diff --git a/changelog.d/7460-dep-corpus-vacuous.md b/changelog.d/7460-dep-corpus-vacuous.md
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+- **The dependency-scale GC root-dominance corpus was measuring nothing, and now isn't.** #7452 restored the curated corpus and missed its sibling: the checker anchors on `@js_shadow_slot_bind` call sites, statepoints became the default root lowering in #7370 and express roots as `gc.statepoint` relocation bundles, so the dependency corpus emitted 81 modules with **zero** of the checker's subject. Selecting the shadow-stack lowering restores it to 7719 root stores across 12899 functions — matching CI's own documented floors ("81 modules, ~12900 functions, ~7700 root stores"), which were written against that lowering. Both gated arms exit 0 with 40/40 seeded violations caught. This is the corpus #7280 created *because* the curated one reads zero while twenty lines of stock `zod` fault, so leaving it vacuous defeated the reason it exists. (#7460)
diff --git a/scripts/gc_root_dominance_dep_corpus.sh b/scripts/gc_root_dominance_dep_corpus.sh
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--- a/scripts/gc_root_dominance_dep_corpus.sh
+++ b/scripts/gc_root_dominance_dep_corpus.sh
@@ -82,7 +82,16 @@ trap 'rm -rf "$scratch"' EXIT
 # (it is off by default since #7161, so without it the corpus cannot express a
 # back-edge collection at all). PERRY_INLINE_SHADOW_SLOT=0 makes every root
 # store the @js_shadow_slot_bind call form the checker anchors on.
-if ! env PERRY_GC_MOVING_LOOP_POLLS=1 \
+# PERRY_RS4GC=0 selects the SHADOW-STACK root lowering, for the same reason as
+# the sibling corpus (#7452): statepoints became the default in #7370 and
+# express roots as `gc.statepoint` relocation bundles rather than
+# `@js_shadow_slot_bind` calls, so without this the corpus contains ZERO of the
+# checker's subject. #7452 fixed the curated corpus and missed this one -- it
+# was still emitting 81 modules with 0 bind call sites, i.e. a dependency-scale
+# gate measuring nothing, which is exactly the failure #7280 created it to
+# avoid.
+if ! env PERRY_RS4GC=0 \
+         PERRY_GC_MOVING_LOOP_POLLS=1 \
          PERRY_INLINE_SHADOW_SLOT=0 \
          PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1 \
      "$PERRY_BIN" compile "$ENTRY" -o "$scratch/dep-corpus" --trace llvm \