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Problem

rust2-ts refused every pointer into an array: add, sub, offset, offset_from, ptr::copy, slice::from_raw_parts, a slice's or Vec's as_ptr, and a cast from a pointer to an array or slice to one to its first element. moq-net's frame Segment (a boxed slice kept behind *mut u8) and smallvec's inline storage use nothing else, and hashbrown, kio, and std's own Vec::drain and BinaryHeap reach them.

Approach

The first piece of ts-unsafe, per its decided typed pointers: a pointer into an array, slice, or Vec of values JS copies is { array, index }, the runtime's existing rt.AtIndex, which is an rt.Place, so every read, write, ptr::read, write, replace, and drop_in_place path works on it unchanged.

• Made by &raw mut a[i], <[T]>::as_ptr/as_mut_ptr, Vec::as_ptr/as_mut_ptr (the ByteVec's storage for bytes), and a cast from a pointer to [T; N], [T], or MaybeUninit<[T; N]> to one to T (no longer refused as reinterpretation: the bytes keep their type). A pointer into a sliceView points into the array beneath it.

• rt.ptrAdd (add, sub, offset), rt.ptrWrappingAdd (the wrapping forms, reducing the index modulo 2^32 over the size's largest power-of-two factor, so wasm32 addresses that wrap and come back are one index), rt.ptrOffsetFrom, rt.ptrCopy (memmove semantics, copying each value the crate writes into in place, as a raw read does), rt.ptrSlice/rt.ptrByteSlice (slice::from_raw_parts: a sliceView or ByteSlice over the array).

• A raw pointer to a slice (*const [T], *mut [T], NonNull<[T]>) is an rt.RawSlice, its first element's pointer and its length, per decision 5. ptr::slice_from_raw_parts, NonNull::slice_from_raw_parts, &raw of a slice, From, ptr::from_ref, Box::into_raw of a boxed slice, and an array pointer unsized to a slice's make one; len, is_empty, and is_null read its fields; a cast to the element pointer is its ptr. Only a read through it (*p, (*p)[i], as_ref, Box::from_raw, drop_in_place) makes the slice and checks the array holds it, as Rust defers it; the slice made is kept for later reads.

• An empty slice from a pointer into no array (null, dangling, an address off null) keeps that pointer through every part std makes of it: ranges, get, split_at, chunks and their remainders, split, first_chunk/last_chunk, and its bytes' subslices (rt.slicePart gives back the empty slice itself, which EMPTY maps to the pointer).

• A pointer to a value in no array is element 0 of an array of one, as Rust treats it.

• Null and dangling pointers (a dangling one at its pointee's alignment) move by address under wrapping arithmetic, back to null at 0; equal addresses are none apart.

• A value of no bytes: offsets keep the pointer; offset_from (which std panics on) and a slice of them from a pointer are refused.

• Refused with a span: arithmetic, slices, and copies through a pointer to an element JS keeps as an object (a tuple, the crate's struct, [u8; N]), since that pointer is the object and knows no array; and &raw mut a[i] where a, or what holds it, may be given another JS array while the pointer lives, judged as a pointer to the array is.

• Refused with a span where the body proves a pointer crosses what JS keeps apart from what holds it in Rust, a value in no array (an array of one) or a shared subslice of values JS copies (a copy), per decision 1: offset_from between pointers into two such arrays, or one and an array of the body's own; a raw or mutable slice of a lone u8; and add, sub, offset, a slice from a pointer, or ptr::copy whose constant offsets and lengths reach past either. mir/origin.rs traces each pointer back through the body's single assignments; a pointer from a field, a parameter, or a wrapping offset is left to the runtime.

• Fails at run time, loudly (rust2-ts: ...), where only run time shows it: offset_from across two JS arrays, a raw or mutable byte slice of a lone u8, and a read, write, slice, or copy through an rt.AtIndex past the array JS keeps (a JS array would grow; a shared subslice of non-byte values is a copy). rt.ptrSlice, rt.ptrByteSlice, and rt.ptrCopy check their whole extent, where a view or subarray past the array would read undefined or copy short.

