Seven-Streams opened a new pull request, #730:
URL: https://github.com/apache/tvm-ffi/pull/730

   based on #721.
   
   # [STUBGEN] Classify native layouts from reflected byte facts
   
   ## Summary
   
   Add a language-neutral classifier that decides, for every registered object 
type, whether its native layout can be reproduced from reflection (`complete`) 
or not (`opaque`), with the byte evidence behind each verdict. `tvm-ffi-stubgen 
--coverage-out <json>` writes the verdicts as a report. No generator is 
attached.
   
   ## Motivation
   
   A native-struct backend can hold an object by value only when it can 
reproduce the C++ layout byte for byte. The registry already publishes what 
that needs: each type's own `sizeof` (#720) and every field's size, alignment 
and offset. A wrong `complete` is a struct with the wrong layout, a wrong 
`opaque` only costs a C ABI call per field, so the classifier deserves a review 
of its own before any generator builds on it.
   
   ## Changes
   
   - `stub/layout.py` (new). One criterion: the reflected fields must fill 
`[parent.total_size, total_size)` exactly, allowing only the gaps alignment 
forces. Two prerequisites: the type has metadata of its own (`layout-unknown`) 
and its parent is complete (`parent-opaque`). Unexplained bytes are 
`uncovered-bytes`; a field starting before the cursor is `field-overlap`. 
Polymorphism is not a rule: a vptr makes the fields fall short of `sizeof` on 
its own. Two target-language rules are injection points: `field_renderable` and 
`forced_opaque`, the latter only demoting a type that would otherwise be 
complete.
   - `stub/cli.py`, `stub/utils.py`: `--coverage-out <json>`, usable without 
PATH arguments. The report fixes the language-neutral keys; a generator adds 
its own under a per-type `"target"` key.
   - `testing.cc`: `TestCxxClassHiddenField` (an unreflected member) and 
`TestCxxClassPolymorphic` (a vptr), so both failure paths run in CI.
   
   ## Testing
   
   `tests/python/test_stub_layout.py`: every verdict path on synthetic byte 
facts, then the real registry. The `TestCxxClass*` chain is complete with 
padding `[36, 40)`, `[52, 56)`, `[73, 80)`; `TestCxxClassHiddenField` reports 
`[32, 40)` uncovered; `TestCxxClassPolymorphic` reports `sizeof` 40 against 
fields ending at 32; `ffi.Function` is `layout-unknown`; `ffi.Module` is opaque 
like the polymorphic fixture. The CLI writes the report with `--coverage-out` 
alone.
   


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