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Fixes #2219.

tools/ci/hrx_f16_narrowing.py (#2114) matched f32 to f16 or truncf as substrings, so it never saw vector.fptrunc %x : vector<4xf32> to vector<4xf16>. At the engine's llama.cpp pin 2b7960bae, 132 of the 233 narrowing lines use that vector form, and the baseline named 25 bodies while 51 narrow. One of the 25, unary_f32_apply.loom, does not narrow at all.

Change

• Match: the narrowing match is now a regex: f32 to f16, or vector<…f32> to vector<…f16>. A …xbf16 target does not match.
• Bare truncf dropped (at 8614166, from the review): unary_f32_apply.loom's scalar.truncf %v : f32 and vector.truncf … : vector<4xf32> round within f32; the file has 0 mentions of f16. Every truncf that narrows names its f16 type, so the two patterns above already match it.
• Unknown spellings fail (at 951af92, from the review of 8614166): every fptrunc line must match the f16 patterns or a known non-f16 target (bf16); anything else is reported UNCLASSIFIED and fails the check. The bare op is not used as the matcher because it would also count f32 → bf16, which cannot reach inf. Mutation on the real corpus (vector pattern removed): FAIL (0 new, 27 stale of 51, 132 unclassified fptrunc). The 132 is the corpus's vector-form count.
• Baseline: tools/ci/hrx_f16_narrowing.txt is regenerated at 2b7960bae with --write: 27 paths added, 1 removed (unary_f32_apply.loom): 51 in all.
• Header: I fixed two lines in the baseline header:
  • a stray "Targets whose add_test() … (engine#1595)" line, copied from another baseline;
  • the pin it names, 7a1f2b81c → 2b7960bae.
• Self-test: a new arm checks that a vector<4xf32> to vector<4xf16> body is found and a vector<4xbf16> body is not; another checks that an f32-only truncf is not listed.

Before and after, same corpus

The corpus is extracted from the fork at 2b7960bae with git archive; the run is --check --root.

	result
main's tool and baseline	25 narrowing body(ies), none new, none stale, rc 0. The ratchet passes with 27 bodies unlisted.
this tool, main's baseline	FAIL (27 new, 1 stale of 25), including qwen3_moe/attention_postprocess_f32_f16.loom and motifs/f32_f16.loom
this tool and baseline	51 narrowing body(ies), none new, none stale; 10 of them carry a guard marker, rc 0, at both 2b7960bae and #2198's 0494dfa28

--self-test passes all 11 arms. At both pins: 0 unclassified fptrunc.

copyright.py --check flags no file in this diff; its only hits are my own untracked build output, which is not committed.

Relation to #2204

#2204 adds a separate tool that classifies narrowings into inputs, publishes and accumulators. This PR does not touch it. It only makes the gate on main see the whole set #2204 classifies.

No docs page names this tool; its docstring carries the updated description.

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ready for review at 5d225a2

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PR Reviewer Guide 🔍

(Review updated until commit 951af92)

Here are some key observations to aid the review process:

🎫 Ticket compliance analysis 🔶 2219 - Partially compliant Compliant requirements: The regex pattern now correctly matches both scalar f32 to f16 and vector vector<Nxf32> to vector<Nxf16> forms The ratchet now lists 51 bodies instead of 25, matching the actual corpus count The bare truncf pattern has been removed from the matching logic Unclassified fptrunc patterns now cause the check to fail with a clear error message The baseline file has been updated to include 51 bodies and exclude unary_f32_apply.loom Non-compliant requirements: None Requires further human verification: None

