java-topology/defects/gcc/patch/CLEAN.md
russell@unturf.com bb1a6f002f diamond-scan: llvm/gcc/swift/webkit O(2^D) type hierarchy traversal
swift-0001: QualifiedLookupRequest::evaluate (NameLookup.cpp:2860) pushes
protocol superclassDecl onto BFS stack unconditionally — visited.insert()
return not checked. Nearby ClassDecl arm (line 2833) is correctly guarded.
Diamond protocol hierarchies sharing a class superclass trigger O(2^D)
re-traversal on every qualified member lookup. Fix: check .second.

llvm, gcc, webkit: CLEAN in available sparse-clone code.
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# CLEAN — GCC
Scanned 2026-03-30 for CWE-407 diamond recursion (O(2^D)).
## Scope
Sparse clone: `gcc/gcc/` — 524 .cc/.c files. Includes `ipa-devirt.cc`,
`dwarf2out.cc`, `tree.cc`, `vtable-verify.cc`, `tree-vect-slp.cc`.
No `cp/class.cc` or `cp/typeck.cc` (cp/ subdirectory not in clone).
## Findings
- `ipa-devirt.cc``record_target_from_binfo` recurses over `BINFO_BASE_ITERATE`
with `matched_vtables->add(BINFO_VTABLE(...))` guard (line 2591). GCC
`hash_set::add` returns true if already present (inverted from std::set).
Guard is correctly applied. In addition, GCC's BINFO tree for non-virtual
inheritance is a tree (not a DAG), so shared ancestors only appear once
per path. For virtual inheritance BINFOs are shared objects — the
`matched_vtables` guard prevents re-traversal. CLEAN.
- `tree-vect-slp.cc``vect_slp_analyze_node_operations` uses
`visited_set.add(node)` (returns true if already present = early-out).
Correctly guarded. CLEAN.
- `dwarf2out.cc` — BINFO base iteration is shallow (direct bases only,
non-recursive for diamond purposes). CLEAN.
- No `visited.insert()` without `.second` check found in any .cc file.
**Result: No actionable O(2^D) diamond defects in available code.**