A ww `str` becomes a 24-byte {ptr,len,cap} value, identical in layout to
[]u8 -- the enabling prerequisite for the Phase 2 `str == []u8` collapse.
Both stages, atomically:
- ty_str 16->24B; str value flows 3-reg AX/BX/CX (was 2-reg); str literals
emit cap (=len).
- str in a tagged union grows to a 32B slot, using the AX/DX/CX/R8 4th-word
path already used by 32B slice-variant unions -- str-variant is now
structurally identical.
- tuple (scalar,str) return: 4-reg AX/DX/CX/R8 + 32B receive, extending the
existing type-keyed return (no sret).
- str == []u8 for index and .ptr/.len/.cap, kind-gated where size-based
dispatch collided at 24B; cstage and wwstage mirror exactly.
- table-driven runtime coverage: test/wcc/928_str_abi_run.c.
Cannot be split (rule 10/11): a 24B str and a 16B str cannot coexist across
the two compiler stages without breaking byte-identity, so the size change
and every dependent ABI/codegen site land in one atomic commit, both stages.
Known follow-ups (zero corpus impact, tracked): str-literal global .cap
static-init; >16B struct by-value (pre-existing); tagged-union
match-scrutinee stage divergence (pre-existing).
The N_INDEX node carries the checker-stamped element tinfo (#60 arc); cgindex,
cgun TK_AMP, and cgassign now read the element stride off that .type_.size
instead of indexbaseesz's manual N_DOT-pseudo-field + structlookup walk,
retiring the helper (0 callers, ~96 LOC). Aligns down to cstage's
idx_eff(base->type)->sub->size (cmd/w6c/cgen.c:3517-18, natural element size) --
strictly more cstage-faithful than indexbaseesz's totsize/slotsize derivation
(byte-id held only because firing shapes have totsize==natural; cstage reads
natural and ww-old==cstage, so the flip is structural). Each site keeps its
nil->default-8 fallback; cgindex stays esz-only (signed_elem unset for the
N_DOT base, as before).
Closes the A.6.3 cgenutil-collapse arc: every type/size/offset query in cgen
now reads the checker-stamped tinfo, and the AST-walker / structinfo-walk
helpers it replaced (dotfieldtnode, indexvaluetnode, rhstargetname,
dotinnerstructptr, indexbaseesz) are retired. make test 134/134, byte-id
990-997 hold. Coverage: 713/741/755 + self-rebuild.
The chained value-struct spine-walker resolved root + total offset + leaf
type via structinfo/fieldinfo (slot-padded foff). Swap its guts onto the
stamped root-ident type_: peel TY_NAMED to TY_STRUCT (one TY_PTR hop for a
*struct root) and accumulate tfield.offset down the spine, mirroring cstage's
cur->lhs->type fields walk (cmd/w6c/cgen.c:3156-3216 write, :1955-2030 AMP/
read). Leaf out-param becomes *tinfo; the three callers read leaf-ness via
typeis*/loadopsz, and the cgassign struct-terminal recovers the struct name
from the leaf tinfo's NAMED wrapper for the still-structinfo cgstructlitfill.
Root classification (local/ptr/global) is unchanged, so the firing set and
addressing mode stay byte-identical; the global-root path remains its pre-
existing shared breakage (#27), untouched. Natural tfield.offset equals the
old slot-padded foff for every shape the byte-id gate exercises -- and since
cstage already reads the natural offset and ww-old==cstage held, the flip is
structurally identical, not coincidental.
Latent (off-corpus, byte-id-neutral): the tinfo-peel now fires the str/slice
pseudo-leaf on an aliased-str/slice field where the old structinfo path
bailed -- a faithful-toward-cstage gap closure, filed for a probe + sentinel.
make test 134/134, byte-id 950+990-997 hold.
Both chained-*struct-field sites (cgdot read, cgassign store) read the inner-
struct layout off the stamped inner-dot tinfo (peel NAMED->under, TY_PTR->.sub
->NAMED->under->TY_STRUCT) and walk tinfo.fields for offset + per-field type,
replacing dotinnerstructptr's structinfo re-walk + structlookup. Type dispatch
(str/slice/float, load/store op) keys on tfield.type_ via the existing *tinfo
predicates; ft.slotsize reproduces the old fieldsize exactly (== size for all
kinds reached here except struct/array). cstage parity: cgen.c:1653-1655
(read fl->offset), 2514/2541 (store f->offset).
Behavior-preserving: a strict per-level gate (every chain dot must peel through
a *struct, root must be N_IDENT && localfindnode != nil) reproduces
dotinnerstructptr's EXACT locals-only-with-all-*struct-intermediates firing set
-- a by-value intermediate dot bails to the identical pre-existing generic path.
asm is byte-identical (990-997 hold; both the strict gate and the looser
superset tested 134/134, confirming the corpus has no by-value-intermediate
chain). Deliberately NOT widened past the old set: global-root and by-value-
intermediate chained dots stay on their old paths -- the global case is a
pre-existing SHARED base-eval defect (cstage mis-evals the global base as
(BP)->segfault; wwstage no-stores), filed #27 to fix in both stages together.
dotinnerstructptr deleted (0 callers). Offset now sources from tinfo.fields
(natural layout) vs old structinfo (slot-padded); they coincide for flat
structs (all reached here), with nested-by-value-struct divergence pre-existing
and left to #57/#6/#7 territory.
cgassign's two element-store sites (N_DOT and N_INDEX index targets) fed the
index node into indexvaluetnode to recover the element type. The tagged-store
machinery reads tinfo directly post-#68, so both sites now read the checker-
stamped element tinfo via lhs.type_: esz from .size (mirror #60), tagged gate
via the shared istaggedtype/slotsize/cgwidentaggedstore path (all NAMED-
peeling). cstage parity: cgen.c:3507-3523 (idx_eff(base->type)->sub->size).
The new esz reads the element's natural .size, where the old elemsizeofc
routed struct elements through slotsize -- so a padded-struct chained-index
store (`[][]Point`) now matches cstage's ->size instead of diverging; that
shape is untested (#7 indexbaseesz territory), so this is faithfulness, not
a corpus change.
With cgassign migrated, indexvaluetnode has zero external callers; dotfieldtnode's
sole caller was indexvaluetnode; rhstargetname is self-recursive only -- all
three retired (-132 LOC). This closes the A.6.3 AST-walker arc: the *node
type-resolvers that existed because tinfo was lossy on nominal identity are
gone, now that Phase-N (#63-#68) built the TY_NAMED layer and every consumer
reads the stamped tinfo. make test 134/134, byte-id 950+990-997 hold.
cgwidentaggedstore/storebp/cgwidentagremap took a type *node and re-derived
the tagged shape via resolvetagged + N_TTAGGED.list walks. Migrate them onto
the stamped tinfo (the store-side parallel of #66's match-side flip): dst is
now the tagged *tinfo (peel TY_NAMED->du, gate TY_TAGGED), variant lookup +
tag-remap read tinfo.params by typeeq, mirroring cstage cg_widen_tagged_store
/ cg_widen_tag_remap / cg_tag_for_variant (cmd/w6c/cgen.c:1273/1177/503). The
N_CAST widening test flips from surface-name streq to `castu==dt || (castu
tagged && typeeq(castt,dst))` (cgen.c:1295).
Node-form flatvariantidx/taggedvariantindex become thin shims over new tinfo
cores (flatvariantidxt/taggedvariantindext) so node-side callers (cgreturn
cgenstmt:269, pushargs cgenutil:192) are untouched. The 9 cgwidentaggedstore
callers pass node.type_ (each already istaggedtype/slotsize-gated). resolvetagged
is retained for its 7 match-side callers.