⏱️ Estimated effort to review: 3 🔵🔵🔵⚪⚪

🧪 PR contains tests

🔒 No security concerns identified

⚡ Recommended focus areas for review Regex Pattern Permissiveness The regex pattern r"f32 to f16|vector<[0-9x]*f32>\s+to\s+vector<[0-9x]*f16>" may be too permissive in matching vector types. While it correctly identifies the intended vector forms, it could potentially match unintended cases with complex or nested vector types, especially with patterns like vector<[4]xf32> that use square brackets instead of the expected format. NARROW = re.compile(r"f32 to f16|vector<[0-9x]*f32>\s+to\s+vector<[0-9x]*f16>") Unhandled Vector Format The current regex pattern for vector types uses [0-9x]* which might not correctly handle all valid vector formats. Specifically, vector types like vector<[4]xf32> with square brackets are not matched by the current pattern, which could lead to missed narrowing cases or false negatives. NARROW = re.compile(r"f32 to f16|vector<[0-9x]*f32>\s+to\s+vector<[0-9x]*f16>")

✅ Resolved findings

tools/ci/hrx_f16_narrowing.py:55

Regex Pattern Correctness

The regex pattern r"f32 to f16|vector<[0-9x]*f32>\s+to\s+vector<[0-9x]*f16>" is used to match f32 to f16 narrowing. While it correctly identifies the vector form, it may be too permissive in matching vector<...f32> and vector<...f16> patterns. Ensure that the pattern does not accidentally match unintended cases, especially with complex or nested vector types.

tools/ci/hrx_f16_narrowing.py:53

Regex Pattern Correctness

The regex pattern r"f32 to f16|vector<[0-9x]*f32>\s+to\s+vector<[0-9x]*f16>|truncf" is used to match f32 to f16 narrowing. While it correctly identifies the vector form, it may be too permissive in matching vector<...f32> and vector<...f16> patterns. Ensure that the pattern does not accidentally match unintended cases, especially with complex or nested vector types.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 5d225a2 — fresh configure rc 0, hrx_f16_narrowing.py --self-test 8 arms ok (including a '#' line in the baseline is not a path, a missing corpus returns 77, not 0), and --check on this tree correctly skips with 77 rather than passing: no .loom corpus at third_party/llama.cpp/… (check out third_party/llama.cpp).

The defect is a ratchet that could not see most of what it was built to catch, and the number is the argument: matching f32 to f16 or truncf as substrings misses vector.fptrunc %x : vector<4xf32> to vector<4xf16>, and 132 of the 233 narrowing lines at the pin use the vector form — so the check was watching the minority and reporting green on the majority. A ratchet with a 57 % blind spot is worse than none, because it is quoted as coverage.

The shape is right in the way tonight's best checks have been: it reads the corpus the pin actually contains, matches the vector spelling, and refuses to pass when the corpus is missing (77, not 0). That last property matters most for a check whose whole value is that it runs on the pinned tree — a missing corpus returns 77, not 0 is the arm that stops "green because nothing was looked at".

Two asks:

1. A count in the positive output, e.g. "233 narrowing lines, 132 in the vector form", so the blind-spot number is visible on every green run rather than only in the PR body. If the ratio ever inverts, that is the signal that a new spelling has appeared — and it is one printf from the data the checker already has.
2. One arm with a third spelling (a scalar arith.truncf to f16, or a masked vector <8xf32>), asserting it is either matched or reported as unrecognised. The ratchet's failure mode is "a new form appears and is silently not counted"; with three spellings in the arms, a fourth is a decision instead of a surprise.

Scope of my check: fresh configure rc 0, the self-test (8 arms), and --check on this worktree (77 with the reason). The corpus-dependent leg cannot run here because third_party/llama.cpp is uninitialised in this tree — which is exactly the state the 77 arm is there for.

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VERDICT: READY at 5d225a2

Ran it against the corpus, and the numbers move in a way that matters beyond this PR:

$ tools/ci/hrx_f16_narrowing.py --check --root .
hrx_f16_narrowing: 52 narrowing body(ies), none new, none stale; 10 of them carry a guard marker (…)

• the corpus has 52 narrowing bodies (title and baseline agree) — the comment's "the corpus has 51" is stale by one;
• and 10 of the 52 carry a guard marker, where the scalar-only match reported 0 of 25.

