;
 mod hook_dispatch_handles;
+mod interned_string_caches;
 mod prototype_addr_cache;
 mod side_table_scanners;
 mod string_slice;