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agree accepted a negative tolerance, and accepted a pair with no positive
tolerance, leaving both to callers. Both are now rejected in agree.

Why these are not caller concerns

A negative tolerance cannot mean anything. The spread is a distance, so it
is non-negative: spread <= negative is unsatisfiable on its own, and under the
max the negative term is inert — it cannot cancel the other term, only fail to
be it. It is representable solely because floats are signed. Accepting it meant a
closeness check built on a malformed tolerance quietly passed on the other term.

Neither tolerance positive is a tolerance of nothing. The limit is zero and
agree degenerates into exact equality, which eq answers directly and more
cheaply. A caller that meant to set a tolerance and set none was being
misunderstood rather than served.

Either tolerance alone may still be zero. That is how a caller asks for only
the other one, and it is what makes the second rejection about having no
tolerance rather than about zero appearing at all.

Why in the library

rainlang's agree word carried these checks while this library did not. So any
other consumer calling LibDecimalFloat.agree directly — st0x.attest, or the
next one — got no guard at all. A guard a caller can skip is not a guard.

This is a defect I introduced in #278: moving the arithmetic out of the word and
into the library left the guard behind, and the natspec I wrote ("the caller is
responsible for the tolerances being sensible") made the omission read as
intent. It was not intent, and I said #278 was ready for external audit while it
stood.

Errors

AgreeToleranceNegative(absolute, proportional) and
AgreeNoPositiveTolerance(absolute, proportional), both carrying the offending
tolerances, documented with what a silent alternative would do — matching how
the rest of ErrDecimalFloat.sol justifies its reverts.

QA

  • Discriminating tests: testAgreeRejectsNegativeTolerance and
    testAgreeRejectsNoPositiveTolerance both fail on base, where the calls
    return instead of reverting. They discriminate rather than merely exercise:
    the negative case includes a pair where the other term would have accepted
    the spread on its own, which is precisely the input that used to pass silently
    and which a guard placed after the arithmetic would still let through; and it
    covers a negative on either side and on both. The no-positive case includes
    zeros with non-zero exponents, so a guard written against the raw bytes rather
    than the numeric value would fail it. testAgreeAcceptsOneZeroTolerance pins
    the boundary, so a guard that over-rejected any zero would fail.
  • Mutations applied: n/a in this PR; the existing 12 in mutants.toml still
    pass and cover the arithmetic. The guard's own mutants are the two comparison
    directions and the &&/|| in the positive test — each is killed by the tests
    above by construction, since flipping either comparison turns a rejected input
    into an accepted one and the tests assert the exact selector and arguments. I
    have not run the probe on them, so I am not claiming a score.
  • Oracle: the domain, not the implementation. A spread is |highest - lowest| and so non-negative, which makes a negative limit unsatisfiable by
    definition; and with both terms zero the limit is zero, which is exact
    equality by definition. Neither expectation is read back from output. The
    errors carry the tolerances, so the assertions check the reported values as
    well as the fact of the revert.
  • Category check: the category is "agree accepts tolerances that cannot
    mean anything". Covered: negative on either side and both, and no-positive
    including alternate zero representations. The arithmetic is untouched — the
    guard runs before it and returns the same answers for every valid tolerance,
    which the 27 pre-existing agree tests establish by passing unchanged except
    where the behaviour genuinely changed.

Tests that changed because the behaviour changed

  • testAgreeZeroSpread passed 0/0; now uses the smallest positive tolerance,
    so it still tests what it meant to.
  • testAgreeAgainstIntegerOracle can fuzz 0/0; nudges to a valid pair rather
    than discarding the run.
  • testAgreeNeverReverts asserted the opposite of the guard. Rescoped to
    testAgreeNeverRevertsOnValues — a valid tolerance with fuzzed values, which
    is the claim worth making: no pair of representable values can make the
    arithmetic revert.

The revert tests go through an external wrapper, since agree is internal and
its reverts otherwise land at the test's own call depth where vm.expectRevert
cannot see them.

Verification

53 suites, 499 of 500. The one failure is testSubPacked reverting
ExponentUnderflow — #271, reproduces on main, untouched here.
forge lint -D warnings and forge fmt --check both exit 0.

Follow-up

rainlang #592 currently validates in the word. Once this releases, that branch
bumps and drops validateTolerances and agreedAt, leaving run and
referenceFn calling LibDecimalFloat.agree directly.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • The agree check rejects negative tolerances and cases where both tolerances are zero, with errors reporting the supplied values.
    • A zero absolute or proportional tolerance remains valid when the other tolerance is positive. Identical values are accepted even with the smallest positive tolerance, while a spread of 1 is rejected in that case.

`agree` accepted a negative tolerance and accepted a pair with no
positive tolerance, leaving both to callers. That was wrong, and the
natspec claiming tolerance validity is the caller's business was wrong
with it.

A negative tolerance cannot mean anything. The spread is a distance, so
it is non-negative: `spread <= negative` is unsatisfiable on its own, and
under the `max` the negative term is inert — it cannot cancel the other
term, only fail to be it. It is representable solely because floats are
signed. Accepting it meant a closeness check built on a malformed
tolerance silently passed on the other term.

Neither tolerance positive is a tolerance of nothing: the limit is zero
and `agree` degenerates into exact equality, which `eq` answers directly
and more cheaply. A caller that meant to set a tolerance and set none was
being misunderstood rather than served.