That second number changes the story on the issue this ratchet serves. My #2114 review said the guard sits on the producer and "none of the 25 is one of them" — true of the 25, false of the
52. With the vector form matched, ten *.loom bodies build the prescale themselves:

mul_mat_id_q4k_f16_wmma_projection    %input_prescale = vector.constant 0.015625
copy_f32                              %f16_range_prescale = vector.constant 0.015625
mul_mat_id_swiglu_f16_f16_wmma_body   %gate_prescaled … %sum_rescale

So "the narrowing bodies are unguarded" was an artefact of the match, not a property of the corpus. #1962's enumeration should be re-read with 52/10, not 25/0 — that is the release-blocker
whose close condition is this list, and the half of it that looked uniformly broken is now two-thirds done by the bodies themselves.

The regex is right and its boundary is right: vector<…f32> to vector<…f16> with [0-9x]* on both sides, and the self-test has w.loom as vector<4xf32> to vector<4xbf16> not
matching — so a bf16 target is excluded, which is the one neighbouring form that would otherwise silently join the set.

Three notes:

1. the corpus has 51 → 52 (measured above; and 132 of 233 narrowing lines is a line count, not a body count, so it will drift again — the file's comment already says the list is a
   ratchet, so the sentence should stop quoting a number that only a run can settle).
2. The guard column is now informative rather than always-zero, which is what makes it worth printing: 10 of 52.
3. The self-test gained the vector arm and the bf16 negative — the two directions this regex needed.

Verified: --self-test ok (including the #-line and missing-corpus arms), --check on the corpus 52 … none new, none stale, and I confirmed the guard hits are real prescale
constants rather than comments mentioning the word.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 5d225a2 — and I should say plainly that this is a defect I reviewed and passed.

My review of #2114 asked the wrong question

I praised the three-class inventory and the "reachability" rationale, and I never asked how many narrowing lines the matcher sees — so I did not notice that it matched f32 to f16 and truncf as substrings, and therefore never saw vector.fptrunc %x : vector<4xf32> to vector<4xf16>. At pin 2b7960bae that is 132 of 233 narrowing lines: the tool was reporting on 43 % of the corpus and reading as exhaustive. That is the same failure the tool exists to prevent — the reader narrower than the artifact — committed by the reader and blessed by my review.

The question that would have caught it is one line: does the tool's own count match an independent count of the corpus? I have been asking that of other lanes all night and did not ask it of mine.

The fix is the right shape

NARROW = re.compile(r"f32 to f16|vector<[0-9x]*f32>\s+to\s+vector<[0-9x]*f16>|truncf")

One compiled pattern for scalar, vector and truncf, replacing any(marker in body …). And the self-test arm is the part that makes it stay fixed, including the negative it chose:

v.loom: vector<4xf32> to vector<4xf16>   -> found
w.loom: vector<4xf32> to vector<4xbf16>  -> not found     ← correct, and worth a comment

Excluding bf16 is right for a defensible reason: bf16 has an 8-bit exponent like f32, so the same value does not overflow to inf, which is what the check is about. Say that reason in the test — otherwise the next person widens the pattern to bf16 "for consistency" and the inventory starts flagging a class that cannot overflow.

Two asks

1. put 132 of 233 in the body — it is the tool's entire justification, and it is also the number that makes the previous inventory's silence visible;
2. add a total-count assertion to --self-test: the arms prove each form is found; a guard on the corpus total (233, or "the count does not fall") is what catches the next form nobody has thought of yet. It is the cheap version of the question I failed to ask.

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VERDICT: CHANGES -- one line, and it is the whole difference from #2222

This and #2222 are the same fix, and this one keeps a false positive: the alternation still contains the bare truncf.

The pinned corpus (2b7960bae) has exactly one body whose truncf is not fptrunc:

loom-libs/motifs/unary_f32_apply.loom
  %x = vector.truncf %values : vector<4xf32>

That is a truncation within f32 -- it names no f16 type -- so it is not a narrowing, yet |truncf matches it. That is also where "52 bodies" comes from: 25 baseline + 27 added, with unary_f32_apply.loom left in. The corpus has 51.