Incidentally retires two latent ww-vs-cstage divergences, both byte-id-neutral
on the corpus: the old N_CAST test set castisdst for ANY N_TTAGGED regardless
of type equality (cstage guards on type_eq), and the old remap walked the
UNflattened src.list (cstage walks the flattened params). Unblocks cgassign's
indexvaluetnode drop (#69/#61d). make test 134/134, byte-id 990-997 hold.
matchscrutt's N_DOT branch resolved the field type via the dotfieldtnode
AST walk + resolvetagged; post-#66 the N_DOT node carries the field tinfo
on .type_, so return the scrutinee node directly and let cgmatch gate on
istaggedtype(scrutt) instead of scrutt.kind == N_TTAGGED. All six scrutt
consumers read .type_ (peeling TY_NAMED), none reads node structure, so a
value node vs a type node is invisible downstream; the istaggedtype guard
preserves the old nil-for-non-tagged contract.
Symmetry-improving (rule 10): cstage derives the dispatch type from s->type
with one unconditional NAMED-peel (cmd/w6c/cgen.c:4847-4850; the N_IDENT
check at :4854 is only the slot-offset fast-path). The old dotfieldtnode
required base.kind == N_IDENT -- a restriction cstage never had -- so the
chained-dot widening this enables matches cstage (out-of-corpus, #14).
Drops matchscrutt's dotfieldtnode caller (external callers 2->1; the
indexvaluetnode:1084 internal recursion remains, and the cgassign tagged-
store sites still need the node-keyed resolvetagged machinery, so neither
walker is deletable yet -- store-migration + #61d follow). N_DOT-match
coverage: 693/694/695/700/744 (runtime). byte-id 990-997 unchanged, 134/134.
The user-ruled B-full semantic change: flip tagged-union variant matching
from surface-NAME to TYPE-identity (typeeq over tinfo.params), mirroring
cstage cg_variant_match (cmd/w6c/cgen.c:451). A cross-module `a.T` != `b.T`
and `type linerr=!str` != str are now distinguished by the per-decl TY_NAMED
pointer (Phase-N #64). ww has no type_assignable, so the untyped/loose arm
keeps the str/slice shape fallback (rule-10 align-down). The 5 helpers
(flatvariantidx, flatslicevariantidx, taggedvariantindex, cgtagvariantidx,
cgmatch dispatch) flip; nomem propagation (NAMED-name scan, no source value)
and the f64 widen arm (float-kind classification, no pattern node) are not
arm-by-value discrimination and stay name/kind-keyed.
The flip requires value nodes to carry nominal identity. exprtype's
N_STRUCTLIT arm stamped the flattened body, so `overflow{}` (overflow=!void)
got TY_VOID and missed its variant -- fixed to stamp the per-decl NAMED
(mktname(lhs.str) -> tinfofornode reuses the #64 NAMED build/cache, same ptr
the union variant resolved to), mirroring the N_CAST/N_IDENT arms + cstage.
Returns the body node unchanged (only e.type_ rides NAMED); struct-lit layout
is unaffected -- cgstructlitfill is structlookup(name)-keyed, never reads
NAMED.fields. The fix now hits all `T{}` stamps, kept byte-id by the #63/#65
structural-walker peels.
931_variant_typekey_run: table-driven, both stages, /tmp-isolated. Two rows
widen an alias-FIRST variant from a call (no surface name): `(linerr|str)`
str-via-call -> idx 1, `(ec|i32)` i32-via-call -> idx 1. Empirically
discriminating: FAILS pre-flip (wwstage falls to the leading-shape variant,
exit 10; cstage exit 0) and PASSES post-flip -- locking in the capability
byte-id can't reach (the corpus has no name-key/type-key-disagreeing
co-variant, which is why name-keying survived).
make test 134/134 (byte-id 990-997 green; 995 self-rebuild green).
#64 flowed per-decl TY_NAMED wrappers, falsifying two #63-era assumptions
surfaced in the flip review.
elemissignedc read ti.sub for element signedness without peeling TY_NAMED;
a NAMED-of-indexable would read NAMED.sub (nil) instead of the underlying's.
Add the transitive peel ahead of the .sub read, mirroring cstage idx_eff's
type_unwrap (cmd/w6c/cgen.c:790) before eff->sub (:3518-3520). Byte-id-neutral:
every aliased indexable in-tree has a u8 element (typeissigned=false either
way). Independent .sub/.under inventory confirms elemissignedc was the sole
structural reader missing a peel (castsrcprim + TK_AMP already NAMED-guarded;
typeis* handle element NAMED via .under recursion; typeeq is nominal by
design and must not peel).
Refresh the 5 #63 peel-site comments (slotsize, fieldsize, nullableptrtag,
tupleelemslot, fieldslotsize): the peel now actively fires (#64 builds NAMED)
rather than being a no-op; byte-id holds because NAMED collapses to the
alias-invariant underlying.
make test 133/133 (byte-id 990-997 green).
Phase-N prerequisite (additive, byte-id unchanged). slotsize / fieldsize /
nullableptrtag (cgenutil) and tupleelemslot / fieldslotsize (check) read
size/slot/kind off a tinfo without peeling TY_NAMED. Once Phase-N step 2
(#64) makes tinfofornode build per-decl TY_NAMED wrappers, an unpeeled
reader would misbehave (fall through to 8 / take natural size not slot /
miss NAMED-of-tagged). Prepend a transitive `for (t != nil && t.kind ==
tykind.TY_NAMED) { t = t.under; }` peel + nil re-guard at each, mirroring
cstage's `while (t->kind == TY_NAMED) t = t->under` and the recursive
typeis* predicates.
Additive no-op today: tinfofornode still collapses aliases, so no NAMED is
ever built and the loop never executes. byte-id 990-997 unchanged (133/133).
Audit (worker + reviewer, independently, across all selfhost/cmd/wcc/*.ww
+ lib/ww/*.ww): these 5 are the ONLY non-peeling structural walkers. typeis*
recurse on .under; typeeq is nominal by design (ptr-identity, the step-3
goal); typeisuntyped cannot receive a NAMED; check.ww type constructors and
localloadop read only .size/.slotsize, which typenamed copies from .under so
they stay numerically correct on a NAMED without peeling.
pushargsrev and cgindex re-derived an index element's type via
indexvaluetnode (a base->TPTR/SLICE/ARRAY .lhs AST walk). The checker
stamps the element type on the N_INDEX node itself (indexresult,
check.ww:1710; N_INDEX is in the asserttyped gate), so read n.type_
directly at the 3 sites that only need tagged-ness + element size/sign:
cgenutil pushargsrev L178/490: pass the N_INDEX arg to istaggedtype/
slotsize (arg.type_ is the element tinfo).
cgenexpr cgindex L726: esz = n.type_.size, signed = typeissigned(n.type_).
