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Summary

  • When a class inherits through a runtime-resolved parent and no static method is known at compile time, read the property and call its value. This lets inherited static getters return callable values while preserving the class as this.
  • Add a regression covering a factory-produced parent, a subclass, a grandchild, and an instance-getter control.

Fixes #10893. The original instance-getter example already passes on current main; the inherited static getter example still failed.

Verification

  • New regression failed on unmodified origin/main with TypeError: g is not a function after the instance-getter assertions passed.
  • New regression passes with the fix on the remote Linux build.
  • Existing issue_10210_static_getter_call integration test passes.
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check
  • scripts/check_file_size.sh
  • git diff --check

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed direct calls through inherited static getters so they correctly invoke the function returned by the getter.
    • Ensured this behavior works across further subclasses and class hierarchies.

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The compiler now routes calls through callable getters when the receiver class has a runtime-resolved parent in its inheritance chain. An integration test covers instance getters, static getters, subclass caching, and extracted getter calls. The changelog records the fix.

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Getter Call Dispatch

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dynamic static getter dispatch
crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/property_get/static_dispatch.rs, crates/perry/tests/issue_10893_getter_call.rs, changelog.d/11012-inherited-static-getter-call.md
Static dispatch walks up to 64 ancestors and uses closure-call fallthrough when it finds a runtime-resolved parent. The integration test checks direct and read-then-call getter usage for instance and inherited static getters. The changelog documents the fix.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b300e

Deep class hierarchies may still fail when calling inherited static getters; remove the traversal cap before merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main fix for getter calls inherited through dynamic class heritage.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #10893 requires direct calls through callable instance getters and inherited static getters, including getters that cache functions by subclass this. The existing instance-getter path is cover…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within Issue #10893. The code change targets static dispatch for runtime-resolved class heritage. The new integration test covers instance and inherited static getter calls. The chang…
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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/property_get/static_dispatch.rs`:
- Line 387: Remove the fixed 64-iteration bound in the inheritance traversal
around the static dispatch logic, and continue walking parent classes until
extends_name is absent. Preserve the existing static method and field resolution
behavior and ensure deep hierarchies resolve inherited callable static getters
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// property first, then call the value with the class as `this`.
let mut current = Some(cls_name.clone());
let mut has_dynamic_parent = false;
for _ in 0..64 {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the fixed inheritance-depth limit.

A runtime-resolved parent at depth 64 or greater does not set has_dynamic_parent. The call then uses the previous static-method path, so a callable inherited static getter still fails for valid deep class hierarchies. Walk until extends_name is absent, as the static method and field resolution loops above do.

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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/property_get/static_dispatch.rs` at line
387, Remove the fixed 64-iteration bound in the inheritance traversal around the
static dispatch logic, and continue walking parent classes until extends_name is
absent. Preserve the existing static method and field resolution behavior and
ensure deep hierarchies resolve inherited callable static getters through the
dynamic-parent path.

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This PR is the sole cause of the four gap regressions I had been bisecting across the #11009/#11012/#11014/#11015 group. All four are on this head (b300e092db, run 35754917692), one per shard, and every shard reports Crashed: 0 — so they are genuine parity diffs, not harness noise:

REGRESSIONS — these were expected to pass:
  - test_gap_numeric_push_guarded:                 pass -> parity_fail   (shard 2)
  - test_gap_7541_array_subclass_inherited_statics: pass -> parity_fail   (shard 3)
  - test_gap_rest_bundle_and_map_fill:              pass -> parity_fail   (shard 4)
  - test_gap_packed_loop_cached_receiver:           pass -> parity_fail   (shard 5)

Nothing else in that group contributes: #11009 and #11015 are green on their own heads apart from the stale Public benchmark evidence freshness step that #10977 has since cleared on main, and #11014's single regression (test_gap_9440_error_name_ownership) is separately its own.

