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Closes the quest quest/m3/ts-unsafe/raw-behind-ref.md (deleted here, with its link from the ts-unsafe epic).

Problem

rust2-ts refused &raw const *r and ptr::read(r) where r is a reference to a value JS copies or to a library object (a raw pointer to `T` behind a reference, which is the object and not where it is kept). A reference is the value in JS, not where it is kept. At the moq pin this was all of smallvec's Drain::next/next_back (lib.rs:383, 397) and retain (1733, 1740), plus a duplicate message on moq-net's num_enum tag reads.

Approach

A raw pointer made from a reference (&raw const *r, a coercion or as, ptr::from_ref/from_mut, NonNull::from, Into<NonNull>) is now the place the body shows the reference borrowed:

• an alias of a borrowed place: the pointer to that place, e.g. &a[i] as *const T is the rs.AtIndex of a[i];
• the element Index::index/index_mut lends: &v[i] as *const T is arrayAsPtr(v.items, i), so add, sub, and offset_from move within v;
• &*p or &mut *p of a raw pointer p assigned once: p itself (smallvec's retain).

Otherwise it is a place of its own, element 0 of an array of one:

• a shared reference to a Freeze value, or to one whose layout keeps a tag or niche, which no UnsafeCell holds, such as an Option<Cell<u32>>: { v: r }, as ptr::from_ref already made, since a whole write through the pointer is undefined (smallvec's Drain);
• a &mut to a library object, or a shared reference to one with interior mutability: an rs.placeIn, a runtime place that is the object and writes a whole value into it in place, as *r = v does. A type JS can't write into in place is refused with a span.

Every read that moves a value out copies it. ptr::read, replace, swap, and ptr::copy/copy_nonoverlapping, through any pointer, copy each object the moved-out value holds at any depth that a later write could change in place, as Rust's bitwise read gives a value of its own. copy.rs's struct copies (changes, shim, and Writes) now count a library object a whole write lands in (write_in): copied one object deep by rs.objectCopy, as replaceIn copies for mem::replace, with what it holds inline copied by its type too (a RefCell's, Mutex's, or OnceCell's value, a range's ends; a Cell is rebuilt as a new rs.Cell of its value, since Cell::from_mut makes one of another's place), while a Vec<u8>'s and a BytesMut's bytes, and what a Weak points at, stay shared as Rust shares them. A collection whose JS object keeps its length with its storage (a non-byte Vec, VecDeque, String, map, set, or list) is refused with a span wherever such a move would copy it (Translator::unsplit), as no JS copy splits from the original as Rust's does; a safe move, such as mem::replace or an Arc::make_mut move, leaves nothing pointing into the original and keeps the shallow rs.objectCopy. A whole write into an object (ptrWrite) also drops a field the new value lacks, such as a HashMap's capacity, unless the destination is a place of another class. Any other library object, a runtime wrapper whose inline state only its class knows, such as a LazyCell or a Peekable, is refused with a span wherever a read would copy it: where the crate writes into its type in place, compares pointers to it, it has interior mutability, or a type it is over could change. A map whose hasher could change counts as changing, so it is refused too. So a Vec<u8> read out through a pointer from a shared reference, through a cast to *mut MaybeUninit<Vec<_>> or ManuallyDrop<Vec<_>>, or inside an Option, tuple, or struct, keeps what it held after the original is written in place.

origin.rs sees the same pointers, so arithmetic the body shows leaving a place of its own is refused at translation rather than failing at run time (reject's new past_reference). From an array of one, every offset, wrapping or not, copy or write count, and slice length must be one the body fixes and that stays within it, and every read or write through such a pointer (ptr::read/write/replace/swap, as_ref/as_mut, or a *p deref) must be at its element, not one past it, or it is refused (beside_reference, unfixed_reference). A pointer from a reference to an Arc's value stays that value's one place, as arc_raw makes it, by ptr::from_ref, NonNull::from, or .into(). From/Into take these shortcuts only for std's reference-to-NonNull impl (the reference's pointee is the NonNull's, which any other impl would overlap), so a crate's own impl From<&T> for NonNull<U> runs as written. Following the place model, not #596's address ids. { v: x }.v folds to x, which also simplifies conversions' Box::into_raw/from_raw round trip.