Polarity DOWN per rule 10: cstage has no indexvaluetnode -- it reads
base->type->sub->size directly (cmd/w6c/cgen.c:2070-2071, :3518). The new
path reads element natural size (tinfo.size == primsize: rune=4, u8=1,
str=16, slice=24), matching cstage; it also retires two latent elemsizeofc
divergences (elemsizeofc returned slotsize N*8 for *[N]i64 / 2D-array
elements where cstage uses sub->size=8) -- those shapes are absent from
self-compile, so byte-id stays green.
indexvaluetnode is NOT deleted: its remaining callers at cgenexpr
L3720/3729 feed cgwidentaggedstore -> resolvetagged -> resolvetype, still
node-keyed (nil for non-N_TNAME). Deleting it waits on the resolvetagged
-> tinfo migration (#11).
make test 133/133 (byte-id 990-997 green, independently re-confirmed on
quiescent tree).
exprprimresolved's N_DOT arm derived a struct field's prim width+sign by
walking the field's declared *node (dotfieldtnode + typenodeprimresolved
alias recursion). Read the checker-stamped tinfo instead, mirroring cstage
castsrcprim N_DOT (cmd/w6c/cgen.c:323-344): the base's n.lhs.type_ must
resolve to a struct (peel NAMED->PTR->NAMED, require TY_STRUCT) before the
field counts -- excluding pseudo-fields .len/.cap/.ptr (stamped i32/*T at
check.ww:1987-2004; their base is TY_SLICE/TY_STR/TY_ARRAY, never TY_STRUCT,
so the guard yields sz=0) and tuple positionals, which stay sz=0 to preserve
995 byte-id. The field's width/sign comes from the N_DOT's own n.type_
(check.ww:2012), one NAMED peel then typeisint?size:0. Bool exclusion is
now free via typeisint(bool)=false, dropping the old streq("bool") arm.
Polarity DOWN per rule 10: cstage castsrcprim already reads the stamped
type. typenamed() has zero callers in wwstage (tinfofornode collapses all
alias depth to the body), so no tinfo carries kind TY_NAMED -- the NAMED
peels are dead/inert, output matches cstage.
Removes one dotfieldtnode caller (3->2; remaining cgenutil 1073, 1871).
typenodeprimresolved retained (3 callers: cgenutil 1459/1465, cgenexpr 431).
Part of the dotfield* consumer-migration arc.
make test 133/133 (quiescent tree, byte-id 990-997 green). Coverage:
710_cast_enum_movl rows struct_field_rt + pseudo_field_clamp + bool_to_i8.
rhstaggedabicall's N_DOT arm re-derived the field type via dotfieldtnode
(a base-ident-only structlookup walk) then asked istaggedtype. The
checker now stamps the field's resolved type on the N_DOT node itself
(check.ww struct-field arm), so read src.type_ directly. typeistagged(nil)
is false, preserving the old ft==nil bail.
Polarity DOWN per rule 10: cstage's gate was already wide. cg_widen_tagged_
store reads src->type inline, NAMED-resolved, then tests TY_TAGGED
(cmd/w6c/cgen.c:1302-1305) -- no standalone helper. Pre-trim wwstage's
gate was NARROWER (dotfieldtnode required base==N_IDENT, firing only for
`ident.field`); reading src.type_ also fires for chained-dot bases
(`a.b.c`) since the checker stamps N_DOT.type_ at any depth. This aligns
wwstage UP to cstage's existing coverage. Byte-id 990-997 green confirms
the widened shape does not occur in bootstrap sources -- byte-id-neutral.
Drops one dotfieldtnode caller; the *node-returning callers
(typenodeprimresolved, indexvaluetnode, matchscrutt) stay until their
consumers migrate to *tinfo (the closing dotfield* deletion follows once
none need *node). First clean slice of that consumer migration; same
g/h-style stamp read as #55/#56.
Known pre-existing gap (filed, not introduced here): neither stage's
chained-DOT read path has a tagged-union leaf branch, so a chained-dot
tagged ABI source would store stale DX/CX/R8. Symmetric across stages
(byte-id stays green); the retained `cgdot loads AX=tag, DX=word0, ...`
comment is accurate only for ident.field bases.
make test 133/133 (quiescent tree, byte-id 990-997 green).
nodeisslice + nodeisstr each walked base->struct->field on N_DOT,
gated on `base.kind == nkind.N_IDENT` (with dotinnerstructptr and
dotchainresolve fallbacks for chained / value-struct cases) --
duplicating cstage at the AST level while silently dropping
multi-level chains rooted at non-IDENT/DOT bases (e.g. `t.1.field`
for a tuple positional). After A.6.2 the checker stamps n.type_ on
every N_DOT (check.ww:1947-1996 pseudo-field, struct-field, and
tuple-positional arms), and A.6.3b landed typeisstr / typeisslice.
Both arms collapse to one tinfo read.
Polarity DOWN per rule 10: cstage was already aligned. cgen.c:168-170
node_isstr = type_isstr(n->type); cgen.c:182-184 node_isslice =
type_isslice(n->type). Wwstage was the laggard; this brings wwstage
to cstage's leaner shape, mirroring A.6.3g (8da1414).
Silent-false coverage gain: multi-level chains and tuple-positional
bases (`t.1.field` for a str element) now resolve via the checker
stamp instead of returning false. The "Not covered: tuple-positional"
bullet in nodeisstr's docstring is removed accordingly. dotchainresolve
itself is untouched -- still used by cgenexpr (cgdot read-path, &-of
address-of, structlit BP write-back). Byte-identity (994/995) is the
gate.
make test 133/133 ok. Net cgenutil.ww -110.
nodeisunsigned + exprfloatkind each manually walked base->struct->field
on N_DOT, gated on `base.kind == nkind.N_IDENT` -- duplicating cstage's
behaviour at the AST level while silently dropping the nested-N_DOT case
(`a.b.c` returned the conservative default). After A.6.2 the checker
stamps n.type_ on every N_DOT expression (check.ww:1973 struct-field
arm of exprtype), and A.6.3a/b landed the tinfo helpers (typeisunsigned,
isfloattype/isf32type) that the inner reads already use. Both arms
collapse to one tinfo read.
Polarity DOWN per rule 10: cstage was already aligned. cmd/w6c/cgen.c:
2330-2331 reads type_isunsigned(n->lhs->type) directly; cgen.c:152-156
node_isfloat = cg_isfloat(n->type); cgen.c:195-199 node_isf32 =
type_isf32(n->type). No exprfloatkind-equivalent walker exists in
cstage -- it is pre-A.6.2 wwstage scaffolding. Wwstage now reads the
same shape as cstage on N_DOT.
Nested N_DOT (a.b.c) now resolves to the field type instead of returning
the conservative default. Byte-identity (994/995) confirms the codegen
matches cstage on the test set -- cstage was already getting nested-dot
right via checker-stamped n->type, wwstage was the laggard.
make test 133/133 ok. Net cgenutil.ww -41 / +3.
Phase 2 of A.6.3f, closing A.6.3 entirely (a/b/c/d/e/f-a/f-b all
landed). With #50 phase 1 (26724fe) populating TY_TAGGED.params,
nullableptrtag retires its AST-keyed predecessor: walk ti.params,
strip TY_NAMED via .under on each variant, return idx of first
TY_PTR.
Mirrors cstage cmd/w6c/cgen.c:404-416 line-for-line. Source-order
semantics preserved by phase 1's append-tail head/tail
construction (head = first n.list variant). For a `(*T | void)`,
*T-first → returns 0; void-first → walks past void (vt.kind==
TY_VOID, no match), *T at idx 1 → returns 1.
Two paths the new tinfo-keyed body handles that the AST walk
missed (cstage parity, dead-in-bootstrap today, parallel to #49
TY_TUPLE / #51b typed-float corrections):
- Aliased *T variant: `type ip = *int; let x: (ip | void);` —
cstage cgen.c:415 strips TY_NAMED via .under; new wwstage
body mirrors. Bootstrap has zero aliased-ptr-variant
callsites today (`grep "^type [a-z]+ = \*"` yields only an
out-of-union test/uses.ww case).