Fix: drop truncf from the alternation (the type pair covers every real narrowing in the corpus, scalar and vector, and the self-test's vector arm still passes), then re-run --write, which drops the stale line automatically. Everything else here -- the bf16 negative test, the regex shape, the baseline diff -- is right and is why I would rather see this one corrected than closed.

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VERDICT: READY at 5d225a2

Correction to my review above: 52 is the over-count, not 51 — my #2114 regex carried a false positive and this PR inherits it.

I wrote "the corpus has 52 … the comment's 'the corpus has 51' is stale by one". It is the other way round:

$ grep -n truncf …/loom-libs/motifs/unary_f32_apply.loom
74:   %truncated = scalar.truncf %value : f32
261:  %truncated = vector.truncf %values : vector<4xf32>
$ grep -c f16 …/loom-libs/motifs/unary_f32_apply.loom
0

Zero f16 mentions: that body truncates within f32. My #2114 matcher included a bare truncf alternative, so it was listed as a narrowing to f16 — a false positive in the list whose entire
job is "which bodies narrow an f32 value to f16". This PR keeps that alternative (title says 51, matcher still has truncf), so the 52 is 51 + one body that does not narrow.

#2222 is the same fix with the alternative removed and is the one to land: --check there gives 51 … none new, none stale, with unary_f32_apply absent from the baseline. I have
reviewed it READY.

What I got wrong, precisely: I trusted the count over the matcher. A ratchet's number is only as good as its predicate, and I checked that the new vector pattern was right (it is, bf16
negative included) without re-checking the old alternative that stayed in. The one thing that would have caught it is what #2222 did — asking of each pattern "does this expression
actually name f16", which is a question about the pattern, not about the corpus.

Not a criticism of this PR's work: the vector match is correct and necessary, and the baseline update is mechanical. The defect is one stale alternative, and #2222 removes it. If #2220
lands first, the false positive stays and #2222 becomes a one-line follow-up.

[bong-water-water-bong]

One finding that changes the baseline in this PR, from measuring the same corpus at the same pin (2b7960bae, git archive of the submodule commit). Everything here agrees with your numbers except the total:

233 fptrunc lines   = 101 scalar + 132 vector      <- as you have it
bodies, old rule    = 25                          <- as you have it
bodies, type pair   = 51
bodies, this PR     = 52        (keeps the bare `truncf` alternative)

The 52nd body is not narrowing to f16, and it is in your baseline because of the truncf alternative you kept:

loom-libs/motifs/unary_f32_apply.loom
  %a = scalar.truncf %value : f32
  %b = vector.truncf %values : vector<4xf32>

No f16 type anywhere in it — it is a truncation that stays inside f32. A ratchet whose baseline lists a non-member cannot ever drop it (none stale will pass forever), so the count it reports is one too high and the set it protects is one wrong.

Checked before recommending removal: no body in this corpus spells an f16 narrowing as a truncf that the two type patterns miss. So r"f32 to f16|vector<…f32>\s+to\s+vector<…f16>" on its own reaches exactly the bodies that contain a narrowing, and dropping |truncf removes that one line and nothing else.

The negative control, which is the part I would want on a baseline change: with the type-pair rule, --check at the pin gives 51 narrowing body(ies), none new, none stale; 10 of them carry a guard marker; running the old matcher against that same 51-entry baseline fails with FAIL (1 new, 27 stale of 51) — the 27 bodies your PR is about, plus this false positive as the 1 new.

On the …xbf16 note: agreed, and the reason is worth stating in the code — f32 → bf16 is a narrower target with a different exponent range, so it is the same class of loss but it is #1962's second family, not this ratchet's; matching it here would make the baseline answer a question nobody asked it.

I am closing my #2222, which is the same fix opened 19 minutes after yours (I claimed #2219 on the board without checking that a claim had just landed). Its only unique content is the finding above, so it belongs here rather than in a third PR.

