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regression: test-core#src:test/test_nilpy_json_module.npy red at a28bc3993a0e (auto-filed by twatch)

Repro

tools/testmgr.py --tier native --job 'test-core#src:test/test_nilpy_json_module.npy' at a28bc3993a0e0caa0370b71abb1759287d3e9909

Range

bad a28bc3993a0e, last good d34ea0c3e6f0, 9 commit(s) in range — the watcher narrows this by idle bisect; check tstate/TSTATE.md for the current range.

Log tail

Segmentation fault
(tail)
ok: /tmp/testmgr-scratch-1206539/test_nilpy_jsonmod26  [code=2404378B  data=77852B  bss=76212B  procs=2020]
Segmentation fault

Stub ticket: signal only. Track T agent (face 2) enriches or a dev track takes it from the repro line.

RESOLVED 2026-08-25 — a method DEFINITION read as a call, in a unit pre-scan

Both of these have one cause. Bisected by building at each candidate sha: GOOD at 99939b3a1, BAD at f064c591b — and f064c591b is the only commit between them that touches compiler/.

That commit added a per-unit pre-scan that mints TObject's root methods when a unit mentions a dot-preceded Equals/GetHashCode/ToString. lib/rtl/json.pas line 307 is

function TJSONValue.ToString(pretty: Boolean): AnsiString;

— a qualified IMPLEMENTATION HEADER, which is dot-preceded exactly like a call. So every NilPy program importing json pulled builtin plus the root-method rows, and test_nilpy_json_reparse_heap SEGFAULTED with no output while test_nilpy_json_module silently dropped song 120 b 3.

The scan now walks back past <TypeName> . and refuses function/procedure, so a definition no longer reads as a use. test/test_tobject_root_methods_inside_a_unit.pas still passes — its unit carries the qualified headers AND a real L.Equals(R) call, which is precisely the discrimination that had been missing.

Filed separately and NOT fixed: [[bug-a-minting-tobject-root-methods-from-a-unit-corrupts-the-heap]] — that minting those rows from a unit can corrupt a program at all is the deeper defect, and a segfault plus a silently-missing output line is far worse than whatever the extra 42 KB costs. Which half does it (ParseUsesUnitAmbient mid-unit vs EnsureTObjectRootMethods adding VMT rows late) is deliberately left unmeasured there rather than guessed.

Gate: make compiler/pascal26 converged in 1 round, both .npy tests match CPython, test_tobject_root_methods_inside_a_unit unchanged, tools/gate.sh quick GREEN.