• The lang fixture's differential accepts one known native bug, per decision 4: a floats::mul_adds result where the translation's is the exactly rounded one (computed independently from BigInt integers in ts/fixtures/lang/fma.ts) and native's is exactly one last place from it. wasm32's fma, compiler-builtins' generic libm, drops the product's sticky bit (rust-lang/compiler-builtins#1353, fixed by the unmerged #1358), so a product of half c's last place rounds to c. This PR's added cases moved the random selector onto such a set. floats::mul_adds now writes each result after its operands so the allowance can check it. Operands must match byte for byte; every other difference, including 2 last places off, either side non-finite, or the translation being the side off, still fails (ts/tests/fma.ts).

• From the posted reviews: offset_from between pointers into two array fields of one struct, or two rows of a nested array at constant indices, is refused at translation (origin.rs keeps the array's place); a dangling pointer points into an array of none, so a read, write, copy, or slice through it fails instead of reading undefined; a null or dangling pointer to an array cast to one to its element stays null or dangling; a pointer from a mutable part of an array (get_mut, iter_mut) points into the array; a raw pointer to an array unsized to one to a slice is a raw slice pointer like any other; the empty slices and raw slice pointers above, which decision 5 settled.

Impact

• Output: pointers into arrays translate instead of failing. &raw mut a[i] of a value JS copies is now rt.sliceAsPtr(a, i) instead of an accessor rt.place. A raw slice pointer is an rt.RawSlice instead of an rt.Place of the slice.
• Runtime: rt.AtIndex gains public array, index, and reach(n), and fails on access past its array; new exports sliceAsPtr, byteSliceAsPtr, byteVecAsPtr, ptrAdd, ptrWrappingAdd, ptrOffsetFrom, ptrCopy, ptrSlice, ptrByteSlice, slicePart, RawSlice (with deref and derefBytes), rawSliceOf, rawByteSliceOf, all tree-shaken when unused. No hand-written binding names them, so no MIGRATE.md entry.
• The crates fixture's bound last read through add, which now translates; it reads through byte_add instead, which stays refused, so refused.toml still shows a refusal.

Census at moq 30f25c04, against main at e15afc7b (which already maps hashbrown), before main moved moq's pin; decision 1's refusals leave it unchanged:

Census	Before	After
model	222	184
moq-net	941	787
kio	110	90

moq-net's frame.rs loses all its pointer refusals; smallvec loses every one but raw allocation (see Follow-ups). The added lines are only rewordings: kio's log.rs pointer into [kio::sync::UnsafeCell<T>; 0] (the crate's struct, so an object) and smallvec's casts to *mut u8 for dealloc now name why they are refused.

Performance: no bench workload reaches a changed path (the codec and task fixtures' translations are unchanged and call none of the changed runtime functions), so just ts bench cannot move. A node micro-benchmark of a 1024-element read loop (.v[i] of the old rt.Place against p.deref()[i], median of 3 runs on a loaded host): a whole array 0.44 to 3.9 ns per element, bytes 0.5-0.7 to 2.1-2.5 ns, a part through a view about 144 to 152 ns (the proxy dominates). Without keeping the slice made, a read was 10-16x slower; each read still checks the array spans it, so one after the Vec shrank fails loudly.

Tests: fixtures/lang/src/elements.rs, differential against native wasm32: a Vec's elements shifted as insert/remove shift them, copied overlapping either way and to another Vec; an array's elements through &raw mut a[i], the array's pointer, and as_mut_ptr, with NonNull's arithmetic and slices; moq-net's Segment shape; smallvec's inline MaybeUninit<[T; 4]> shape with Arc strong counts and Option pairs changed in place after their copies; addresses wrapped and back at u8 and u16, a lone value's pointer, a mutable subslice's, and empty slices; raw_slices (reads and writes through (*p)[i] whole and in part, of bytes too, a raw slice longer than its array never read past, NonNull's, a boxed slice's through into_raw/from_raw, null's as_ref and NonNull::new); empty_parts (empty slices from a dangling pointer and one off null, through every std producer above, each part's pointer moved back to address 0 and checked is_null). Disabling slicePart makes the differential differ from native. Also within a shared subslice, which JS copies, and to its end. fixtures/reject: object_elements, unit_elements, element_to_array, elements_replaced, and for decision 1, pointers_apart (offset_from across two &raw of one variable, two repr(C) fields, a shared subslice and its parent, a shared slice of a lone byte and the byte), lone_byte_slices (raw and mutable), and reached_out (constant offsets, a slice, and a copy past an array of one or a shared subslice, get_unchecked's included). tests/pointers.ts: each case that stays a runtime error, through pointers the body can't trace, throws a rust2-ts: error where native Rust is defined (a differential run can't compare a throw).