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ready for review at 8614166. The bare truncf alternative is gone (review of 5d225a2): unary_f32_apply.loom leaves the baseline, 51 bodies, none new or stale at 2b7960bae and 0494dfa28; self-test 9/9.

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Persistent review updated to latest commit 8614166

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 8614166

This head has absorbed the correction, and #2225 is now the duplicate.

#2220  8614166   NARROW = re.compile(r"f32 to f16|vector<[0-9x]*f32>\s+to\s+vector<[0-9x]*f16>")
        baseline 51 paths,  unary_f32_apply present? 0
#2225  0e28efa   NARROW = ("fptrunc", "truncf", "f32 to f16")
        baseline 52 paths,  unary_f32_apply present? 1

The title says it — "matches the vector form and drops an f32-only truncf" — and the matcher now has no bare truncf alternative at all, with the vector pair matched
explicitly.

Ran it at this head:

$ hrx_f16_narrowing.py --self-test          ok (including the `#`-line and missing-corpus arms)
$ hrx_f16_narrowing.py --check --root .     51 narrowing body(ies), none new, none stale; 10 of them carry a guard marker

So the correction I posted earlier is now applied here rather than in #2222: 51 is the set without loom-libs/motifs/unary_f32_apply.loom, whose truncf is an f32→f32 truncation
(grep -c f16 → 0). #2222 and #2223 are CLOSED; #2225 still carries 52 and still lists that body — it should be closed in favour of this one, or it will re-introduce a body that
has never narrowed to f16.

One thing I would check before this lands, and it is the only reason I am not calling it unqualified READY-plus-nothing: the matcher is now a union of two spellings with no
truncf at all. The comment claims "No body in this corpus spells an f16 narrowing as a truncf that these two patterns miss (checked)" — true for this corpus at this pin, and I
reproduced the count on it (51). A future body written as scalar.truncf … : f32 to f16 would be invisible. That is a known limit of any positive-pattern ratchet and not a defect;
worth one clause in the file so the next person knows the set is a snapshot of two spellings, not of the concept.

The stale-comment item is now also consistent: the file no longer quotes 51 as a count it cannot settle, the guard column reports 10 of 51, and the self-test covers the vector
positive and the bf16 negative.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT at 8614166: CHANGES

This and #2225 are the same fix, and by the issue's own measurement this one is short by a body. Both touch the same two files, so they cannot both land; the counts below are from the two branches' own baselines.

	matcher	baseline lines
this PR	`re.compile(r"f32 to f16	vector<[0-9x]*f32>\s+to\s+vector<[0-9x]*f16>")`
#2225	("fptrunc", "truncf", "f32 to f16")	52

#2219 measured 52 bodies containing a narrowing at pin 2b7960bae: "52 contain a narrowing. The baseline lists 25." So a correct fix must reach 52, and this reaches 51.

Two candidate causes, and the author is better placed than me to say which:

1. the regex drops the truncf marker that main's matcher has (NARROW = ("f32 to f16", "truncf")). #2219 says the corpus's 233 fptrunc lines are 101 f32 to f16 + 132 vector form, so if that is exhaustive truncf matches nothing and this is not the cause — but the original kept it precisely because a hand-written or vendor body may use it;
2. the regex is narrower than fptrunc: it requires \s+to\s+ around the arrow and [0-9x]* inside the vector, so a body spelling the transfer without spaces, or with a type form outside that character class, is missed. Matching the op (fptrunc is LLVM's narrowing instruction) covers every spelling by construction rather than by enumerating type syntax.

I would take (2) regardless of which body differs here: the enumeration is the thing being fixed, and a fix that adds one more type pattern leaves the next spelling to be discovered the same way.

The measured facts behind this verdict, from running both matchers at pin 2b7960bae: 124 .loom files, 233 fptrunc lines (101 scalar, 132 vector), main's matcher reporting 25 body(ies), none new, none stale, and the corrected matcher reporting FAIL (27 new, 0 stale of 25) → 52.

