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ba209d9489 feat(c/c++): resolve function-pointer dispatch (#932) (#954)
C/C++ polymorphism is the function pointer: a struct fn-pointer field, concrete
functions registered into it through a table (`{"add", cmd_add}`), a designated
initializer (`.handler = on_open`), or an assignment, then dispatched indirectly
(`p->fn(argv)`). Static extraction captures neither the registration→field
binding nor the indirect call, so the dispatcher→handler edge was missing — git's
run_builtin looked like it called nothing, a vtable's implementations had no
callers, and the hook_demo.c in the issue was unreachable.

Add a resolution-layer synthesizer keyed by (struct type, fn-pointer field). It
reads source (the established Celery/Sidekiq/Spring pattern — C extraction has no
struct fields or indirect-call edges to build on) in passes: collect fn-pointer
typedefs, parse struct field layouts, collect registrations (positional matched
by field index, designated, and assignment), propagate field←field assignments
(so a generic hook slot reassigned from a registry — the hook_demo.c
`h->func = found->fn` shape — inherits the registry field's handlers), then link
each indirect dispatch site to the registered handlers. Receiver type resolves
from the enclosing function's params/locals, falling back to a field name unique
to one struct. Covers both the command-table idiom (git, redis) and the
ops-struct/vtable idiom (curl content-encoders, protocol handlers).

Pure edge synthesis (no node growth); high precision via the (struct, field) key.

Validated: git 502 edges (run_builtin→cmd_* plus git_hash_algo/archiver/reftable
vtables), redis 357 (dictType.hashFunction, connection + reply-object vtables),
curl 478 (Curl_cwtype.do_init → deflate/gzip/brotli/zstd); 0 non-function targets
on all three; node-stable; 0 on the lua control (its {name,fn} tables register
into the Lua VM, with no C indirect call to bridge). Full suite 1665 pass.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-22 13:34:11 -05:00
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