Alternatives

• A distinct element-pointer class beside rt.Place. Rejected: the type *mut T can't say whether it points into an array, so every deref would need a runtime type test; making the element pointer a Place keeps every existing path.
• Shared subslices as views, so a pointer into one reaches the parent. Rejected for now: every safe-code subslice would pay a proxy for an unsafe-only edge. It is one of the decision's options.
• Element pointers to objects as { array, index } too. Not possible without telling at each deref whether a *mut S is the object or an element of an array, which the type can't.

Decisions

Settled by the maintainer on 2026-11-01:

1. Pointer errors: ✅ also refuse the in-body-provable cases at translation, keeping the loud runtime error for pointers only run time shows, such as those held in struct fields (smallvec, moq-net). Recorded in the quest's Plan.

2. smallvec: ✅ model a typed allocation (Layout::array::<T>(n) cast to *mut T as a fresh JS array, with dealloc and realloc); untyped and byte allocation stay refused. Lands in the next PR.

3. ✅ Merge this PR when ready.

4. Native wasm32 fma near-ties: ✅ accept a mismatch only for mul_add results where the translation equals the exactly rounded result, computed independently in the harness, and native differs from it by exactly 1 ulp; add a quest to remove the allowance once compiler-builtins ships #1358. Settled on 2026-11-02.

5. Raw slice pointers (round 4's design checkpoint): ✅ option C, represent a raw slice pointer as its data pointer plus length in this PR, so empty slices keep their pointer through every std producer and (*p)[i] translates, with no silent difference left. Settled on 2026-11-02. Recorded in the quest's Plan.

Follow-ups

• The quest keeps what remains: ManuallyDrop, a union over a type parameter, &raw through a reference, pointers into arrays of objects, and the rest of its list; this PR rewrites its element-pointer item to that.
• Decision 2, typed allocation for smallvec, lands in the next PR.
• Waiting: drop the lang fixture's mul_add allowance: new quest, deleted once compiler-builtins#1358 reaches the pinned nightly.
• quest/m3/ts-unsafe.md gains a remaining item from the reviews: a Vec's spare capacity written through as_mut_ptr and committed by set_len.

