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54-54: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueThe instruction line is in the wrong place. Move it.
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Review comments at @crates/fff-c/include/fff.h:
- Line 650: Guard modes 2 and 3 at the binding boundary when the native library
version may differ, using a capability or version check before calling the old
entrypoints that accept bool. Preserve compatibility for modes 0 and 1, and
prevent unsupported modes from falling through to an unfiltered legacy path.
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- Line 360: Update the search loop condition and search_section pagination
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- Around line 84-85: Move the paragraph describing `classifyDefinitions` from
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Guard new modes when the native library may be old.
Values 0 and 1 remain compatible, but modes 2 and 3 are not behavior-compatible with an older library. The old entrypoints accept bool and do not validate the mode. They can treat either new value as the old enabled/classification path and return unfiltered matches.
Add a capability or version check before sending modes 2 or 3 when bindings can use a different native-library version.
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Guard modes 2 and 3 at the binding boundary when the native library version may
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- Around line 1035-1045: Preserve the original path across grep continuations so
the resumed query and native file offset use the same finder and sorted file
list. Update the cursor state created by the grep flow to store the path, then
use the resumed cursor’s path when calling resolveFinderForPath and building the
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Reject function-pointer declarators in the CType fallback. For struct Foo (*handler)(void);, c_function() returns Foo: it accepts (*handler) and does not reject the following (. A definition-only query for Foo therefore retains a type use. The declared identifier is handler. Reject this shape or return the actual declarator name. (open-std.org)
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Classify every line in a multiline match.
For a query such as impl user_file {}\nfn user_file, this sink receives both lines but classifies only the first impl line. Rust definition mode rejects that line, so classify_match returns None and the sink drops the entire match. The later fn user_file definition is not returned.
Iterate through each line in the expanded match, compute line-relative match offsets, and retain the match when any line is a definition. Keep the existing push_match and after-context handling unchanged.
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Update the multiline-match classification in the sink around `classify_match` to
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* feat(grep): add definition filters and compile language rules * fix(nvim): declare definition metadata on grep matches * feat(tools): expose a definitions_only flag with match fallback * fix(grep): preserve paginated searches across empty pages * fix(grep): recognize generic methods and typed declarations * fix(grep): bound filtered matches and correct declaration parsing * perf(definition): reject source lines longer than 256 bytes * perf(definition): scan identifiers with NEON and SSE2 --------- Co-authored-by: Dmitriy Kovalenko <dkovalenko@openai.com>
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Grep checks query matches against declared names, using compiled byte rules for 17 language families. Neovim can group definitions first or return them alone. MCP and Pi expose
definitions_onlyand return ordinary matches with a notice when a completed search finds no definitions.user_filefn user_file()/fn test_user_file()struct user_file/mod user_filefn other(value: user_file)impl user_fileFiltering runs during match collection. Rejected matches do not enter the result vector, and the scanner stops at the retained per-file limit. Definition-only searches exclude unsupported extensions before content reads. Lines over 256 source bytes are treated as usages; line endings do not count toward the limit. Neovim repeats file headers across sections and shows a separator only when both groups are present.
Core and SDK calls select
off,classify,definition_only, orusage_only; SDK and Neovim defaults remain off. JavaScript/Lua booleans still work. Existing C entry points accept auint8_tmode:0and1retain their previous meaning, while2and3require the updated native library. Rust callers selectDefinitionModeinGrepSearchOptions.SDK callers repeat the query, mode, and constraints when paging. MCP and Pi cursors retain definition/fallback state; fallback starts only after a complete search returns no definitions. Empty timed pages retain their continuation cursor.
Five fresh-process measurements on local Apple silicon, using a 3 MB Rust file with 300,000 usages and one definition.
definition_onlyrequests one match per file; times are medians for the first grep, and RSS is the process peak. Indexing is outside the timed interval.bcecee9): time / peak RSS6ac03be): time / peak RSSClassifier measurements and assembly
Criterion on local Apple silicon with Rust 1.98.1, release optimization, and fat LTO: 100 samples, 300 ms warm-up, 1 s measurement. Baseline and optimized binaries ran sequentially. Run
make bench-definitionfor all 49 cases.056c999)c5d4b7d)fn user_file()const user_file = (value) => valuedef user_file(path):The mixed cases contain 256 shuffled declaration/reference lines. Timings include the cached FileItem flag read, language dispatch, parsing, and range checking; they exclude I/O, finding query matches, and fuzzy range checking. Some short cases are unchanged: the JavaScript async arrow measured 33.33 versus 33.37 ns. These timings measure classifier cost, not whole-search speed.
The identifier scanner checks three continuation bytes through a compile-time table before using 16-byte vectors. The final partial block uses an overlapping load inside the original slice. ARM64 uses NEON nibble-table lookups; x86-64 uses baseline SSE2 comparisons. Other targets retain the scalar table. Quotes and bracket groups use
memchr. The classifier performs no heap allocation and has no runtimeRuledispatcher.The final fat-LTO assembly has one language jump table and an inlined identifier scanner. Rust
fnand Pythondefuse short scalar keyword comparisons; JavaScript arrow bindings also check their assignment and parameter group. The NEON block scan emits:The length check stays outside the parser's stack frame:
cmp x2, #256; b.hi ...skips the classifier call. The x86-64 kernel emitsmovdqu, packed byte comparisons, andpmovmskb; it was cross-compiled locally, but these timing results are ARM64 only.Comparison with PR #905
#905 at
4b355ccaccepts matches across declaration headers and groups definitions within each page. This PR checks declared names and filters before pagination. Comparing 173 grammar fixtures identified useful cases now covered here: TypeScriptconst enum, C struct-pointer returns, and Java generic methods.An earlier raw-classifier comparison used identical mixed fixtures with matching outcomes (100 samples, 1 s warm-up, 2 s measurement, Apple silicon, fat LTO):
4b355cc)bcecee9)This separate harness excludes filename detection, the FileItem flag read, I/O, and grep work. The new scanner keeps a short scalar prefix before its SIMD blocks; its current measurements are above.
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The file-picker snapshot suite has 16 failures also reproduced on clean main (
d978416). Pi's full typecheck has existing mock typing errors intest/sdk.test.tsat lines 26 and 35.Summary by CodeRabbit