Both are now rejected in `agree`, with `AgreeToleranceNegative` and
`AgreeNoPositiveTolerance` carrying the offending tolerances. Either
tolerance ALONE may still be zero; that is how a caller asks for only the
other one.

Rejected HERE, not in callers. rainlang's `agree` word carried these
checks while the library did not, which meant any other consumer calling
`LibDecimalFloat.agree` directly — st0x.attest, or the next one — got no
guard at all. A guard a caller can skip is not a guard, and moving the
arithmetic into this library without the guard left the guard behind by
accident.

Three existing tests changed because the behaviour changed:

- `testAgreeZeroSpread` passed 0/0 and now uses the smallest positive
  tolerance, so it still tests what it meant to.
- `testAgreeAgainstIntegerOracle` can fuzz 0/0, so it nudges to a valid
  pair rather than discarding the run.
- `testAgreeNeverReverts` asserted the opposite of the guard. Rescoped to
  `testAgreeNeverRevertsOnValues`: a valid tolerance, fuzzed values, which
  is the claim that was actually worth making — no pair of representable
  values can make the arithmetic revert.

Added `testAgreeRejectsNegativeTolerance` (either side, both sides, and
the case where the other term would have accepted the spread on its own,
which is the one that used to pass silently),
`testAgreeRejectsNoPositiveTolerance` (including zeros with non-zero
exponents, since every representation of zero is treated alike), and
`testAgreeAcceptsOneZeroTolerance` for the boundary between the two.

The revert tests go through an external wrapper, because `agree` is an
internal library call and its reverts otherwise land at the test's own
call depth where `vm.expectRevert` cannot see them.

53 suites, 499 of 500. The one failure is `testSubPacked` reverting
`ExponentUnderflow`, which is #271 and reproduces on main. Lint and fmt
clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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LibDecimalFloat.agree now rejects negative tolerances and calls where neither tolerance is positive. Tests cover these rejections, single-zero tolerance cases, and tolerance behavior across packed values.

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Agree tolerance validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define and enforce tolerance rules
src/error/ErrDecimalFloat.sol, src/lib/LibDecimalFloat.sol
Adds errors for negative tolerances and for cases where neither tolerance is positive. agree validates tolerances before calculating the spread limit.
Test tolerance validation
test/src/lib/LibDecimalFloat.agree.t.sol
Adds revert assertions for invalid tolerances and acceptance tests when one tolerance is zero. Updates fuzz and range-extreme tests to check the validation rules.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in src/error/ErrDecimalFloat.sol: Adds the AgreeToleranceNegative error declaration and documentation for reporting both tolerances when agree receives a negative tolerance.
  • observed — Modified behavior in src/error/ErrDecimalFloat.sol: Adds the AgreeNoPositiveTolerance error declaration and documentation for reporting when both tolerances are nonpositive; either one may be zero if the other is positive.
  • observed — Modified behavior in src/lib/LibDecimalFloat.sol: Added imports for PowNegativeBase, AgreeToleranceNegative, and AgreeNoPositiveTolerance from ErrDecimalFloat.sol.
  • observed — Modified behavior in src/lib/LibDecimalFloat.sol: agree now rejects negative tolerances and requires at least one positive tolerance before computing the spread and limit. Previously, its documentation assigned tolerance validity to callers and described negative tolerances as dominated by the other term and two zero tolerances as exact equality.
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In @test/src/lib/LibDecimalFloat.agree.t.sol:
- Around line 455-456: Update the `agreeExternal` assertion to use `Float.wrap`
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`packLossless` canonicalises every zero to `FLOAT_ZERO`, so
`f(0, 5)` and `f(0, -5)` are the same word as `f(0, 0)`. The assertion
claiming "every representation of zero is treated alike" therefore tested
the canonical case a second time and said nothing about non-canonical
zeros. Raised by CodeRabbit on #281 and confirmed: the new test asserts
that premise explicitly, so it cannot rot back.

Non-canonical zeros are now built with `Float.wrap` — the exponent is the
high 32 bits, so a zero coefficient at exponent 5 and at exponent -5 are
distinct words that are both numerically zero — and checked alone, and
mixed with a canonical zero either way round.

Four tests added around the guard:

- `testAgreeRejectsNonCanonicalZeroTolerances`, with the premise assertions
  above, which is what makes the guard demonstrably numeric rather than
  bytewise.
- `testAgreeAcceptsNonCanonicalZeroWithPositive`. Without it the test above
  also passes for a guard that wrongly rejected ANY non-canonical
  tolerance, so this is what makes the rejection specifically about having
  no tolerance.
- `testAgreeGuardHoldsForArbitraryTolerances`: the guard as a law over
  arbitrary packed pairs, 5000 runs. The expectation comes from the
  tolerances' own signs via `lt`/`gt` against zero rather than from calling
  `agree`, so it pins the guard's domain instead of restating its
  implementation. Values are held fixed and valid so the tolerance pair is
  the only variable.
- `testAgreeRejectsBadToleranceAtTheRangeExtremes`: rejection holds where
  the spread is the widest representable.

33 in the agree suite, up from 29. 53 suites, 503 of 504; the failure is
#271 and reproduces on main. Lint and fmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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