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Colby MchenryandClaude Opus 5.5 0c28480576 fix(cpp): -> on a value of one of the project's classes follows its operator->, like rocksdb's FileSystemPtr and MultiGetContext::Range::Iterator (#2735)
C++ reads `x->m` on a class value as `x.operator->()->m`, and applies
`->` again to a class it returns. Only a library holder's `->` and a
container iterator's (`std::vector<T>::iterator`) were read. A call
through a project iterator or smart-pointer wrapper was guessed by the
method's name:
- rocksdb's `fs_->NewWritableFile(…)` on a `FileSystemPtr`, whose
  `operator->` returns a `std::shared_ptr<FileSystem>`, reached
  `FaultInjectionTestFS`;
- `writable_file_->Truncate(…)` on an `FSWritableFilePtr` reached the
  legacy `WritableFile::Truncate`;
- `iter->lkey->user_key()` through `MultiGetContext::Range::Iterator`,
  whose `KeyContext* operator->()` is a `KeyContext*`, reached
  `BlobCountingIterator::user_key`.

Both a member chain's `->` and a `->` call on a declared receiver end in
cppIteratorTarget. For a type that is no container's iterator, it now
falls back to cppOperatorTarget:
- what the class's `operator->` returns, through the pointer it is, or
  with `->` applied again to a class it is: a library holder, or another
  of these;
- else what its `operator*` returns;
- the return type is read where the class declares it, and the class's
  own template parameters are bound to the type's written arguments
  (cppTemplateBound): `UnownedPtr<DB>`'s `T* operator->()` is a `DB*`;
- a parameter the type doesn't bind names no particular class.

A log-only census on main bdf288a7 found 304 rocksdb and 42 protobuf
dereferences of a project class with an `operator->` that gave no
element. Among the rocksdb calls, 77 were bare-name guesses and 56 were
unlinked.

Kit A/B against bdf288a7:

| repo | removed | added | retargeted | same target, now typed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rocksdb | 2 | 49 | 158 | 89 |
| protobuf | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
| leveldb, fmt, redis | identical | | | |

- Retargeted:
  - FaultInjectionTestFS → FileSystem (57), WritableFile → FSWritableFile
    (32), and TruncatedRangeDelIterator through UnownedPtr (16);
  - LookupKey and GetContext through MultiGetContext's iterator;
  - SequentialFile and RandomAccessFile → FSSequentialFile and
    FSRandomAccessFile;
  - protobuf's `map_field_->` calls from WeakRepeatedPtrField to the map
    field bases;
  - overloads (DB::Put, PinnableSlice) chosen on the now-known class.
- Removed: `iter->timestamp->assign(…)` on a `std::string*`, which had
  reached `autovector::assign`.
- Added: Status::PermitUncheckedError, FileSystem::OptimizeFor…,
  Cleanable::RegisterCleanup, and gtest's ParamGeneratorInterface through
  linked_ptr.
- About 40 changed sites read by hand were all right.

Mutations: dropping the fallback, the operator* fallback, the second
`->` or the template binding each fail the new tests. Accepting an
inexact class, found only as the sole one of its name, survives; the
guard stays, as in the member-chain matcher.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-21 08:16:26 +00:00
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