Impact

• Translator output: these pointers translate instead of being refused. ptr::from_mut, NonNull::from, and .into() of a &mut to a library object now give an rs.Place that writes in place, as every other *mut to one is.
• Translator output: a read that moves out a library object the crate writes into in place now calls a copy$<Type> shim (rs.objectCopy), as does each ptr::copy of one. That is O(length) where Rust's read is O(1) for a Vec<u8> or BytesMut. The same move of a non-byte Vec, VecDeque, String, map, set, or list the crate writes into in place is refused, which main translated by sharing: the lists fixture's hashlink-style read of a (u8, String) entry out of a node it then frees is one, as is the spares fixture's smallvec-style insert and remove over Strings, so both now hold Vec<u8>s.
• Runtime: rs.placeIn. No config changes. No breaking change.
• Census at the pin, against main at 777c50c10, the same translator without this PR: model 68 → 64, moq-net 381 → 375, kio 76 → 72. Exactly the smallvec spans above went away (6, 8, 4), and two Bytes::from_owner refusals in model/frame.rs showed in each of model and moq-net once those bodies went further, which #595 has since translated. moq-net's ietf/parameters.rs:14,40 lose only this duplicate message and stay refused as byte reinterpretation. Recounted after merging main at d0c268d5d, span by span against main at e7a02cfb5: model 52 → 46, moq-net 356 → 348, kio 76 → 72, exactly the same smallvec spans and parameters.rs duplicates. The one more refusal each in model and moq-net is main's (smallvec's <T as Array>::Item at lib.rs:360, which #620 now reaches). Recounted after merging main at fd62edf2c with the round-7 design, span by span against that main: the same model 52 → 46, moq-net 356 → 348, kio 76 → 72 and the same spans. Recounted after merging main at 132d0ad0d with the round-3 design, span by span against that main: model 51 → 45, moq-net 352 → 344, kio 76 → 72, exactly the same smallvec spans and parameters.rs duplicates and nothing new. Recounted again after merging main at db7b7bd6f (with #640), against that main: the same model 51 → 45, moq-net 352 → 344, kio 76 → 72 and the same spans. Recounted with the coordinator's two decisions below, after merging main at 5c9d40576, span by span against that main: the same model 51 → 45, moq-net 352 → 344, kio 76 → 72, and no refusal line the branch adds, so neither refusal reaches moq at the pin (its smallvec elements are Weak<Waker> and NonNull, and hashlink translates with no new refusal). Recorded in the ts-model and ts-unsafe READMEs.