Review

• quest review by Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort.
• Round 1 on 2d8439ea: 4 findings, all fixed: views (sliceAsPtr unwraps them), wrapping addresses, a lone value's slices, empty slices keeping their pointer.
• Round 2 on f2ed825e: 5 findings. Fixed: a raw byte slice of a lone u8 copied (now an error), and an empty slice of a lone value. Refuted: translation-time refusal of shared-subslice pointers, of mutable byte slices of a lone u8, and of offset_from between separately made pointers to one variable; provenance isn't knowable at translation, and each is a loud runtime error. Raised as decision 1.
• Round 3 on ca0d3aa1: the same 4 points as round 2's refuted ones; raised as decision 1.
• Round 4 on 505dcdee (the merge of main, whose harness case list conflicted): the same 4 points, raised as decision 1. This is the fourth round, so the design checkpoint: I recommend keeping this approach and settling decision 1 before more rounds.
• Decision 1 implemented, posted as a design change; review restarted with --new.
• Round 1 on 762bbd97: 2 findings. Refuted, citing decision 1: refusing pointers from parameters and fields. Fixed: a shared slice of a lone u8 is a fresh Uint8Array, so its pointer against the byte's now traces and is refused (7b65f42b).
• Round 2 on 7b65f42b: clean.
• The stacked typed-allocation branch's review (which covers this code) found 3 bugs here, fixed: the trace matched the crate's own functions named as std's; ptr::copy ran a value's copy over memory nothing wrote; wrapping arithmetic on null threw from the lone-value map. Each has a differential case in elements::edges.
• Round 3 on c7beaa58: 1 finding, fixed: a dangling pointer is at its alignment, so wrapping arithmetic can take it to null; null and dangling pointers now move by address.
• Round 4 on fadfdfa2: 1 finding, fixed: offset_from of two equal addresses off null is 0. Design checkpoint: the approach holds; the findings are now edge cases of null and dangling addresses.
• Round 5 on 19bb6eeb: clean. Then main merged in (its harness case list and reject expectations conflicted; regenerated).
• Main merged in twice more after the land gate stopped this with a merge conflict: the harness case and import lists, the reject roots and cases, and the reject snapshots conflicted (unioned, snapshots regenerated); then a conflict-free merge. Review skipped on 21e409043d741033ebfafd79f5a9b4a28d528071 as a merge of lists and snapshots only; just ci passes locally on it.
• Merged main again (conflicting harness and reject lists unioned, snapshots regenerated). New session on this checkout's branch: quest review by Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort.
• Round 1 on a4b0bc37: 2 findings. Fixed: pointers through mutable slice views; null in empty raw slices. Refuted: ptr::slice_from_raw_parts past the array checks at once, a loud rust2-ts: error (ts/runtime/rt/collections.ts:394), which decision 1 accepts; recorded in the quest.
• Round 2 on c209b235: 3 findings, fixed by one change: an empty slice from a pointer into no array keeps it (EMPTY in rt.ts), and is_null of a raw slice reads its data pointer.
• Round 3 on 33d0b07b: 2 findings, fixed: array-to-slice raw unsizing as the slice's rt.Place; empty ranges keep the pointer.
• Round 4 on b47bb4ce5c5e7daf117b7a65e43748dad2eacad6: 2 findings; the design checkpoint, settled as decision 5 and implemented. Review restarts with --new.
• CodeRabbit's 7 threads: 5 fixed (elemOf and DANGLING, null array casts, README wording, Lanes docs, offset_from across array fields), the dangling empty slice fixed by round 2's change, and Vec spare capacity declined (set_len has no mapping, so the pattern is refused at translation; a lone write fails loudly, tests/pointers.ts); recorded in the quest.
• Decision 5 implemented; review restarted with --new. quest review by Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort.
• Round 1 on 010d1adc: 1 finding, fixed: NonNull::as_mut of a slice hit the identity arm; differential cases now write through it for u32 and u8. Also mine: RawSlice keeps the slice its first read makes, rechecking the array spans it on each read.
• Round 1 of a new session (main's AGENTS.md changed) on 2224ffe7: 1 finding, refuted per decision 1: offset_from between two shared subslices of a zero-length array is refused at translation, loudly, as every pointer across a shared subslice is.
• Round 2 on bbfa2a42 (main merged; reject snapshots regenerated): clean. Then main merged again (the harness case lists conflicted; unioned, snapshots regenerated).
• Round 3 on f3d30f7d: clean.
• CodeRabbit's 8 threads on f3d30f7d: 4 fixed in 4c5c4a72 (an empty slice of a lone byte keeps its pointer at run time and is no longer refused at translation, shared or mutable; README's Not-yet wording; the fma quest's removal steps). 2 refuted per decision 1 (get(2..2) of a shared slice is a copy; two shared subslices of a zero-length array are two JS arrays, since the empty array folds into each use). 1 restates the null-array-cast fix (ca5ef088), whose origin tracing landed as decision 1.
• Round 4 on 4c5c4a72: clean. Design checkpoint: the approach holds; decision 5 closed the raw slice family, and the findings since have been zero-length edges.
• just ci passes locally on 4c5c4a72bcb631b7ff000f0cada2080781a28b58.

