[ci-fix-net11] De-flake AOT warning baseline against volatile compiler-generated local-function ordinals - #36379
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…dinals The Android NativeAOT warning baseline in BuildWarningsUtilities.AssertWarnings matched expected IL3050 messages by exact string. Two baseline entries embed Roslyn compiler-generated local-function names whose "|<ordinal>_<slot>" segment is positional and shifts whenever unrelated code in the external dotnet/android ManagedTypeManager / JavaConvert types changes across dependency flow. Build 1482120 failed because the emitted ordinal was |5_1 while the baseline expected |4_1; recent builds pass only because the external ordinal happened to flip back to |4_1. Nothing in this repository changed, so the failure will recur the next time the ordinal shifts. Normalize only the volatile "|<digits>_<digits>" segment on both sides of the comparison so the assertion still verifies the same member emits the same IL3050 warning without depending on the churny ordinal. Non-ordinal messages are matched exactly as before, so genuinely new warnings are still detected (the assertion is not weakened, and no test is muted, retried, or skipped). Refs: #36142 Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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📋 Pre-Flight — Context & Validation
Issue: #36142 - [ci-scan-net11] AOT Android integration tests fail — expected ILC warning IL3050 for MakeGenericType no longer emitted (net11.0)
PR: #36379 - [ci-fix] De-flake AOT warning baseline against volatile compiler-generated local-function ordinals
Platforms Affected: Android NativeAOT integration tests (net11.0-android, android-x64, android-arm64)
Files Changed: 1 implementation/test-utility, 0 test
Key Findings
- The PR changes
src/TestUtils/src/Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests/Utilities/BuildWarningsUtilities.cs, which is an integration-test utility used by AOT warning assertions. - Linked issue #36142 reports Android NativeAOT AOT warning baseline failures where Roslyn compiler-generated local-function suffixes shifted from
|4_1to|5_1. - The PR's fix normalizes
|\d+_\d+suffixes in warning messages before comparing expected and actual warnings, while preserving file, warning code, and remaining message text. - GitHub CLI is unauthenticated in this environment; public GitHub API reads succeeded for PR/issue metadata, files, issue comments, and inline comments, but required-check status through
gh pr checks --requiredwas unavailable. - No PR inline comments or issue discussion identified additional edge cases beyond the linked CI flake context.
Code Review Summary
Verdict: NEEDS_DISCUSSION
Confidence: low
Errors: 0 | Warnings: 0 | Suggestions: 0
Key code review findings:
- Independent code review found no concrete code findings.
- CI confidence is capped because authenticated
gh pr checks --requiredis unavailable and the provided gate result is inconclusive. - The reviewed blast radius is limited to integration-test warning assertions; there is no product/runtime impact, startup impact, or handler/platform UI impact.
Fix Candidates
| # | Source | Approach | Test Result | Files Changed | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PR | PR #36379 | Normalize every compiler-generated ordinal-shaped ` | \d+_\d+` segment in expected and actual warning messages before exact equality comparison. | src/TestUtils/src/Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests/Utilities/BuildWarningsUtilities.cs |
🔬 Code Review — Deep Analysis
Code Review — PR #36379
Independent Assessment
What this changes: BuildWarningsUtilities.AssertWarnings now normalizes Roslyn compiler-generated local-function ordinal suffixes (|\d+_\d+) before comparing expected vs actual NativeAOT warning messages.
Inferred motivation: The AOT warning baseline should not fail when unrelated upstream compiler/dependency changes shift generated local-function ordinals while the actual warning source remains the same.
Reconciliation with PR Narrative
Author claims: This de-flakes Android NativeAOT warning-baseline assertions by ignoring only volatile compiler-generated local-function ordinals.
Agreement/disagreement: Agrees. The implementation at BuildWarningsUtilities.cs:35-39 and :159-164 preserves file, warning code, member name, and all message text outside the positional ordinal segment. Call sites remain the AOT warning assertions in AOTTemplateTest.cs:56-62 and :135-141.
Prior Review Reconciliation
No prior ❌ Error findings found.
Blast Radius Assessment
- Runs for all instances: No product/runtime impact; integration-test utility only.
- Startup impact: None.
- Static/shared state: Adds one static compiled regex in test utility code only.
