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Follow-up to #8857 and #8882.

Changes

  • Type flags on bitflagset: PyTypeFlags is now defined with bitflagset!, and the atomic tp_flags word with atomic_bitflagset!(... on PyTypeFlags). This replaces the hand-written PyAtomicTypeFlags. Bit values are unchanged, and every static builtin type has the same __flags__ as before.

Dependency

bitflagset 0.0.4 from crates.io. That release includes:

  • repr(transparent) layout;
  • an atomic set linked to a position-form set;
  • #[cfg] on flag constants.

Test

  • fmt; clippy (workspace and crates/capi)
  • builds of example_projects/barebone and example_projects/frozen_stdlib; cargo check of rustpython-without-js for wasm32-unknown-unknown
  • workspace tests, crates/capi tests
  • test_descr test_types test_class

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  • Improvements
    • Type flags are handled consistently across type creation, inheritance, and feature checks, supporting more reliable behavior for built-in and user-defined types.
    • Type flag reads retain unrecognized bits, helping preserve flag information across operations.

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This change updates the workspace bitflagset dependency and replaces the Python type-flag implementation with plain and atomic flag APIs. Type construction, flag propagation, and runtime checks now use the revised operations.

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Type-flag API and runtime migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Flag types and atomic storage
Cargo.toml, crates/vm/src/types/slot.rs, crates/vm/src/builtins/descriptor.rs
PyTypeFlags and AtomicPyTypeFlags use the revised flag APIs. Atomic loads retain unnamed bits. The workspace dependency requirement changes to bitflagset 0.0.4.
Type construction and flag propagation
crates/vm/src/builtins/type.rs, crates/derive-impl/src/pyclass.rs, crates/vm/src/class.rs, crates/vm/src/macros.rs, crates/vm/src/exception_group.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ctypes.rs, crates/vm/src/vm/context.rs
Type creation, inheritance, and generated class attributes construct and update flags with the revised APIs. Slot initialization uses AtomicPyTypeFlags::from_plain.
Runtime flag reads and checks
crates/capi/src/object/pytype.rs, crates/vm/src/object/core.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/_abc.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/_ast/python.rs, crates/vm/src/frame.rs, crates/vm/src/builtins/type.rs, crates/vm/src/vm/context.rs
Runtime consumers load flags through the atomic API and use the revised feature checks and collection masks. Existing collection propagation and dictionary-allocation conditions remain in place.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Refactor

Suggested reviewers: moreal, bschoenmaeckers

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 23688

The flag migration has no established merge-blocking issue and is mergeable subject to normal build and test checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 23688

The inspected type-construction and mutation checks remain intact, and no security bypass was established. Risk is low rather than minimal because the updated dependency’s concurrent flag operations could not be fully verified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A flag-contract defect could affect type mutability and object-layout consumers within an affected interpreter, as well as numeric flags observed by C API callers. This is shared runtime exposure, not evidence of a newly introduced cross-service or tenant boundary.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The inspected Python-controlled collection-flag path cannot directly replace arbitrary type flags: input is masked and validated. IMMUTABLETYPE still rejects protected mutations, and DISALLOW_INSTANTIATION still disables the constructor slot.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Inspected construction failures occur while flags belong to local, unpublished slots, limiting exposure of partial flag initialization. Published collection-flag updates use explicit masked atomic operations. These paths support failure containment, but do not establish equivalence of every dependency-generated operation under concurrency.
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Cargo.toml (1)

132-132: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pin the temporary branch to the locked commit.

bitflagset 0.0.4 is not published, so keep this patch for now. CI uses --locked, so the current workflow remains reproducible. However, lockfile regeneration can select a newer commit from the mutable branch. Pin the current commit instead.

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-bitflagset = { git = "https://github.com/youknowone/bitflagset", branch = "repr-transparent" }
+bitflagset = { git = "https://github.com/youknowone/bitflagset", rev = "bc36b1a495498c42292d9f632846790a4a5172ae" }
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Review comment at @Cargo.toml at line 132:
Update the bitflagset dependency declaration to pin it to the locked commit
bc36b1a495498c42292d9f632846790a4a5172ae instead of tracking the mutable
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- Line 132: Update the bitflagset dependency declaration to pin it to the locked
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@youknowone youknowone changed the title Fix 32-bit member assertions, address member review, use bitflagset for type flags Use bitflagset for type flags Sep 28, 2026
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youknowone force-pushed the member-review-bitflagset branch 2 times, most recently from 0a0dcc1 to 348eb95 Compare September 28, 2026 17:24
PyTypeFlags is defined with bitflagset! and the atomic tp_flags word with
atomic_bitflagset!, replacing the hand-written PyAtomicTypeFlags.

Assisted-by: Grok:4.7
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
bitflagset 0.0.4 is not on crates.io yet. Patch it to the git main
branch in the workspace and in the example projects that depend on
rustpython-vm, since each of them is a separate workspace.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
bitflagset 0.0.4 is published. Drop the git patches from the workspace
and the separate example-project workspaces.

Assisted-by: Grok:4.7
The example workspaces already have an empty [patch.crates-io] table.
Dropping the bitflagset git line leaves that table in place.

Assisted-by: Grok:4.7
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youknowone force-pushed the member-review-bitflagset branch from e6a7801 to d717b88 Compare October 1, 2026 03:40
Drop the plain-set has_feature wrapper and the intersects,
is_created_with_flags, DEFAULT, and heap_type_flags aliases.
Single-bit updates use insert, and flag combinations use from_slice.

Assisted-by: Grok:4.7
HAS_WEAKREF with MANAGED_WEAKREF, and HAS_DICT with MANAGED_DICT
(and INLINE_VALUES when present), are applied with one |=.

Assisted-by: Grok:4.7
HEAPTYPE | BASETYPE, and the dict and immutable variants built from
it, are const values instead of from_slice calls at each use.

Assisted-by: Grok:4.7
PyTypeFlags::COLLECTION is the two-bit mask. Callers check it with
one is_disjoint instead of two contains loads.

Assisted-by: Grok:4.7
Pass closure arguments by value where clippy reports a needless
borrow, drop the unfulfilled redundant_else expectation on sum, and
return the HRESULT after todo!().

Assisted-by: Grok:4.7
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Merging this PR will not alter performance

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