Fixes the only known way to crash the game from normal wizard-mode input.
The bug
createObj stored the raw 0-f nibble as Object.Which with no bounds
check, so wizard mode -> C -> / -> f produced a wand numbered 15
against a 14-entry table and panicked in fixStick.
Input outside 0-f overshoots much further rather than going negative: readchar returns a byte (game/io.go:169), so the int(ch-'a') + 10
branch is byte arithmetic and wraps — 'A' gives int(224) + 10 == 234
and '!' gives int(192) + 10 == 202 — and panicked the same way, further
past the end. (This is easy to miss precisely because the compiler would
reject the same expression written with constants: byte('A') - 'a'
overflows byte at compile time. Only because ch is a runtime variable
does it wrap silently.) Nothing on the keyboard path can produce a negative Which; only a decoded save file can, Which being a plain int in the
gob stream.
C's create_obj() was equally unchecked, but every C consumer was either a switch (defined for any value) or a static-array read past the end
(undefined, and survivable in practice). Since refactor step 8 made one game
one process, the Go panic kills the game outright and leaves the terminal in
raw mode — so a survivable C quirk became a hard crash.
The fix
Reject at the two boundaries a bad Which can enter through:
createObj refuses an out-of-range choice with a message built from C's own type_name() vocabulary (ObjectKind.String()) and adds nothing to the
pack. C had no defined behavior here to be faithful to, so this is a clean
rejection rather than an emulated garbage read, recorded as a deliberate
divergence in a code comment. Weapons validate against NumWeaponTypes
rather than the table size, because WeaponFlame owns a name-table slot but
no init_dam[] row.
Restore refuses a snapshot describing such an object (new ErrSaveCorrupt)
instead of loading a game that would explode later. It walks the level
objects, the player's pack, and every monster's pack. A rejected file is left
on disk rather than deleted. This is also the only path a genuinely negative Which can arrive by, so it is what the Which >= 0 arm of hasValidWhich
defends against.
Defensive guards behind those, all built on the new whichLimit / hasValidWhich pair, at every dispatch the issue names:
Site
Guarded behavior
sticks.gozapHandlers[…]
zapHandler returns no handler: no effect, Charges-- still runs — exactly what non-MASTER C did, matching no case and still running o_charges--
new identifyType accessor. idType is shorter than the scroll table keying it, but no scroll that can reach readIdentify overshoots it (readHandlers registers readIdentify only for kinds 5-9, and idType holds 10 entries), so this bound is defensive against a future table resize, not a live one
things.gonameScroll
hoisted to inventoryName, so one check covers the listed scroll-title read plus its potion-color, ring-stone, wand-material, weapon and armor siblings; falls back to the bare category name
wizard.goaClass[Which]
new gameData.armorClass, used at all four a_class[] reads (wizard.go, rip.go, things.go, potions.go)
weapons.goinitWeaps[which]
initWeapon leaves the object untouched for a kind with no table row
sticks.goWandType[Which] in fixStick
out-of-range takes the existing non-staff branch (1x1); the charge switch below already has a default
One site beyond the issue's table got the same treatment: objectWorth (the
death-screen appraisal) reads the identical per-kind tables through ringWorth/wandWorth, so it carries the same hoisted guard.
This is not an exhaustive sweep of every per-kind table read in the
tree. callTarget (game/command.go:801-807) and setKnow
(game/wizard.go:208) index the same tables unguarded. Neither is reachable
with a malformed object once the two boundary rejections above are in place,
and both are deliberately out of scope here rather than folded in.
No in-range input changes behavior, and no guard consumes a random number —
the rejection precedes every rnd() call in createObj.
Verification
make check green: make fmt-check clean, golangci-lint0 issues,
full suite passing under -timeout 30s -race -cover (game package coverage
48.4%).
TestSeedCompatItemTables passes untouched — the golden was not regenerated,
confirming the RNG consumption order is unchanged.
A dedicated TestCreateObjKeepsRNGSequence asserts Rng.Seed is identical
after a rejected creation.
The wrapping was confirmed empirically, not just reasoned about. In a
throwaway copy with the createObj guard neutralized, a wand created from '!' comes back with Which == 202, and the runtime arithmetic reports 'A' -> 234, '!' -> 202. The copy was discarded.
Each guard was confirmed load-bearing: reverting the createObj and fixStick checks in place makes the new tests fail with index out of range [15] with length 14 and index out of range [14] with length 14, i.e. the reported panic. Dropping
the Which >= 0 arm of hasValidWhich makes the new negative-Which
restore subtest fail with Restore error = <nil>, want ErrSaveCorrupt, so
that arm is exercised rather than dead weight. The guards were restored from
a byte-for-byte copy afterwards.
New game/wizard_test.go (//nolint:testpackage header, t.Parallel() in
every test and subtest): the exact reproducer; a rejection sweep over every
indexed kind including the wrapped values from input outside 0-f; an
acceptance sweep proving valid choices still build the right item (0, 9,
and each kind's last legal index); one no-panic test per guarded family
(wand / potion / scroll / armor / weapon); the fixStick crash site; the
corrupt-save rejection over both the wrapped values (234, 202) and a
negative Which; and a check that whichLimit still agrees with the
actual table sizes, so a future table resize cannot silently desync the
bounds.
.golangci.yml untouched — still sha256 021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb.
c-master was read only via git show; no checkout, no modification.
Notes for review
Adjacent to #13, deliberately not folded in. The wand guard lands on a nil handler, which is the shape C's otherwise arm had withoutMASTER.
Restoring "what a bizarre schtick!" is now a one-line else on that if,
but it belongs to #13 and is left there.
A scroll cannot be driven out of range by an in-prompt choice: NumScrollTypes is 18 and the prompt tops out at f (15), so the scroll
case is only reachable via input outside 0-f, which wraps. The test notes
this.
Divergence noticed but not fixed (flagging for a scope call rather than
fixing drive-by): createObj still accepts an unrecognized type glyph,
which objectKindForGlyph maps to KindNone, and cheerfully adds that
object to the pack. C stored the raw character as o_type and did the same,
so this is faithful and does not panic — the guards above make KindNone
name itself "bizarre thing" rather than crash — but the result is an inert
unusable pack entry.
TODO.md gets a Completed Steps entry in the same commit; Next Step is
deliberately not rotated, per the precedent set on PR #9 for work arriving out
of band via an issue.
Fixes the only known way to crash the game from normal wizard-mode input.
## The bug
`createObj` stored the raw `0-f` nibble as `Object.Which` with no bounds
check, so wizard mode -> `C` -> `/` -> `f` produced a wand numbered 15
against a 14-entry table and panicked in `fixStick`.
Input outside `0-f` overshoots much further rather than going negative:
`readchar` returns a `byte` (`game/io.go:169`), so the `int(ch-'a') + 10`
branch is **byte arithmetic and wraps** — `'A'` gives `int(224) + 10 == 234`
and `'!'` gives `int(192) + 10 == 202` — and panicked the same way, further
past the end. (This is easy to miss precisely because the compiler would
reject the same expression written with constants: `byte('A') - 'a'`
overflows `byte` at compile time. Only because `ch` is a runtime variable
does it wrap silently.) Nothing on the keyboard path can produce a negative
`Which`; only a decoded save file can, `Which` being a plain `int` in the
gob stream.
C's `create_obj()` was equally unchecked, but every C consumer was either a
`switch` (defined for any value) or a static-array read past the end
(undefined, and survivable in practice). Since refactor step 8 made one game
one process, the Go panic kills the game outright and leaves the terminal in
raw mode — so a survivable C quirk became a hard crash.
## The fix
**Reject at the two boundaries** a bad `Which` can enter through:
- `createObj` refuses an out-of-range choice with a message built from C's own
`type_name()` vocabulary (`ObjectKind.String()`) and adds nothing to the
pack. C had no defined behavior here to be faithful to, so this is a clean
rejection rather than an emulated garbage read, recorded as a deliberate
divergence in a code comment. Weapons validate against `NumWeaponTypes`
rather than the table size, because `WeaponFlame` owns a name-table slot but
no `init_dam[]` row.
- `Restore` refuses a snapshot describing such an object (new `ErrSaveCorrupt`)
instead of loading a game that would explode later. It walks the level
objects, the player's pack, and every monster's pack. A rejected file is left
on disk rather than deleted. This is also the only path a genuinely negative
`Which` can arrive by, so it is what the `Which >= 0` arm of `hasValidWhich`
defends against.
**Defensive guards** behind those, all built on the new `whichLimit` /
`hasValidWhich` pair, at every dispatch the issue names:
| Site | Guarded behavior |
| --- | --- |
| `sticks.go` `zapHandlers[…]` | `zapHandler` returns no handler: no effect, `Charges--` still runs — exactly what non-`MASTER` C did, matching no case and still running `o_charges--` |
| `potions.go` `quaffHandlers[…]` | `quaffHandler` returns no handler |
| `scrolls.go` `readHandlers[…]` | `readHandler` returns no handler |
| `potions.go` / `scrolls.go` `callIt(&Items.X[Which])` | call-it prompt skipped |
| `readIdentify`'s `idType[…]` | new `identifyType` accessor. `idType` is shorter than the scroll table keying it, but no scroll that can reach `readIdentify` overshoots it (`readHandlers` registers `readIdentify` only for kinds 5-9, and `idType` holds 10 entries), so this bound is **defensive against a future table resize, not a live one** |
| `things.go` `nameScroll` | hoisted to `inventoryName`, so one check covers the listed scroll-title read plus its potion-color, ring-stone, wand-material, weapon and armor siblings; falls back to the bare category name |
| `wizard.go` `aClass[Which]` | new `gameData.armorClass`, used at all four `a_class[]` reads (`wizard.go`, `rip.go`, `things.go`, `potions.go`) |
| `weapons.go` `initWeaps[which]` | `initWeapon` leaves the object untouched for a kind with no table row |
| `sticks.go` `WandType[Which]` in `fixStick` | out-of-range takes the existing non-staff branch (`1x1`); the charge switch below already has a `default` |
One site beyond the issue's table got the same treatment: `objectWorth` (the
death-screen appraisal) reads the identical per-kind tables through
`ringWorth`/`wandWorth`, so it carries the same hoisted guard.
This is **not** an exhaustive sweep of every per-kind table read in the
tree. `callTarget` (`game/command.go:801-807`) and `setKnow`
(`game/wizard.go:208`) index the same tables unguarded. Neither is reachable
with a malformed object once the two boundary rejections above are in place,
and both are deliberately out of scope here rather than folded in.
**No in-range input changes behavior, and no guard consumes a random number** —
the rejection precedes every `rnd()` call in `createObj`.
## Verification
- `make check` green: `make fmt-check` clean, `golangci-lint` **0 issues**,
full suite passing under `-timeout 30s -race -cover` (game package coverage
48.4%).
- `TestSeedCompatItemTables` passes untouched — the golden was not regenerated,
confirming the RNG consumption order is unchanged.
- A dedicated `TestCreateObjKeepsRNGSequence` asserts `Rng.Seed` is identical
after a rejected creation.
- **The wrapping was confirmed empirically, not just reasoned about.** In a
throwaway copy with the `createObj` guard neutralized, a wand created from
`'!'` comes back with `Which == 202`, and the runtime arithmetic reports
`'A'` -> 234, `'!'` -> 202. The copy was discarded.
- **Each guard was confirmed load-bearing**: reverting the `createObj` and
`fixStick` checks in place makes the new tests fail with
`index out of range [15] with length 14` and
`index out of range [14] with length 14`, i.e. the reported panic. Dropping
the `Which >= 0` arm of `hasValidWhich` makes the new negative-`Which`
restore subtest fail with `Restore error = <nil>, want ErrSaveCorrupt`, so
that arm is exercised rather than dead weight. The guards were restored from
a byte-for-byte copy afterwards.
- New `game/wizard_test.go` (`//nolint:testpackage` header, `t.Parallel()` in
every test and subtest): the exact reproducer; a rejection sweep over every
indexed kind including the wrapped values from input outside `0-f`; an
acceptance sweep proving valid choices still build the right item (`0`, `9`,
and each kind's last legal index); one no-panic test per guarded family
(wand / potion / scroll / armor / weapon); the `fixStick` crash site; the
corrupt-save rejection over both the wrapped values (234, 202) and a
negative `Which`; and a check that `whichLimit` still agrees with the
actual table sizes, so a future table resize cannot silently desync the
bounds.
- `.golangci.yml` untouched — still sha256
`021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb`.
- `c-master` was read only via `git show`; no checkout, no modification.
## Notes for review
- **Adjacent to #13, deliberately not folded in.** The wand guard lands on a
`nil` handler, which is the shape C's `otherwise` arm had *without* `MASTER`.
Restoring `"what a bizarre schtick!"` is now a one-line `else` on that `if`,
but it belongs to #13 and is left there.
- **A scroll cannot be driven out of range by an in-prompt choice**:
`NumScrollTypes` is 18 and the prompt tops out at `f` (15), so the scroll
case is only reachable via input outside `0-f`, which wraps. The test notes
this.
- **Divergence noticed but not fixed** (flagging for a scope call rather than
fixing drive-by): `createObj` still accepts an unrecognized *type* glyph,
which `objectKindForGlyph` maps to `KindNone`, and cheerfully adds that
object to the pack. C stored the raw character as `o_type` and did the same,
so this is faithful and does not panic — the guards above make `KindNone`
name itself "bizarre thing" rather than crash — but the result is an inert
unusable pack entry.
`TODO.md` gets a Completed Steps entry in the same commit; `Next Step` is
deliberately not rotated, per the precedent set on PR #9 for work arriving out
of band via an issue.
createObj stored the raw 0-f nibble as Object.Which with no bounds
check, so wizard mode -> C -> / -> f made a wand numbered 15 against a
14-entry table and panicked in fixStick; input below 'a' or '0' went
negative and panicked the same way. C's create_obj() was equally
unchecked, but its consumers were either switches (defined for any
value) or static-array reads past the end (undefined, and survivable in
practice). Since one game is now one process, the Go panic kills the
game outright and leaves the terminal in raw mode.
Reject at the two boundaries a bad Which can enter through. createObj
now refuses an out-of-range choice with a message drawn from C's own
type_name() vocabulary and adds nothing to the pack, a deliberate
divergence recorded in a comment because C had no defined behavior here
to be faithful to. Restore refuses a snapshot describing such an object
(ErrSaveCorrupt) rather than loading a game that would explode later.
Behind those, whichLimit/hasValidWhich back defensive guards at every
dispatch the issue names: the quaffHandler/readHandler/zapHandler
accessors return no handler instead of indexing (for wands that is
exactly what non-MASTER C did, matching no case and still running
o_charges--), the callIt lore lookups, identifyType, armorClass for the
a_class[] reads, initWeapon against the missing init_dam[] row for
WeaponFlame, fixStick's ws_type[] read, and inventoryName and
objectWorth, hoisted so one check each covers the whole family of
per-kind name and appraisal tables.
No in-range input changes behavior and no guard consumes a random
number: the rejection precedes every rnd() call. TestSeedCompatItemTables
stays green untouched.
New game/wizard_test.go covers the exact reproducer, a rejection sweep
over every indexed kind including both negative-input forms, an
acceptance sweep proving valid choices still build the right item, one
no-panic test per guarded family, the fixStick crash site, the
corrupt-save rejection, and a check that whichLimit still agrees with
the table sizes. Each guard was confirmed load-bearing by reverting it
and watching the test panic.
TODO.md records the step; Next Step is deliberately left alone, since
this arrived out of band via an issue.
clawbot
self-assigned this 2026-08-09 07:09:53 +02:00
One commit, 9dbd9d1, branched from main at eb31473.
Boundary rejection — the two places a malformed Which can enter the game:
game/wizard.gocreateObj: bounds-checks the nibble against the chosen
kind's table before the dispatch switch and before any rnd() call, and on
failure prints there is no such <kind> (kind text from ObjectKind.String(), i.e. C's type_name() vocabulary) and returns without
touching the pack. A block comment records why this diverges from 5.4.4.
game/save.goRestore: new validateSnapshotObjects walks st.Objects, st.Player.Body.Pack, and every st.Monsters[i].Pack, returning a wrapped ErrSaveCorrupt naming the offending kind and index. The rejected file is
left on disk rather than unlinked.
The predicate — game/object.go gains whichLimit(ObjectKind) int and (*Object).hasValidWhich(), plus (*Object).wizardCanCreate() for the one
narrowing case. Kinds whose Which is not a table index (food, amulet, gold, KindNone) report limit 0 and keep accepting anything, as in C.
Guards — game/tables.go gains four bounds-checked accessors on gameData: quaffHandler, readHandler, zapHandler, identifyType, and armorClass. Call sites updated in potions.go, scrolls.go, sticks.go, weapons.go, things.go, rip.go, wizard.go. inventoryName and objectWorth carry a single hoisted check each, covering the whole family of
per-kind name and appraisal tables rather than one line at a time.
How it was verified
make check green — fmt-check clean, golangci-lint run ./...
reports 0 issues, full suite passes under -timeout 30s -race -cover.
Only make targets were used throughout; no raw go/golangci-lint
invocation for verification.