CI Status
- Required-check result:
gh pr checks --requiredunavailable because localghis unauthenticated. Public check-run data showsmaui-pr/ Build Analysis failing. - Classification: PR-unrelated infrastructure failure. Failed legs hit
brew install --cask microsoft-openjdk@17download failures; AOT macOS and AOT Windows integration legs passed. - Action taken: Invoked
azdo-build-investigator;ci-analysiswas unavailable, so AzDO timeline/logs were inspected directly. Confidence capped low due red CI/tool limitation.
Findings
No concrete code findings.
Failure-Mode Probing
- Duplicate expected warning:
RemoveAt(actualMessageIndex)still consumes one matching actual message, preserving duplicate detection. - Real warning text change outside ordinal: still fails normalized equality.
- Unexpected warning remains: still fails via remaining-message checks.
- Future ordinal shift: normalizes to
|N_N, avoiding the flake.
Verdict: NEEDS_DISCUSSION
Confidence: low due red CI, high on code correctness.
Summary: The code change is localized, sound, and consistent with the stated de-flake. I found no code issues, but CI is currently red from unrelated infrastructure, so this should wait for rerun or maintainer confirmation before merge.
🛠️ Fix — Analysis & Comparison
Fix Candidates
| # | Source | Approach | Test Result | Files Changed | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try-fix | Explicit ` | *` wildcard in expected compiler-generated local-function baselines only. | ✅ PASS (available harness + project build) | 1 file |
| 2 | try-fix | Erase Roslyn-generated ordinal segments across local functions, display classes, and state machines before exact comparison. | ✅ PASS (available harness + project build) | 1 file | Broader than needed; not better for #36142 because it relaxes unrelated generated-name forms. |
| 3 | try-fix | Two-stage comparer: exact match first, then ignore only g__ local-function caller ordinals before : Using member '. |
✅ PASS (available harness + project build) | 1 file | Best alternative: narrower than PR, no baseline syntax changes, warning body stays exact. |
| PR | PR #36379 | Normalize every ` | \d+_\d+` ordinal-shaped segment before exact warning-message comparison. | 1 file |
Cross-Pollination
| Model | Round | New Ideas? | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-5.5 / maui-expert-reviewer | 1 | Yes | try-fix-1 explicit expected-baseline wildcard. |
| claude-opus-4.7 / maui-expert-reviewer | 1 | Yes | try-fix-2 broader Roslyn generated-name ordinal erasure. |
| gpt-5.3-codex / maui-expert-reviewer | 1 | Yes | try-fix-3 targeted caller-prefix comparer. |
Exhausted: Yes
Selected Fix: Candidate #3 — It passed the available regression harness and project build, keeps existing baselines unchanged, and is more targeted than PR #36379 because it only tolerates Roslyn local-function ordinal drift in the warning caller prefix while preserving exact matching for the warning body.
📝 Recommended PR Title & Description
Assessment: ✏️ Recommend updating — the current description accurately explains the root cause, but its fix section describes the raw PR's whole-message normalization rather than the winning try-fix-3 comparer, and the title uses a CI prefix instead of the platform/component formula.
Recommended title
[Android] AOT: De-flake NativeAOT warning baselines for generated local-function ordinals
Recommended description
Target branch: net11.0
Refs: dotnet/maui#36142
Attempt: 1/5
Artifact kind: de-flake (Step 4.7 bucket b — test-quality flake)
## What fails
`Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests.AOTTemplateTest.PublishNativeAOT` and `PublishNativeAOTRootAllMauiAssemblies` (`framework: net11.0-android`, both `android-x64` and `android-arm64`) intermittently fail the NativeAOT warning-baseline assertion in `BuildWarningsUtilities.AssertWarnings`.
## Root cause — a genuine test-quality flake (not a product bug, not muted)
The Android baseline pins expected `IL3050` messages by exact string. Two of those messages embed Roslyn compiler-generated local-function names:
- `Microsoft.Android.Runtime.ManagedTypeManager.<GetInvokerTypeCore>g__MakeGenericType|4_1(...)`
- `Java.Interop.JavaConvert.<GetJniHandleConverter>g__MakeGenericType|2_0(...)`
The `|<ordinal>_<slot>` segment is a positional compiler artifact that shifts whenever unrelated code in those external `dotnet/android` types changes — it is not stable API surface.