The shape of the four is consistent and worth reading together before you touch the fix: 7541_array_subclass_inherited_statics (a subclass reaching a static through its heritage), numeric_push_guarded and packed_loop_cached_receiver (an array receiver whose kind was proven, then re-read), and rest_bundle_and_map_fill. "Call getters inherited through dynamic class heritage" is plausibly widening a heritage walk so that a proven array/receiver now takes the dynamic path and loses its fold. I would look first at whether the new walk runs for receivers that already had a proof, rather than only for the dynamic-heritage case the PR is about.

To reproduce one locally without the whole suite:

./scripts/run_gap_tests.sh --filter test_gap_numeric_push_guarded

I am holding this out of the merge trains until the four are back to pass. Also worth correcting for the record: I twice attributed test_gap_numeric_push_guarded to #11035 — that was wrong, and #11035 has been cleared and is in train 260.

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I have pushed a replacement to fix/11012-ci (606b81c17b). It reverts your codegen hunk and moves the fix into the runtime, so I want to lay out the evidence rather than just hand you a branch.

Your four regressions had one shared cause, and it is not what I first guessed

I had guessed the PR widened a heritage walk so a proven array receiver lost its fold. That was wrong. All four failing tests share exactly one construct: class MyArr extends Array {} followed by a MyArr.<static>(...) call — numeric_push_guarded L83, rest_bundle_and_map_fill L97, packed_loop_cached_receiver L95, and 7541_array_subclass_inherited_statics throughout.

class X extends Array lowers to a dynamic parent: Array is not a user class, so ctx.lookup_class("Array") misses and lower_decl/class_decl.rs:327 captures extends_expr. Your hunk fires on exactly that shape and diverts the call to try_lower_closure_call_fallthrough — a property GET, then a call. But MyArr.from's property-GET form is undefined (a gap that test_gap_7541_array_subclass_inherited_statics documents in its own header), and the only implementation of MyArr.from/of/isArray is the #7541 arm inside js_class_static_method_call — which the divert skips.

Two-arm A/B on the hunk alone, same worktree, same package set:

arm MyArr.from([1,2,3]) G.g(1) where class G extends make()
hunk present (your head) TypeError: value is not a function passes
hunk removed (= main) passes TypeError: g is not a function

Why codegen is the wrong layer for this

Codegen only sees the static extends_name chain. It cannot know whether a runtime-resolved parent carries the accessor, and its dynamic-parent predicate cannot distinguish extends make() from extends Array. The edge you need exists only in the runtime's class-id parent chain, so the lookup has to happen there.

The replacement: try_static_accessor_value_call in a new class_registry/parent_static/static_accessor_call.rs, gated on a CLASS_STATIC_ACCESSORS chain hit so it cannot fire where no static get of that name is declared — MyArr.from misses the gate and falls through to the #7541 arm unchanged. Six lines in parent_static.rs wire it in after the static-method walk misses. Net: +261 lines, and your codegen file is byte-identical to base again.

Two details that each cost a build cycle, in case you touch this later:

  1. The read must delegate to js_object_get_field_by_name_f64 — the same entry point codegen emits for const f = C.g — not to class_static_accessor_getter_value directly. Calling the helper directly gives TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'has'): the getter is found on an ancestor, but the helper treats the value you pass as the capture/private owner, so the subclass becomes the owner and every captured binding reads undefined. Delegating also gets own-static-field-shadows-inherited-accessor precedence right for free.
  2. Arguments and receiver are rooted across the getter (RuntimeHandleScope + refreshed_nanbox_f64_slice) — the getter is user JS and can collect, and args_ptr is a raw pointer into a caller-side alloca that the collector does not rewrite.

Verification

All four regressions pass, each in its own harness run with the wrapper exit code checked (not the pipeline's):

test_gap_numeric_push_guarded                  … PASS   WRAPPER_EXIT=0
test_gap_7541_array_subclass_inherited_statics … PASS   WRAPPER_EXIT=0
test_gap_rest_bundle_and_map_fill              … PASS   WRAPPER_EXIT=0
test_gap_packed_loop_cached_receiver           … PASS   WRAPPER_EXIT=0

Your fix still works — issue_10893_getter_call::direct_calls_through_instance_and_static_getters passes, as does the neighbouring issue_10210_static_getter_call. Six further static-accessor gap tests pass as collateral coverage. cargo fmt, check_file_size.sh and cargo check -p perry --bins are clean.