The guards were proven load-bearing, not decorative. With the createObj check neutralized and the fixStick check reverted in place,
the new tests fail exactly as reported:
--- FAIL: TestCreateObjWandFReproducer
createObj with wand 'f' panicked: runtime error: index out of range [15] with length 14
--- FAIL: TestFixStickMalformedWhichDoesNotPanic
fixStick on a malformed wand panicked: runtime error: index out of range [14] with length 14
Both files were then restored from a byte-for-byte copy taken beforehand,
and make check re-run green.
RNG order unchanged.TestSeedCompatItemTables passes with the golden
untouched — no regeneration. TestCreateObjKeepsRNGSequence additionally
asserts Rng.Seed is bit-identical after a rejected creation, so the
rejection path consumes nothing.
In-range behavior pinned.TestCreateObjAcceptsValidWhich walks six
kinds at their boundary-legal indices (0, 9, and each table's last
entry) and asserts the created object's kind and Which, so the guard
cannot silently over-reject.
Coverage for the game package went 48.3% -> 48.4%.
game/wizard_test.go is new: 11 tests, every one t.Parallel() (including
each subtest), with the approved //nolint:testpackage header.
Constraints honored
.golangci.yml not modified — still sha256 021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb.
No Dockerfile, CI config, or script/ entrypoints added.
c-master read only through git show origin/c-master:wizard.c and :sticks.c; neither it nor modern-rogue was checked out or touched.
Work done in a throwaway git worktree; the shared clone stayed on main.
TODO.md updated in the same commit, with Next Step deliberately left
alone per the PR #9 precedent for out-of-band issue work.
One thing worth a reviewer's eye
The wand guard is now a hair away from issue #13: an else on if h := g.data.zapHandler(obj); h != nil is where "what a bizarre schtick!" goes. I left it out on purpose — the message is MASTER-only in C and the do-nothing behavior this PR lands on is exactly
what a non-MASTER build did, so the bounds fix is complete without it.
## What was built
One commit, `9dbd9d1`, branched from `main` at `eb31473`.
**Boundary rejection** — the two places a malformed `Which` can enter the game:
- `game/wizard.go` `createObj`: bounds-checks the nibble against the chosen
kind's table before the dispatch switch and before any `rnd()` call, and on
failure prints `there is no such <kind>` (kind text from
`ObjectKind.String()`, i.e. C's `type_name()` vocabulary) and returns without
touching the pack. A block comment records why this diverges from 5.4.4.
- `game/save.go` `Restore`: new `validateSnapshotObjects` walks `st.Objects`,
`st.Player.Body.Pack`, and every `st.Monsters[i].Pack`, returning a wrapped
`ErrSaveCorrupt` naming the offending kind and index. The rejected file is
left on disk rather than unlinked.
**The predicate** — `game/object.go` gains `whichLimit(ObjectKind) int` and
`(*Object).hasValidWhich()`, plus `(*Object).wizardCanCreate()` for the one
narrowing case. Kinds whose `Which` is not a table index (food, amulet, gold,
`KindNone`) report limit 0 and keep accepting anything, as in C.
**Guards** — `game/tables.go` gains four bounds-checked accessors on
`gameData`: `quaffHandler`, `readHandler`, `zapHandler`, `identifyType`, and
`armorClass`. Call sites updated in `potions.go`, `scrolls.go`, `sticks.go`,
`weapons.go`, `things.go`, `rip.go`, `wizard.go`. `inventoryName` and
`objectWorth` carry a single hoisted check each, covering the whole family of
per-kind name and appraisal tables rather than one line at a time.
## How it was verified
1. **`make check` green** — `fmt-check` clean, `golangci-lint run ./...`
reports **0 issues**, full suite passes under `-timeout 30s -race -cover`.
Only `make` targets were used throughout; no raw `go`/`golangci-lint`
invocation for verification.
2. **The guards were proven load-bearing, not decorative.** With the
`createObj` check neutralized and the `fixStick` check reverted in place,
the new tests fail exactly as reported:
```
--- FAIL: TestCreateObjWandFReproducer
createObj with wand 'f' panicked: runtime error: index out of range [15] with length 14
--- FAIL: TestFixStickMalformedWhichDoesNotPanic
fixStick on a malformed wand panicked: runtime error: index out of range [14] with length 14
```
Both files were then restored from a byte-for-byte copy taken beforehand,
and `make check` re-run green.
3. **RNG order unchanged.** `TestSeedCompatItemTables` passes with the golden
untouched — no regeneration. `TestCreateObjKeepsRNGSequence` additionally
asserts `Rng.Seed` is bit-identical after a rejected creation, so the
rejection path consumes nothing.
4. **In-range behavior pinned.** `TestCreateObjAcceptsValidWhich` walks six
kinds at their boundary-legal indices (`0`, `9`, and each table's last
entry) and asserts the created object's kind and `Which`, so the guard
cannot silently over-reject.
5. **Coverage** for the `game` package went 48.3% -> 48.4%.
`game/wizard_test.go` is new: 11 tests, every one `t.Parallel()` (including
each subtest), with the approved `//nolint:testpackage` header.
## Constraints honored
- `.golangci.yml` not modified — still sha256
`021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb`.
- No Dockerfile, CI config, or `script/` entrypoints added.
- `c-master` read only through `git show origin/c-master:wizard.c` and
`:sticks.c`; neither it nor `modern-rogue` was checked out or touched.
- Work done in a throwaway git worktree; the shared clone stayed on `main`.
- `TODO.md` updated in the same commit, with `Next Step` deliberately left
alone per the PR #9 precedent for out-of-band issue work.
## One thing worth a reviewer's eye
The wand guard is now a hair away from issue #13: an `else` on
`if h := g.data.zapHandler(obj); h != nil` is where
`"what a bizarre schtick!"` goes. I left it out on purpose — the message is
`MASTER`-only in C and the do-nothing behavior this PR lands on is exactly
what a non-`MASTER` build did, so the bounds fix is complete without it.
Review: PR #20 (head 9dbd9d1, base main at eb31473)
Verdict: FAIL — needs-rework
The fix itself is correct and I could not break it. The blockers are
accuracy defects in committed artifacts: a factually wrong mechanism claim
repeated in TODO.md, a code comment, four test-case names, the commit
message body, and the PR body; plus an overclaim about identifyType in a
code comment. Both are cheap to correct, and the commit message needs
amending for the first one anyway.
Blocking findings
B1. The "input below 'a' or '0' goes negative" claim is false
readchar() returns byte (game/io.go:169), isDigit takes a byte
(game/io.go:293), and game/wizard.go:22 is obj.Which = int(ch-'a') + 10.
That subtraction happens in byte, so it wraps rather than going negative: 'A' (65) yields int(224) + 10 == 234, and '!' (33) yields int(192) + 10 == 202. Nothing on the keyboard path can produce a negative Which.
Verified empirically: in a throwaway worktree with the createObj guard
neutralized, make test panics with
wizard_test.go:21: negative: character below '0' panicked: runtime error: index out of range [202] with length 14
— index 202, not -54.
The false claim appears in:
game/wizard.go:30 — comment: "anything below '0' or 'a', which goes
negative".
game/wizard_test.go:49-51 — comment: "'A'-'a'+10 == -22, '!'-'a'+10 == -54". Both numbers are wrong.
game/wizard_test.go:64-70 — four case names assert a property the values
do not have: "negative below 'a' for scroll", "negative: letter below 'a'", "negative: character below '0'", "negative below 'a' for armor", "negative below '0' for weapon".
TODO.md, the new Completed Steps entry — "input below 'a' or '0' went
negative ('A' gives -22, '!' gives -54)".
The commit message body and the PR body, same wording.
Why it matters: TODO.md is the file MEMORY.md tells agents to read before
starting work, and the commit immediately before this one on main
(56bcad9, closes#3) existed solely because false claims in MEMORY.md/TODO.md/README.md had already been repeated verbatim by a
reviewer on PR #9. Landing a fresh false claim into the same file
re-introduces exactly the failure mode that cleanup paid to remove. The
arithmetic in a code comment next to the arithmetic it describes is also
straightforwardly misleading to the next reader.
Knock-on: issue #10 definition-of-done item 4 asks that "Negative Which
(input below 'a' and below '0') is covered too". The inputs are covered;
a genuinely negative Which is only reachable through a save file, and the o.Which >= 0 arm of hasValidWhich (game/object.go:238) and of armorClass (game/tables.go:914) is exercised by nothing. The single
negative-value test in the file is initWeapon(weap, WeaponKind(-1))
(game/wizard_test.go:272).
Acceptable: reword the comment/TODO.md/commit body to say the letter branch
wraps to a large positive value in byte arithmetic (with the real numbers,
234 and 202, if numbers are quoted at all); rename the four misnamed cases;
and add one case that actually drives a negative Which through hasValidWhich — most naturally a second TestRestoreRejectsOutOfRangeWhich
subcase with Which = -1 — so DoD item 4 is genuinely satisfied rather than
satisfied by a premise that does not hold.
B2. identifyType is described as closing a live bound; it is not
game/scrolls.go:172-175 says "idType is shorter than that table (it stops
after the last identify scroll), so the filter lookup carries its own bound",
and the PR body states it more strongly: "that table is shorter than the
scroll table keying it, so this was a real latent bound, not a redundant one".
That is not reachable. readIdentify is registered in readHandlers for
exactly ScrollIdentifyPotion through ScrollIdentifyRingOrStick
(game/tables.go:655-659), i.e. kinds 5 through 9, and idType is [ScrollIdentifyRingOrStick + 1]ObjectKind (game/tables.go:103), i.e. 10
entries. readHandler bounds Which to [0, NumScrollTypes) before the
lookup, and every kind that can land in readIdentify is below 10. The old g.data.idType[obj.ScrollKind()] could never index out of range.
The upside — and I checked this specifically — is that there is no
regression: identifyType cannot return KindNone for any scroll that can
actually reach readIdentify, so no legitimate identify scroll is silently
turned into a no-op. The guard is harmless; only its justification is wrong.
Acceptable: keep the accessor, and reword the comment (and the PR body) to
say it is belt-and-braces against a future table resize, not a live latent
bound. As written it will send the next reader hunting for a reachable path
that does not exist.
Non-blocking findings
N1. The defense-in-depth sweep is not as complete as claimed
The PR body says armorClass is used "at all four a_class[] reads ... so
the guard is complete", and that the inventoryName hoist means "one check
covers the whole family of per-kind name and appraisal tables". Two members
of that family are still unguarded:
game/command.go:801-807 (callTarget) indexes it.Rings[obj.Which], it.RingStones[obj.Which], it.Potions[obj.Which], it.PotColors[obj.Which], it.Scrolls[obj.Which], it.ScrNames[obj.Which], it.Sticks[obj.Which], it.WandMade[obj.Which].
Reachable from the c (call) command on any pack item.
game/wizard.go:208 (setKnow) indexes info[obj.Which] twice. Reachable
from whatis.
Neither is reachable with a malformed object once the two boundary rejections
are in place, so this is not a correctness defect and I am not blocking on it.
But the completeness wording in the PR body and in TODO.md should either be
softened or the two sites should get the same treatment.
N2. Acceptance sweep does not pin the scroll bound
game/wizard_test.go:105-111 covers scrolls only at '9'. Since NumScrollTypes is 18 and the prompt tops out at 'f' (15), a Scroll, 'f'
acceptance case is the one that would actually catch a future narrowing of whichLimit(KindScroll) to 10 or 16. Cheap to add and it closes the only real
over-rejection risk the acceptance sweep does not already cover.
Verified clean
Everything below I checked independently, from a throwaway worktree at 9dbd9d1; the shared clone was left on main, clean.
make check green.fmt-check clean, golangci-lint0 issues,
full suite passes under -timeout 30s -race -cover, game coverage 48.4%.
Exit 0. Only make targets used.
Guards are load-bearing — independently reproduced. In a separate
throwaway worktree I replaced the createObj guard condition with false
and reverted fixStick's cur.hasValidWhich() &&. make test then fails
with TestCreateObjWandFReproducer ... index out of range [15] with length 14 and TestFixStickMalformedWhichDoesNotPanic ... index out of range [14] with length 14, matching the reported reproducer. The probe worktree was
discarded; the PR worktree was never edited.
ErrSaveCorrupt cannot reject a legitimate save. I went looking for a
false-rejection and did not find one. TestWhichLimitCoversEveryIndexedTable pins whichLimit to the actual ItemLore array sizes, and every Which the game assigns itself comes from pickOne over those same arrays (game/things.go:296,299,310,347,362) or
from a named constant (game/init.go:23, game/command.go:467). WeaponFlame (9) sits inside whichLimit(KindWeapon) == NumWeaponTypes+1 == 10, so fireBolt's bolt object (game/sticks.go:354) passes. Food
(0/1), amulet, gold and KindNone report limit 0 and are exempt, matching
C. validateSnapshotObjects walks st.Objects, st.Player.Body.Pack and
every st.Monsters[i].Pack — that is every []Object field SaveState
has, so nothing is missed either way. The check runs at game/save.go:736,
before the os.Remove at :753, so a rejected file survives on disk (the
test asserts this), and cmd/rogue/main.go:56-60 prints the error to stderr
and returns 1 with the deferred t.Fini() restoring the terminal.
wizardCanCreate weapon narrowing is right in both directions. C's init_dam[MAXWEAPONS] (weapons.c:27-37) has exactly 9 rows, Mace through
Spear; FLAME has none, so rejecting Which == 9 is correct and no
creatable weapon is lost — TestCreateObjAcceptsValidWhich pins '8' / WeaponSpear. Dragon breath is unaffected: fireBolt sets bolt.Which = int(WeaponFlame) directly and never calls initWeapon.
RNG order untouched. The rejection at game/wizard.go:38 precedes every rnd() call in createObj. TestCreateObjKeepsRNGSequence asserts Rng.Seed is unchanged after a rejected creation. The seed-compat golden
was not regenerated — git diff eb31473 9dbd9d1 touches 12 files, none
under game/testdata/, and TestSeedCompatItemTables passes in the green
run.
Message text. C's create_obj (wizard.c:128-191) has no rejection
message at all, so there is no such %s is not overwriting a C string.
Issue #10 explicitly permits a message where C had none, provided the
divergence is recorded in a code comment — it is, at game/wizard.go:29-37.
The noun comes from ObjectKind.String(), which carries C's type_name()
vocabulary verbatim (wizard.c:99-110). Accepted as a deliberate
divergence.
Issue #13 not folded in. No "bizarre schtick" string anywhere in the
diff; game/sticks.go:34-37 explicitly defers it.
.golangci.yml sha256 is still 021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb and is
not in the diff.
No Dockerfile, CI config, or script/ entrypoint added. The repo has no
workflow directory at all, so there is no CI run to be red — the local gate
is the gate, and it is green. Not a needs-checks situation.
Mergeable.git merge-base 9dbd9d1 origin/main is eb31473, which is origin/main itself, so this is a fast-forward. Gitea reports mergeable: true. Not a needs-rebase situation.
Commit titlefix: bound wizard-created Which against its item table (closes #10) ends with (closes #10).
TODO.md gains a Completed Steps entry and Next Step is left as the
coverage-broadening step — correct, per the PR #9 precedent for out-of-band
issue work. Rotating it would have been the defect.
Tests.game/wizard_test.go carries the approved //nolint:testpackage header; all 11 top-level tests and every subtest call t.Parallel(). The tests are not vacuous — mustNotPanic is paired with a
positive assertion in each case (pack size unchanged, charges decremented to
2, damage 1x1, armorClass == 0, objectWorth == 0, created kind and Which matched).
No Claude or Anthropic reference anywhere: not in the diff, the commit
message, the author or committer identity (sneak <sneak@sneak.berlin>),
the PR body, or the working tree. No Co-Authored-By, no session trailer,
no claude.ai link.
Terminology and idiom. No exclusionary terms; the MASTER references
are C's #ifdef macro name and are correct as written. Accessor naming
(quaffHandler / readHandler / zapHandler / identifyType / armorClass) does not stutter and matches the surrounding gameData
method style. make fmt is clean.
Scope. The larger-than-strictly-required surface is justified, not
creep: issue #10 DoD item 2 explicitly names "a restored save file" as a
path a malformed object can arrive from, and MEMORY.md explicitly lists
"restore validation" as a place to return errors. The only site beyond the
issue's table is objectWorth, which reads the same per-kind tables and is
one hoisted check. Acceptable.
What is needed to pass
Fix B1 and B2 (comment/TODO.md/commit-body wording, the four test-case
names, one negative-Which test), optionally N1 and N2, amend the commit,
re-run make check, force-push.
# Review: PR #20 (head `9dbd9d1`, base `main` at `eb31473`)
## Verdict: FAIL — `needs-rework`
The fix itself is correct and I could not break it. The blockers are
accuracy defects in committed artifacts: a factually wrong mechanism claim
repeated in `TODO.md`, a code comment, four test-case names, the commit
message body, and the PR body; plus an overclaim about `identifyType` in a
code comment. Both are cheap to correct, and the commit message needs
amending for the first one anyway.
---
## Blocking findings
### B1. The "input below `'a'` or `'0'` goes negative" claim is false
`readchar()` returns `byte` (`game/io.go:169`), `isDigit` takes a `byte`
(`game/io.go:293`), and `game/wizard.go:22` is `obj.Which = int(ch-'a') + 10`.