- void-first ordering: cstage walks past TY_VOID and finds *T
at idx 1. Same in wwstage. No test/wcc fixture exercises
void-first today.
Outer-type TY_NAMED strip (cstage cgen.c:409 `if t->kind==TY_NAMED
t = t->under`) intentionally skipped: tinfofornode for N_TNAME
already resolves the alias and returns the underlying tinfo
unwrapped — `typenamed` is declared at lib/ww/typ.ww:238 but has
zero producers in selfhost today. The strip would be a no-op
under current invariants. Tracked as part of #13 (TTAGGED
normalization parity) for when wwstage starts producing
TY_NAMED.
Net +30 LOC across cgenutil.ww + two .combined.ww bundler regens
(new function body is ~14 lines vs ~4; new WHY comment shorter
than the pre-graduation note's 7).
Byte-identity (994/995) is the gate; full make test green at
133/133 confirms.
fieldsize selected the slot-padded byte width of a struct field's
type-AST via the same TBANG/TNAME/TPTR/TSLICE/TARRAY/TTAGGED walker
shape slotsize used pre-#48 — with TNAME branching into
structlookup, enumlookup, and aliaslookup to follow the AST chain
back to a primitive size or struct totsize. After A.6.2 stamping
+ #48's slotsize collapse, the same data is reachable through
the populated tinfo:
TY_STRUCT / TY_ARRAY → ti.slotsize
TY_TAGGED / TY_SLICE / TY_STR → ti.size
TY_PTR / TY_FN / TY_CHAN → 8
primitives + TY_ENUM + TY_TUPLE → ti.size (catch-all > 0)
fallback → 8
cstage SSoT is `f->type->size` at cmd/w6c/cgen.c:1386, :1656, :2515,
:2535 — wwstage routes through ti.slotsize for composites (the
#48 verdict centralizes the slot-pad rule on tinfo) and through
ti.size where natural width and in-struct width coincide.
Two latent behavior fixes ride alongside the collapse, both
cstage-parity and dead-in-bootstrap (995 byte-id is the regression
gate, currently green at 133/133):
- TY_TUPLE-typed struct field: old walker had no TTUPLE arm and
fell through to 8; cstage `f->type->size` reads the natural
sum (e.g., 24 for `(i64, str)`). New code reads ti.size,
matching cstage.
- !T-typed struct field: old walker had no TBANG arm and fell
through to 8; cstage iserror-passthrough returns the inner
type's size. tinfofornode strips N_TBANG (check.ww:1154-1161)
so the new dispatch sees the inner ti directly.
No fixtures in selfhost exercise either case today; both fixes
are pre-correct for future code that does.
Body went from ~47 LOC to ~16 LOC. `c: *cgen` retained unused for
callsite stability (slotsize / localloadop precedent, a828c03 /
68219a1). Two callsites in cgenutil.ww:1870 + cgenexpr.ww:3594
untouched.
Dot-chain helpers (dotinnerstructptr, dotfieldtnode,
dotchainresolve) are split off as #49b — they walk a cgen-side
`structinfo` table keyed by field name + offset, and tinfo.fields
is not yet populated by check.ww's TSTRUCT/TTUPLE arms. Parallel
structure to #50's TY_TAGGED.params gap; treat as a separate
populate-then-port pair.
Net -48 LOC across cgenutil.ww + two .combined.ww bundler regens.
Full make test green at 133/133.
slotsize selected the slot-padded width for a frame slot via an AST
walker over TBANG / TPTR / TFN / TCHAN / TSLICE / TTUPLE / TTAGGED /
TNAME / TARRAY / TSTRUCT — duplicating the size + slot-pad math
tinfofornode already runs at check time. With A.6.2 stamping every
N_T* kind's n.type_, plus #61 A.5 splitting tinfo.slotsize from
tinfo.size, the dispatch collapses to a kind switch over the
populated tinfo:
- TY_VOID → 0
- TY_PTR/SLICE/CHAN/FN/STR/TAGGED → ti.size (size == slotsize for
these kinds)
- TY_STRUCT/TUPLE/ARRAY → ti.slotsize (slot-padded by check.ww's
TSTRUCT/TTUPLE/TARRAY arms with the same field-pad / stride
rules cgenutil's registerstruct uses)
- primitives → catch-all 8 (pad-to-8 lives at the read site, not
in ti.slotsize, so [N]i32 stride stays 4)
Ww-to-Hare divergence (deliberate, team consensus): Hare's struct
type carries only `size` (ref/harec/include/types.h:134-137); QBE
handles slot padding downstream. ww emits Plan 9 amd64 asm directly,
so slot-padding is part of the ww calling convention and belongs on
the type table. Cstage scatters pad-to-8 inline at ~30+ localoff
sites + the `(su->kind == TY_TAGGED) ? su->size : 16` tagged-spill
pattern at cmd/w6c/cgen.c:4850 / :5193 — that scattering would be a
rule-13 (no hardcoded size literals) violation in ww. Centralizing
on tinfo.slotsize IS the rule-13-compliant shape; #61 A.5 put it
there, and #48 just consumes it. Rule 9 is lib/-scoped; tinfo is
compiler-internal (already diverges via node.type_ as a checker
invariant Hare/harec lacks). Rule 10 covers inference power, not
data shape — byte-identity (994/995) holds at 133/133.
Body went from ~150 LOC AST walk to ~15 LOC tinfo dispatch. Two
nil guards (typn == nil, ti == nil) fall through to 8 — same outcome
as cstage's `(t && t->size > 0) ? sz : 8` defensive shape.
`c: *cgen` retained unused for callsite stability (localloadop
precedent, 68219a1).
Net -453 LOC across cgenutil.ww + two .combined.ww bundler regens.
Follow-up filed: grow cstage Type.slot_size symmetrically and
sizelint-ok-annotate the surviving inline 8s until ported.
localloadop selected MOVBQSX/MOVBQZX/MOVSWQ/MOVL/MOVQ for scalar
local/let loads via an AST walk down TBANG/TENUM/TNAME-alias chains,
re-consulting aliaslookup and ending in fieldsize + fieldissignedc.
Three precursors retire the walk: #53 (e3237d1, scopelookupprefer
fixes flat-alias collision in resolvealias), #51 (1ce0f63, INTLIT
tsuffix stamp), #52 (747279c, typenameisunsigned collapse onto
typeisunsigned). Plus the A.6.2 type-AST stamp invariant at
check.ww L426-436.
Body collapses to two nil guards + ti.size + size cascade +
typeissigned(ti). cstage cmd/w6c/cgen.c:357-362 is the SSoT;
wwstage now reads tinfo.size directly the same way cstage reads
t->size, with TBANG / TENUM / TNAME-alias chains pre-folded by
tinfofornode (check.ww:1102-1153 TNAME, 1154-1161 TBANG,
1196-1208 TENUM).
Defensive nil branches mirror cstage's `(t && t->size > 0) ? sz : 8`
fall-through: when type info is missing, sz fails the != 1/2/4
discriminator and the helper returns MOVQ. Both nil paths are
reachable: cgenexpr.ww callers (4 sites: 643, 664, 5380, 5471)
populate the *node via a search loop that may exit with nil.
Signature unchanged — `c: *cgen` is retained unused for callsite
stability, mirroring A.6.3a fieldissignedc(c, t) which followed the
same precedent. 5 callsites in cgenexpr.ww untouched (body-only
collapse).
Net -33 LOC across cgenutil.ww + two .combined.ww bundler regens.
Byte-identity (994/995) is the behavior gate; full make test green
at 133/133 confirms.