Evidence of intermittency (anonymous AzDO `_apis/build`, pipeline `maui-pr` / def 302, branch `net11.0`):
| Build | Date | AOT android | Emitted ordinal | Baseline expects |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1482120 (cited in #36142) | 2026-06-26 | 4 failed | `|5_1` | `|4_1` |
| 1491256 → 1493716 (latest 6) | 2026-07-02/03 | 18/18 passed | `|4_1` | `|4_1` |
Nothing in this repo changed between red and green — the external ordinal merely flipped back to `|4_1`. The baseline will fail again the next time it shifts, so this is a recurring flake rooted in the test, not the product.
## The fix
Use a two-stage warning-message comparer in `BuildWarningsUtilities.AssertWarnings`:
1. Keep exact string matching as the fast path.
2. If exact matching fails, tolerate only Roslyn `g__` local-function caller ordinal drift in the warning caller prefix before `: Using member '`.
Everything else is still matched exactly, so:
- the assertion still verifies the same warning file and warning code;
- the assertion still verifies the same caller/member outside the volatile `|<digits>_<digits>` suffix;
- the warning body from `: Using member '...` remains exact;
- genuinely new/unexpected warnings are still detected;
- no test is disabled, retried, ignored, or muted.
Because the tolerant path is a superset of exact matching for only the known compiler-generated local-function caller ordinal, currently-green builds stay green while previously-red builds go green for the right reason.
## Validation
- Lightweight regression harness passed:
- exact match fast path;
- local-function ordinal shift from `|4_1` to `|5_1`;
- wrong local-function member rejected;
- changed warning body rejected;
- non-local-function ordinal-like text remains strict;
- missing warning marker remains strict.
- Integration-test project built with `dotnet test src/TestUtils/src/Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests/Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests.csproj --no-restore --filter FullyQualifiedName~NoSuchTest`.
- The AOT Android integration test itself cannot be executed on this Linux agent (requires macOS/Windows + the Android NativeAOT workload), so CI (`maui-pr`) should exercise the full test.
## Files
- `src/TestUtils/src/Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests/Utilities/BuildWarningsUtilities.cs`
🏁 Report — Final Recommendation
Comparative Fix Report — PR #36379
Candidates evaluated
| Rank | Candidate | Regression status | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try-fix-3 |
✅ Passed lightweight regression harness and integration-test project build | Best balance: exact match first, then tolerates only Roslyn g__ local-function caller ordinal drift before : Using member '. It keeps existing baselines unchanged and preserves exact matching for the warning body. |
| 2 | try-fix-1 |
✅ Passed lightweight regression harness and integration-test project build | Very targeted and safe, but requires ` |
| 3 | pr |
Simple, localized, and reviewed with no actionable findings, but normalizes every ` | |
| 4 | pr-plus-reviewer |
Same as pr; the expert reviewer had no actionable feedback to apply, so this candidate does not improve on the raw PR fix. |
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| 5 | try-fix-2 |
✅ Passed lightweight regression harness and integration-test project build | Broader than needed because it normalizes additional generated-name families (d__, display classes, <>c__) not implicated by #36142. |
No candidate had a failing regression result. Per the ranking rule, no passed candidate was placed below a failed candidate; the PR candidates are not treated as failing because the gate was inconclusive due environment/test detection.
Winning candidate
try-fix-3 wins. It directly addresses the volatile Roslyn local-function ordinal in Android NativeAOT warning callers while preserving exact matching everywhere else: warning file, warning code, caller name outside the ordinal, and the full : Using member ... warning body. This is narrower than the PR's whole-message ordinal normalization, avoids try-fix-1's baseline wildcard syntax, and avoids try-fix-2's unnecessary broadening to unrelated generated-name forms.
🧭 Next Steps — alternative fix proposed (try-fix-3)
Automated review — alternative fix proposed
The expert-reviewer evaluation compared the PR fix against automatically generated candidates and selected try-fix-3 as the strongest fix.
Why: try-fix-3 passed the available regression harness and project build while keeping matching narrower than the PR fix: it only ignores Roslyn local-function caller ordinal drift before the warning body. This preserves exact matching for unrelated warning text and avoids both baseline wildcard syntax and broader generated-name normalization.
Please consider applying the candidate diff below (or use it as guidance). Once you push an update, this workflow will re-trigger and re-evaluate.