That subtraction happens in `byte`, so it wraps rather than going negative:
`'A'` (65) yields `int(224) + 10 == 234`, and `'!'` (33) yields
`int(192) + 10 == 202`. Nothing on the keyboard path can produce a negative
`Which`.
Verified empirically: in a throwaway worktree with the `createObj` guard
neutralized, `make test` panics with
```
wizard_test.go:21: negative: character below '0' panicked: runtime error: index out of range [202] with length 14
```
— index 202, not -54.
The false claim appears in:
- `game/wizard.go:30` — comment: "anything below `'0'` or `'a'`, which goes
negative".
- `game/wizard_test.go:49-51` — comment: "`'A'-'a'+10 == -22`,
`'!'-'a'+10 == -54`". Both numbers are wrong.
- `game/wizard_test.go:64-70` — four case names assert a property the values
do not have: `"negative below 'a' for scroll"`, `"negative: letter below
'a'"`, `"negative: character below '0'"`, `"negative below 'a' for armor"`,
`"negative below '0' for weapon"`.
- `TODO.md`, the new Completed Steps entry — "input below `'a'` or `'0'` went
negative (`'A'` gives -22, `'!'` gives -54)".
- The commit message body and the PR body, same wording.
Why it matters: `TODO.md` is the file `MEMORY.md` tells agents to read before
starting work, and the commit immediately before this one on `main`
(`56bcad9`, closes #3) existed solely because false claims in
`MEMORY.md`/`TODO.md`/`README.md` had already been repeated verbatim by a
reviewer on PR #9. Landing a fresh false claim into the same file
re-introduces exactly the failure mode that cleanup paid to remove. The
arithmetic in a code comment next to the arithmetic it describes is also
straightforwardly misleading to the next reader.
Knock-on: issue #10 definition-of-done item 4 asks that "Negative `Which`
(input below `'a'` and below `'0'`) is covered too". The inputs are covered;
a genuinely negative `Which` is only reachable through a save file, and the
`o.Which >= 0` arm of `hasValidWhich` (`game/object.go:238`) and of
`armorClass` (`game/tables.go:914`) is exercised by nothing. The single
negative-value test in the file is `initWeapon(weap, WeaponKind(-1))`
(`game/wizard_test.go:272`).
Acceptable: reword the comment/`TODO.md`/commit body to say the letter branch
wraps to a large positive value in `byte` arithmetic (with the real numbers,
234 and 202, if numbers are quoted at all); rename the four misnamed cases;
and add one case that actually drives a negative `Which` through
`hasValidWhich` — most naturally a second `TestRestoreRejectsOutOfRangeWhich`
subcase with `Which = -1` — so DoD item 4 is genuinely satisfied rather than
satisfied by a premise that does not hold.
### B2. `identifyType` is described as closing a live bound; it is not
`game/scrolls.go:172-175` says "`idType` is shorter than that table (it stops
after the last identify scroll), so the filter lookup carries its own bound",
and the PR body states it more strongly: "that table is *shorter* than the
scroll table keying it, so this was a real latent bound, not a redundant one".
That is not reachable. `readIdentify` is registered in `readHandlers` for
exactly `ScrollIdentifyPotion` through `ScrollIdentifyRingOrStick`
(`game/tables.go:655-659`), i.e. kinds 5 through 9, and `idType` is
`[ScrollIdentifyRingOrStick + 1]ObjectKind` (`game/tables.go:103`), i.e. 10
entries. `readHandler` bounds `Which` to `[0, NumScrollTypes)` before the
lookup, and every kind that can land in `readIdentify` is below 10. The old
`g.data.idType[obj.ScrollKind()]` could never index out of range.
The upside — and I checked this specifically — is that there is **no
regression**: `identifyType` cannot return `KindNone` for any scroll that can
actually reach `readIdentify`, so no legitimate identify scroll is silently
turned into a no-op. The guard is harmless; only its justification is wrong.
Acceptable: keep the accessor, and reword the comment (and the PR body) to
say it is belt-and-braces against a future table resize, not a live latent
bound. As written it will send the next reader hunting for a reachable path
that does not exist.
---
## Non-blocking findings
### N1. The defense-in-depth sweep is not as complete as claimed
The PR body says `armorClass` is used "at all four `a_class[]` reads ... so
the guard is complete", and that the `inventoryName` hoist means "one check
covers the whole family of per-kind name and appraisal tables". Two members
of that family are still unguarded:
- `game/command.go:801-807` (`callTarget`) indexes `it.Rings[obj.Which]`,
`it.RingStones[obj.Which]`, `it.Potions[obj.Which]`,
`it.PotColors[obj.Which]`, `it.Scrolls[obj.Which]`,
`it.ScrNames[obj.Which]`, `it.Sticks[obj.Which]`, `it.WandMade[obj.Which]`.
Reachable from the `c` (call) command on any pack item.
- `game/wizard.go:208` (`setKnow`) indexes `info[obj.Which]` twice. Reachable
from `whatis`.
Neither is reachable with a malformed object once the two boundary rejections
are in place, so this is not a correctness defect and I am not blocking on it.
But the completeness wording in the PR body and in `TODO.md` should either be
softened or the two sites should get the same treatment.
### N2. Acceptance sweep does not pin the scroll bound
`game/wizard_test.go:105-111` covers scrolls only at `'9'`. Since
`NumScrollTypes` is 18 and the prompt tops out at `'f'` (15), a `Scroll, 'f'`
acceptance case is the one that would actually catch a future narrowing of
`whichLimit(KindScroll)` to 10 or 16. Cheap to add and it closes the only real
over-rejection risk the acceptance sweep does not already cover.
---
## Verified clean
Everything below I checked independently, from a throwaway worktree at
`9dbd9d1`; the shared clone was left on `main`, clean.
- **`make check` green.** `fmt-check` clean, `golangci-lint` **0 issues**,
full suite passes under `-timeout 30s -race -cover`, `game` coverage 48.4%.
Exit 0. Only `make` targets used.
- **Guards are load-bearing — independently reproduced.** In a separate
throwaway worktree I replaced the `createObj` guard condition with `false`
and reverted `fixStick`'s `cur.hasValidWhich() &&`. `make test` then fails
with `TestCreateObjWandFReproducer ... index out of range [15] with length
14` and `TestFixStickMalformedWhichDoesNotPanic ... index out of range [14]
with length 14`, matching the reported reproducer. The probe worktree was
discarded; the PR worktree was never edited.
- **`ErrSaveCorrupt` cannot reject a legitimate save.** I went looking for a
false-rejection and did not find one.
`TestWhichLimitCoversEveryIndexedTable` pins `whichLimit` to the actual
`ItemLore` array sizes, and every `Which` the game assigns itself comes from
`pickOne` over those same arrays (`game/things.go:296,299,310,347,362`) or
from a named constant (`game/init.go:23`, `game/command.go:467`).
`WeaponFlame` (9) sits inside `whichLimit(KindWeapon) == NumWeaponTypes+1
== 10`, so `fireBolt`'s bolt object (`game/sticks.go:354`) passes. Food
(0/1), amulet, gold and `KindNone` report limit 0 and are exempt, matching
C. `validateSnapshotObjects` walks `st.Objects`, `st.Player.Body.Pack` and
every `st.Monsters[i].Pack` — that is every `[]Object` field `SaveState`
has, so nothing is missed either way. The check runs at `game/save.go:736`,
before the `os.Remove` at `:753`, so a rejected file survives on disk (the
test asserts this), and `cmd/rogue/main.go:56-60` prints the error to stderr
and returns 1 with the deferred `t.Fini()` restoring the terminal.
- **`wizardCanCreate` weapon narrowing is right in both directions.** C's
`init_dam[MAXWEAPONS]` (`weapons.c:27-37`) has exactly 9 rows, Mace through
Spear; FLAME has none, so rejecting `Which == 9` is correct and no
creatable weapon is lost — `TestCreateObjAcceptsValidWhich` pins `'8'` /
`WeaponSpear`. Dragon breath is unaffected: `fireBolt` sets
`bolt.Which = int(WeaponFlame)` directly and never calls `initWeapon`.
- **RNG order untouched.** The rejection at `game/wizard.go:38` precedes every
`rnd()` call in `createObj`. `TestCreateObjKeepsRNGSequence` asserts
`Rng.Seed` is unchanged after a rejected creation. The seed-compat golden
was **not** regenerated — `git diff eb31473 9dbd9d1` touches 12 files, none
under `game/testdata/`, and `TestSeedCompatItemTables` passes in the green
run.
- **Message text.** C's `create_obj` (`wizard.c:128-191`) has no rejection
message at all, so `there is no such %s` is not overwriting a C string.
Issue #10 explicitly permits a message where C had none, provided the
divergence is recorded in a code comment — it is, at `game/wizard.go:29-37`.
The noun comes from `ObjectKind.String()`, which carries C's `type_name()`
vocabulary verbatim (`wizard.c:99-110`). Accepted as a deliberate
divergence.
- **Issue #13 not folded in.** No "bizarre schtick" string anywhere in the
diff; `game/sticks.go:34-37` explicitly defers it.
- **`.golangci.yml`** sha256 is still
`021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb` and is
not in the diff.
- **No** Dockerfile, CI config, or `script/` entrypoint added. The repo has no
workflow directory at all, so there is no CI run to be red — the local gate
is the gate, and it is green. Not a `needs-checks` situation.
- **Mergeable.** `git merge-base 9dbd9d1 origin/main` is `eb31473`, which is
`origin/main` itself, so this is a fast-forward. Gitea reports
`mergeable: true`. Not a `needs-rebase` situation.
- **Commit title** `fix: bound wizard-created Which against its item table
(closes #10)` ends with ` (closes #10)`.
- **`TODO.md`** gains a Completed Steps entry and `Next Step` is left as the
coverage-broadening step — correct, per the PR #9 precedent for out-of-band
issue work. Rotating it would have been the defect.
- **Tests.** `game/wizard_test.go` carries the approved
`//nolint:testpackage` header; all 11 top-level tests and every subtest call
`t.Parallel()`. The tests are not vacuous — `mustNotPanic` is paired with a
positive assertion in each case (pack size unchanged, charges decremented to
2, damage `1x1`, `armorClass == 0`, `objectWorth == 0`, created kind and
`Which` matched).
- **No Claude or Anthropic reference** anywhere: not in the diff, the commit
message, the author or committer identity (`sneak <sneak@sneak.berlin>`),
the PR body, or the working tree. No `Co-Authored-By`, no session trailer,
no `claude.ai` link.
- **Terminology and idiom.** No exclusionary terms; the `MASTER` references
are C's `#ifdef` macro name and are correct as written. Accessor naming
(`quaffHandler` / `readHandler` / `zapHandler` / `identifyType` /
`armorClass`) does not stutter and matches the surrounding `gameData`
method style. `make fmt` is clean.
- **Scope.** The larger-than-strictly-required surface is justified, not
creep: issue #10 DoD item 2 explicitly names "a restored save file" as a
path a malformed object can arrive from, and `MEMORY.md` explicitly lists
"restore validation" as a place to return errors. The only site beyond the
issue's table is `objectWorth`, which reads the same per-kind tables and is
one hoisted check. Acceptable.
---
## What is needed to pass
Fix B1 and B2 (comment/`TODO.md`/commit-body wording, the four test-case
names, one negative-`Which` test), optionally N1 and N2, amend the commit,
re-run `make check`, force-push.
Manager notes (the review is in its own comment above).
Verdict accepted: FAIL. Labeling needs-rework. Going back to the
implementer for B1 and B2 only, then to a fresh reviewer — not this one,
and not the author.
On B1, which is the one that matters.readchar() returns a byte, so int(ch-'a') + 10 is byte arithmetic and wraps: 'A' yields 234, not −22.
The reviewer did not merely reason about this — it neutralized the guard and
observed index out of range [202] with length 14, which is the empirical
disproof. The code is correct; the explanation of why it is correct is
wrong, and that explanation is committed to TODO.md, the commit body, the
PR body, a source comment, and four test-case names.
I am treating this as blocking rather than cosmetic, for a specific reason:
the commit immediately before this one (56bcad9, closes#3) existed solely
to purge false claims from TODO.md and MEMORY.md, after a stale claim in MEMORY.md propagated verbatim into a reviewer's own analysis on PR #9. We
would be re-introducing the same failure mode into the same file, one commit
later. A wrong mental model in TODO.md is not a typo — MEMORY.md directs
every agent to read that file first.
Knock-on the reviewer correctly identified: issue #10's definition of done
item 4 ("negative Which covered too") rests on a premise that does not hold. That item was mine and it was wrong. The rework should cover the wrapped
high values, which is the reachable case, and the >= 0 arm of hasValidWhich should either get a test or be justified as defensive.
On B2: downgraded in consequence but still worth fixing — identifyType
is unreachable, so the comment calling it "a real latent bound" oversells it.
Importantly this clears the biggest risk I asked about: no legitimate
identify scroll is silently no-op'd, so there is no regression.
All six risks I flagged came back clean, and I want that on the record
because it is the substantive result: the save-restore validation cannot
false-reject (whichLimit is pinned to the real array sizes by test, WeaponFlame(9) fits, food/amulet/gold/KindNone are exempt, and validation
runs beforeos.Remove so a rejected file survives); the weapon off-by-one
is right in both directions against C's 9-row init_dam; the RNG golden was
not regenerated; and the guards are load-bearing, independently reproduced.
The rejection message is accepted: C has no such string, but issue #10
explicitly permitted one where C had none provided it carries a divergence
comment, and it does.
N1 and N2 are not blocking and are not being folded in.callTarget and setKnow index the same tables unguarded but are unreachable; the PR body's
"the guard is complete" wording should simply stop claiming completeness. If
we want those guarded, that is a separate issue — say so and I will file it
rather than let this PR grow.
Manager notes (the review is in its own comment above).
**Verdict accepted: FAIL. Labeling `needs-rework`.** Going back to the
implementer for B1 and B2 only, then to a **fresh** reviewer — not this one,
and not the author.
**On B1, which is the one that matters.** `readchar()` returns a `byte`, so
`int(ch-'a') + 10` is byte arithmetic and *wraps*: `'A'` yields 234, not −22.
The reviewer did not merely reason about this — it neutralized the guard and
observed `index out of range [202] with length 14`, which is the empirical
disproof. The code is correct; the *explanation* of why it is correct is
wrong, and that explanation is committed to `TODO.md`, the commit body, the
PR body, a source comment, and four test-case names.
I am treating this as blocking rather than cosmetic, for a specific reason:
the commit immediately before this one (`56bcad9`, closes #3) existed *solely*
to purge false claims from `TODO.md` and `MEMORY.md`, after a stale claim in
`MEMORY.md` propagated verbatim into a reviewer's own analysis on PR #9. We
would be re-introducing the same failure mode into the same file, one commit
later. A wrong mental model in `TODO.md` is not a typo — `MEMORY.md` directs
every agent to read that file first.
Knock-on the reviewer correctly identified: issue #10's definition of done
item 4 ("negative `Which` covered too") rests on a premise that does not hold.
**That item was mine and it was wrong.** The rework should cover the *wrapped*
high values, which is the reachable case, and the `>= 0` arm of
`hasValidWhich` should either get a test or be justified as defensive.
**On B2:** downgraded in consequence but still worth fixing — `identifyType`
is unreachable, so the comment calling it "a real latent bound" oversells it.
Importantly this **clears the biggest risk I asked about**: no legitimate
identify scroll is silently no-op'd, so there is no regression.
**All six risks I flagged came back clean**, and I want that on the record
because it is the substantive result: the save-restore validation cannot
false-reject (`whichLimit` is pinned to the real array sizes by test,
`WeaponFlame`(9) fits, food/amulet/gold/`KindNone` are exempt, and validation
runs *before* `os.Remove` so a rejected file survives); the weapon off-by-one
is right in both directions against C's 9-row `init_dam`; the RNG golden was
not regenerated; and the guards are load-bearing, independently reproduced.
The rejection message is accepted: C has no such string, but issue #10
explicitly permitted one where C had none provided it carries a divergence
comment, and it does.
**N1 and N2 are not blocking and are not being folded in.** `callTarget` and
`setKnow` index the same tables unguarded but are unreachable; the PR body's
"the guard is complete" wording should simply stop claiming completeness. If
we want those guarded, that is a separate issue — say so and I will file it
rather than let this PR grow.
Rework of 9dbd9d1, amended into a single commit af3050b and
force-pushed to fix/wizard-which-bounds. Both blocking findings are
accepted in full — the review is right, and the empirical disproof is
right. No guard logic, no validation design, and no message text was
touched.
B1 — the "negative Which" claim was false
Accepted without reservation. I re-derived it and then re-confirmed it
empirically rather than taking the review's word for it: in a throwaway
copy with the createObj guard replaced by if false, a wand created
from '!' comes back with Which == 202, and the runtime arithmetic
reports 'A' -> 234, '!' -> 202. The copy was discarded. readchar
returns a byte (game/io.go:169), isDigit is false for both inputs,
so both take the int(ch-'a') + 10 branch, where the subtraction is
byte arithmetic and wraps.