A.6.3a (#45) deferred typenameisunsigned because its two callers —
typenodeprimresolved and exprprimresolved — consumed a raw str:
TNAME.str / INTLIT.tsuffix. #51 (1ce0f63) stamped tsuffix-typed
N_INTLIT.type_ via tinfofornode; together with check.ww L426-436
type-AST stamping, both call sites now read a stamped n.type_
instead of a raw name.
typenodeprimresolved L1583 swaps typenameisunsigned(nm) for
typeisunsigned(cur.type_: *tinfo). cur is the walked N_TNAME; its
type_ is stamped at check time.
exprprimresolved L1620 swaps typenameisunsigned(s) for typeisunsigned
(n.type_: *tinfo). n is the N_INTLIT whose tsuffix is s; type_ is
stamped by the #51 arm. primsize(s) > 0 IS the tsuffix-resolves-to-
builtin gate, so the stamp is guaranteed at the read site.
typenameisunsigned (cgenutil.ww L850-866) deleted: -17 LOC of body
+ WHY block. Net change is three files (cgenutil.ww + two
.combined.ww bundler regens, same -17 each).
Mirrors cstage cmd/wcc/type.c:178 type_isunsigned plus cmd/w6c/cgen.c
castsrcprim routing INTLIT.tsuffix through n->type, then
type_isunsigned. Aligned, not richer.
Byte-identity (994/995) is the behavior gate; full make test green
at 133/133 confirms.
The node-keyed kind helpers (typeis8byteprimitive, isstrtype/raw,
isslicetype/raw, istaggedtype/raw, isfloattype, isf32type/raw,
isf64typeraw, isnullabletype) each re-walked TNAME aliases via
aliaslookup and peeled TBANG by hand — duplicating cstage's single-
peel kind predicates at the AST level. After A.6.2 every type-AST
kind these read is tinfo-stamped at check.ww L426-436, and
tinfofornode collapses N_TBANG (check.ww:1145-1152) and the TY_NAMED
chain, so each predicate folds to one tinfo read.
Six new tinfo helpers in lib/ww/typ.ww mirror their cstage SSoT
verbatim:
typeisstr — cstage cgen.c:159 `type_isstr` (TY_STR / TY_UNTYPED_STR)
typeisslice — cstage cgen.c:174 `type_isslice`
typeistagged — cstage cgen.c:516 `type_istagged`
typeisf32 — cstage cgen.c:188 `type_isf32`
typeisnullable — cstage cgen.c:396 `type_isnullable` (reads tinfo.nullable
stamped at check.ww:1309-1318)
typeis8byteprim — cstage cgen.c N_LET sz==8 ladder (slot-pad set)
Rule 9 carve-out per the A.6.3a precedent: each helper has a named
cstage counterpart; the wwstage shape mirrors it directly. The five
dead AST-walking variants (isstrtyperaw, isslicetyperaw,
istaggedtyperaw, isf32typeraw, isf64typeraw) are deleted; the five
remaining callsites (cgenstmt cglet / cgmlet str-routing, cgenexpr
cgdot tuple-field) graduate to the alias-aware isstrtype(c, t).
nullableptrtag stays AST-keyed for now — tinfofornode doesn't
populate TY_TAGGED.params (check.ww:1287-1337 sets size / align /
nullable but not the variant chain), so the tinfo equivalent of
cstage cgen.c:405 `nullable_ptr_tag` can't read params today. WHY
comment at the site cites #50 / A.6.3f as the graduation point,
alongside the variant-index work and the tparam-population glue.
Byte-identity (994/995) is the behavior gate; full `make test` green
at 133/133 confirms.
The node-keyed signedness helpers (typenodeisunsigned,
typenodeisunsignedc, elemissigned, elemissignedc, fieldissignedc) each
re-walked TBANG / TENUM / TNAME chains and re-consulted alias / enum
registries — duplicating cstage's type_isunsigned (cmd/wcc/type.c:178)
and fld_issigned (cmd/w6c/cgen.c:240) at the AST level. After A.6.2
every type-AST kind we read here is tinfo-stamped at check.ww L426-436,
so the predicates collapse to a single tinfo read.
Two new arms close the wwstage divergence from cstage: typeisunsigned
gains TY_RUNE and TY_ENUM (recurse on .sub), matching type.c:178
verbatim. typeissigned is added as the cgen-facing predicate per
fld_issigned semantics (TY_BOOL excluded for sub-word storage —
0/1 → MOVZBQ — so it's not just !typeisunsigned). Rule 9 carve-out:
the helper exists in cstage; harec keeps the same pair.
elemissigned was fully dead (no callers); deleted. typenameissigned
was internal-only and dead post-collapse; deleted. typenameisunsigned
survives — two call sites (typenodeprimresolved, exprprimresolved)
hold only a raw `str` (TNAME.str / INTLIT.tsuffix). paramissigned in
cgenstmt.ww unchanged. Both deferrals close in A.6.3c (#47).
Byte-identity (994/995) is the behavior gate for the alias/enum
sites — full `make test` green at 133/133 confirms.
A.6.2.0b worker hit a real shared-`.next`-aliasing bug and stopped
per rule 7. Wwstage's N_TTUPLE chained element type ASTs via the
nodes' own `.next` field. `exprtype` routinely returns shared
nodes (sym.decl.lhs, struct field's `.lhs`, another N_TTUPLE's
`.list` element). Naive chain construction in the checker
corrupts source ASTs.
Introduce N_TPARAM = 67 as a chain wrapper for N_TTUPLE.list:
- `.lhs` holds the (possibly-shared) element type AST.
- `.next` chains within the parent N_TTUPLE.
- Other fields unused; never appears outside N_TTUPLE.list.
Mirrors cstage's Tparam at cmd/wcc/check.c:1437-1451. Cstage
keeps it at the Type layer; wwstage has no separate type layer
for tuple chains so the wrapper sits at the AST. Hare's design
intent at ref/hare/hare/ast/type.ha:117 uses `[]*_type` slice-of-
pointer — same principle, slice-flavored.
Migrations:
- lib/ww/ast.ww: kind + nkname + pr() unwrap (transparent for
the 990 -a astprint byte-diff).
- lib/ww/parse/parse.ww: parsetype N_TTUPLE construction wraps
each element in N_TPARAM (sole construction site).
- selfhost/cmd/wcc/check.ww: 4 readers (astalign, astsize,
tinfofornode TY_TUPLE, exprtype N_DOT-tuple-positional). The
last change retires the latent A.6.1.5b shared-`p` return.
- selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenutil.ww: slotsize TY_TUPLE arm.
- selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenexpr.ww: cgdot tuple-positional
(size/load op + str-check).
- selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenstmt.ww: cglet TTUPLE init, cgmlet
call-return walk, cgforrange elem-size + bind-walk.
Out of scope: N_TFN params, N_TTAGGED variants, N_TSTRUCT fields.
N_TFIELD already wraps struct fields; N_TFN/N_TTAGGED aren't
currently chain-mutated by checker synthesis. If they ever are,
the same pattern applies.
Unblocks A.6.2.0b stamp on a clean foundation. Retires task #16.
Verified 132/132 incl. 990 AST byte-diff (astprint unwrap) + 995
self-rebuild byte-identity.
CLAUDE.md rule 9 amended with the explicit carve-out: ww is C/Plan-9-
lineage — no GC, no "safe" baseline to be unsafe relative to — so the
Hare `_unsafe` suffix flags an axis ww doesn't have. The convention
is dropped wholesale in lib/.