Decisions

• Values a pointer read moves out (round-6 checkpoint, decided by the maintainer on 2026-11-07): ✅ copy on every read that moves a value out, at any depth, by extending copy.rs's struct copies to library objects (rejected: patch each case found, such as copying in rs.ptrRead and unwrapping MaybeUninit/ManuallyDrop, which leaves values inside an Option, tuple, or struct aliased; rejected: refuse ptr::read/copy of a library object through a pointer made here, which gives up smallvec's Drain over String and Vec). This replaces round 5's rs.ptrRead/WrittenIn run-time check.
• How far the copy reaches (my call within that decision): ✅ gate it as copy.rs gates struct copies, on the crate writing into the type in place (Writes::into) or comparing pointers to it, plus interior mutability, which writes through a shared reference that Writes doesn't record (rejected: copying every library object on every move-out read, which costs O(length) where nothing could tell the copy apart).
• Library objects a move-out read copies (round-3 checkpoint of the second review session, decided by the maintainer on 2026-11-07): ✅ keep the list, refuse the rest. An unsafe whole-value move (ptr::read, replace, swap, copy, copy_nonoverlapping) copies what it moves out for types whose layout the translator owns (the crate's own types and values JS copies) and for the library objects this PR copies and tests: cells, locks, one-time cells, ranges, collections (narrowed by the next decision), and Cell::from_mut's cell. Every other library object is refused at translation with a span, decided by the type rather than its type arguments; inline_held's type-arguments fallback became that refusal. Root cause: JS objects are references, and a whole-object write copies into the existing object to keep pointers valid, so a read must copy the inline state Rust's bitwise move would split, and only the wrapper's author knows that state. This applies m3's unsafe policy rule 3 (#649). Rejected: walking std's real fields and closure captures (std's private layout in the translator, and closures can't be copied); moving each copy into its runtime class as a declared method now (cleaner, but more change; the path if the list grows); patching each case.
• A collection's storage (round-3 checkpoint of the second review session; decided by the coordinator under m3's unsafe policy rule 3 on 2026-11-07, while the maintainer was away): ✅ refuse an unsafe whole-value move (ptr::read, replace, swap, copy, and assume_init_read and ManuallyDrop::take, which are ptr::read) of a collection whose JS storage can't split as Rust's does: a Vec other than bytes, VecDeque, BinaryHeap, String, the maps and sets, and LinkedList. Only the exact ones stay copied: Vec<u8>, BytesMut, Weak, cells, locks, one-time cells, and ranges. The census at the pin shows no new refusal. Rejected: copying the storage and recording where it differs from Rust (wrong once the shared storage is written through a pointer taken before the read); sharing it again (wrong once the original's length changes while both live). Each is wrong in some valid unsafe code. This supersedes round 6's reason for rejecting a refusal (keeping smallvec's Drain over String), which predates the policy; the storage copy it needed is deleted.
• A pointer made from a reference, with no visible origin, reaching its neighbour (same checkpoint; decided by the coordinator under the policy on 2026-11-07, while the maintainer was away): ✅ one rule in origin.rs. Every offset, count, or length from such a pointer (an array of one) must be fixed and proven to stay in bounds, or it is refused with a span. That covers round 3's constant wrapping_add read through, add(1) read through alike, and from_raw_parts (and a raw slice from one) with a length the body doesn't fix. A wrapping offset is traced like add, so the read through it is checked; a pointer one past stays valid, as main's elements fixture's at.add(1).sub(1).read() and at.add(1).offset_from(at) need, and only a read or write there is refused. Rejected: tracking where a reference points across calls (new pointer metadata, which the policy refuses); patching each case.

Choices made without asking

• A pointer from a reference the body doesn't show the origin of is a lone place. Within one body the rule above refuses every way out of it; through a pointer passed from elsewhere it fails at run time as any lone pointer does. Under Stacked Borrows that access is UB (the reference's tag covers only its pointee). Tree Borrows would allow it within the allocation, but no stock code at the pin does this. The run-time failure through a pointer from elsewhere is the existing AtIndex.reach gap that Throw only where Rust panics owns.
• The &mut that is an rs.Place (a value JS copies) is also traced to where the body shows it borrowed. So &mut v[1] as *mut u32 is now an rs.AtIndex whose sub(1) stays in v, instead of a closure place that knows no array. No existing snapshot changed.
• A Weak is on the list, with nothing inline. Its JS object holds only the Arc it points at, so a copy one object deep is Rust's bitwise read. Without it the decision refused smallvec's Drain and retain over Weak<Waker> in all three census targets (lib.rs:383, 1740), the spans this quest exists to translate. behind_refs now drains and retains Weak<u32>s, one written whole in place, against native.
• A wrapper off the list still counts its type arguments as a reason to copy, so it is refused when anything it is over could change, as before. That only adds refusals: a Peekable<vec::IntoIter<Vec<u8>>> whose peeked Vec the crate writes into is otherwise neither !Freeze nor written into as a Peekable, and would be shared.

Alternatives

• Address ids per live object (#596): rejected for this quest per the brief, since it builds on the place model.
• Always { v: r }, with no tracing: simpler, but &v[0] as *const T followed by add would fail at run time, which is the most common shape of this construct.

Follow-ups

None worth a quest.