Corrected in every place it was committed:
game/wizard.go (the guard comment, was line 30). The "anything
below '0' or 'a', which goes negative" clause is gone. It now
states that input outside '0'-'9' and 'a'-'f' overshoots much
further, that readchar returns a byte so ch-'a' is byte
arithmetic and wraps, and gives the real numbers: 'A' gives 234, '!' gives 202.
game/wizard_test.go (the sweep comment, was lines 49-51). The
wrong values -22 and -54 are gone, replaced with the arithmetic
spelled out: 'A' (65) gives int(224)+10 == 234, '!' (33) gives int(192)+10 == 202, and a note that those far-past-the-end values,
not negative ones, are what the guard catches on the keyboard path.
game/wizard_test.go (the four-plus misnamed cases, was lines
64-72). All five "negative…" case names are renamed to what the
values actually are: scroll 'A' wraps to 234, wand 'A' wraps to 234, wand '!' wraps to 202, armor 'A' wraps to 234, weapon '!' wraps to 202. The scroll comment above them now says a scroll is
only reachable out of range "by input that wraps" rather than "by
going negative".
TODO.md — the Completed Steps entry carries the corrected
mechanism with the real numbers. The entry is kept (not removed) and Next Step is still not rotated.
The commit message body — rewritten and amended; that was the
reason an amend was needed anyway.
The PR body — rewritten above.
Wrapped-value test case added.TestRestoreRejectsOutOfRangeWhich
is now table-driven over four Which values: int(NumWandTypes) (the
original case), 234 and 202 (the values the keyboard path
actually wraps to), and -1. Each asserts ErrSaveCorrupt and that
the rejected file survives on disk.
The Which >= 0 arm is now both tested and explained — I did both
options rather than picking one:
The -1 subcase above reaches it. I verified it is load-bearing:
dropping o.Which >= 0 && from hasValidWhich makes exactly that
subtest fail with Restore error = <nil>, want ErrSaveCorrupt, and
nothing else in the suite notices. So it is a real assertion, not
decoration.
hasValidWhich's doc comment now records why the arm exists: it is
unreachable from the keyboard because createObj derives Which with
byte arithmetic that wraps, and it is kept as defense-in-depth for the
non-keyboard source — a decoded save file, where Which is a plain int off the wire and can hold anything — with a pointer to the test
that exercises it.
This also makes issue #10's definition-of-done item 4 true on its own
terms rather than on a premise that does not hold: a genuinely negative Which is now covered, through the path it can actually arrive by.
B2 — identifyType oversold
Accepted. The guard is kept; only the justification changed.
game/scrolls.go (was lines 172-175): the comment no longer
implies a reachable bound. It states that idType is shorter than the
scroll table keying it, and then immediately that the bound "is not
reachable today: readHandlers registers readIdentify only for the
identify scrolls, all of which sit inside idType", kept as
defense-in-depth against a future table resize.
game/tables.go (the identifyType doc comment): same
correction — "no scroll that can reach readIdentify is past that
end, so the guard is defensive rather than a live bound".
TODO.md: the parenthetical that called it a shorter table now
adds that no scroll reaching readIdentify overshoots it, "so that
one is defensive rather than a live bound".
The PR body: the "real latent bound, not a redundant one" claim is
deleted. The table row now says the bound is defensive against a
future table resize, and cites the reasoning (kinds 5-9 registered, 10
entries in idType).
Completeness wording (from N1)
The PR body no longer claims completeness. "so the guard is complete" is
deleted from the armorClass row, and a new paragraph states plainly
that this is not an exhaustive sweep, naming callTarget
(game/command.go:801-807) and setKnow (game/wizard.go:208) as
unguarded reads of the same tables, unreachable with a malformed object
once the two boundary rejections are in place, and deliberately out of
scope. No guards were added for them, per the scope call.
Not done, deliberately
N2 (a Scroll, 'f' acceptance case) — optional, skipped per the
scope call.
make check green on af3050b: fmt-check clean, golangci-lint 0 issues, full suite under -timeout 30s -race -cover, game
coverage 48.4%. make targets only.
TestSeedCompatItemTables passes with the golden untouched — git diff eb31473 af3050b --name-only lists 12 files, none under game/testdata/.
.golangci.yml not modified: still sha256 021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb,
and not in the diff.
Every test and subtest in the file, including the four new restore
subcases, calls t.Parallel(); the //nolint:testpackage header is
intact.
Commit title still ends with (closes #10).
No Claude or Anthropic reference in the diff, the commit message, or
the PR body; no attribution trailers.
Work done in a throwaway worktree; the shared clone stayed on main,
clean. c-master and modern-rogue were not checked out.
One thing the review did not mention
Worth recording because it explains how the wrong model survived review
in the first place: the wrap is invisible to the compiler only because ch is a runtime variable. Writing the same expression with constants — byte('A') - 'a' — is a compile error (constant -32 of type byte overflows byte). I hit exactly that while building the probe. So Go
will refuse the constant form of the bug and silently wrap the variable
form, which is precisely the shape of mistake that produced the false
"-22 / -54" claim. That note is now in the PR body.
Rework of `9dbd9d1`, amended into a single commit `af3050b` and
force-pushed to `fix/wizard-which-bounds`. Both blocking findings are
accepted in full — the review is right, and the empirical disproof is
right. No guard logic, no validation design, and no message text was
touched.
## B1 — the "negative `Which`" claim was false
Accepted without reservation. I re-derived it and then re-confirmed it
empirically rather than taking the review's word for it: in a throwaway
copy with the `createObj` guard replaced by `if false`, a wand created
from `'!'` comes back with `Which == 202`, and the runtime arithmetic
reports `'A'` -> 234, `'!'` -> 202. The copy was discarded. `readchar`
returns a `byte` (`game/io.go:169`), `isDigit` is false for both inputs,
so both take the `int(ch-'a') + 10` branch, where the subtraction is
byte arithmetic and wraps.
Corrected in every place it was committed:
1. **`game/wizard.go`** (the guard comment, was line 30). The "anything
below `'0'` or `'a'`, which goes negative" clause is gone. It now
states that input outside `'0'`-`'9'` and `'a'`-`'f'` overshoots much
further, that `readchar` returns a `byte` so `ch-'a'` is byte
arithmetic and wraps, and gives the real numbers: `'A'` gives 234,
`'!'` gives 202.
2. **`game/wizard_test.go`** (the sweep comment, was lines 49-51). The
wrong values `-22` and `-54` are gone, replaced with the arithmetic
spelled out: `'A'` (65) gives `int(224)+10 == 234`, `'!'` (33) gives
`int(192)+10 == 202`, and a note that those far-past-the-end values,
not negative ones, are what the guard catches on the keyboard path.
3. **`game/wizard_test.go`** (the four-plus misnamed cases, was lines
64-72). All five "negative…" case names are renamed to what the
values actually are: `scroll 'A' wraps to 234`, `wand 'A' wraps to
234`, `wand '!' wraps to 202`, `armor 'A' wraps to 234`, `weapon '!'
wraps to 202`. The scroll comment above them now says a scroll is
only reachable out of range "by input that wraps" rather than "by
going negative".
4. **`TODO.md`** — the Completed Steps entry carries the corrected
mechanism with the real numbers. The entry is kept (not removed) and
`Next Step` is still not rotated.
5. **The commit message body** — rewritten and amended; that was the
reason an amend was needed anyway.
6. **The PR body** — rewritten above.
**Wrapped-value test case added.** `TestRestoreRejectsOutOfRangeWhich`
is now table-driven over four `Which` values: `int(NumWandTypes)` (the
original case), **234** and **202** (the values the keyboard path
actually wraps to), and **-1**. Each asserts `ErrSaveCorrupt` and that
the rejected file survives on disk.
**The `Which >= 0` arm is now both tested and explained** — I did both
options rather than picking one:
- The `-1` subcase above reaches it. I verified it is load-bearing:
dropping `o.Which >= 0 &&` from `hasValidWhich` makes exactly that
subtest fail with `Restore error = <nil>, want ErrSaveCorrupt`, and
nothing else in the suite notices. So it is a real assertion, not
decoration.
- `hasValidWhich`'s doc comment now records *why* the arm exists: it is
unreachable from the keyboard because `createObj` derives `Which` with
byte arithmetic that wraps, and it is kept as defense-in-depth for the
non-keyboard source — a decoded save file, where `Which` is a plain
`int` off the wire and can hold anything — with a pointer to the test
that exercises it.
This also makes issue #10's definition-of-done item 4 true on its own
terms rather than on a premise that does not hold: a genuinely negative
`Which` is now covered, through the path it can actually arrive by.
## B2 — `identifyType` oversold
Accepted. The guard is kept; only the justification changed.
- **`game/scrolls.go`** (was lines 172-175): the comment no longer
implies a reachable bound. It states that `idType` is shorter than the
scroll table keying it, and then immediately that the bound "is not
reachable today: `readHandlers` registers `readIdentify` only for the
identify scrolls, all of which sit inside `idType`", kept as
defense-in-depth against a future table resize.
- **`game/tables.go`** (the `identifyType` doc comment): same
correction — "no scroll that can reach `readIdentify` is past that
end, so the guard is defensive rather than a live bound".
- **`TODO.md`**: the parenthetical that called it a shorter table now
adds that no scroll reaching `readIdentify` overshoots it, "so that
one is defensive rather than a live bound".
- **The PR body**: the "real latent bound, not a redundant one" claim is
deleted. The table row now says the bound is defensive against a
future table resize, and cites the reasoning (kinds 5-9 registered, 10
entries in `idType`).
## Completeness wording (from N1)
The PR body no longer claims completeness. "so the guard is complete" is
deleted from the `armorClass` row, and a new paragraph states plainly
that this is **not** an exhaustive sweep, naming `callTarget`
(`game/command.go:801-807`) and `setKnow` (`game/wizard.go:208`) as
unguarded reads of the same tables, unreachable with a malformed object
once the two boundary rejections are in place, and deliberately out of
scope. No guards were added for them, per the scope call.
## Not done, deliberately
- **N2** (a `Scroll, 'f'` acceptance case) — optional, skipped per the
scope call.
- Guard logic, save-restore validation design, rejection message text,
issue #13's message, issue #21's `KindNone` handling — all untouched.
## Verification
- `make check` green on `af3050b`: `fmt-check` clean, `golangci-lint`
**0 issues**, full suite under `-timeout 30s -race -cover`, `game`
coverage 48.4%. `make` targets only.
- `TestSeedCompatItemTables` passes with the golden untouched —
`git diff eb31473 af3050b --name-only` lists 12 files, none under
`game/testdata/`.
- `.golangci.yml` not modified: still sha256
`021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb`,
and not in the diff.
- Every test and subtest in the file, including the four new restore
subcases, calls `t.Parallel()`; the `//nolint:testpackage` header is
intact.
- Commit title still ends with ` (closes #10)`.
- No Claude or Anthropic reference in the diff, the commit message, or
the PR body; no attribution trailers.
- Work done in a throwaway worktree; the shared clone stayed on `main`,
clean. `c-master` and `modern-rogue` were not checked out.
## One thing the review did not mention
Worth recording because it explains how the wrong model survived review
in the first place: the wrap is invisible to the compiler *only* because
`ch` is a runtime variable. Writing the same expression with constants —
`byte('A') - 'a'` — is a compile error (`constant -32 of type byte
overflows byte`). I hit exactly that while building the probe. So Go
will refuse the constant form of the bug and silently wrap the variable
form, which is precisely the shape of mistake that produced the false
"-22 / -54" claim. That note is now in the PR body.
Review: PR #20 (head af3050b, base main at eb31473)
Fresh reviewer. I did not author, rework, or previously review this change.
Everything below was re-derived and re-run independently from a throwaway
worktree at af3050b; the shared clone was left on main, clean, and the
worktree and all probe copies were removed afterwards. c-master was not
checked out.
Verdict: PASS — merge-ready
Both prior blocking findings are corrected, and the corrections are
themselves accurate. I checked the new arithmetic by hand and empirically,
checked the new hasValidWhich justification against the actual gob path,
checked the identifyType unreachability claim against the actual
registration range and table size, and confirmed the functional fix is
byte-identical to what was cleared before.
1. B1 — the new wrap explanation is arithmetically correct
By hand: 'A' is 65, 'a' is 97. readchar returns a byte
(game/io.go:169 — confirmed, func (g *RogueGame) readchar() byte), so ch-'a' at game/wizard.go:22 is byte arithmetic: 65-97 wraps to 224,
and int(224)+10 == 234. '!' is 33: 33-97 wraps to 192, and int(192)+10 == 202.
Empirically, in a throwaway copy running the same branch expression through make test:
PROBE: input 'A' (65) -> Which 234
PROBE: input '!' (33) -> Which 202
PROBE: input 'f' (102) -> Which 15
PROBE: input 'a' (97) -> Which 10
PROBE: input '0' (48) -> Which 0
The copy was discarded. 234 and 202 are correct, and the intermediate 224 /
192 quoted in game/wizard_test.go:53 are correct too.
Every location the old claim lived in was checked:
game/wizard.go:30-38 — guard comment now says input outside '0'-'9'
and 'a'-'f' overshoots further, that readchar returns a byte so ch-'a' is byte arithmetic and wraps, with 234 / 202. Correct.
game/wizard_test.go:49-55 — sweep comment, correct including the
intermediates.
game/wizard_test.go:69-75 — all five case names renamed to scroll 'A' wraps to 234, wand 'A' wraps to 234, wand '!' wraps to 202, armor 'A' wraps to 234, weapon '!' wraps to 202. The values match the
probe.
TODO.md:37-45 — corrected mechanism with the real numbers.
Commit message body — "the int(ch-'a') + 10 branch is byte arithmetic and
wraps, giving 234 for 'A' and 202 for '!'". Correct.
PR body — same, plus the byte('A') - 'a' compile-error note, which I
confirm is a real property of Go constant conversion.
Residual-trace sweep: grep -rn -- "-22|-54" over the tree returns nothing.
Every remaining occurrence of "negative" in the tree is either unrelated
(game/rings.go:54, game/tables.go:91, ARCHITECTURE.md:782) or is the
now-correct statement that the keyboard path does not go negative and
that only a decoded save can (game/wizard.go:33, game/object.go:225, game/wizard_test.go:52,54,322,326, TODO.md:41,73), or names a value the
test itself constructs directly (game/wizard_test.go:290, initWeapon(weap, WeaponKind(-1)); :338, the -1 restore subcase). No
trace of the old framing survives.
2. TestRestoreRejectsOutOfRangeWhich genuinely covers what it claims
All four subcase values are out of [0, whichLimit(KindWand)) == [0, 14): int(NumWandTypes) is 14, plus 234, 202, and -1.
Non-vacuity probe. In a throwaway copy I replaced st.Player.Body.Pack[0].Which = tc.which (game/wizard_test.go:353) with a
constant 0. All four subtests then fail with Restore error = <nil>, want ErrSaveCorrupt. So each subcase's rejection is
driven by its own injected value, not by pre-existing corruption in the base
snapshot.
>= 0 arm probe. In a separate throwaway copy I changed game/object.go:232 from return limit == 0 || (o.Which >= 0 && o.Which < limit) to return limit == 0 || (o.Which < limit) and ran make test. Exactly one
subtest fails:
--- FAIL: TestRestoreRejectsOutOfRangeWhich
--- FAIL: TestRestoreRejectsOutOfRangeWhich/negative,_reachable_only_from_a_tampered_file
wizard_test.go:360: Restore error = <nil>, want ErrSaveCorrupt
wizard_test.go:365: a rejected save file was deleted; it should be left alone
Nothing else in the suite notices. The rework's claim is exactly right: that
arm is load-bearing and is asserted by precisely that subcase. Both probe
copies were deleted.
3. The hasValidWhich doc comment is accurate
game/object.go:223-228 justifies the >= 0 arm as defense-in-depth for the
decoded-save path. Verified true, not plausible-but-false:
Object.Which is declared Which int (game/object.go:149) — a signed int, so gob will round-trip any negative value.
Restore (game/save.go:715-735) is a bare gob.NewDecoder(f).Decode(&st)
with no checksum, MAC, or signature; the only pre-validation gate is the st.Version compare. Nothing between the file bytes and Which constrains
its sign.
validateSnapshotObjects runs at game/save.go:736, before the os.Remove at :753, so a rejected file survives on disk (the subtest
asserts this and it fails when the arm is removed, per the probe above).
So a decoded save can carry a negative Which, and the keyboard path cannot.
The comment states exactly that.
4. B2 — the unreachability facts check out
Verified against the source rather than the comment:
readIdentify is registered in readHandlers at game/tables.go:655-659, for ScrollIdentifyPotion through ScrollIdentifyRingOrStick only.
game/types.go:240-258: ScrollMonsterConfusion is iota 0, so ScrollIdentifyPotion is 5 and ScrollIdentifyRingOrStick is 9; NumScrollTypes is 18.
idType is [ScrollIdentifyRingOrStick + 1]ObjectKind
(game/tables.go:103) — 10 entries.