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Design change: per the maintainer's decision 1, pointers a body shows crossing what JS keeps apart from what holds them in Rust (a value in no array, a copied shared subslice) are now refused at translation with a span, not left to the runtime. ts/src/lower/mir/origin.rs traces each pointer argument of offset_from, add/sub/offset, the from_raw_parts family, and the ptr::copy family back through the body's single assignments to a &raw of a place in no array, as_ptr of a shared range index (a copy), or an array of the body's own, with constant offsets and lengths, and refuses offset_from across two of them, a raw or mutable slice of a lone u8, and offsets, slices, or copies reaching past either. A pointer from a field, a parameter, or a wrapping offset still fails at run time, and rt.ptrSlice, rt.ptrByteSlice, and rt.ptrCopy now check their whole extent, which a view or subarray read past silently before. The census is unchanged (model 184, moq-net 787, kio 90).

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The change adds runtime support for pointer arithmetic, copying, pointer differences, and pointer-derived slices over modeled storage. Compiler lowering maps selected Rust pointer operations to these helpers and tracks pointer origins to report selected boundary and storage violations. New fixtures cover supported and refused pointer cases. The change also adds an FMA comparison allowance, exact-rounding checks, and documentation of its planned removal.

Merge Risk: Low · previous review b47bb

The pointer support is mergeable with explicit awareness of narrow empty-slice limitations: some valid operations are refused or throw instead of preserving pointer identity. Correct the support documentation and FMA removal instructions; no broad runtime or compilation failure was established.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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codex / Codex land fixer note:

The landing log reports this failure at line 1:

Conflicts with the base: ts/fixtures/lang/expected/harness.ts, ts/fixtures/lang/src/harness.rs, ts/fixtures/reject/census.md, ts/fixtures/reject/expected.txt

I temporarily merged base, preserved both sets of harness cases, and regenerated the harness, rejection snapshot, and census. With the installed nightly-2026-10-15 toolchain, the isolated command cd ts && cargo test --locked -p rust2-ts --test fixtures task -- --exact --nocapture failed with:

task-fixture differs from native Rust:
35417 cases, 3059 panics, 628 differences

For input 0000180006000303060004000600, the native waker comparison list contains false, false where the translated result contains true, true. Resolving this requires review of behavior beyond the allowed mechanical changes. Formatting, runtime TypeScript checks, Clippy, all nine runtime tests, and the rejection and census checks passed. The broader suite also reported the task failure; its remaining language checks were stopped after the isolated failure confirmed the handback. The temporary merge was aborted and pr-400 remains at its pinned head; no fix was committed.

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codex / Codex land fixer: After mechanically resolving the base merge, (cd ts && cargo test --locked -p rust2-ts --test fixtures task -- --exact --nocapture) fails: "task-fixture differs from native Rust: 35417 cases, 3059 pan. Recommendation: Review and reconcile the translated and native waker identity behavior with base, then re·solve the fixture conflicts, regenerate snapshots, and rerun the rust2-ts tests.

Conflicts with the base: ts/fixtures/lang/expected/harness.ts, ts/fixtures/lang/src/harness.rs, ts/fixtures/reject/census.md, ts/fixtures/reject/expected.txt

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Follow-up Comments

Cover the translated-Infinity branch of mulAddsWithin.

87-88: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the translated-Infinity branch of mulAddsWithin.

mulAddsWithin rejects an infinite translated result only through !Number.isFinite(got). The existing assertion for infinity passes an infinite native result, which the want check rejects. No assertion in ts/tests/fma.ts reaches the got check, so removing it leaves every assertion passing. Add a case where the native result is Number.MAX_VALUE and the translated result is Infinity:

🧪 Suggested test addition

 assert.ok(!mulAddsWithin(set(max, 1, 0, Infinity), set(max, 1, 0, max)));
+// Translated `Infinity` beside the largest double, from operands whose exact product overflows.
+assert.ok(!mulAddsWithin(set(max, 1 + eps, 0, max), set(max, 1 + eps, 0, Infinity)));

exactMulAdd(Number.MAX_VALUE, 1 + eps, 0) returns Infinity, so Object.is(got, exact) passes and the comparator reaches the finiteness check. With the current guard, the comparator returns false. Without the got check, line(Number.MAX_VALUE) - line(Infinity) is -1n, so the comparator returns true and the assertion fails.

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Add an assertion in the `mulAddsWithin` tests where the native result is
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