The N_TTAGGED serializer emitted each variant via wwi_type but never
re-emitted the `...` prefix for TK_ELLIPSIS spread variants, so an
exported `(...inner | str)` round-tripped through .wwi as `(inner | str)`.
The consumer's checker then could not flatten inner's members into the
alias and variadic-assignability rejected bare members — under separate
compilation this broke fmt/log/getopt. Re-emit `...` before the variant
type, both stages; the producer stays purely syntactic (flatten/dedup
remain the consumer's type-store job, per ref/hare/hare/unparse/type.ha:290-300).
Gate: test/wcc/989_wwispread_sep.c — table-driven (2-arm + 3-arm spreads)
x both stages, asserts the marker survives the .wwi, the consumer binds
bare members under --sep (exit 0), and cs==ww .wwi byte-identity.
After the frontend consolidated into one syntax package (#74), wcc still referenced syntax symbols unqualified — residue of the old flat combined namespace, where bare refs resolved by accident. Under separate compilation Hare and Go both require the package qualifier, so those bare refs would not sep-resolve.
Qualify every wcc reference to a syntax type, function, or enum member as syntax.X across the seven syntax-importing files. Resolution-only: the resolved symbol and emitted code are unchanged, so the two combined.ww regenerate textually but all five _ww binaries hold byte-for-byte. The struct-literal sites resolve via #76. This makes w6c fully separate-compilable.
The ww compiler frontend was split across packages lex (lex+tok), ww
(ast+sym+typ), and parse — mirroring Hare's ref/hare/hare/{ast,lex,parse}.
That split's only payoff is third-party reuse, which ww has zero of: the
frontend is consumed by exactly one client, the wcc backend. The split's
cost is a wide cross-package export surface — every fn over a sibling
package's type must export it, and under separate compilation that
re-triggers check_exported_type, plus a phantom `import tok;` (tok lives
in package lex). Consolidate into ONE package lib/ww/syntax/, modelled on
Go's cmd/compile/internal/syntax. The 9 files move in (package syntax);
the intra-frontend mutual references become same-package; wcc and the
tool mains import syntax. No cstage C change (the C frontend mangles from
the source package clause). Internal data shapes (AST kinds, token model,
lexer/parser state) still mirror ref/hare/hare per rule 6/12 — only the
module decomposition collapses; the stdlib is untouched.
USER-approved (#74); spec .ai/rob-frontend-reorg.md (drew2 fidelity-
confirmed). Rule-6 carve-out documented in CLAUDE.md. Dissolves the tok
phantom import; collapses the intra-frontend export sprawl. Byte-id
rebaseline (lex.X/parse.X/ww.X -> syntax.X); cs==ww held. The residual
syntax->wcc export surface (10 types) + the unqualified-ref question are
separate follow-ups (#72/#75).
The .wwi (separate-compile interface) producer could not serialize an
exported def whose initializer is a struct/array literal (N_STRUCTLIT/
N_ARRLIT) — `export def f64info: floatinfo = floatinfo{...}` aborted with
"unhandled const-expr node kind 15". Such a def is a DATA-global per the
#52 model, so its value lives once in the defining package's .o; the
interface needs only the type+symbol. Emit a value-less prototype
`export def X: T;` for aggregate-initializer defs; scalar fold-eligible
defs keep their value (the importer const-folds those). The parser gains
an optional-init arm so the importer can parse the prototype — value-less
`def X: T;` is now legal in any source, symmetric with the existing
bodyless-fn prototype `fn f();` (USER ruling: unconditional; a value-less
def with no defining .o is a loud undefined-symbol error at link, never
silent). Both stages; producer + parser fold into one commit (the
producer's output is unparseable without the parser arm).
