Comments that pointed into the maintainer's private reverse-engineering notes (a note by name, a
path, a section or finding id, the analysis's own name for a client function, a process word) now
carry the fact itself, cited by the reference client's address, by vmangos file and line, or as
"the reference". Nobody outside could follow those pointers.
Comment text only, plus the test-assert and log strings that carried the same pointers. No claim
changes: a comment the notes have since corrected keeps its wording here, and correcting it is
separate work.
The two reference generators, `scripts/gen-reference-globals.py` and
`scripts/gen-reference-verb-events.py`, named the private notes' layout to find their inputs. They
now take the input files as arguments (`--capture`, `--framexml`, `--names`, `--extents`,
`--disasm`). Run on the same inputs, both write the committed tables row for row; only the two
header lines that named the old environment variable change.
Checked per file:
- the code is identical: each file with its comments stripped compares equal before and after; a
changed string literal is compared under a mask that proves only literal text moved and every
literal kept its line count;
- no client address the old text cited was dropped;
- a second reviewer checked every added address against its derivation;
- a detector for the notes' names, paths, ids, function names and process words finds none left;
- `scripts/gates.sh` is green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- a frame's __index is its kind's method table and the Region map's 19 shared verbs dispatch in Rust: a widget method call costs one table index instead of a Lua re-entry — the idle UI tick ~20 % lighter, client-wide (2310)
- SetParent names the subtree it moved instead of giving the layout ledger up: a pooled map note's recycle no longer re-derives the whole interface, and a Questie quest-log change's worst frame halves, 166 → 83 ms (2314)
- thirteen single-store windows — honor, talent wipe, the dialog verbs, scoreboard, battlemaster, battle map, book, mirror timers, minimap ping — register their handlers; 18 kinds leave the match (2313)
- the addon-enable RE lands: DefaultState is a seeded byte, the node set is the character list, and a character the store has never seen inherits nothing — 2311's one wrong branch corrected (2316)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- a nameplate's name and level stop popping a pixel every other step as the plate slides, and the whole plate no longer jumps 19 px to the top of the screen on a rounding tie; the chat bubble takes the same fix (2172)
- creatures and other players stop sinking through the ground while the world is still streaming in, where a Stormwind patroller had been 31 yd under its street: a body our world cannot yet answer for holds the server's pose (2174)
- select and the string metatable are gone, as in 1.12's Lua 5.0: pfUI's heal prediction parses its messages with the right format, BuffCheck2's own select wins its fallback, and a method call on a string raises the reference's own error (2171)
- the camera's water collision comes back out for now: with the pivot a hair under the plane, a surface swimmer's camera snapped in and out against the waterline, so the boom ignores water again (2173)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- a macro with a Lua error fails on its own and lands in the script error channel instead of aborting the UI function that ran it; RunScript names its chunk by the source text, and a bad or empty argument is a quiet no-op (2136)
- a script error or debugstack frame names its handler as Frame:OnClick instead of a whole CreateFrame sentence, an inline <Script> block is no longer mistaken for the .lua beside it, and a handler's line numbers stop reading one too high (2136)
- GetAddOnInfo and its seven siblings raise the reference's own Usage and out-of-range messages, GetAddOnInfo("2") is the second addon, and assert(a, b) answers one value, as the client's Lua 5.0 does (2139)
- frillDensity and gxApi are real settings: pfUI's hdgraphic module reads world detail through frillDensity, its system tooltip names the live render backend, and the two spellings of the ground clutter knob stay one knob (2151)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- loading two LoadOnDemand addons that depend on each other loads both instead of killing the client with a stack overflow; each is counted loaded before its own files run, as on the real client (2139)
- the memory report gets its second number, so AceAddon-2.0's memory line (36 copies in the corpus) stops raising and pfUI's panel prints a figure where it printed UNAVAILABLE; garbage collection takes a number and answers nothing, like 1.12's (2136)
- a disabled addon you have uninstalled keeps its row in AddOns.txt through a logout, and a hand-edited name keeps its spelling instead of taking the folder's case (2139)