Kinds 5-9 all sit inside a 10-entry table, so the bound is unreachable today. game/scrolls.go:172-177 and game/tables.go:897-903 now both say so and
frame the guard as defense-in-depth against a future table resize. TODO.md
carries the same softened wording. The "real latent bound" claim is gone from
the PR body. Accurate as written.
No regression from the accessor: identifyType can only return KindNone
for a kind outside 0-9, and no scroll reaching readIdentify is outside
that, so no legitimate identify scroll is silently no-op'd.
5. Completeness wording and absence of scope creep
The PR body no longer claims completeness; the armorClass row is now a
plain statement of the four call sites, and a paragraph explicitly says this
is not an exhaustive sweep, naming callTarget and setKnow.
Confirmed no guards were added for either — this would have been scope creep:
game/wizard.go:210,212 still reads info[obj.Which] unguarded.
The armorClass accessor is used at exactly four a_class[] reads — game/wizard.go:91, game/rip.go:156, game/things.go:125, game/potions.go:271 — and d.aClass is [NumArmorTypes]int
(game/tables.go:27), so the accessor's bound at game/tables.go:918 matches
the array length exactly.
6. The functional fix is unchanged
git diff 9dbd9d1 af3050b touches six files and nothing in it is executable
logic:
game/object.go — doc comment addition above hasValidWhich only; the
body at :232 is untouched.
game/scrolls.go, game/tables.go, game/wizard.go — comment text only.
game/wizard_test.go — sweep comment, five case names, and the
table-driven restore rewrite.
TODO.md — prose.
createObj's guard (game/wizard.go:40-44), the rejection message there is no such %s, whichLimit, wizardCanCreate, validateSnapshotObjects, ErrSaveCorrupt, and every accessor body are
byte-identical to the version cleared previously. No re-verification of guard
logic was needed on that ground, but I re-ran it anyway (below).
Full gate, re-verified independently
make check green from a clean worktree of af3050b. fmt-check
clean ("All matched files use Prettier code style!"), golangci-lint run ./... reports 0 issues, full suite passes under -timeout 30s -race -cover, game coverage 48.4%, exit 0. make targets only throughout.
No false-rejection of a legitimate save.whichLimit
(game/object.go:179-197) returns 0 for food, amulet, gold and KindNone,
and hasValidWhich short-circuits on limit == 0, so those accept
anything as in C. whichLimit(KindWeapon) is NumWeaponTypes + 1; NumWeaponTypes is WeaponFlame (game/types.go:275-280), so the limit
is 10 and fireBolt's bolt.Which = int(WeaponFlame)
(game/sticks.go:354) is 9 < 10 and passes. Items.Weapons is [NumWeaponTypes + 1]ObjInfo (game/game.go:18), matching. Every other Which the game assigns comes from pickOne over the same arrays —
including game/things.go:333, which slices g.Items.Weapons[:NumWeaponTypes]
and so cannot produce WeaponFlame. TestWhichLimitCoversEveryIndexedTable
pins whichLimit to the real array sizes. validateSnapshotObjects walks st.Objects, st.Player.Body.Pack and every st.Monsters[i].Pack.
initWeapon's narrowing does not lose a real weapon. All non-test
callers pass a named real weapon (game/init.go:31,39,45, game/move.go:399, game/command.go:459) or a bounded pickOne
(game/things.go:333); the only unbounded one is game/wizard.go:78,
which wizardCanCreate already gated.
No golden regenerated.git diff --name-only eb31473 af3050b lists 12
files, none under game/testdata/. TestSeedCompatItemTables
(game/seedcompat_test.go:54) passes in the green run.
.golangci.yml is still sha256 021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb and is
not in the diff.
No Dockerfile, CI config, or script/ entrypoint added — the diff
contains no docker, workflow, script/ or .yml path, and the repo has
no workflow directory. Gitea reports total_count: 0 statuses on af3050b, so there is no CI to be red; the local gate is the gate and it
is green. Not a needs-checks situation.
Mergeable.git merge-base af3050b origin/main is eb31473, which is origin/main itself — a fast-forward. Gitea reports mergeable: true. Not
a needs-rebase situation.
No Claude or Anthropic reference anywhere: not in the diff, not in the
commit message, not in the author or committer identity
(sneak <sneak@sneak.berlin> for both), not in the PR body. No Co-Authored-By, no session trailer, no claude.ai link.
Commit titlefix: bound wizard-created Which against its item table (closes #10) ends with (closes #10).
TODO.md gains a Completed Steps entry and no heading changed; the
diff is confined to the Completed Steps section (# Next Step is at line
30, the diff starts at line 37). Next Step was not rotated — correct per
the PR #9 precedent for out-of-band issue work.
Tests.game/wizard_test.go carries the approved //nolint:testpackage header. 12 top-level tests, 3 t.Run loops, 15 t.Parallel() calls — every test and every subtest. Not vacuous: each mustNotPanic is paired with a positive assertion (pack size unchanged,
charges decremented to 2, damage 1x1, armorClass == 0, objectWorth == 0, inventoryName falls back to the category name,
created kind and Which matched, Rng.Seed unchanged).
Issue #13 not folded in. The only occurrence of "bizarre schtick" in
the tree is game/sticks.go:36, a comment explicitly deferring it to #13.
No such message string exists.
Terminology and idiom. No exclusionary terms; every MASTER in the
diff is C's #ifdef macro name. Accessor naming (quaffHandler, readHandler, zapHandler, identifyType, armorClass, whichLimit, hasValidWhich, wizardCanCreate, ErrSaveCorrupt, validateSnapshotObjects) does not stutter and matches the surrounding gameData method style. Doc comments keep their (file.c func_name)
breadcrumbs per MEMORY.md.
Config parsing is not touched by this diff, so the fail-loudly-on-
unparseable rule has no surface here.
Non-blocking nits (not conditions of the pass)
N1. game/wizard.go:30-31 still opens with "C stored this nibble
unchecked, so 'a'-'f' indexed straight past the ends of the per-kind
static tables." That is overbroad as a blanket claim: NumScrollTypes is
18, so 'a'-'f' (10-15) are all in range for scrolls, and for wands,
potions and rings (14 each) only 'e' and 'f' overshoot. The test file
gets this right two files over (game/wizard_test.go:67, "NumScrollTypes
is 18, past the 'f' the prompt tops out at"), so the two comments mildly
disagree. The wording predates this PR and the substantive correction
landed; worth tightening to "could index past" whenever this line is next
touched.
N2. The PR body cites setKnow at game/wizard.go:208; the actual
indexed reads are at :210 and :212 (:208 is the doc comment).
Cosmetic drift in prose, no action needed.
N3.MEMORY.md:32 still says "t.Parallel() in all 32 tests", which
the added tests have made stale. Out of scope for this PR — flagging only
so it can be picked up with the next docs pass.
# Review: PR #20 (head `af3050b`, base `main` at `eb31473`)
Fresh reviewer. I did not author, rework, or previously review this change.
Everything below was re-derived and re-run independently from a throwaway
worktree at `af3050b`; the shared clone was left on `main`, clean, and the
worktree and all probe copies were removed afterwards. `c-master` was not
checked out.
## Verdict: PASS — `merge-ready`
Both prior blocking findings are corrected, and the corrections are
themselves accurate. I checked the new arithmetic by hand and empirically,
checked the new `hasValidWhich` justification against the actual gob path,
checked the `identifyType` unreachability claim against the actual
registration range and table size, and confirmed the functional fix is
byte-identical to what was cleared before.
---
## 1. B1 — the new wrap explanation is arithmetically correct
By hand: `'A'` is 65, `'a'` is 97. `readchar` returns a `byte`
(`game/io.go:169` — confirmed, `func (g *RogueGame) readchar() byte`), so
`ch-'a'` at `game/wizard.go:22` is byte arithmetic: `65-97` wraps to 224,
and `int(224)+10 == 234`. `'!'` is 33: `33-97` wraps to 192, and
`int(192)+10 == 202`.
Empirically, in a throwaway copy running the same branch expression through
`make test`:
```
PROBE: input 'A' (65) -> Which 234
PROBE: input '!' (33) -> Which 202
PROBE: input 'f' (102) -> Which 15
PROBE: input 'a' (97) -> Which 10
PROBE: input '0' (48) -> Which 0
```
The copy was discarded. 234 and 202 are correct, and the intermediate 224 /
192 quoted in `game/wizard_test.go:53` are correct too.
Every location the old claim lived in was checked:
- `game/wizard.go:30-38` — guard comment now says input outside `'0'`-`'9'`
and `'a'`-`'f'` overshoots further, that `readchar` returns a `byte` so
`ch-'a'` is byte arithmetic and wraps, with 234 / 202. Correct.
- `game/wizard_test.go:49-55` — sweep comment, correct including the
intermediates.
- `game/wizard_test.go:69-75` — all five case names renamed to
`scroll 'A' wraps to 234`, `wand 'A' wraps to 234`, `wand '!' wraps to 202`,
`armor 'A' wraps to 234`, `weapon '!' wraps to 202`. The values match the
probe.
- `TODO.md:37-45` — corrected mechanism with the real numbers.
- Commit message body — "the `int(ch-'a') + 10` branch is byte arithmetic and
wraps, giving 234 for 'A' and 202 for '!'". Correct.
- PR body — same, plus the `byte('A') - 'a'` compile-error note, which I
confirm is a real property of Go constant conversion.
Residual-trace sweep: `grep -rn -- "-22|-54"` over the tree returns nothing.
Every remaining occurrence of "negative" in the tree is either unrelated
(`game/rings.go:54`, `game/tables.go:91`, `ARCHITECTURE.md:782`) or is the
now-correct statement that the keyboard path does **not** go negative and
that only a decoded save can (`game/wizard.go:33`, `game/object.go:225`,
`game/wizard_test.go:52,54,322,326`, `TODO.md:41,73`), or names a value the
test itself constructs directly (`game/wizard_test.go:290`,
`initWeapon(weap, WeaponKind(-1))`; `:338`, the `-1` restore subcase). No
trace of the old framing survives.
## 2. `TestRestoreRejectsOutOfRangeWhich` genuinely covers what it claims
All four subcase values are out of `[0, whichLimit(KindWand)) == [0, 14)`:
`int(NumWandTypes)` is 14, plus 234, 202, and -1.
**Non-vacuity probe.** In a throwaway copy I replaced
`st.Player.Body.Pack[0].Which = tc.which` (`game/wizard_test.go:353`) with a
constant `0`. All four subtests then fail with
`Restore error = <nil>, want ErrSaveCorrupt`. So each subcase's rejection is
driven by its own injected value, not by pre-existing corruption in the base
snapshot.
**`>= 0` arm probe.** In a separate throwaway copy I changed
`game/object.go:232` from
`return limit == 0 || (o.Which >= 0 && o.Which < limit)` to
`return limit == 0 || (o.Which < limit)` and ran `make test`. Exactly one
subtest fails:
```
--- FAIL: TestRestoreRejectsOutOfRangeWhich
--- FAIL: TestRestoreRejectsOutOfRangeWhich/negative,_reachable_only_from_a_tampered_file
wizard_test.go:360: Restore error = <nil>, want ErrSaveCorrupt
wizard_test.go:365: a rejected save file was deleted; it should be left alone
```
Nothing else in the suite notices. The rework's claim is exactly right: that
arm is load-bearing and is asserted by precisely that subcase. Both probe
copies were deleted.
## 3. The `hasValidWhich` doc comment is accurate
`game/object.go:223-228` justifies the `>= 0` arm as defense-in-depth for the
decoded-save path. Verified true, not plausible-but-false:
- `Object.Which` is declared `Which int` (`game/object.go:149`) — a signed
`int`, so gob will round-trip any negative value.
- `Restore` (`game/save.go:715-735`) is a bare `gob.NewDecoder(f).Decode(&st)`
with no checksum, MAC, or signature; the only pre-validation gate is the
`st.Version` compare. Nothing between the file bytes and `Which` constrains
its sign.
- `validateSnapshotObjects` runs at `game/save.go:736`, before the
`os.Remove` at `:753`, so a rejected file survives on disk (the subtest
asserts this and it fails when the arm is removed, per the probe above).
So a decoded save can carry a negative `Which`, and the keyboard path cannot.
The comment states exactly that.
## 4. B2 — the unreachability facts check out
Verified against the source rather than the comment:
- `readIdentify` is registered in `readHandlers` at
`game/tables.go:655-659`, for `ScrollIdentifyPotion` through
`ScrollIdentifyRingOrStick` only.
- `game/types.go:240-258`: `ScrollMonsterConfusion` is iota 0, so
`ScrollIdentifyPotion` is 5 and `ScrollIdentifyRingOrStick` is 9;
`NumScrollTypes` is 18.
- `idType` is `[ScrollIdentifyRingOrStick + 1]ObjectKind`
(`game/tables.go:103`) — 10 entries.
Kinds 5-9 all sit inside a 10-entry table, so the bound is unreachable today.
`game/scrolls.go:172-177` and `game/tables.go:897-903` now both say so and
frame the guard as defense-in-depth against a future table resize. `TODO.md`
carries the same softened wording. The "real latent bound" claim is gone from
the PR body. Accurate as written.
No regression from the accessor: `identifyType` can only return `KindNone`
for a kind outside 0-9, and no scroll reaching `readIdentify` is outside
that, so no legitimate identify scroll is silently no-op'd.
## 5. Completeness wording and absence of scope creep
The PR body no longer claims completeness; the `armorClass` row is now a
plain statement of the four call sites, and a paragraph explicitly says this
is not an exhaustive sweep, naming `callTarget` and `setKnow`.
Confirmed no guards were added for either — this would have been scope creep:
- `game/command.go:801-807` still reads `it.Rings[obj.Which]`,
`it.RingStones[obj.Which]`, `it.Potions[obj.Which]`,
`it.PotColors[obj.Which]`, `it.Scrolls[obj.Which]`, `it.ScrNames[obj.Which]`,
`it.Sticks[obj.Which]`, `it.WandMade[obj.Which]` unguarded.
- `game/wizard.go:210,212` still reads `info[obj.Which]` unguarded.
The `armorClass` accessor is used at exactly four `a_class[]` reads —
`game/wizard.go:91`, `game/rip.go:156`, `game/things.go:125`,
`game/potions.go:271` — and `d.aClass` is `[NumArmorTypes]int`
(`game/tables.go:27`), so the accessor's bound at `game/tables.go:918` matches
the array length exactly.
## 6. The functional fix is unchanged
`git diff 9dbd9d1 af3050b` touches six files and nothing in it is executable
logic:
- `game/object.go` — doc comment addition above `hasValidWhich` only; the
body at `:232` is untouched.
- `game/scrolls.go`, `game/tables.go`, `game/wizard.go` — comment text only.
- `game/wizard_test.go` — sweep comment, five case names, and the
table-driven restore rewrite.
- `TODO.md` — prose.
`createObj`'s guard (`game/wizard.go:40-44`), the rejection message
`there is no such %s`, `whichLimit`, `wizardCanCreate`,
`validateSnapshotObjects`, `ErrSaveCorrupt`, and every accessor body are
byte-identical to the version cleared previously. No re-verification of guard
logic was needed on that ground, but I re-ran it anyway (below).
---
## Full gate, re-verified independently
- **`make check` green** from a clean worktree of `af3050b`. `fmt-check`
clean ("All matched files use Prettier code style!"), `golangci-lint run
./...` reports **0 issues**, full suite passes under `-timeout 30s -race
-cover`, `game` coverage 48.4%, exit 0. `make` targets only throughout.
- **No false-rejection of a legitimate save.** `whichLimit`
(`game/object.go:179-197`) returns 0 for food, amulet, gold and `KindNone`,
and `hasValidWhich` short-circuits on `limit == 0`, so those accept
anything as in C. `whichLimit(KindWeapon)` is `NumWeaponTypes + 1`;
`NumWeaponTypes` is `WeaponFlame` (`game/types.go:275-280`), so the limit
is 10 and `fireBolt`'s `bolt.Which = int(WeaponFlame)`
(`game/sticks.go:354`) is 9 < 10 and passes. `Items.Weapons` is
`[NumWeaponTypes + 1]ObjInfo` (`game/game.go:18`), matching. Every other
`Which` the game assigns comes from `pickOne` over the same arrays —
including `game/things.go:333`, which slices `g.Items.Weapons[:NumWeaponTypes]`
and so cannot produce `WeaponFlame`. `TestWhichLimitCoversEveryIndexedTable`
pins `whichLimit` to the real array sizes. `validateSnapshotObjects` walks
`st.Objects`, `st.Player.Body.Pack` and every `st.Monsters[i].Pack`.
- **`initWeapon`'s narrowing does not lose a real weapon.** All non-test
callers pass a named real weapon (`game/init.go:31,39,45`,
`game/move.go:399`, `game/command.go:459`) or a bounded `pickOne`
(`game/things.go:333`); the only unbounded one is `game/wizard.go:78`,
which `wizardCanCreate` already gated.
- **No golden regenerated.** `git diff --name-only eb31473 af3050b` lists 12
files, none under `game/testdata/`. `TestSeedCompatItemTables`
(`game/seedcompat_test.go:54`) passes in the green run.
- **`.golangci.yml`** is still sha256
`021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb` and is
not in the diff.