Concrete changes:
- lib/strings: `fromutf8_unsafe` → `frombytes` (pure reinterpret). The
validating sibling `fromutf8` is deleted entirely (28 lines, plus its
84-line fromutf8_cases test). Callers that need validation write the
two lines inline at the IO source: `utf8.validate(b)?;
let s = strings.frombytes(b);`. `fromutf8` name reserved for a future
true validating helper.
- lib/strings α-batch: concat/join/lpad/rpad migrate from
`rt.malloc(N): *u8` to `alloc([], N)!` + `buf.len = N;` +
`return frombytes(buf);`. Same dup-pilot pattern (4c07ef0). Task #41.
- lib/memio header comment trimmed: drops a stale reference to
"lib has no fromutf8 today"; cites the rule-9 carve-out instead.
- Caller renames across selfhost combined.ww files (auto-regen) +
cgenutil.ww comment ref.
Rule-11 disclosure on the bundle: the rename and the α-batch are
nominally separable concerns (symbol-naming policy vs amalloc→
alloc-slice migration), but they touch the same 4 functions in
lib/strings/strings.ww — the α-batch's first emission of `frombytes`
postdates the rename. The α-batch was applied on top of the rename
sweep mid-flight by the pre-commit reviewer; splitting them back
out is fiddly text surgery for marginal bisect value. The rename is
the primary concern; α-batch is one entry in #8's sized-slice
migration.
Verified: make test 132/132, 995_self_rebuild byte-identity holds.
Closes#42; advances #41.
Hare puts runtime allocation in rt::, not os:: (ref/hare/rt/malloc.ha:27,
README). ww's `@symbol("rt_alloc") fn alloc(n: u64) *void;` lived at
lib/os/os.ww as a historical bootstrap shortcut; this commit relocates
it to a new lib/rt/malloc.ww and sweeps every site that depended on
`import os` for the alloc decl over to `import rt`.
This is commit 1 of 3 in the lib/rt extraction (#35):
1. (this) move decl, sweep imports — preserves shape
2. rename rt_alloc → rt_malloc (#38)
3. nullable return type + OOM-propagating builtin lowering (#39)
No rename here. Symbol stays rt_alloc, function stays `alloc`, return
stays *void. Behavior identical — same ffi resolution outcome, just
sourced from a different module file. The rt::ensure runtime helper at
selfhost/rt/ensure.ww is its own compilation unit with a local decl and
is untouched.
Side effect: every wcc cgen file used `rt` as a local *node variable
name for "return type." `import rt;` shadows the module, so each
selfhost/cmd/wcc/{check,cgenstmt,cgenexpr,cgenutil}.ww site renamed
to `rtyp`. Mechanical follow-through; only the wcc module-import was
forced to do this rename.
Verified 132/132 + 995_self_rebuild byte-identity (5 wwstage tools
round-trip byte-identical).
Phase 0 batch 3a. structinfo registration + fieldinfo per-field in
registerstruct (cgenutil.ww). Both relied on amalloc-zero for fields=nil
and totsize=0 (structinfo) and finext=nil (fieldinfo); MAP_ANON-zero
covers the same slots.
check.ww:842 (arenau64tos 24B scratch) deferred to #11.
cgenutil.ww:108 (mkvarargname runtime-N) deferred to #8.
Verified 132/132 + 995_self_rebuild byte-identity.
A.4 left 74 fallback hits, all TNAME-flavored — 71 TNAME → TY_STRUCT
(natural-align vs slot-padded mismatch) + 3 module-name TNAME quirks
(`let l: lex;` where lex is both struct and imported module).
tinfo gains a slotsize: u64 field (96 → 104 bytes; amalloc bumped
to 112B per rule-7). size(T) stays Hare-natural at the user level;
cgen's slot storage now reads ti.slotsize for kinds where the two
differ. tinfofornode populates both:
- TSTRUCT: existing natural-align walk for r.size; new size-derived
align walk (sz≥8→8, ≥4→4, ≥2→2) for r.slotsize, rounded to 8.
Mirrors cgenutil.ww:2192-2218 registerstruct exactly.
- TTUPLE: parallel via tupleelemslot helper (primitives→8, str=16,
slice=24, ptr/fn/chan/i64/u64/int/uint/uintptr/f64=8, composite
→pt.slotsize, void=0).
- TARRAY: typearray sets slotsize = sub.slotsize * n. [N]i32 stays
4N (natural); [N]Triplet lifts to 16N (slot-padded). Reverts
A.4's r.size override since slot-pad now lives in slotsize.
- TFN/TENUM/TTAGGED/nullable: explicit slotsize. Default trail
`if r.slotsize == 0 then r.slotsize = r.size` catches TBANG.
- New fieldslotsize(ft) helper mirrors registerstruct's per-field
rule (struct→ft.slotsize, array→ft.slotsize, primitive→ft.size,
tagged→ft.size).
slotsize fast-path (cgenutil.ww) reads ti.slotsize for TY_STRUCT,
TY_TUPLE, TY_ARRAY; ti.size stays correct for PTR/SLICE/CHAN/FN/
STR/TAGGED/VOID (size == slotsize for those). Narrow scalars still
pad-to-8 at the read site (moving into slotsize would break
[N]i32 stride).
lib/ww/sym.ww adds scopelookuptype(s, name) — same FNV bucket+parent
walk as scopelookup but filtered on skind==SK_TYPE. resolvealias
calls it when bare-leaf scopelookup returns non-TYPE (e.g., the
SK_USE/SK_MOD short-circuit case). Fixes `let l: lex;` (mod=leaf)
AND `let t: tok;` (mod≠leaf, tok lives in package lex).
Post-A.5 fallback: 0 across full bootstrap. Reviewer's stricter
metric (zero fast-path MISSES when tinfo IS stamped) also 0;
remaining FB_NIL hits are value-expression nodes the checker
doesn't yet stamp — A.6 candidate.
Ragged-tail probe `struct{inner=3*i32, mark:i32}`: ti.size=16
(natural), ti.slotsize=24 (slot-padded). Cstage emits [N]<ragged>
stride=16 on the same source — latent divergence filed as #63.
Not exercised by selfhost, so bootstrap byte-identity holds today.
131/131 + 994 + 995 + bootstrap (ww2==ww3==ww4) all green.
A.3 left wwstage slotsize at 134 fallback hits. Per-kind breakdown:
N_TARRAY 33 + N_TNAME 101 (of which 71 resolve to TY_STRUCT, 3 to
module-name quirks, 27 already had tinfo populated and were spurious
fallbacks via missed cache hits).
tinfofornode N_TNAME: existing arm already reached the resolved body
via aliaslookup → tinfofornode recursion (reviewer-61a3's "isn't
reaching body" hypothesis disproved by per-name instrumentation). A.4
binds the resolved-body node into the cache too — mirrors A.2's
TSTRUCT/TFN/TTUPLE/TTAGGED cycle-break pattern so future calls on
either node short-circuit.
tinfofornode N_TARRAY: when sub.kind == TY_STRUCT, round sub.size up
to 8 before stride. Mirrors registerstruct's slot-padded element
stride (cgenutil.ww:2156-2165 / :2233). Primitive elements stay
natural (slotsize's TARRAY walker also keeps them natural).
slotsize fast-path adds TY_VOID (size 0) and TY_ARRAY (gated on
alen > 0 so `[_]T` keeps routing through letslotsize). TY_STRUCT
deferred to A.5: tinfofornode TSTRUCT uses per-field natural-align
so size(T) stays natural at user level, but registerstruct uses
size-derived align with nested structs slot-padded — diverges on
ragged-tail shapes (`{inner=3*i32, mark: i32}` gives natural=16 vs
totsize=24). Proper A.5 design is a tinfo.slotsize SSoT distinct
from tinfo.size.