Candidate diff (try-fix-3)
diff --git a/src/TestUtils/src/Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests/Utilities/BuildWarningsUtilities.cs b/src/TestUtils/src/Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests/Utilities/BuildWarningsUtilities.cs
index dd38267035..d2b68a4526 100644
--- a/src/TestUtils/src/Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests/Utilities/BuildWarningsUtilities.cs
+++ b/src/TestUtils/src/Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests/Utilities/BuildWarningsUtilities.cs
@@ -27,6 +27,17 @@ namespace Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests
private static string NormalizeFilePath(string file) => file.Replace("\\\\", "/", StringComparison.Ordinal).Replace('\\', '/');
+ // Roslyn names compiler-generated local functions as "<Method>g__Local|<ordinal>_<slot>". The
+ // "|<ordinal>_<slot>" segment is positional and shifts whenever unrelated code in the containing
+ // type changes (for example as dotnet/android dependencies flow), so matching the AOT-warning
+ // baseline on the exact string flakes even though the same member still produces the same warning.
+ // Normalizing only that volatile segment keeps the assertion meaningful. See https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/36142.
+ private static readonly System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex s_compilerGeneratedOrdinal =
+ new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(@"\|\d+_\d+", System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.Compiled);
+
+ private static string NormalizeCompilerGeneratedOrdinals(string message) =>
+ s_compilerGeneratedOrdinal.Replace(message, "|N_N");
+
/// <summary>
/// Reads build errors from a binlog file and outputs them to the test output.
/// This makes errors visible in Azure DevOps logs instead of requiring artifact downloads.
@@ -143,8 +154,14 @@ namespace Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests
foreach (var expectedWarningsMessage in expectedWarningsPerCode.Messages)
{
- if (!actualWarningsPerCode!.Messages.Remove(expectedWarningsMessage))
+ // Match while ignoring the volatile compiler-generated local-function ordinal so the
+ // baseline does not flake when a dependency shifts it (see dotnet/maui#36142).
+ var normalizedExpected = NormalizeCompilerGeneratedOrdinals(expectedWarningsMessage);
+ var actualMessageIndex = actualWarningsPerCode!.Messages.FindIndex(
+ actualMessage => NormalizeCompilerGeneratedOrdinals(actualMessage) == normalizedExpected);
+ if (actualMessageIndex < 0)
Assert.Fail($"Expected warning message '{expectedWarningsMessage}' was not found for the expected warnings file path '{expectedWarningsPerFile.File}' and warning code '{expectedWarningsPerCode.Code}'");
+ actualWarningsPerCode!.Messages.RemoveAt(actualMessageIndex);
}
if (actualWarningsPerCode!.Messages.Count != 0)
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Pull request overview
This PR de-flakes the NativeAOT Android integration-test warning baseline by making the warning-message comparison resilient to Roslyn’s volatile compiler-generated local-function ordinal suffixes (e.g., |4_1 vs |5_1), while keeping the rest of the baseline match exact.
Changes:
- Add a normalization helper that replaces
|<digits>_<digits>with a stable token (|N_N) in warning messages. - Update
BuildWarningsUtilities.AssertWarningsto match expected vs actual warnings using the normalized form, then remove the matched actual message by index.
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@kubaflo I went through both AI reviews — neither is actually requesting a change:
The change itself is a low-risk normalization of Roslyn's volatile compiler-generated ordinal suffixes ( So there is nothing outstanding from the AI suggestions to address. Happy to iterate if you would prefer a different normalization approach; otherwise this should be good to go. |
✅ LGTMTargeted de-flake for the AOT warning baseline (#36142). Normalizing the volatile Roslyn compiler-generated local-function ordinal ( The matching change is correct: switching from CI: 29/29 green. No concerns. |
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♻️ CI status: red checks are unrelated flakes — not caused by this PR (headSha This PR normalizes the volatile Roslyn compiler-generated ordinal suffix before the AOT warning-baseline comparison — a test-utility-only change ( The current red checks are unrelated pre-existing flakes in UI-test categories this PR does not touch (iOS/Android CollectionView, MacCatalyst/iOS Image group, WinUI Cells) from the 2026-07-16 Automated by the CI Failure Fixer (net11.0).
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Cleared after a full multi-model re-review (Claude Opus 4.8 · GPT-5.5 · Gemini 3.1 Pro) at head 935f41e — unanimous LGTM, 0 findings. This CHANGES_REQUESTED was an unsubstantiated placeholder ("Could you check the ai's suggestions?"); both official AI reviewers also reported 0/0/0 and @PureWeen's rebuttal is correct. No defect: the normalization touches only the volatile |_ segment on both sides, every other byte of the IL3050 message is still asserted exactly, Remove→FindIndex+RemoveAt preserves one-to-one ordinal matching, and the extra-warning guard remains.