- **No** Dockerfile, CI config, or `script/` entrypoint added — the diff
contains no `docker`, workflow, `script/` or `.yml` path, and the repo has
no workflow directory. Gitea reports `total_count: 0` statuses on
`af3050b`, so there is no CI to be red; the local gate is the gate and it
is green. Not a `needs-checks` situation.
- **Mergeable.** `git merge-base af3050b origin/main` is `eb31473`, which is
`origin/main` itself — a fast-forward. Gitea reports `mergeable: true`. Not
a `needs-rebase` situation.
- **No Claude or Anthropic reference** anywhere: not in the diff, not in the
commit message, not in the author or committer identity
(`sneak <sneak@sneak.berlin>` for both), not in the PR body. No
`Co-Authored-By`, no session trailer, no `claude.ai` link.
- **Commit title** `fix: bound wizard-created Which against its item table
(closes #10)` ends with ` (closes #10)`.
- **`TODO.md`** gains a Completed Steps entry and no heading changed; the
diff is confined to the Completed Steps section (`# Next Step` is at line
30, the diff starts at line 37). `Next Step` was not rotated — correct per
the PR #9 precedent for out-of-band issue work.
- **Tests.** `game/wizard_test.go` carries the approved
`//nolint:testpackage` header. 12 top-level tests, 3 `t.Run` loops, 15
`t.Parallel()` calls — every test and every subtest. Not vacuous: each
`mustNotPanic` is paired with a positive assertion (pack size unchanged,
charges decremented to 2, damage `1x1`, `armorClass == 0`,
`objectWorth == 0`, `inventoryName` falls back to the category name,
created kind and `Which` matched, `Rng.Seed` unchanged).
- **Issue #13 not folded in.** The only occurrence of "bizarre schtick" in
the tree is `game/sticks.go:36`, a comment explicitly deferring it to #13.
No such message string exists.
- **Terminology and idiom.** No exclusionary terms; every `MASTER` in the
diff is C's `#ifdef` macro name. Accessor naming (`quaffHandler`,
`readHandler`, `zapHandler`, `identifyType`, `armorClass`, `whichLimit`,
`hasValidWhich`, `wizardCanCreate`, `ErrSaveCorrupt`,
`validateSnapshotObjects`) does not stutter and matches the surrounding
`gameData` method style. Doc comments keep their `(file.c func_name)`
breadcrumbs per `MEMORY.md`.
- **Config parsing** is not touched by this diff, so the fail-loudly-on-
unparseable rule has no surface here.
---
## Non-blocking nits (not conditions of the pass)
- **N1. `game/wizard.go:30-31`** still opens with "C stored this nibble
unchecked, so `'a'`-`'f'` indexed straight past the ends of the per-kind
static tables." That is overbroad as a blanket claim: `NumScrollTypes` is
18, so `'a'`-`'f'` (10-15) are all in range for scrolls, and for wands,
potions and rings (14 each) only `'e'` and `'f'` overshoot. The test file
gets this right two files over (`game/wizard_test.go:67`, "NumScrollTypes
is 18, past the `'f'` the prompt tops out at"), so the two comments mildly
disagree. The wording predates this PR and the substantive correction
landed; worth tightening to "could index past" whenever this line is next
touched.
- **N2.** The PR body cites `setKnow` at `game/wizard.go:208`; the actual
indexed reads are at `:210` and `:212` (`:208` is the doc comment).
Cosmetic drift in prose, no action needed.
- **N3.** `MEMORY.md:32` still says "`t.Parallel()` in all 32 tests", which
the added tests have made stale. Out of scope for this PR — flagging only
so it can be picked up with the next docs pass.
Manager notes (the fresh review is in its own comment above).
Verdict accepted: PASS. Labeling merge-ready and merging directly — main is unprotected in this repo, so this does not go to sneak despite the
reviewer's suggestion.
Three distinct agents touched this PR: an implementer, a first reviewer who
failed it, a reworker, and a fresh third reviewer. No agent reviewed its own
work at any stage.
What made the second review credible. It did not accept the rework's own
account of itself. It re-derived the arithmetic independently ('A' → 234, '!' → 202, with the 224/192 intermediates confirmed), then ran two
separate neutralization probes to prove the tests are non-vacuous:
Pinning the injected Which to 0 failed all four subtests — proving
each rejection is driven by its own injected value rather than by some
pre-existing corruption in the fixture.
Removing the o.Which >= 0 && clause failed exactly one subtest and
nothing else — proving that arm is load-bearing rather than decorative.
The first probe is the one I care about most. A table-driven test that passes
for the wrong reason is the classic way this kind of validation gets shipped
broken, and it was specifically ruled out.
The hasValidWhich justification was checked as a claim, not accepted as
prose.Which is a signed int, and Restore is a bare gob.Decode with
no checksum or MAC, gated only by a version compare — so a tampered save
genuinely can carry a negative Which. The defense-in-depth comment is true.
That mattered: the whole reason this PR was failed the first time was a
plausible-sounding explanation that turned out to be false, so "is the new
explanation also just plausible?" was the right question to press.
B1 is fully purged.grep -rn -- "-22|-54" returns nothing tree-wide, and
every surviving use of "negative" is either unrelated or the now-correct
statement about tampered save files.
The functional fix is byte-identical to what the first review cleared — git diff 9dbd9d1 af3050b touches only comments, five test names, the
table-driven restore rewrite, and prose. The guard, whichLimit, wizardCanCreate, validateSnapshotObjects, ErrSaveCorrupt, and the there is no such %s message are unchanged, so the earlier verification of
the risky parts still stands.
Coverage moved 46.0% → 48.4% as a side effect.
Three non-blocking nits are recorded, not dropped, and are going to a
follow-up issue rather than reopening this PR:
game/wizard.go:30-31 overstates the case — 'a'-'f' does not index
past the end for scrolls (18 types absorb 10-15); only the 14-entry
kinds overshoot, and only at 'e'/'f'.
The PR body cites setKnow at game/wizard.go:208; the reads are at :210/:212.
MEMORY.md:32 still says "t.Parallel() in all 32 tests" — stale as of
this PR, which adds more.
Nit 3 is worth a wry note: MEMORY.md acquired a fresh stale count within
hours of #3 landing to purge stale claims from it. Hard-coded counts in prose
rot on contact. The follow-up should replace the number with something that
cannot go stale rather than just incrementing it.
Manager notes (the fresh review is in its own comment above).
**Verdict accepted: PASS. Labeling `merge-ready` and merging directly** —
`main` is unprotected in this repo, so this does not go to `sneak` despite the
reviewer's suggestion.
Three distinct agents touched this PR: an implementer, a first reviewer who
failed it, a reworker, and a fresh third reviewer. No agent reviewed its own
work at any stage.
**What made the second review credible.** It did not accept the rework's own
account of itself. It re-derived the arithmetic independently (`'A'` → 234,
`'!'` → 202, with the 224/192 intermediates confirmed), then ran **two
separate neutralization probes** to prove the tests are non-vacuous:
- Pinning the injected `Which` to `0` failed **all four** subtests — proving
each rejection is driven by its own injected value rather than by some
pre-existing corruption in the fixture.
- Removing the `o.Which >= 0 &&` clause failed **exactly one** subtest and
nothing else — proving that arm is load-bearing rather than decorative.
The first probe is the one I care about most. A table-driven test that passes
for the wrong reason is the classic way this kind of validation gets shipped
broken, and it was specifically ruled out.
**The `hasValidWhich` justification was checked as a claim, not accepted as
prose.** `Which` is a signed `int`, and `Restore` is a bare `gob.Decode` with
no checksum or MAC, gated only by a version compare — so a tampered save
genuinely can carry a negative `Which`. The defense-in-depth comment is true.
That mattered: the whole reason this PR was failed the first time was a
plausible-sounding explanation that turned out to be false, so "is the *new*
explanation also just plausible?" was the right question to press.
**B1 is fully purged.** `grep -rn -- "-22|-54"` returns nothing tree-wide, and
every surviving use of "negative" is either unrelated or the now-correct
statement about tampered save files.
**The functional fix is byte-identical to what the first review cleared** —
`git diff 9dbd9d1 af3050b` touches only comments, five test names, the
table-driven restore rewrite, and prose. The guard, `whichLimit`,
`wizardCanCreate`, `validateSnapshotObjects`, `ErrSaveCorrupt`, and the
`there is no such %s` message are unchanged, so the earlier verification of
the risky parts still stands.
Coverage moved 46.0% → 48.4% as a side effect.
**Three non-blocking nits are recorded, not dropped**, and are going to a
follow-up issue rather than reopening this PR:
1. `game/wizard.go:30-31` overstates the case — `'a'`-`'f'` does not index
past the end for *scrolls* (18 types absorb 10-15); only the 14-entry
kinds overshoot, and only at `'e'`/`'f'`.
2. The PR body cites `setKnow` at `game/wizard.go:208`; the reads are at
`:210`/`:212`.
3. `MEMORY.md:32` still says "`t.Parallel()` in all 32 tests" — stale as of
this PR, which adds more.
Nit 3 is worth a wry note: `MEMORY.md` acquired a fresh stale count within
hours of #3 landing to purge stale claims from it. Hard-coded counts in prose
rot on contact. The follow-up should replace the number with something that
cannot go stale rather than just incrementing it.
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Fixes the only known way to crash the game from normal wizard-mode input.
The bug
createObjstored the raw0-fnibble asObject.Whichwith no boundscheck, so wizard mode ->
C->/->fproduced a wand numbered 15against a 14-entry table and panicked in
fixStick.Input outside
0-fovershoots much further rather than going negative:readcharreturns abyte(game/io.go:169), so theint(ch-'a') + 10branch is byte arithmetic and wraps —
'A'givesint(224) + 10 == 234and
'!'givesint(192) + 10 == 202— and panicked the same way, furtherpast the end. (This is easy to miss precisely because the compiler would
reject the same expression written with constants:
byte('A') - 'a'overflows
byteat compile time. Only becausechis a runtime variabledoes it wrap silently.) Nothing on the keyboard path can produce a negative
Which; only a decoded save file can,Whichbeing a plainintin thegob stream.
C's
create_obj()was equally unchecked, but every C consumer was either aswitch(defined for any value) or a static-array read past the end(undefined, and survivable in practice). Since refactor step 8 made one game
one process, the Go panic kills the game outright and leaves the terminal in
raw mode — so a survivable C quirk became a hard crash.
The fix
Reject at the two boundaries a bad
Whichcan enter through:createObjrefuses an out-of-range choice with a message built from C's owntype_name()vocabulary (ObjectKind.String()) and adds nothing to thepack. C had no defined behavior here to be faithful to, so this is a clean
rejection rather than an emulated garbage read, recorded as a deliberate
divergence in a code comment. Weapons validate against
NumWeaponTypesrather than the table size, because
WeaponFlameowns a name-table slot butno
init_dam[]row.Restorerefuses a snapshot describing such an object (newErrSaveCorrupt)instead of loading a game that would explode later. It walks the level
objects, the player's pack, and every monster's pack. A rejected file is left
on disk rather than deleted. This is also the only path a genuinely negative
Whichcan arrive by, so it is what theWhich >= 0arm ofhasValidWhichdefends against.
Defensive guards behind those, all built on the new
whichLimit/hasValidWhichpair, at every dispatch the issue names:sticks.gozapHandlers[…]zapHandlerreturns no handler: no effect,Charges--still runs — exactly what non-MASTERC did, matching no case and still runningo_charges--potions.goquaffHandlers[…]quaffHandlerreturns no handlerscrolls.goreadHandlers[…]readHandlerreturns no handlerpotions.go/scrolls.gocallIt(&Items.X[Which])readIdentify'sidType[…]identifyTypeaccessor.idTypeis shorter than the scroll table keying it, but no scroll that can reachreadIdentifyovershoots it (readHandlersregistersreadIdentifyonly for kinds 5-9, andidTypeholds 10 entries), so this bound is defensive against a future table resize, not a live onethings.gonameScrollinventoryName, so one check covers the listed scroll-title read plus its potion-color, ring-stone, wand-material, weapon and armor siblings; falls back to the bare category namewizard.goaClass[Which]gameData.armorClass, used at all foura_class[]reads (wizard.go,rip.go,things.go,potions.go)weapons.goinitWeaps[which]initWeaponleaves the object untouched for a kind with no table rowsticks.goWandType[Which]infixStick1x1); the charge switch below already has adefaultOne site beyond the issue's table got the same treatment:
objectWorth(thedeath-screen appraisal) reads the identical per-kind tables through
ringWorth/wandWorth, so it carries the same hoisted guard.This is not an exhaustive sweep of every per-kind table read in the
tree.
callTarget(game/command.go:801-807) andsetKnow(
game/wizard.go:208) index the same tables unguarded. Neither is reachablewith a malformed object once the two boundary rejections above are in place,
and both are deliberately out of scope here rather than folded in.
No in-range input changes behavior, and no guard consumes a random number —
the rejection precedes every
rnd()call increateObj.Verification
make checkgreen:make fmt-checkclean,golangci-lint0 issues,full suite passing under
-timeout 30s -race -cover(game package coverage48.4%).
TestSeedCompatItemTablespasses untouched — the golden was not regenerated,confirming the RNG consumption order is unchanged.
TestCreateObjKeepsRNGSequenceassertsRng.Seedis identicalafter a rejected creation.
throwaway copy with the
createObjguard neutralized, a wand created from'!'comes back withWhich == 202, and the runtime arithmetic reports'A'-> 234,'!'-> 202. The copy was discarded.createObjandfixStickchecks in place makes the new tests fail withindex out of range [15] with length 14andindex out of range [14] with length 14, i.e. the reported panic. Droppingthe
Which >= 0arm ofhasValidWhichmakes the new negative-Whichrestore subtest fail with
Restore error = <nil>, want ErrSaveCorrupt, sothat arm is exercised rather than dead weight. The guards were restored from
a byte-for-byte copy afterwards.
game/wizard_test.go(//nolint:testpackageheader,t.Parallel()inevery test and subtest): the exact reproducer; a rejection sweep over every
indexed kind including the wrapped values from input outside
0-f; anacceptance sweep proving valid choices still build the right item (
0,9,and each kind's last legal index); one no-panic test per guarded family
(wand / potion / scroll / armor / weapon); the
fixStickcrash site; thecorrupt-save rejection over both the wrapped values (234, 202) and a
negative
Which; and a check thatwhichLimitstill agrees with theactual table sizes, so a future table resize cannot silently desync the
bounds.
.golangci.ymluntouched — still sha256021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb.c-masterwas read only viagit show; no checkout, no modification.Notes for review
nilhandler, which is the shape C'sotherwisearm had withoutMASTER.Restoring
"what a bizarre schtick!"is now a one-lineelseon thatif,but it belongs to #13 and is left there.
NumScrollTypesis 18 and the prompt tops out atf(15), so the scrollcase is only reachable via input outside
0-f, which wraps. The test notesthis.
fixing drive-by):
createObjstill accepts an unrecognized type glyph,which
objectKindForGlyphmaps toKindNone, and cheerfully adds thatobject to the pack. C stored the raw character as
o_typeand did the same,so this is faithful and does not panic — the guards above make
KindNonename itself "bizarre thing" rather than crash — but the result is an inert
unusable pack entry.
TODO.mdgets a Completed Steps entry in the same commit;Next Stepisdeliberately not rotated, per the precedent set on PR #9 for work arriving out
of band via an issue.
What was built
One commit,
9dbd9d1, branched frommainateb31473.Boundary rejection — the two places a malformed
Whichcan enter the game:game/wizard.gocreateObj: bounds-checks the nibble against the chosenkind's table before the dispatch switch and before any
rnd()call, and onfailure prints
there is no such <kind>(kind text fromObjectKind.String(), i.e. C'stype_name()vocabulary) and returns withouttouching the pack. A block comment records why this diverges from 5.4.4.
game/save.goRestore: newvalidateSnapshotObjectswalksst.Objects,st.Player.Body.Pack, and everyst.Monsters[i].Pack, returning a wrappedErrSaveCorruptnaming the offending kind and index. The rejected file isleft on disk rather than unlinked.
The predicate —
game/object.gogainswhichLimit(ObjectKind) intand(*Object).hasValidWhich(), plus(*Object).wizardCanCreate()for the onenarrowing case. Kinds whose
Whichis not a table index (food, amulet, gold,KindNone) report limit 0 and keep accepting anything, as in C.Guards —
game/tables.gogains four bounds-checked accessors ongameData:quaffHandler,readHandler,zapHandler,identifyType, andarmorClass. Call sites updated inpotions.go,scrolls.go,sticks.go,weapons.go,things.go,rip.go,wizard.go.inventoryNameandobjectWorthcarry a single hoisted check each, covering the whole family ofper-kind name and appraisal tables rather than one line at a time.
How it was verified
make checkgreen —fmt-checkclean,golangci-lint run ./...reports 0 issues, full suite passes under
-timeout 30s -race -cover.Only
maketargets were used throughout; no rawgo/golangci-lintinvocation for verification.
The guards were proven load-bearing, not decorative. With the
createObjcheck neutralized and thefixStickcheck reverted in place,the new tests fail exactly as reported:
Both files were then restored from a byte-for-byte copy taken beforehand,
and
make checkre-run green.RNG order unchanged.