M3-tail commit-6 prerequisite #2 (surfaced by the c6 scout). The
aggregate-def-field const-fold boundary is documented inline (#71). Gate
989_sepstructdef_run proves struct+array exported defs sep-build, link,
and run via external DATA refs, cs==ww, with a value-less .wwi.
lib/types limit consts were bare `def`s, so the .wwi (sep-compile's
interface) correctly omitted them while the flat combined.ww let a
cross-package user (lib/strings splitn → types.I32_MAX) reach the
private def — sep-compile then failed (wwstage `asserttyped: dot
'I32_MAX'`; cstage undefined-ref). Hare exports types::I32_MAX and the
whole limit family (ref/hare/types/limits.ha, arch+x86_64.ha); ww not
exporting them was the divergence.
export the 24 existing limit defs ({I,U}{8,16,32,64}_{MIN,MAX},
INT/UINT/SIZE/UINTPTR_{MIN,MAX}) and the existing RUNE_MIN, and add
exported RUNE_MAX. ww's derived machine-word int/uint/size/uintptr
VALUES are kept verbatim (user-ratified 64-bit-int divergence); fidelity
here is the NAME SET + export-visibility, not the values. RUNE_MAX is
written `0x10ffff: rune` — same codepoint as Hare's '\U0010ffff', forced
because ww's lexer has no \u/\U escape (#50).
Exporting the consts made `w6c -I` walk them and fatal on RUNE_MIN
('\0'): the .wwi const-expr unparser had no N_RUNELIT arm. Add one,
both stages (wwi_rune / wwirune), rendering a \xHH-escaped rune literal
(>0xFF fails loud, #50). Const casts need no arm — the checker folds
them to integer literals before the producer runs. 989_m2wwi_run gains
a types.wwi gate (byte-id + re-parse + asserts export def I32_MAX and
RUNE_MAX reach the interface). byte-id-neutral: a def emits no symbol.
The M2 .wwi producer rendered an exported fn carrying @symbol("...")
as a bare prototype, dropping the FFI link-symbol binding. A
sep-compiled consumer reading the .wwi then emitted `CALL malloc`
instead of `CALL rt_malloc` for `@symbol("rt_malloc") export fn
malloc`, breaking the bodies-vs-.wwi byte-id and the link. Affects
every package whose closure reaches rt/os.
Emit codegen/link-relevant attributes through a single named
predicate (wwi_attr_relevant / wwiattrrelevant), today true iff the
name is "symbol" — the only such attribute that exists. @align/@offset
are NOT field attributes in ww (the parser parses no field attrs, the
N_TFIELD node has no attr slot); the predicate is named for the class
so they slot in if ww ever grows them (#51). attr is assigned at
exactly one site per stage (parse.c:1351 / decl.ww:168), both inside
parsefn, so only N_FNDECL carries attrs and the fn-decl render path
covers the whole class.
Both stages, byte-identical (rule 10). 989_m2wwi_run synth gate gains
an @symbol fn + a content assertion that the .wwi carries it verbatim.
New `w6c -I <out.wwi>` flag (both stages) writes a re-parseable
ww-prototype rendering of a package's EXPORTED surface. M2 dead-code:
nothing consumes .wwi yet (combined.ww stays the live path); the flag is
off on every existing invocation, so the 990-997 byte-id gates and all
prior tests are unperturbed.
The unparse walks the AST type-expr subtree (N_T* nodes), not the
tinfo Type* (which collapses nominal pkg.Name identity). Deterministic
output: package line, byte-sorted imports, byte-sorted decls — a pure
function of the exported API. cmd/w6c/wwi.c + selfhost/cmd/wcc/wwi.ww
emit byte-identical .wwi (new cross-stage byte-id substrate, rule 10).
check_exported_type (drew) rides the producer entry, flag-gated: an
exported signature naming a non-exported nominal is loud-rejected before
any byte is written, identically on both stages. Ports harec
check.c:4092-4168, recursing the type-AST and gating on the resolved
SK_TYPE sym's decl export flag (Sym.exported is vestigial in both
stages; the predeclared synthetic `nomem` decl carries no source
position and is treated as a builtin leaf — cstage parity).
Two wwstage checker AST-mutations are normalized to cstage's pristine
view for byte-id: the N_TPARAM tuple-element wrapper (unwrapped) and the
variadic `T...`→`[]T` param desugar (peeled).
Gate 989_m2wwi_run: ascii/strings/getopt each produce a .wwi that
re-parses (wwdump -a) and is cs==ww byte-identical; a private-type-leak
fixture is rejected identically by both stages (non-vacuous check).
