Pith Number

pith:A2IFKQLV

pith:2026:A2IFKQLV7HEAZZQW5GMSFCRWFL

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We Must Have Missed This Comment: Detecting and Repairing Stale Function References in Linux Kernel Comments

David Lo, He Zhang, Hongyu Kuang, Julia Lawall, Kexin Sun, Ratnadira Widyasari, Xiaoxing Ma, Xutong Ma, Yunbo Lyu

arxiv:2608.03734 v1 · 2026-08-04 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A2IFKQLV7HEAZZQW5GMSFCRWFL}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-08-05T01:36:59.065373Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0690554175f9c80ce616e999228a362af06abe9390b7804272ea1737e4019444

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.03734 · arxiv_version: 2608.03734v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.03734 · pith_short_12: A2IFKQLV7HEA · pith_short_16: A2IFKQLV7HEAZZQW · pith_short_8: A2IFKQLV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A2IFKQLV7HEAZZQW5GMSFCRWFL \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 0690554175f9c80ce616e999228a362af06abe9390b7804272ea1737e4019444

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97fd1e83237a3a421be92b30b546a676d3210547ffb4ca688b9b29982bd33c41",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T14:28:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3a57af7417e4d85de4b572f2948ff3bef6ec373af856571ba1661afe9c2d437e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.03734",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}