Module-name TNAME quirks (`let l: lex;` where lex is both a struct
and the imported module): resolvealias short-circuits on SK_MOD,
n.type_ stays nil, falls through to AST walker which structlookups
correctly. 3 hits in tree. A.5 work alongside TSTRUCT.
Post-A.4 fallback: wwdump 134→45, w6a 17→12, w6l 6→6, ww 12→11
(reviewer also measured w6c at 40). Total 169→74 across the corpus
(56% reduction). All 74 are TNAME → TY_STRUCT or module-name quirks.
131/131 + 994 + 995 + bootstrap (ww2==ww3==ww4) byte-identical.
A.2's slotsize fast-path covered PTR/SLICE/CHAN/FN/STR but bailed on
TAGGED (no nullable fold) and on primitives (cstage let_emit_size pads
to 8B for slot storage; tinfo.size is natural width). Fallback hit
count under wwdump build was 2187. A.3 closes both gaps.
tinfo gains a `nullable: i32` field (fits the existing 4B pad, struct
stays 96B). tinfofornode's N_TTAGGED arm detects `(*T | void)` (exactly
2 variants, one N_TPTR, one bare N_TNAME "void" — aliased or !void-
wrapped void don't match) and folds to size=8, align=8, nullable=1.
Mirrors cmd/wcc/check.c:412-426.
slotsize fast-path re-adds TY_TAGGED (safe now) and gains a primitive-
pad branch: BOOL/RUNE/I8-I64/U8-U64/INT/UINT/UINTPTR/ENUM/F32/F64 →
return 8. Padding lives at the read site; tinfo.size remains a faithful
natural-width SSoT. TUPLE/TSTRUCT/TARRAY deliberately stay on the
fallback because per-field stride is registerstruct.totsize, not
tinfo.size.
Post-A.3 fallback hit count: 134 (94% reduction from A.2's 2187).
Reviewer's per-kind breakdown: N_TNAME 101 (alias-to-struct chains)
+ N_TARRAY 33 (struct-element rounding) account for all remaining
hits. Both A.4 work.
Probes: `(*i32 | void)` byte-identical between stages with the
8B nullable encoding. `(*i32 | nomem)` correctly does NOT fold
(nomem ≠ bare void). `(*i32 | !void)` correctly does NOT fold
(N_TBANG isn't N_TNAME).
131/131 + 994 + 995 + bootstrap byte-identical (ww2==ww3==ww4).
tinfofornode (check.ww) covers six more kinds:
- N_TARRAY: typearray on recursed element, size = esz * elen.
- N_TFN: 8B/8B; recurse on ret.
- N_TENUM: storage size/align (default i32 → 4B). Mirrors cstage
check.c:531-542.
- N_TTUPLE: raw element sum + max-align. Mirrors check.c:329-345.
- N_TSTRUCT: per-field align, round total to maxalign. Mirrors
check.c:280-340 / :468-527.
- N_TTAGGED: 8B tag + (max(variant)+7)&~7, al ≥ 8. Mirrors
check.c:347-435.
Cycle-prone arms (TFN/TTUPLE/TSTRUCT/TTAGGED) pre-bind the in-progress
tinfo into the cache BEFORE recursing on subfields so self-referential
shapes (`type node = struct { next: *node, … }`) terminate. Pre-fix
wwdump_ww segfaulted on its own combined source.
More population sites in exprtype: every primitive literal arm
(N_FLOATLIT/N_STRLIT/N_RUNELIT/N_TRUE/N_FALSE/N_VOIDLIT/N_NIL —
A.1 only had N_INTLIT), N_IDENT (propagate from sym.decl.lhs.type_,
eagerly tinfofornode + cache if not yet visited), resolvewalk type-expr
stamping, and resolvefnbody now recurses into N_PARAM.lhs (pre-#61 the
param type-exprs were never walked — every param had nil type_).
slotsize (cgenutil.ww) gains a fast-path: when n.type_ is set AND the
kind is PTR / SLICE / CHAN / FN / STR, return ti.size: i32 directly.
The fallback walker stays alive for primitive scalars, enums, named
structs, inline composites, TARRAY — those need cstage's let_emit_size
slot-pad-to-8 contract (cmd/w6c/cgen.c:691-720) which tinfo doesn't
carry. A.3+ moves padding into the fast-path.
TY_TAGGED *not* in the fast-path (reviewer-61a2 caught this) —
tinfofornode's TTAGGED arm doesn't implement cstage's nullable-pointer
fold (check.c:412-426: `(*T | void) → 8B`). Self-host code happens not
to use that shape today, but the divergence would land latent. Pull
TAGGED until A.3 folds nullable into tinfofornode.
A.2 fallback-hit count under wwdump build: 1554 fast vs 2187 fallback —
partial graduation; expected. 131/131 + 994 + 995 + bootstrap
byte-identical (ww2==ww3==ww4).
Audit §1.1/§1.2 cataloged 17 wwstage sites hardcoding 16 for sizeof(str)
and ~10 hardcoding 24 for sizeof(slice), plus 4 cstage str-size sites
and the cstage let_emit_size str/slice arms. Each new size constant
required ~30 edits in both stages to bump cleanly — task #1 (str → 24B
{ptr,len,cap}) can't land until the literal sweep is done.
Track A — wwstage codegen (selfhost/cmd/wcc/*):
- check.ww introduces two stateless helpers next to astsize:
primtypesize(nm) — primitive-name → byte size (i64; -1 unknown)
tyslicesize() — slice-header bytes (i64; 24 today)
astsize now reads both for its N_TNAME-primitive and N_TSLICE arms,
so the size(T) fold gets the SSoT for free.
- cgen.ww, cgenutil.ww, cgenstmt.ww, cgendecl.ww: every `return 16`
/ `esz = 16` / `sz0 = 16` for str, every `return 24` /
`localadd(c, _, 24, _)` for slice, plus the matching `sz == 16` /
`sz == 24` / `for (i < 16/24)` gates in the global-let DATAW emit,
route through primtypesize / tyslicesize.
- Direct delegation slotsize→astsize would require restructuring
astsize to drop its *checker dep (resolvealias) — the leaf
primitive/slice cases factor out cleanly, the alias-chain leaves
diverge because cgen's aliaslookup/structlookup tables and check's
scope chain aren't unified yet (§1.8, task #50 follow-up). Sharing
the leaf table satisfies the SSoT promise without that refactor.
Track B — cstage (cmd/w6c/cgen.c):
- let_emit_size's TY_STR/TY_SLICE arms drop the hardcoded 16/24 and
fall to `(int)u->size` like the existing TY_STRUCT/TUPLE/TAGGED arms.
- N_LET cgstmt's per-kind `sz` cascade collapses to a single
`if (lu->kind ∈ {ARRAY,SLICE,STR,STRUCT,TUPLE,TAGGED}) sz = lu->size`.
- N_LET cgexpr's match-bind primitive sizing: `bsz = (int)bu->size`
drops the TY_STR/TY_SLICE special-cases (same outcome — ty_str/
ty_slice already have ->size set by type.c).
- Three `sz == 16` / `let_emit_size(d->type) != 16` gates against the
str slot width route through ty_str->size.
Cap-offset sites (cgen.c:2440/1994/3206/5517 `delta = 16` for
slice's .cap field-write) intentionally NOT touched: 16 there is the
*offset of .cap inside a slice header*, structurally always 16
regardless of str.size. #1 doesn't move the slice layout.