Your own test was extended with a MyArr control and made to build and pin the static runtime archives — without that it would link a stale .a and be vacuous, since the fix is runtime-side now rather than compiler-side.

Two caveats, stated rather than buried: no full gap sweep was completed (the shared disk hit ~3 GiB and an ENOSPC mid-link produces fake failures naming innocent tests), and the branch is based on 1dbe9f46ed rather than current main — deliberately, so the build every number above was measured on stayed valid. I checked the overlap: nothing main has touched since collides with these files. I will rebase and re-verify when it goes into a train.

If you disagree with moving this to the runtime, say so — but the A/B above is why I do not think the codegen version can be made correct.

proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 23, 2026
… not codegen

#11012's first attempt put the fix in codegen: in `try_lower_static_dispatch`,
any `C.m(args)` whose class chain contained an `extends_expr` was diverted to
`try_lower_closure_call_fallthrough` (read the property, then call it). That
guess cannot hold, because codegen cannot know what a RUNTIME-resolved parent
carries — and `class MyArr extends Array {}` takes the same dynamic-parent
lowering (`Array` is not a user class, so `lookup_class` misses and
`extends_expr` is captured). Every inherited Array static therefore went to a
property GET whose value is still `undefined` (#7541's documented gap), and
`MyArr.from([1,2,3])` became "TypeError: value is not a function". That is all
four of the gap regressions CI reported: `test_gap_7541_array_subclass_inherited_statics`,
`test_gap_numeric_push_guarded`, `test_gap_rest_bundle_and_map_fill` and
`test_gap_packed_loop_cached_receiver` each build a `class MyArr extends Array {}`
and call `MyArr.from(...)`.

Revert that hunk and resolve the accessor where the edge actually exists: the
runtime's class-id parent chain. `js_class_static_method_call` already walks it
for static methods, static fields, native protos, constructor prototypes,
Promise statics, Array-subclass statics and parent-closure props; it had no arm
for a class-body `static get`, which lives in `CLASS_STATIC_ACCESSORS`. Add one,
gated on a registry hit so it cannot fire where no such accessor is declared —
`MyArr.from` misses it and falls through to the #7541 arm unchanged.

The read delegates to `js_object_get_field_by_name_f64`, the same entry point
codegen emits for `const f = C.g`, rather than calling
`class_static_accessor_getter_value` directly. The getter is found on an
ANCESTOR and its captures live on the per-evaluation parent class OBJECT, so
handing the subclass to the accessor helper makes it the capture owner and the
body reads `undefined` for every captured binding (measured: #10893's own
`cache` Map). Delegating also gets own-static-field-shadows-inherited-accessor
precedence right for free. Arguments and receiver are rooted across the getter,
which is user JS and can collect.

`crates/perry/tests/issue_10893_getter_call.rs` keeps the PR's getter rows and
gains the `MyArr` control, so the codegen trade cannot be made again silently.
It now builds and pins the static runtime archives (the fix is runtime-side, so
without that the fixture would link a stale `.a`).

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01K1f4hBHp9SP4Qu6zR2rt9e
(cherry picked from commit 606b81c)
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Landed on main in merge train 268 (#11119), released as v0.5.1651 at 36892b7194.

Four of this train's seven PRs — including this one, if it is #11055, #11023, #11012 or #11014 — were repaired here because they were stuck: the fixes were cherry-picked from fix/<PR>-ci branches built in this session, which is also how fork-hosted heads get landed without their authors. CI on the assembled tree was 22/22 green, all 6 gap-suite shards.

A train rebase gives the commits new SHAs, so GitHub cannot auto-close the source PR; closing by hand. Nothing needed from you.

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