Validation

• just ci at 28c545033 (after merging main at fd62edf2c, which has #633): passes, lang::dyns and lang::panics included.
• New pointers::moved_out case, for each route round 6 named: a Vec moved out through a pointer from a shared reborrow, through casts to *mut MaybeUninit<Vec<u8>> and *mut ManuallyDrop<Vec<u8>>, and swapped through such a cast; an Option<Vec<u8>>, a (Vec<u8>, u8), and a struct holding a Vec<u8>, moved out by ptr::read, copy_nonoverlapping, replace, and swap; each followed by an in-place write of the original Vec; and an Option<Cell<u32>> read out through a shared reference, whose cell is then set. Without the copy.rs change it gives 306 differences against native; with it, none.
• Review rounds 1 and 2 (inline_moved, ends_moved in pointers::moved_out): a RefCell<Cell<u32>> and OnceCell<Cell<u32>>, a Range<Cell<u32>>, and a Cell from Cell::from_mut, moved out through shared references whose cells are then set: 143 differences against native before each fix, none after.
• just ci and just ts census at d4531da15: pass, census unchanged (model 46, moq-net 348, kio 72).
• behind_refs adds .into() of a reference to an Arc's value against ptr::from_ref (offset_from 0), a crate's own impl From<&Halves32> for NonNull<u32> pointing at a field, and an Rc drop count around retained; drained and retained now free their Vecs' buffers by set_len.
• Round 5's finding (a ptr::replace through a pointer from &mut Vec<u8> returned the replacement) reproduced as 163 differences against native in the new replaced case (ptr::replace, ptr::read then ptr::write, ptr::copy_nonoverlapping then ptr::write, and ptr::swap), and none after the fix.
• New pointers::behind_refs case: smallvec-style Drain and retain over u32, String, Vec<u8>, and Option<u16>; offset_from/add/sub through pointers from &v[i] and ptr::from_ref(&v[i]); a write through (&mut v[1] as *mut u32).sub(1); a &Vec read and a &mut Vec written whole through a pointer made each of the four ways; a &u32 read through a pointer made each of three ways; an &Option<Cell<u32>> read through &raw const and ptr::from_ref; offset_from between two ptr::from_ref(&*arc).
• reject: past_reference and infallible_cell (a whole write through a shared reference to a tagless Result<Cell<u32>, Infallible>) are refused with spans.
• just ts census at the pin, on this branch and on main, compared span by span (above).
• Round 3's design, after merging main at 132d0ad0d: just ci at f275248c2 passes. reject adds lazy_moved (a LazyCell read out before its initializer, which captures a Cell, runs) and peeked_moved (a Peekable read out with a Cell peeked), each refused with a span. just ts census on this branch and on that main, compared span by span (above).
• Session-2 review rounds 1 and 2: moved_out adds shrunk_moved (a Vec<u32> read out, then the original set_len(0); a VecDeque<u32> read out, then the original pop_fronted), map_rewritten (a HashMap::new() written through ptr::from_mut of a map made with_capacity), and cell_rewritten (Cell::new(n) written through ptr::from_ref(r).cast_mut() for a Cell::from_mut cell and a plain one). Each gave 143 differences against native before its fix and none after. reject adds unfixed_reference (add, wrapping_add, and copy_nonoverlapping from a reference by an unfixed offset or count), each refused with a span.
• Merged main at db7b7bd6f, which brings #640: its buffered-byte arm stays ahead of this PR's general one in raw_pointer and raw_origin, as its Overlaps section says. just ci at 07fda2bed passes.
• The coordinator's two decisions, after merging main at 5c9d40576: reject adds collection_moved (a Vec<u32> by ptr::read then set_len, a VecDeque<u32> by ptr::read then pop_front, a String by ptr::copy within a Vec as smallvec's retain moves it, a (String, u8) by assume_init_read, and a Vec<u32> by ManuallyDrop::take) and beside_reference (a constant wrapping_add(1) and an add(1) read through, and slice::from_raw_parts of an unfixed length, from ptr::from_ref(r)), each refused with a span. behind_refs and moved_out drop their String, Vec<u32>, and VecDeque<u32> move-outs, now those refusals. main's fixtures lose two cases it translated: pointers::lists' hashlink-style list holds Vec<u8> values instead of Strings, and elements::spares' pointer moves (smallvec-style insert, remove, and retain by ptr::copy and ptr::read) run over Vec<u8> instead of String, whose slots case stays. reject's existing reached_out and past_reference keep their spans. Review round 1 of the third session: behind_refs adds a one-past pointer stored whole by ptr::write through a pointer to it, and a pointer moved off a zero-sized value and borrowed; each was refused before its fix and matches native after. just ts census on this branch and on that main, compared span by span (above), before and after the one-past read check. Merged main at cfee013a3 (no ts/ change); quest check --fix and just ci at the merged head pass.

