Any change to the runtime's C sources makes every executable differ, so
the gate failed even when every program's IR and LLVM were byte-identical.
The gate now classifies each difference outside --allow:
- runtime-only: IR and LLVM identical, the same LLVM helper, runtime pack
objects that differ between the checkouts (bitcode alone records the
checkout path, so it does not count), and every symbol the executable
gains, loses or resizes defined by a changed runtime object. It passes
with a note that lists the changed runtime functions the program links
(from the release and speed bitcode, through llvm-dis) and the size
change.
- nondeterministic: the baseline builds the program again, and its two
builds differ in the same artifacts. It passes with a note.
- differs: anything else; it fails as before.
--strict fails runtime-only and nondeterministic programs too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