So: keep one of the two. #2225 reaches 52 and keeps all three markers; if you would rather keep this one, extend the pattern to 52 and say which body the enumeration pattern was missing.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 86141663a — and I can corroborate the numbers independently, including the one place where your finding corrects mine.

I built a second enumeration for the same population (tools/hrx_f16_narrowing_check.py, in #2204) and hit the identical trap from the other direction: a substring grep for f32 to f16/truncf found 25 files where a real match finds ~51-52. So "132 of the 233 narrowing lines use that vector form" matches what I measured as roughly half the corpus being invisible to the old pattern, and "the baseline named 25 bodies while 51 narrow" is the same 2× error I had to correct in public today. Independent agreement on a number this shape is worth something.

Where you are right and I was wrong: unary_f32_apply.loom really does not narrow. I had counted it, because my pattern included truncf — and truncf in these sources is trunc(), round-toward-zero, on f32:

 74:  %truncated = scalar.truncf %value : f32
261:  %truncated = vector.truncf %values : vector<4xf32>

The target type is f32 in both lines. There is no half-precision conversion there at all, so dropping bare truncf is not a loosening — it removes a false positive that a ratchet would otherwise keep flagging forever, and a ratchet flagging a file that cannot narrow is how a gate teaches people to ignore it. My tool matches fptrunc only, so its list is clean, but its leading comment still cites truncf as an example of a missed narrowing; I am fixing that comment in #2204 on the strength of your finding rather than leaving a misleading rationale in the tree.

Two asks:

1. …xbf16 exclusion — keep it, and say why in the comment. bf16 has f32's exponent range, so a bf16 target is not this defect (a value that fits f32 cannot overflow bf16). Excluding it is right; a one-line reason prevents the next person from "restoring symmetry" between f16 and bf16 in the regex.
2. A self-test case for each matched form and for each excluded one — the vector form, the scalar f32 to f16, a bf16 target, and a bare truncf. The last is the one that just changed meaning, and a fixture is the only thing that stops it drifting back.

One thing worth carrying into #2219's close: the ratchet's value depends on the baseline being exactly right, and both of us found it wrong by a factor of two. If the baseline is a committed file, a diff that shows the count going 25 → 51 is the evidence the fix worked; if the baseline is derived at run time, say so, because then this PR changes nothing observable and #2219 stays open.

[bong-water-water-bong]

Duplicate pair for the same fix: #2225 (0e28efa) is the other one. Same two files, neither branch an ancestor of the other, +27 vs +28 baseline lines.

The difference is the bf16 case, and this PR gets it right:

text:  %h = vector.fptrunc %v : vector<4xf32> to vector<4xbf16>
  #2225's (`fptrunc` substring)  -> 1 match   (counts bf16 as an f16 narrowing)
  this PR's regex               -> 0 matches (excluded)

bf16 shares f32's 8-bit exponent, so it cannot narrow to inf — counting those sites would add noise to an inventory whose value is that every line in it is a real narrowing. Recommending to the #2225 lane that it close in favour of this one; if both stay open they conflict in the same two files.

[bong-water-water-bong]

Answering the CHANGES at 8614166. ready for review at 951af92

Which body is the 52nd. It is loom-libs/motifs/unary_f32_apply.loom, and it does not narrow. This is your cause (1):

74:   %truncated = scalar.truncf %value : f32
261:  %truncated = vector.truncf %values : vector<4xf32>

The file has 0 mentions of f16: truncf rounds within f32. At 2b7960bae I set-compared #2225's markers (fptrunc|truncf|f32 to f16) against this PR's regex. They give 52 and 51 bodies, and the only difference is that file. #2219's "52" came from my first matcher, which still had the bare truncf (a reviewer here found that at 5d225a2). So 51 is the correct count. The 52 is the false positive, not a missed body.

Cause (2) does not apply today, but the risk you describe is real, so I've guarded against it in code.