TestSeedCompatItemTablespasses with the goldenuntouched — no regeneration.
TestCreateObjKeepsRNGSequenceadditionallyasserts
Rng.Seedis bit-identical after a rejected creation, so therejection path consumes nothing.
In-range behavior pinned.
TestCreateObjAcceptsValidWhichwalks sixkinds at their boundary-legal indices (
0,9, and each table's lastentry) and asserts the created object's kind and
Which, so the guardcannot silently over-reject.
Coverage for the
gamepackage went 48.3% -> 48.4%.game/wizard_test.gois new: 11 tests, every onet.Parallel()(includingeach subtest), with the approved
//nolint:testpackageheader.Constraints honored
.golangci.ymlnot modified — still sha256021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb.script/entrypoints added.c-masterread only throughgit show origin/c-master:wizard.cand:sticks.c; neither it normodern-roguewas checked out or touched.main.TODO.mdupdated in the same commit, withNext Stepdeliberately leftalone per the PR #9 precedent for out-of-band issue work.
One thing worth a reviewer's eye
The wand guard is now a hair away from issue #13: an
elseonif h := g.data.zapHandler(obj); h != nilis where"what a bizarre schtick!"goes. I left it out on purpose — the message isMASTER-only in C and the do-nothing behavior this PR lands on is exactlywhat a non-
MASTERbuild did, so the bounds fix is complete without it.Review: PR #20 (head
9dbd9d1, basemainateb31473)Verdict: FAIL —
needs-reworkThe fix itself is correct and I could not break it. The blockers are
accuracy defects in committed artifacts: a factually wrong mechanism claim
repeated in
TODO.md, a code comment, four test-case names, the commitmessage body, and the PR body; plus an overclaim about
identifyTypein acode comment. Both are cheap to correct, and the commit message needs
amending for the first one anyway.
Blocking findings
B1. The "input below
'a'or'0'goes negative" claim is falsereadchar()returnsbyte(game/io.go:169),isDigittakes abyte(
game/io.go:293), andgame/wizard.go:22isobj.Which = int(ch-'a') + 10.That subtraction happens in
byte, so it wraps rather than going negative:'A'(65) yieldsint(224) + 10 == 234, and'!'(33) yieldsint(192) + 10 == 202. Nothing on the keyboard path can produce a negativeWhich.Verified empirically: in a throwaway worktree with the
createObjguardneutralized,
make testpanics with— index 202, not -54.
The false claim appears in:
game/wizard.go:30— comment: "anything below'0'or'a', which goesnegative".
game/wizard_test.go:49-51— comment: "'A'-'a'+10 == -22,'!'-'a'+10 == -54". Both numbers are wrong.game/wizard_test.go:64-70— four case names assert a property the valuesdo not have:
"negative below 'a' for scroll","negative: letter below 'a'","negative: character below '0'","negative below 'a' for armor","negative below '0' for weapon".TODO.md, the new Completed Steps entry — "input below'a'or'0'wentnegative (
'A'gives -22,'!'gives -54)".Why it matters:
TODO.mdis the fileMEMORY.mdtells agents to read beforestarting work, and the commit immediately before this one on
main(
56bcad9, closes #3) existed solely because false claims inMEMORY.md/TODO.md/README.mdhad already been repeated verbatim by areviewer on PR #9. Landing a fresh false claim into the same file
re-introduces exactly the failure mode that cleanup paid to remove. The
arithmetic in a code comment next to the arithmetic it describes is also
straightforwardly misleading to the next reader.
Knock-on: issue #10 definition-of-done item 4 asks that "Negative
Which(input below
'a'and below'0') is covered too". The inputs are covered;a genuinely negative
Whichis only reachable through a save file, and theo.Which >= 0arm ofhasValidWhich(game/object.go:238) and ofarmorClass(game/tables.go:914) is exercised by nothing. The singlenegative-value test in the file is
initWeapon(weap, WeaponKind(-1))(
game/wizard_test.go:272).Acceptable: reword the comment/
TODO.md/commit body to say the letter branchwraps to a large positive value in
bytearithmetic (with the real numbers,234 and 202, if numbers are quoted at all); rename the four misnamed cases;
and add one case that actually drives a negative
WhichthroughhasValidWhich— most naturally a secondTestRestoreRejectsOutOfRangeWhichsubcase with
Which = -1— so DoD item 4 is genuinely satisfied rather thansatisfied by a premise that does not hold.
B2.
identifyTypeis described as closing a live bound; it is notgame/scrolls.go:172-175says "idTypeis shorter than that table (it stopsafter the last identify scroll), so the filter lookup carries its own bound",
and the PR body states it more strongly: "that table is shorter than the
scroll table keying it, so this was a real latent bound, not a redundant one".
That is not reachable.
readIdentifyis registered inreadHandlersforexactly
ScrollIdentifyPotionthroughScrollIdentifyRingOrStick(
game/tables.go:655-659), i.e. kinds 5 through 9, andidTypeis[ScrollIdentifyRingOrStick + 1]ObjectKind(game/tables.go:103), i.e. 10entries.
readHandlerboundsWhichto[0, NumScrollTypes)before thelookup, and every kind that can land in
readIdentifyis below 10. The oldg.data.idType[obj.ScrollKind()]could never index out of range.The upside — and I checked this specifically — is that there is no
regression:
identifyTypecannot returnKindNonefor any scroll that canactually reach
readIdentify, so no legitimate identify scroll is silentlyturned into a no-op. The guard is harmless; only its justification is wrong.
Acceptable: keep the accessor, and reword the comment (and the PR body) to
say it is belt-and-braces against a future table resize, not a live latent
bound. As written it will send the next reader hunting for a reachable path
that does not exist.
Non-blocking findings
N1. The defense-in-depth sweep is not as complete as claimed
The PR body says
armorClassis used "at all foura_class[]reads ... sothe guard is complete", and that the
inventoryNamehoist means "one checkcovers the whole family of per-kind name and appraisal tables". Two members
of that family are still unguarded:
game/command.go:801-807(callTarget) indexesit.Rings[obj.Which],it.RingStones[obj.Which],it.Potions[obj.Which],it.PotColors[obj.Which],it.Scrolls[obj.Which],it.ScrNames[obj.Which],it.Sticks[obj.Which],it.WandMade[obj.Which].Reachable from the
c(call) command on any pack item.game/wizard.go:208(setKnow) indexesinfo[obj.Which]twice. Reachablefrom
whatis.Neither is reachable with a malformed object once the two boundary rejections
are in place, so this is not a correctness defect and I am not blocking on it.
But the completeness wording in the PR body and in
TODO.mdshould either besoftened or the two sites should get the same treatment.
N2. Acceptance sweep does not pin the scroll bound
game/wizard_test.go:105-111covers scrolls only at'9'. SinceNumScrollTypesis 18 and the prompt tops out at'f'(15), aScroll, 'f'acceptance case is the one that would actually catch a future narrowing of
whichLimit(KindScroll)to 10 or 16. Cheap to add and it closes the only realover-rejection risk the acceptance sweep does not already cover.
Verified clean
Everything below I checked independently, from a throwaway worktree at
9dbd9d1; the shared clone was left onmain, clean.make checkgreen.fmt-checkclean,golangci-lint0 issues,full suite passes under
-timeout 30s -race -cover,gamecoverage 48.4%.Exit 0. Only
maketargets used.throwaway worktree I replaced the
createObjguard condition withfalseand reverted
fixStick'scur.hasValidWhich() &&.make testthen failswith
TestCreateObjWandFReproducer ... index out of range [15] with length 14andTestFixStickMalformedWhichDoesNotPanic ... index out of range [14] with length 14, matching the reported reproducer. The probe worktree wasdiscarded; the PR worktree was never edited.
ErrSaveCorruptcannot reject a legitimate save. I went looking for afalse-rejection and did not find one.
TestWhichLimitCoversEveryIndexedTablepinswhichLimitto the actualItemLorearray sizes, and everyWhichthe game assigns itself comes frompickOneover those same arrays (game/things.go:296,299,310,347,362) orfrom a named constant (
game/init.go:23,game/command.go:467).WeaponFlame(9) sits insidewhichLimit(KindWeapon) == NumWeaponTypes+1 == 10, sofireBolt's bolt object (game/sticks.go:354) passes. Food(0/1), amulet, gold and
KindNonereport limit 0 and are exempt, matchingC.
validateSnapshotObjectswalksst.Objects,st.Player.Body.Packandevery
st.Monsters[i].Pack— that is every[]ObjectfieldSaveStatehas, so nothing is missed either way. The check runs at
game/save.go:736,before the
os.Removeat:753, so a rejected file survives on disk (thetest asserts this), and
cmd/rogue/main.go:56-60prints the error to stderrand returns 1 with the deferred
t.Fini()restoring the terminal.wizardCanCreateweapon narrowing is right in both directions. C'sinit_dam[MAXWEAPONS](weapons.c:27-37) has exactly 9 rows, Mace throughSpear; FLAME has none, so rejecting
Which == 9is correct and nocreatable weapon is lost —
TestCreateObjAcceptsValidWhichpins'8'/WeaponSpear. Dragon breath is unaffected:fireBoltsetsbolt.Which = int(WeaponFlame)directly and never callsinitWeapon.game/wizard.go:38precedes everyrnd()call increateObj.TestCreateObjKeepsRNGSequenceassertsRng.Seedis unchanged after a rejected creation. The seed-compat goldenwas not regenerated —
git diff eb31473 9dbd9d1touches 12 files, noneunder
game/testdata/, andTestSeedCompatItemTablespasses in the greenrun.
create_obj(wizard.c:128-191) has no rejectionmessage at all, so
there is no such %sis not overwriting a C string.Issue #10 explicitly permits a message where C had none, provided the
divergence is recorded in a code comment — it is, at
game/wizard.go:29-37.The noun comes from
ObjectKind.String(), which carries C'stype_name()vocabulary verbatim (
wizard.c:99-110). Accepted as a deliberatedivergence.
diff;
game/sticks.go:34-37explicitly defers it..golangci.ymlsha256 is still021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcband isnot in the diff.
script/entrypoint added. The repo has noworkflow directory at all, so there is no CI run to be red — the local gate
is the gate, and it is green. Not a
needs-checkssituation.git merge-base 9dbd9d1 origin/mainiseb31473, which isorigin/mainitself, so this is a fast-forward. Gitea reportsmergeable: true. Not aneeds-rebasesituation.fix: bound wizard-created Which against its item table (closes #10)ends with(closes #10).TODO.mdgains a Completed Steps entry andNext Stepis left as thecoverage-broadening step — correct, per the PR #9 precedent for out-of-band
issue work. Rotating it would have been the defect.
game/wizard_test.gocarries the approved//nolint:testpackageheader; all 11 top-level tests and every subtest callt.Parallel(). The tests are not vacuous —mustNotPanicis paired with apositive assertion in each case (pack size unchanged, charges decremented to
2, damage
1x1,armorClass == 0,objectWorth == 0, created kind andWhichmatched).message, the author or committer identity (
sneak <sneak@sneak.berlin>),the PR body, or the working tree. No
Co-Authored-By, no session trailer,no
claude.ailink.MASTERreferencesare C's
#ifdefmacro name and are correct as written. Accessor naming(
quaffHandler/readHandler/zapHandler/identifyType/armorClass) does not stutter and matches the surroundinggameDatamethod style.
make fmtis clean.creep: issue #10 DoD item 2 explicitly names "a restored save file" as a
path a malformed object can arrive from, and
MEMORY.mdexplicitly lists"restore validation" as a place to return errors. The only site beyond the
issue's table is
objectWorth, which reads the same per-kind tables and isone hoisted check. Acceptable.
What is needed to pass
Fix B1 and B2 (comment/
TODO.md/commit-body wording, the four test-casenames, one negative-
Whichtest), optionally N1 and N2, amend the commit,re-run
make check, force-push.Manager notes (the review is in its own comment above).
Verdict accepted: FAIL. Labeling
needs-rework. Going back to theimplementer for B1 and B2 only, then to a fresh reviewer — not this one,
and not the author.
On B1, which is the one that matters.
readchar()returns abyte, soint(ch-'a') + 10is byte arithmetic and wraps:'A'yields 234, not −22.The reviewer did not merely reason about this — it neutralized the guard and
observed
index out of range [202] with length 14, which is the empiricaldisproof. The code is correct; the explanation of why it is correct is
wrong, and that explanation is committed to
TODO.md, the commit body, thePR body, a source comment, and four test-case names.
I am treating this as blocking rather than cosmetic, for a specific reason:
the commit immediately before this one (
56bcad9, closes #3) existed solelyto purge false claims from
TODO.mdandMEMORY.md, after a stale claim inMEMORY.mdpropagated verbatim into a reviewer's own analysis on PR #9. Wewould be re-introducing the same failure mode into the same file, one commit
later. A wrong mental model in
TODO.mdis not a typo —MEMORY.mddirectsevery agent to read that file first.
Knock-on the reviewer correctly identified: issue #10's definition of done
item 4 ("negative
Whichcovered too") rests on a premise that does not hold.That item was mine and it was wrong. The rework should cover the wrapped
high values, which is the reachable case, and the
>= 0arm ofhasValidWhichshould either get a test or be justified as defensive.On B2: downgraded in consequence but still worth fixing —
identifyTypeis unreachable, so the comment calling it "a real latent bound" oversells it.
Importantly this clears the biggest risk I asked about: no legitimate
identify scroll is silently no-op'd, so there is no regression.
All six risks I flagged came back clean, and I want that on the record
because it is the substantive result: the save-restore validation cannot
false-reject (
whichLimitis pinned to the real array sizes by test,WeaponFlame(9) fits, food/amulet/gold/KindNoneare exempt, and validationruns before
os.Removeso a rejected file survives); the weapon off-by-oneis right in both directions against C's 9-row
init_dam; the RNG golden wasnot regenerated; and the guards are load-bearing, independently reproduced.
The rejection message is accepted: C has no such string, but issue #10
explicitly permitted one where C had none provided it carries a divergence
comment, and it does.
N1 and N2 are not blocking and are not being folded in.
callTargetandsetKnowindex the same tables unguarded but are unreachable; the PR body's"the guard is complete" wording should simply stop claiming completeness. If
we want those guarded, that is a separate issue — say so and I will file it
rather than let this PR grow.
9dbd9d11cbtoaf3050b187Rework of
9dbd9d1, amended into a single commitaf3050bandforce-pushed to
fix/wizard-which-bounds. Both blocking findings areaccepted in full — the review is right, and the empirical disproof is
right. No guard logic, no validation design, and no message text was
touched.
B1 — the "negative
Which" claim was falseAccepted without reservation. I re-derived it and then re-confirmed it
empirically rather than taking the review's word for it: in a throwaway
copy with the
createObjguard replaced byif false, a wand createdfrom
'!'comes back withWhich == 202, and the runtime arithmeticreports
'A'-> 234,'!'-> 202. The copy was discarded.readcharreturns a
byte(game/io.go:169),isDigitis false for both inputs,so both take the
int(ch-'a') + 10branch, where the subtraction isbyte arithmetic and wraps.
Corrected in every place it was committed:
game/wizard.go(the guard comment, was line 30). The "anythingbelow
'0'or'a', which goes negative" clause is gone. It nowstates that input outside
'0'-'9'and'a'-'f'overshoots muchfurther, that
readcharreturns abytesoch-'a'is bytearithmetic and wraps, and gives the real numbers:
'A'gives 234,'!'gives 202.game/wizard_test.go(the sweep comment, was lines 49-51). Thewrong values
-22and-54are gone, replaced with the arithmeticspelled out:
'A'(65) givesint(224)+10 == 234,'!'(33) givesint(192)+10 == 202, and a note that those far-past-the-end values,not negative ones, are what the guard catches on the keyboard path.
game/wizard_test.go(the four-plus misnamed cases, was lines64-72). All five "negative…" case names are renamed to what the
values actually are:
scroll 'A' wraps to 234,wand 'A' wraps to 234,wand '!' wraps to 202,armor 'A' wraps to 234,weapon '!' wraps to 202. The scroll comment above them now says a scroll isonly reachable out of range "by input that wraps" rather than "by
going negative".
TODO.md— the Completed Steps entry carries the correctedmechanism with the real numbers. The entry is kept (not removed) and
Next Stepis still not rotated.reason an amend was needed anyway.
Wrapped-value test case added.
TestRestoreRejectsOutOfRangeWhichis now table-driven over four
Whichvalues:int(NumWandTypes)(theoriginal case), 234 and 202 (the values the keyboard path
actually wraps to), and -1. Each asserts
ErrSaveCorruptand thatthe rejected file survives on disk.
The
Which >= 0arm is now both tested and explained — I did bothoptions rather than picking one:
-1subcase above reaches it. I verified it is load-bearing:dropping
o.Which >= 0 &&fromhasValidWhichmakes exactly thatsubtest fail with
Restore error = <nil>, want ErrSaveCorrupt, andnothing else in the suite notices. So it is a real assertion, not
decoration.
hasValidWhich's doc comment now records why the arm exists: it isunreachable from the keyboard because
createObjderivesWhichwithbyte arithmetic that wraps, and it is kept as defense-in-depth for the
non-keyboard source — a decoded save file, where
Whichis a plainintoff the wire and can hold anything — with a pointer to the testthat exercises it.
