A share under a parent that divides nothing is still a share: the pixels and
fraction beside it are taken first, the share fills whatever the box has left,
and where those are already longer than the box they overflow it exactly as
they would without the share. So the length is `max(box, px + rel*box)`, a
minimum the share imposes rather than an addition to what was asked for
(Bryan, 2026-09-20, generalising the same `max` he gave for `Scroll`'s content
length two days earlier).
A span does that. Measured at `77ed7a2`, a probe recording the box it is asked
in, in a 400 px window, under `.wrapper()` against a one-child span:
rule nothing divides a span divides
leftover(1) 400 400
px(50) + leftover(1) 400 400
px(500) + leftover(1) 400 500
rel(0.5) + leftover(1) 400 400
px(500), no leftover 500 500
One row disagreed, and the same length without the share overflows fine
(drawn -50..450, its alignment centring it), so what swallowed the overflow was
the share. `LayoutLen::declared` refuses to answer for anything carrying
leftover weight, so the non-dividing path never learned the fixed part and fell
back to the offer.
Said as the place the parent gives rather than as a declaration, because that
is what the retained record already keeps: where the fixed part is the longer,
`widget_at` hands the child `fixed.as_desc().fills()` -- a box of that length,
placed by the child's alignment, its own rel base -- which is what a declared
length already comes to, and `active.placed` stores it, so a recomposed subtree
reads the same box without resolving anything again. A place that is already
the child's placement is skipped: a parent that divides has given the share
whatever it was owed, and re-placing a span's slot moved its child.
Which of two lengths is longer is a question in pixels, so it is one operation
with the crossing kept as a window range, and both callers now share it.
`Painter::longer_than` is that operation -- the span's room for the shares it
divides, and a share past the box it was given -- and it narrows this widget's
range where the span replaced it, since a comparison the framework makes on an
arbitrary parent's behalf is one more reason its drawing holds, not the only
one. A `SizeRule::Min` of `rel(1.0)` is the same operation again, which is what
this is (Bryan, 2026-09-20); when that lands it belongs on this path.
`a_share_is_a_minimum_wherever_nothing_divides_it` walks the table above and
holds the two parents to the same length; the crossing case is checked from
both sides, by a window that crosses it and by the rule itself crossing while
the window holds still. Both fail at `77ed7a2` with 400 where 500 is wanted. A
change of rule needs nothing to escalate it: the reported size is the rule
resolved, so the answer changes and the parent refuses its own drawing --
verified by writing the escalation, finding the tests pass without it, and
dropping it.
Format, clippy with and without layout-diagnostics, and the suite (134 + 19 +
13 + 4) are clean. The cold dump over 400 depth-5 trees is byte-identical to
`77ed7a2` across all 34,488 boxes, since no generated tree carries a share with
pixels beside it -- which the next commit changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5
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