- a loaded chunk's error lines name it the way the real client does, and a /console argument containing ]] no longer trips a syntax error the 1.12 lexer would raise (2136)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- a cooldown still running when you log out and back in keeps sweeping instead of vanishing, and another character no longer inherits the previous session's cooldowns (2116)
- the server's Welcome and Patch 1.12 lines print at login in system yellow, and a character whose General, Trade and LocalDefense had gone silent for good gets them back at the next login (2119, 2120)
- the stock Interface Options window loads hidden beside ours, so pfUI's options skin finds the real thing; the Auto-join Guild Recruitment Channel row has a real store, and a /reload no longer trips on its camera dropdowns (2115)
- the combat log words a power gain on the display scale, so MikScrollingBattleText shows +1 Rage where it showed +10; a 1.12 predicate answers 1 or nil rather than a Lua boolean, the test ColorPickerPlus makes (2117, 2118)
- a Lua error quotes a program element with a backquote the way 5.0 does, so AceLibrary's argument checks report their caller instead of raising inside the error path (2122)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- the cooldown pie, the GCD sweep, minimap pings and the map arrow draw again after a logout, login or /reload; they went blank until a restart, which read as OmniCC killing the cooldowns (2113)
- an addon's own font on a button label keeps its face, size and outline instead of being undone every frame, MikScrollingBattleText's reported look (2112)
- an empty label reads as nothing rather than an empty string, so Cartographer's map label keeps its colour; a slider thumb with no authored size takes its art's own size, so Dewdrop's Look'n'Feel slider moves (2109, 2110)
- Bagnon's saved bag list comes back in the order it was written, so the keyring stops jumping to the front after a restart; hovering a Bagnon bag costs a third of what it did (2111, 2114)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- five idle minutes sit you down and flag you AFK, thirty log you out through the ordinary countdown; holding a key is idle, moving the mouse is not, and a swimmer stays afloat (2092)
- a knockdown no longer wedges: the landing froze the clip that held the base-animation lock, leaving a knocked-down player on their back for the session (2098); the perf cost pill starts hidden (2099)
- Lua is exactly 1.12's 5.0 — no vararg expression, no #, no %, the remembered table size — so Cartographer loads without errors and Mik's Scrolling Battle Text shows its text, in its own shipped font now that addon TTFs load (2101, 2102, 2103)
- a widget name is a Lua global for SetPoint and its kin, so Bartender2's bars spread out; a button's NormalText disowns its justify, the raise renumbers hidden frames too, and a missing toc file warns instead of erroring (2105, 2100, 2104, 2107, 2106)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- the colour dialog is the reference's own `ColorPickerFrame.xml` — the window with the largest reach in the addon corpus (86 of 218 addons name it, 64 of those Dewdrop-2.0, so every Ace2 config menu's colour row opens it), and the guild charter, the guild registrar, the error toasts with the raid warning (which our copy had declared with NO scripts at all, so the big centre text and its sound had been inert scenery), the honour page, the quest timer and the stack-split spinner follow — each a toc line and a deletion
- the swaps caught our own bugs on the way: the registrar's two service rows were hidden by a template modelled on the quest list's pooled rows, leaving a bare "Available Services" heading over blank parchment; the stack spinner CLAMPED a too-big digit where the reference ignores it (37 against a 5-stack leaves the 3 standing, `StackSplitFrame.lua:72-85`) — a divergence with a test defending it; and 1.12's Lua-5.0 `arg`/`arg.n` varargs turn out to work in this VM (mlua's vendored 5.1 has `LUA_COMPAT_VARARG`), which unblocks every stock file written in that idiom
- 42 test modules carried five near-identical private copies of a disk-only XML loader that structurally cannot name a chain file; they are one shared reader now (733 lines out), with a strict variant that fails on an unknown-template WARNING — the case where a frame builds with none of its art — which is how the registrar bug was caught on the first window after
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- benilla loads real 1.12 addons from Interface/AddOns — TOC, XML and Lua through one loader, with per-addon saved variables, Bindings.xml and the lifecycle events addons expect
- both AddOns screens are in: the character-select list with per-addon enable state, and the ESC menu's in-game list
- the API surface is measured, not guessed — a corpus harness runs hundreds of real 1.12 addons and ranks exactly which globals, templates and verbs they demand
- the Lua dialect is the client's own, read off the binary — 5.0 semantics with the 1.12 additions, and UI source files are bytes, not UTF-8
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
