protobuf declares its descriptor accessors in their classes and defines
them below with macros, like `PROTOBUF_DEFINE_ACCESSOR(FieldDescriptor,
number, int)`; its reflection pastes `Reflection::Get##TYPENAME` in
another. The parser never sees those definitions (the preParse blanks the
invocations) and a declaration mints no node, so the methods had none and
every call to them linked to nothing.
- After either extractor (the kernel or the wasm walker), a step over the
original source expands the file's own function-like macros whose body
defines `Class::method(...) ... {`, at each invocation at namespace
scope, and mints a method node per definition: named and qualified like
an out-of-line definition, contained by the file and the same-file
class, with the expanded head as its signature. Constructors,
destructors and variadic macros are left out.
- The parse worker leaves the raw kernel fast path only for a file that
may define one (a cheap text test), so the step sees it.
- The C++ resolver reads such a method's return type and parameters from
its signature, and never takes it for a deleted overload.
A/B vs main on the kernel path, every changed site triaged: leveldb and
redis identical; fmt +13 nodes and rocksdb +11 (gtest's TestEventRepeater
overrides); protobuf +257 nodes, 6,203 calls and 2 references added, 252
calls retargeted, 11 metadata-only, none removed. Kernel and wasm dumps
are byte-identical, protobuf's one pre-existing Swift line aside.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Colby Mchenry