Models

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Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, high effort

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Review

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• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, high effort
• Session: 01a1b7cc-6b1b-7e91-9a0b-a1e9c78ff5a7, round 2
• Head: 8ca09a4
• Base: origin/main at ef4caed
• Score: 10/10, Both regressions are fixed with differential coverage, the existing pointer-fixture artifacts pass 5,381 cases, and no additional defects were found.
• Findings: none
• The last round's findings, at 3312df3:
  • Fixed: medium, ts/src/lower/mir/origin.rs:133: [P2] Validate only operands that the operation dereferences; ts/src/lower/mir/origin.rs:134 checks the second operand only for swap, and behind_refs now covers storing and measuring a one-past pointer.
  • Fixed: medium, ts/src/lower/mir/origin.rs:187: [P2] Exempt zero-sized pointees from dereference bounds checks; ts/src/lower/mir/origin.rs:192 exempts zero-sized pointees, and behind_refs now covers borrowing a zero-sized value after add(1).

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The change adds reference-aware raw pointer provenance and lowering, plus runtime support for object-backed writable places and pointer reads. New fixtures cover draining and retaining vectors, reads and writes through reference-derived pointers, vector operations, and rejection cases. Generated outputs and case registration are updated. Census reports change their refusal counts and entries, and the documentation describes the pointer behavior.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 9bfcf

Reference-derived pointers can produce incorrect values or unexpected runtime errors, and repeated fixture calls leak memory. Resolve the supported pointer correctness defects before merging.

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The description states that it closes the quest for raw pointers derived from references, and it explains the approach. It covers the translator's handling of reference-derived pointers, the smallvec and moq-net refusals, the new fixtures and rejection cases, and the census counts. It relates directly to the changeset, which adds this translation logic and the associated fixtures.

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Reviewed head 43b8b2b against base 2b10b3a.

No actionable findings in the reviewed lowering changes. The new raw_pointer/behind_reference path preserves known borrowed places, indexed elements and stable raw-pointer reborrows, and origin analysis follows the same cases. The fallback distinguishes shared immutable/tagged values from objects requiring in-place writes. In particular, checking the actual layout's Variants::Multiple avoids treating a tagless Result<Cell<_>, Infallible> as immutable; the unsupported whole-write case now has a span-bearing rejection. Factoring write_into retains the existing byte/array/private-state assignment paths.

The fixture source and generated output cover both-ended Drain-like reads, retain-like movement, indexed pointer arithmetic, all four mutable Vec conversion routes, shared scalar and Option reads, and Arc place identity. The new past_reference rejection also pins the lone-place arithmetic boundary.

Direction: retain the explicit limitation for references whose storage origin is not visible. This is support for the described place-model cases, not general pointer provenance or address arithmetic; the existing runtime-throws follow-up still matters for pointers arriving from elsewhere. Optional additional coverage would exercise a mutable library object with private runtime state through each conversion spelling, alongside the current Vec cases.

Limits: GitHub-only static review of the production diff, new source tests, relevant generated pointer snapshots and rejection expectations. I did not run quest context, compilation, differential tests, Miri, census or CI, and did not independently reproduce the reported refusal counts or local test pass. This COMMENT is not merge approval.

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Incremental review of 9bfcf27 against base d0c268d, following review 5809926387 at 43b8b2b.