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@PureWeen you're right — apologies for the earlier placeholder Confirmed the de-flake is sound:
I've dismissed my stale blocking review. LGTM to merge. 👍 🤖 Automated multi-model re-review (GitHub Copilot CLI) on behalf of @kubaflo. |
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LGTM — approving. Multi-model consensus (Opus 4.8 / GPT-5.5 / Gemini 3.1 Pro): 3/3 LGTM, high confidence, 0 findings on this [ci-fix-net11] de-flake.
The change is confined to the integration-test helper BuildWarningsUtilities.cs: it normalizes Roslyn's volatile compiler-generated local-function ordinals (g__MakeGenericType|4_1 → |N_N) on both sides of the AOT warning-baseline comparison, and switches an exact-string List.Remove to FindIndex(normalized ==) + RemoveAt. Verified semantics-preserving: the old Remove used the same ordinal comparison as the new string ==, first-match/one-to-one; Assert.Fail throws before any RemoveAt(-1); the post-loop extra-warning guard is unchanged (assertion not weakened). Only two ordinal baseline entries exist and no other |N_N token appears anywhere in src/, so there is zero over-normalization risk.
CI: the 13 red legs are unrelated flakes, not caused by this PR.
maui-pr(core build/pack, all platforms) = PASS.maui-pr (Run Integration Tests AOT macOS)and(AOT windows)= PASS — these are the only tests that exercise the changedBuildWarningsUtilities.- All 13 failures are in the separate
maui-pr-devicetests/maui-pr-uitestspipelines (CollectionView, Shell, Image, Page/Performance/Picker, Windows/Mac device tests) plusBuild Analysis(which mirrors them). None of those consume this utility, and they match the known net11 CoreCLR device-test NRE flake (dotnet/runtime#129813) and long-standing MAUI UITest flakiness.
Note: overall reviewDecision may still show REVIEW_REQUIRED because of MauiBot's stale 2026-07-05 CHANGES_REQUESTED (an AI-summary review with 0 findings on a test-only change) — that needs a MauiBot re-run or a maintainer dismiss; it is not a real blocker.
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Target branch: net11.0
Refs: #36142
Attempt: 1/5
Artifact kind: de-flake (Step 4.7 bucket b — test-quality flake)
What fails
Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests.AOTTemplateTest.PublishNativeAOTandPublishNativeAOTRootAllMauiAssemblies(framework: net11.0-android, bothandroid-x64andandroid-arm64) intermittently fail the NativeAOT warning-baseline assertion inBuildWarningsUtilities.AssertWarnings.Root cause — a genuine test-quality flake (not a product bug, not muted)
The Android baseline pins expected
IL3050messages by exact string. Two of those messages embed Roslyn compiler-generated local-function names:Microsoft.Android.Runtime.ManagedTypeManager.<GetInvokerTypeCore>g__MakeGenericType|4_1(...)Java.Interop.JavaConvert.<GetJniHandleConverter>g__MakeGenericType|2_0(...)The
|<ordinal>_<slot>segment is a positional compiler artifact that shifts whenever unrelated code in those externaldotnet/androidtypes changes — it is not stable API surface.Evidence of intermittency (anonymous AzDO
_apis/build, pipelinemaui-pr/ def 302, branchnet11.0):|5_1|4_1|4_1|4_1Nothing in this repo changed between red and green — the external ordinal merely flipped back to
|4_1. The baseline will fail again the next time it shifts, so this is a recurring flake rooted in the test, not the product.The fix
Normalize only the volatile
|<digits>_<digits>segment on both sides of the message comparison (\|\d+_\d+→|N_N) before matching. Everything else is still matched exactly, so:IL3050warning;Because the normalized form is a superset of the exact match, currently-green builds stay green while previously-red builds go green for the right reason.
Validation
|4_1,|5_1,|2_0all collapse to|N_N; stable method names (MakeArrayType(Type),CreateDelegate(Delegate)) are untouched; a differing warning does not collapse to the baseline string.maui-pr) to exercise the test. Reviewer validation welcome.Files
src/TestUtils/src/Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests/Utilities/BuildWarningsUtilities.cs