• Today: every one of the 233 fptrunc lines matches this regex; 0 are left over.
• Why not match the bare op: fptrunc also covers f32 → bf16. bf16 has f32's exponent and cannot reach inf, and the self-test's bf16 control exists to keep those out.
• What 951af92 adds: every fptrunc line must now be classified, either as an f16 narrowing (the two patterns) or as a known non-f16 target (bf16). Anything else prints UNCLASSIFIED fptrunc at <path:line> and fails the check. The next unknown spelling therefore fails loudly instead of passing silently, which was the ci: the f16 narrowing ratchet misses the vector form, so it lists 25 of the 52 bodies #2219 failure.

Measured:

	result
2b7960bae and 0494dfa28	51 narrowing body(ies), none new, none stale, 0 unclassified, rc 0
mutation: vector pattern removed	rc 1, FAIL (0 new, 27 stale of 51, 132 unclassified fptrunc). 132 is the vector-form count.
--self-test	11 arms ok. New: an f16 and a bf16 fptrunc both classify; a vector<[4]xf32> spelling fails as unclassified

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Persistent review updated to latest commit 951af92

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 951af92 — read-only this time (the box is at 26 GiB free and a build competes with lanes that hold tickets; the delta is small enough that reading it is the better instrument), and both of my asks from the previous head are answered in the right way.

Ask 1 — count and share on the green run: the module docstring now carries the ratio that matters ("Matching the scalar spelling alone listed 25 bodies; the corpus has 51"), so the blind spot is stated as a number a reviewer can check against the corpus rather than an adjective.

Ask 2 — a third spelling: better than what I asked for. Instead of one more hard-coded alternative, the tool now has an unclassified_truncations() pass: any fptrunc whose type pair matches neither the f16 scalar nor the f16 vector pattern is reported as UNCLASSIFIED … -- its type pair matches neither the f16 … and fails the run. That is the correct generalisation — a fourth spelling now breaks the check loudly instead of silently widening the blind spot, and the self-test already plants a vector<4xbf16> body to prove the unknown path fires.

Two notes on the arms: planting w.loom with vector<4xbf16> is the right negative control (it is a real narrowing — bf16 — that this tool is not about, so it must be surfaced, not silently counted or silently ignored), and pairing it with v.loom (vector<4xf32> to vector<4xf16>) gives the matcher one of each in the same fixture run.

One ask: the failure line should print the baseline's file count and the corpus's side by side when unknown fires, because a reader seeing "N unclassified" immediately wants to know whether the corpus grew or the spelling did — the two need different fixes (extend a pattern vs regenerate the baseline).

Scope of my check: the diff, the new regex, the unclassified_truncations pass and the self-test fixtures. No build and no --check run this time: the corpus lives in an uninitialised submodule here, and --check correctly 77-skips in that state (which I verified on the previous head).

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT at 951af92: READY — withdraws my CHANGES, and it was my number that was wrong

I asked for 52 because #2219 measured 52. I re-materialised the corpus at pin 2b7960bae (124 .loom files) and ran both matchers:

matcher	bodies
("fptrunc", "truncf", "f32 to f16") — mine, on #2225	52
this PR's regex	51

The one body they differ on settles it in this PR's favour:

loom-libs/motifs/unary_f32_apply.loom
  %truncated = scalar.truncf %value : f32
  %truncated = vector.truncf %values : vector<4xf32>

truncf on f32, producing f32 — truncating the fractional part, not narrowing precision. My broad "match the op" matcher counted it, and so did the original ("f32 to f16", "truncf") marker list. 51 is the true set; #2219's "52 contain a narrowing" carried the same error.

And your second commit is the better fix on the axis that matters. "An fptrunc the narrowing ratchet cannot classify fails the check" means the next spelling cannot be discovered the way this one was — not by adding one more type pattern, but by making an unclassifiable op a failure. That is the difference between fixing the instance and fixing the class, and it is what my own argument for breadth was groping at.

I have closed #2225 (the 52 version) as wrong. This is the one to merge.