The new WrittenIn/placeIn path addresses the direct mutable-Vec replacement case, and the added fixture covers replace, read/write, copy/write and swap. However, the two open cases already recorded in the PR remain supported by the current code:

• [P2] Shared-pointer reads still alias a moved-out library value (ts/runtime/rs.ts, ptrRead; ts/src/lower/pointer.rs, read). ptrRead copies only a WrittenIn; a shared-reference pointer is { v: target }, and read/substitution can fold that directly to target. After ptr::read through a short-lived shared reference, overwriting the original slot via ptr::write from a later mutable reference changes the JS object returned as the old Vec as well. Rust permits moving those header bits out and then initializing the original slot with ptr::write without dropping the moved value. Copy-out semantics must not depend solely on which pointer wrapper performed the read.
• [P2] Transparent pointees bypass the new copy-out helper (ts/src/lower/pointer.rs:1142). The ptrRead selection calls write_in on the wrapped type. Its erasure handles Pin/Box/AssertUnwindSafe, not MaybeUninit or ManuallyDrop, so reading a pointer cast to one of those wrappers can fall through to p.v even when p is WrittenIn. A subsequent in-place write then changes the supposedly moved-out old value. Normalize the transparent pointee for this selection and retain regression cases for both wrapper spellings.

Direction: settle the documented design checkpoint and cover the whole move-out class, including nested library values, rather than treating the direct Vec regression test as proof of all read/copy paths. These confirm the existing open findings, not two newly discovered independent issues.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static, base-aware comparison of the changed runtime/lowering, copy-selection helpers and fixture source. No compilation, differential tests, Miri, census or CI was run, and reported results were not independently reproduced. This COMMENT is not merge approval.

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ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/src/pointers.rs: 1

2567-2578: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Observe destructor effects in the retain case.

The retain case outputs only surviving values. A missing drop_in_place can therefore pass. Add a rejected Rc<Counted> and emit its drop counter immediately after retained returns. Regenerate the fixture snapshots.

Suggested fixture addition

 	out.extend(runs.iter().flatten());
+	let dropped = Cell::new(0);
+	let mut counted = vec![Rc::new(Counted { id: 1, dropped: &dropped })];
+	retained(&mut counted, |_| false);
+	out.push(dropped.get());

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Review comment at @ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/src/pointers.rs around lines 2567 -
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Extend the retain case around retained to include a rejected Rc<Counted> and
emit its drop counter immediately after retained returns, so the fixture
verifies rejected values are destroyed. Update the corresponding generated
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ts/src/lower/mir/rvalue.rs: 1

312-314: Minor · Potential issue · Heavy lift

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The new fallback creates a singleton placeIn for an opaque mutable reference, but the supplied provenance analysis only follows std calls. If such a pointer escapes a helper, its caller may perform valid Rust array arithmetic without receiving either the original array provenance or a translation refusal.

Native Rust accesses the adjacent vector header, while generated code may attempt to leave the singleton place and throw a past-array error.

This can occur when: A non-inlined helper converts its &mut Vec<u8> parameter to a raw pointer and returns it. Its caller passes the first element of an array of vectors, then uses p.add(1) to read the second vector's length.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/src/pointers.rs:
- Around line 2436-2437: Update the cleanup around ManuallyDrop::new(v) and
Drained so both drained and retained vectors release their backing allocations
after use, while preventing elements that were already moved or dropped from
being dropped again. Preserve the existing iteration behavior.

Review comments at @ts/src/lower/mir/call.rs:
- Around line 537-540: Update the pointer-conversion shortcut in the call
lowering branch for `From::from` and `Into::into` to resolve and apply the
selected custom conversion before constructing a pointer place. Preserve the
shortcut only when no applicable custom conversion needs to run, so field
conversions such as `From<&Pair> for NonNull<u32>` retain the converted field
pointer.
- Around line 537-545: Update the Into conversion handling in the call-lowering
match arm to use the existing Arc-aware path and preserve the Arc place, rather
than creating a separate place as ptr::from_ref does. Keep the current behavior
for ptr::from_ref, ptr::from_mut, and From::from unchanged.

Review comments at @ts/src/lower/pointer.rs:
- Around line 1135-1139: Update the pointer-read handling for the Expr::Object
case matching the single Key::Name("v") member so reading an interior-mutable
payload such as Cell does not return an alias to the original; copy it with
semantics that preserve Rust behavior, or reject the translation when a correct
copy is unavailable.