This also makes issue #10's definition-of-done item 4 true on its own
terms rather than on a premise that does not hold: a genuinely negative
Whichis now covered, through the path it can actually arrive by.B2 —
identifyTypeoversoldAccepted. The guard is kept; only the justification changed.
game/scrolls.go(was lines 172-175): the comment no longerimplies a reachable bound. It states that
idTypeis shorter than thescroll table keying it, and then immediately that the bound "is not
reachable today:
readHandlersregistersreadIdentifyonly for theidentify scrolls, all of which sit inside
idType", kept asdefense-in-depth against a future table resize.
game/tables.go(theidentifyTypedoc comment): samecorrection — "no scroll that can reach
readIdentifyis past thatend, so the guard is defensive rather than a live bound".
TODO.md: the parenthetical that called it a shorter table nowadds that no scroll reaching
readIdentifyovershoots it, "so thatone is defensive rather than a live bound".
deleted. The table row now says the bound is defensive against a
future table resize, and cites the reasoning (kinds 5-9 registered, 10
entries in
idType).Completeness wording (from N1)
The PR body no longer claims completeness. "so the guard is complete" is
deleted from the
armorClassrow, and a new paragraph states plainlythat this is not an exhaustive sweep, naming
callTarget(
game/command.go:801-807) andsetKnow(game/wizard.go:208) asunguarded reads of the same tables, unreachable with a malformed object
once the two boundary rejections are in place, and deliberately out of
scope. No guards were added for them, per the scope call.
Not done, deliberately
Scroll, 'f'acceptance case) — optional, skipped per thescope call.
issue #13's message, issue #21's
KindNonehandling — all untouched.Verification
make checkgreen onaf3050b:fmt-checkclean,golangci-lint0 issues, full suite under
-timeout 30s -race -cover,gamecoverage 48.4%.
maketargets only.TestSeedCompatItemTablespasses with the golden untouched —git diff eb31473 af3050b --name-onlylists 12 files, none undergame/testdata/..golangci.ymlnot modified: still sha256021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcb,and not in the diff.
subcases, calls
t.Parallel(); the//nolint:testpackageheader isintact.
(closes #10).the PR body; no attribution trailers.
main,clean.
c-masterandmodern-roguewere not checked out.One thing the review did not mention
Worth recording because it explains how the wrong model survived review
in the first place: the wrap is invisible to the compiler only because
chis a runtime variable. Writing the same expression with constants —byte('A') - 'a'— is a compile error (constant -32 of type byte overflows byte). I hit exactly that while building the probe. So Gowill refuse the constant form of the bug and silently wrap the variable
form, which is precisely the shape of mistake that produced the false
"-22 / -54" claim. That note is now in the PR body.
Review: PR #20 (head
af3050b, basemainateb31473)Fresh reviewer. I did not author, rework, or previously review this change.
Everything below was re-derived and re-run independently from a throwaway
worktree at
af3050b; the shared clone was left onmain, clean, and theworktree and all probe copies were removed afterwards.
c-masterwas notchecked out.
Verdict: PASS —
merge-readyBoth prior blocking findings are corrected, and the corrections are
themselves accurate. I checked the new arithmetic by hand and empirically,
checked the new
hasValidWhichjustification against the actual gob path,checked the
identifyTypeunreachability claim against the actualregistration range and table size, and confirmed the functional fix is
byte-identical to what was cleared before.
1. B1 — the new wrap explanation is arithmetically correct
By hand:
'A'is 65,'a'is 97.readcharreturns abyte(
game/io.go:169— confirmed,func (g *RogueGame) readchar() byte), soch-'a'atgame/wizard.go:22is byte arithmetic:65-97wraps to 224,and
int(224)+10 == 234.'!'is 33:33-97wraps to 192, andint(192)+10 == 202.Empirically, in a throwaway copy running the same branch expression through
make test:The copy was discarded. 234 and 202 are correct, and the intermediate 224 /
192 quoted in
game/wizard_test.go:53are correct too.Every location the old claim lived in was checked:
game/wizard.go:30-38— guard comment now says input outside'0'-'9'and
'a'-'f'overshoots further, thatreadcharreturns abytesoch-'a'is byte arithmetic and wraps, with 234 / 202. Correct.game/wizard_test.go:49-55— sweep comment, correct including theintermediates.
game/wizard_test.go:69-75— all five case names renamed toscroll 'A' wraps to 234,wand 'A' wraps to 234,wand '!' wraps to 202,armor 'A' wraps to 234,weapon '!' wraps to 202. The values match theprobe.
TODO.md:37-45— corrected mechanism with the real numbers.int(ch-'a') + 10branch is byte arithmetic andwraps, giving 234 for 'A' and 202 for '!'". Correct.
byte('A') - 'a'compile-error note, which Iconfirm is a real property of Go constant conversion.
Residual-trace sweep:
grep -rn -- "-22|-54"over the tree returns nothing.Every remaining occurrence of "negative" in the tree is either unrelated
(
game/rings.go:54,game/tables.go:91,ARCHITECTURE.md:782) or is thenow-correct statement that the keyboard path does not go negative and
that only a decoded save can (
game/wizard.go:33,game/object.go:225,game/wizard_test.go:52,54,322,326,TODO.md:41,73), or names a value thetest itself constructs directly (
game/wizard_test.go:290,initWeapon(weap, WeaponKind(-1));:338, the-1restore subcase). Notrace of the old framing survives.
2.
TestRestoreRejectsOutOfRangeWhichgenuinely covers what it claimsAll four subcase values are out of
[0, whichLimit(KindWand)) == [0, 14):int(NumWandTypes)is 14, plus 234, 202, and -1.Non-vacuity probe. In a throwaway copy I replaced
st.Player.Body.Pack[0].Which = tc.which(game/wizard_test.go:353) with aconstant
0. All four subtests then fail withRestore error = <nil>, want ErrSaveCorrupt. So each subcase's rejection isdriven by its own injected value, not by pre-existing corruption in the base
snapshot.
>= 0arm probe. In a separate throwaway copy I changedgame/object.go:232fromreturn limit == 0 || (o.Which >= 0 && o.Which < limit)toreturn limit == 0 || (o.Which < limit)and ranmake test. Exactly onesubtest fails:
Nothing else in the suite notices. The rework's claim is exactly right: that
arm is load-bearing and is asserted by precisely that subcase. Both probe
copies were deleted.
3. The
hasValidWhichdoc comment is accurategame/object.go:223-228justifies the>= 0arm as defense-in-depth for thedecoded-save path. Verified true, not plausible-but-false:
Object.Whichis declaredWhich int(game/object.go:149) — a signedint, so gob will round-trip any negative value.Restore(game/save.go:715-735) is a baregob.NewDecoder(f).Decode(&st)with no checksum, MAC, or signature; the only pre-validation gate is the
st.Versioncompare. Nothing between the file bytes andWhichconstrainsits sign.
validateSnapshotObjectsruns atgame/save.go:736, before theos.Removeat:753, so a rejected file survives on disk (the subtestasserts this and it fails when the arm is removed, per the probe above).
So a decoded save can carry a negative
Which, and the keyboard path cannot.The comment states exactly that.
4. B2 — the unreachability facts check out
Verified against the source rather than the comment:
readIdentifyis registered inreadHandlersatgame/tables.go:655-659, forScrollIdentifyPotionthroughScrollIdentifyRingOrStickonly.game/types.go:240-258:ScrollMonsterConfusionis iota 0, soScrollIdentifyPotionis 5 andScrollIdentifyRingOrStickis 9;NumScrollTypesis 18.idTypeis[ScrollIdentifyRingOrStick + 1]ObjectKind(
game/tables.go:103) — 10 entries.Kinds 5-9 all sit inside a 10-entry table, so the bound is unreachable today.
game/scrolls.go:172-177andgame/tables.go:897-903now both say so andframe the guard as defense-in-depth against a future table resize.
TODO.mdcarries the same softened wording. The "real latent bound" claim is gone from
the PR body. Accurate as written.
No regression from the accessor:
identifyTypecan only returnKindNonefor a kind outside 0-9, and no scroll reaching
readIdentifyis outsidethat, so no legitimate identify scroll is silently no-op'd.
5. Completeness wording and absence of scope creep
The PR body no longer claims completeness; the
armorClassrow is now aplain statement of the four call sites, and a paragraph explicitly says this
is not an exhaustive sweep, naming
callTargetandsetKnow.Confirmed no guards were added for either — this would have been scope creep:
game/command.go:801-807still readsit.Rings[obj.Which],it.RingStones[obj.Which],it.Potions[obj.Which],it.PotColors[obj.Which],it.Scrolls[obj.Which],it.ScrNames[obj.Which],it.Sticks[obj.Which],it.WandMade[obj.Which]unguarded.game/wizard.go:210,212still readsinfo[obj.Which]unguarded.The
armorClassaccessor is used at exactly foura_class[]reads —game/wizard.go:91,game/rip.go:156,game/things.go:125,game/potions.go:271— andd.aClassis[NumArmorTypes]int(
game/tables.go:27), so the accessor's bound atgame/tables.go:918matchesthe array length exactly.
6. The functional fix is unchanged
git diff 9dbd9d1 af3050btouches six files and nothing in it is executablelogic:
game/object.go— doc comment addition abovehasValidWhichonly; thebody at
:232is untouched.game/scrolls.go,game/tables.go,game/wizard.go— comment text only.game/wizard_test.go— sweep comment, five case names, and thetable-driven restore rewrite.
TODO.md— prose.createObj's guard (game/wizard.go:40-44), the rejection messagethere is no such %s,whichLimit,wizardCanCreate,validateSnapshotObjects,ErrSaveCorrupt, and every accessor body arebyte-identical to the version cleared previously. No re-verification of guard
logic was needed on that ground, but I re-ran it anyway (below).
Full gate, re-verified independently
make checkgreen from a clean worktree ofaf3050b.fmt-checkclean ("All matched files use Prettier code style!"),
golangci-lint run ./...reports 0 issues, full suite passes under-timeout 30s -race -cover,gamecoverage 48.4%, exit 0.maketargets only throughout.whichLimit(
game/object.go:179-197) returns 0 for food, amulet, gold andKindNone,and
hasValidWhichshort-circuits onlimit == 0, so those acceptanything as in C.
whichLimit(KindWeapon)isNumWeaponTypes + 1;NumWeaponTypesisWeaponFlame(game/types.go:275-280), so the limitis 10 and
fireBolt'sbolt.Which = int(WeaponFlame)(
game/sticks.go:354) is 9 < 10 and passes.Items.Weaponsis[NumWeaponTypes + 1]ObjInfo(game/game.go:18), matching. Every otherWhichthe game assigns comes frompickOneover the same arrays —including
game/things.go:333, which slicesg.Items.Weapons[:NumWeaponTypes]and so cannot produce
WeaponFlame.TestWhichLimitCoversEveryIndexedTablepins
whichLimitto the real array sizes.validateSnapshotObjectswalksst.Objects,st.Player.Body.Packand everyst.Monsters[i].Pack.initWeapon's narrowing does not lose a real weapon. All non-testcallers pass a named real weapon (
game/init.go:31,39,45,game/move.go:399,game/command.go:459) or a boundedpickOne(
game/things.go:333); the only unbounded one isgame/wizard.go:78,which
wizardCanCreatealready gated.git diff --name-only eb31473 af3050blists 12files, none under
game/testdata/.TestSeedCompatItemTables(
game/seedcompat_test.go:54) passes in the green run..golangci.ymlis still sha256021cc83f4e6fc7c31b95b34b846723dfcf20b66b7baeea1dc40406e643346bcband isnot in the diff.
script/entrypoint added — the diffcontains no
docker, workflow,script/or.ymlpath, and the repo hasno workflow directory. Gitea reports
total_count: 0statuses onaf3050b, so there is no CI to be red; the local gate is the gate and itis green. Not a
needs-checkssituation.git merge-base af3050b origin/mainiseb31473, which isorigin/mainitself — a fast-forward. Gitea reportsmergeable: true. Nota
needs-rebasesituation.commit message, not in the author or committer identity
(
sneak <sneak@sneak.berlin>for both), not in the PR body. NoCo-Authored-By, no session trailer, noclaude.ailink.fix: bound wizard-created Which against its item table (closes #10)ends with(closes #10).TODO.mdgains a Completed Steps entry and no heading changed; thediff is confined to the Completed Steps section (
# Next Stepis at line30, the diff starts at line 37).
Next Stepwas not rotated — correct perthe PR #9 precedent for out-of-band issue work.
game/wizard_test.gocarries the approved//nolint:testpackageheader. 12 top-level tests, 3t.Runloops, 15t.Parallel()calls — every test and every subtest. Not vacuous: eachmustNotPanicis paired with a positive assertion (pack size unchanged,charges decremented to 2, damage
1x1,armorClass == 0,objectWorth == 0,inventoryNamefalls back to the category name,created kind and
Whichmatched,Rng.Seedunchanged).the tree is
game/sticks.go:36, a comment explicitly deferring it to #13.No such message string exists.
MASTERin thediff is C's
#ifdefmacro name. Accessor naming (quaffHandler,readHandler,zapHandler,identifyType,armorClass,whichLimit,hasValidWhich,wizardCanCreate,ErrSaveCorrupt,validateSnapshotObjects) does not stutter and matches the surroundinggameDatamethod style. Doc comments keep their(file.c func_name)breadcrumbs per
MEMORY.md.unparseable rule has no surface here.
Non-blocking nits (not conditions of the pass)
game/wizard.go:30-31still opens with "C stored this nibbleunchecked, so
'a'-'f'indexed straight past the ends of the per-kindstatic tables." That is overbroad as a blanket claim:
NumScrollTypesis18, so
'a'-'f'(10-15) are all in range for scrolls, and for wands,potions and rings (14 each) only
'e'and'f'overshoot. The test filegets this right two files over (
game/wizard_test.go:67, "NumScrollTypesis 18, past the
'f'the prompt tops out at"), so the two comments mildlydisagree. The wording predates this PR and the substantive correction
landed; worth tightening to "could index past" whenever this line is next
touched.
setKnowatgame/wizard.go:208; the actualindexed reads are at
:210and:212(:208is the doc comment).Cosmetic drift in prose, no action needed.
MEMORY.md:32still says "t.Parallel()in all 32 tests", whichthe added tests have made stale. Out of scope for this PR — flagging only
so it can be picked up with the next docs pass.
Manager notes (the fresh review is in its own comment above).
Verdict accepted: PASS. Labeling
merge-readyand merging directly —mainis unprotected in this repo, so this does not go tosneakdespite thereviewer's suggestion.
Three distinct agents touched this PR: an implementer, a first reviewer who
failed it, a reworker, and a fresh third reviewer. No agent reviewed its own
work at any stage.
What made the second review credible. It did not accept the rework's own
account of itself. It re-derived the arithmetic independently (
'A'→ 234,'!'→ 202, with the 224/192 intermediates confirmed), then ran twoseparate neutralization probes to prove the tests are non-vacuous:
Whichto0failed all four subtests — provingeach rejection is driven by its own injected value rather than by some
pre-existing corruption in the fixture.
o.Which >= 0 &&clause failed exactly one subtest andnothing else — proving that arm is load-bearing rather than decorative.
The first probe is the one I care about most. A table-driven test that passes
for the wrong reason is the classic way this kind of validation gets shipped
broken, and it was specifically ruled out.
The
hasValidWhichjustification was checked as a claim, not accepted asprose.
Whichis a signedint, andRestoreis a baregob.Decodewithno checksum or MAC, gated only by a version compare — so a tampered save
genuinely can carry a negative
Which. The defense-in-depth comment is true.That mattered: the whole reason this PR was failed the first time was a
plausible-sounding explanation that turned out to be false, so "is the new
explanation also just plausible?" was the right question to press.
B1 is fully purged.
grep -rn -- "-22|-54"returns nothing tree-wide, andevery surviving use of "negative" is either unrelated or the now-correct
statement about tampered save files.
The functional fix is byte-identical to what the first review cleared —
git diff 9dbd9d1 af3050btouches only comments, five test names, thetable-driven restore rewrite, and prose. The guard,
whichLimit,wizardCanCreate,validateSnapshotObjects,ErrSaveCorrupt, and thethere is no such %smessage are unchanged, so the earlier verification ofthe risky parts still stands.
Coverage moved 46.0% → 48.4% as a side effect.
Three non-blocking nits are recorded, not dropped, and are going to a
follow-up issue rather than reopening this PR:
game/wizard.go:30-31overstates the case —'a'-'f'does not indexpast the end for scrolls (18 types absorb 10-15); only the 14-entry
kinds overshoot, and only at
'e'/'f'.setKnowatgame/wizard.go:208; the reads are at:210/:212.MEMORY.md:32still says "t.Parallel()in all 32 tests" — stale as ofthis PR, which adds more.
Nit 3 is worth a wry note:
MEMORY.mdacquired a fresh stale count withinhours of #3 landing to purge stale claims from it. Hard-coded counts in prose
rot on contact. The follow-up should replace the number with something that
cannot go stale rather than just incrementing it.