wcc: nullable pointer folding for (*T | void)
A tagged union with exactly one `*T` variant and one `void` variant collapses to a single 8-byte pointer slot, where the null bit pattern is the void variant and any non-null is the *T variant. Mirrors Hare's `(*T | null)` ABI optimisation. Detected in resolve_type when the post-flatten variant list has exactly two entries of the right shape; Type.nullable = 1 and size = 8. Codegen branches every tagged-handling site on the flag: - match: discriminator = pointer-vs-zero, not slot+0 tag word. Binding for the *T case copies the same word (the pointer itself) rather than slot+8. - is/as: same ptr-vs-zero discriminator. - ?: null = error (propagate AX=0 to caller's matching null encoding); non-null = success (AX is already the pointer). - !: null aborts; non-null falls through with AX = pointer. - let-init / return: spill or set just AX (no tag/value pair). - call-arg push: push only AX, not the now-unused DX/CX. Prologue spill already pulled size/8 = 1 arg register via the existing tagged-arg loop, so no change needed there. Two existing helpers in cgen.c get nullable-aware spelling: type_isnullable() and nullable_ptr_tag() (which variant index is the *T side; the void side is the other one). The Hare-style `(*T | null)` spelling isn't supported — `null` is not a type keyword in ww. Callers use `void` instead, which is already a real type. The result is the same bit-level layout.
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@@ -145,6 +145,10 @@ static const struct row rows[] = {
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"fn parse() (invalid | i64 | overflow) = { return 0i64; }; "
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"fn caller() i32 = { let v: i64 = parse()?; return v: i32; };",
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"enclosing function must return a tagged union" },
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/* nullable pointer folding accepts `(*T | void)` */
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{ "fn lookup(p: *i32) (*i32 | void) = { return p; };", "ok" },
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{ "fn lookup() (*i32 | void) = { return; };", "ok" }, /* bare return → null */
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};
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int
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