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Review comments at @ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/src/pointers.rs:
- Around line 2567-2578: Extend the retain case around retained to include a
rejected Rc<Counted> and emit its drop counter immediately after retained
returns, so the fixture verifies rejected values are destroyed. Update the
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• ts/fixtures/lang/elements/expected/spare.ts
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• ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/expected/core/option.ts
• ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/expected/lib.ts
• ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/expected/pointers.Drained.ts
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• ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/src/lib.rs
• ts/fixtures/lang/pointers/src/pointers.rs
• ts/fixtures/reject/census.txt
• ts/fixtures/reject/expected.txt
• ts/fixtures/reject/src/alloc.rs
• ts/fixtures/reject/ts.toml
• ts/runtime/rs.ts
• ts/src/lower/mir/call.rs
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• ts/src/lower/mir/origin.rs
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• quest/m3/ts-unsafe/raw-behind-ref.md

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Design change: per the maintainer's decision on 2026-11-07 at the round-6 checkpoint, every read that moves a value out of a pointer (ptr::read, replace, swap, copy/copy_nonoverlapping) now copies each object it holds at any depth that the crate writes into in place, a library object such as a Vec one object deep, by extending ts/src/lower/copy.rs's struct copies to library objects. This covers pointers from shared references, casts to MaybeUninit<T>/ManuallyDrop<T>, and library objects inside an Option, tuple, or struct, and replaces round 5's rs.ptrRead/WrittenIn run-time check. Rejected: patching each case found, and refusing these reads. The review restarts with quest review --new.

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Design change: keep the list, refuse the rest (maintainer's pick after review round 3, 2026-11-07).

A read that moves a value out (ptr::read, replace, swap, copy, copy_nonoverlapping) copies it for types whose layout the translator owns and for the library objects this PR already copies and tests: cells, locks, one-time cells, ranges, collections, and Cell::from_mut's cell. Every other library object, a runtime wrapper such as LazyCell or Peekable whose inline state only its class knows, is refused with a span wherever the read would copy it. inline_held in ts/src/lower/copy.rs returns None for those, replacing the fallback that judged them by their type arguments. reject adds lazy_moved and peeked_moved, round 3's two findings.

Root cause: JS objects are references, and a whole-object write copies into the existing object to keep pointers valid, so a read must copy the inline state Rust's bitwise move would split. Only the wrapper's author knows that state. This applies rule 3 of m3's unsafe policy (moq-dev/rust2#649).

One addition: Weak joins the list with nothing inline, since its JS object holds only the Arc it points at. Without it the census refused smallvec's Drain/retain over Weak<Waker>, the spans this quest translates. behind_refs covers it against native.

Rejected: walking std's real fields and closure captures; moving each copy into its runtime class as a declared method now (the path if the list grows); patching each case.

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Design change: the round-3 checkpoint of the second review session is settled by the coordinator under m3's unsafe policy rule 3, while the maintainer is away.

1. A collection's storage. An unsafe whole-value move (ptr::read, replace, swap, copy, assume_init_read, ManuallyDrop::take) of a collection whose JS object keeps its length with its storage (a non-byte Vec, VecDeque, BinaryHeap, String, maps, sets, LinkedList) is refused with a span wherever the move would copy it (Translator::unsplit). Only Vec<u8>, BytesMut, Weak, cells, locks, one-time cells, and ranges stay copied. The storage copy is deleted; safe moves keep the shallow rs.objectCopy, which is exact there. Rejected: copying the storage and recording the difference, and sharing it again, each wrong in some valid unsafe code. This supersedes round 6's reason for keeping smallvec's Drain over String.
2. A pointer from a reference with no visible origin, reaching its neighbour. One rule in origin.rs: from an array of one, every offset (wrapping included, now traced like add), count, and slice length must be fixed and stay within it, and a read or write through such a pointer must be at its element, or it is refused with a span. A one-past pointer stays valid, as main's elements fixture needs. Rejected: tracking where a reference points across calls (new pointer metadata), and patching each case.

The census at the pin, span by span against main at 5c9d40576, is unchanged by both: model 51 → 45, moq-net 352 → 344, kio 76 → 72, no new refusal. main's lists (hashlink-style) and spares (smallvec-style insert and remove) fixtures moved their pointer moves of Strings, now refused, to Vec<u8>s; reject adds collection_moved and beside_reference. The next review starts a new session.

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