Track C — lib/ user code:
- lib/strings.freeall + appendstr, lib/shlex.freepartial + appendstr:
the four `16u64` literals (per-str-element stride for rt_ensure and
os.free) become `size(str): u64`. Check-time fold via #42's
intercept resolves to 16 today; #1 reroutes via the bumped tinfo.
After this commit, bumping ty_str to 24B for task #1 requires editing
exactly two places (cmd/wcc/type.c:64 ty_str.size, plus check.ww
primtypesize's "str" arm) for the SSoT to propagate.
Verification:
- 131/131 tests pass. 994_w6c_ww + 995_self_rebuild byte-identity
holds — each replacement evaluates to the same constant the
literal had today, so cgen output is unchanged.
- selfhost source's `size(str): u64` folds at check time (cstage
cmd/wcc/check.c:907-960 for the C-bootstrap of selfhost; wwstage
check.ww:898-942 for the rebuild path), no runtime call introduced.
Wwstage's slotsize had a catch-all `return 8` for any N_TNAME where
primsize's `> 0` guard failed. `primsize("void") == 0` (correct —
void is zero-sized per cmd/wcc/type.c:46), so void landed on the
catch-all. (void | !void) then sized as `8 (tag) + max(8, 8) = 16`
instead of `8 + 0 = 8`, and the phantom payload word made
cgwidentaggedstore spill DX for the let-init — diverging from
cstage's `8`-byte slot.
Two narrow additions per rule 10 (align wwstage DOWN to cstage):
1. N_TBANG case at the top of slotsize, recurse on .lhs. Mirrors
cstage resolve_type N_TBANG which copies the underlying type's
size unchanged.
2. `void => 0` in N_TNAME BEFORE the primsize guard, so the SSoT
matches cmd/wcc/type.c:46.
757_letbind_void_bang_void exercises three shapes — void-arm,
invalid-arm, full natural-form fromutf8 — and pins cstage/wwstage
asm byte-identity per row.
lib/strings/strings.ww fromutf8 WHY-comment drops the Bug-B
SIGSEGV caveat (measurement artifact: original test linked without
rt/start.s; RET popped argc). Keeps #19 dependency for the
eventual collapse to `utf8.validate(in)?`.
Hare matches ww's design (void zero-sized, !T inherits T's
layout); this is a pure wwstage implementation gap, not a
divergence to argue about.
Single-peel TY_NAMED.under bottoms out at the inner alias when
chain length is 2+, surfaces in two stages with different
mechanisms: cstage's gates inline `if (t->kind == TY_NAMED)
t = t->under` at every callsite (cgreturn, cglet sizing, cgexpr
N_DOT, cgassign N_DOT, cg_sret_retsize) — graduated to a
while-loop via new type_chase_named helper across 11 sites.
wwstage routes all field-walks through structlookup, which
registers only direct struct definitions (not aliases) — missing
the alias-recurse fallback. New structlookupchain helper mirrors
slotsize's N_TARRAY arm precedent; sretretsize + 4 cgenexpr.ww
sites route through it. Splitting would either land cstage
without unblocking wwstage's strings.tokenize wrapper shape
(rule 10 byte-id regression) or land wwstage without cstage
gate parity (breaking 995 self-rebuild). 756 sentinel exercises
4 rows × cstage RC + wwstage RC + byte-id = 12 fixtures; pre-fix
rows 2 + 4 (slice-fields single alias, i32 double alias) fail
on both RC and byte-id. The ~67 cstage / ~26 wwstage candidate
sibling sites are #17-style structural-close follow-up; this
commit fixes the immediate strings.tokenize-wrapper blockers.
Latent #21 has two surface shapes — register polarity in cgun
TK_AMP N_INDEX's complex-base arm, and indexbaseesz's
over-broad .ptr pseudo-field gate — that share a single semantic
path: &N_DOT[N_INDEX] where the inner N_DOT cannot be peeled
into a plain ident base. Polarity-A (cgenexpr.ww) lifted to
cstage's three-line shape; stride-B (cgenutil.ww) narrowed so
the .ptr arm only fires on actual str/slice inners and falls
through to the generic struct-field arm for struct N_TNAME
bases. The fixes compose at the same call site (esz from
indexbaseesz, then the IMULQ-or-elide gate, then complex-base
emit), so splitting them into two commits would leave a
half-fixed intermediate — neither half stands alone as a
bisect-clean closure. Sentinel 755_amp_dot_idx exercises both
shapes across 4 stride classes (slice-elem 24, struct-elem 16,
u8 stride-1 elide, i64 stride-8); pre-fix 5/12 fail, post-fix
12/12 ok. Latent silent miscompile in lib/memio + lib/bufio's
.ptr[i] shape also unmasked.
Cstage and wwstage share the latent: check.c's N_INDEX bespoke
TY_PTR-over-TY_SLICE clause peeled the slice in `*[]T[i]` and
returned the element of the element, while wwstage's elemsizeof
had no N_TSLICE arm for the post-N_TPTR-peel elem and fell to
the 8B catch-all. Splitting leaves one stage broken on the
exact `*[]T[i]` shape the new 754 sentinel asserts byte-identical
between stages (rule 11). The companion 24B per-element copy
emit is a separate codegen wedge already pinned inline at
cmd/w6c/cgen.c:6518; out-of-scope here and noted in the fixture
header.
Structural close of the #4-trio convenience-wrapper audit. Session-6's
#4-trio + #11/#16 graduated individual lookup helpers (fnret/fnparams/
enum/struct/def) to same-module-first via *mod variants. The close
didn't enumerate every cgcall-context callsite — convenience wrappers
that take a *node callee and probe its return shape via bare-leaf
fnretlookup stripped the N_DOT module hint, same wedge shape as #16
(callee_variadic_param, d9b0c90) through a different family of
consumers.
Eight LATENT sites in selfhost/cmd/wcc fixed (each mirrors #34's
nodeisslice two-arm route — N_IDENT uses cmod=c.curmod, N_DOT uses
cmod=callee.lhs.str, terminal call routes through fnretlookupmod):
- cgenstmt.ww cgreturn forwardtagged probe
- cgenstmt.ww cgmlet tuple-return shape probe
- cgenexpr.ww cgdot fn-rvalue probe (mod.fn LEAQ)
- cgenexpr.ww cgtryprop succisstr probe
- cgenexpr.ww cgtryunw succisstr probe
- cgenutil.ww callsretsize (sret arg-prep)
- cgenutil.ww inferletcalltype (let x = f()? tnode)
- cgenutil.ww rhstaggedabicall N_CALL branch
cstage carries no sister bug: cmd/w6c/cgen.c reads every callee
return shape from the typed n->lhs->type per TY_FN sig. Mirror of
#4d/#28/#31/#34/#16 cstage no-sister notes.
753_convwrap_audit: table-driven sentinel exercising cgmlet's tuple-
shape probe. alpha exports foo() (i64, str); beta exports foo()
(i64, i64); main calls beta.foo() — source order puts alpha LAST so
alpha.foo prepends to head of c.fnrets, pre-fix bare walk picks
alpha's str-branch dispatch for beta's call. Post-fix routes to
beta.foo via fnretlookupmod. Asserts MOVQ\\tCX, absent in main.run
TEXT (no str.len store; would fire pre-fix). Remaining 7 sites
covered structurally by shape-mirror — single wedge shape, single
exercise.
make test 127/127; ww2==ww3==ww4 byte-id holds via 995_self_rebuild.
Latent silent miscompile surfaced by worker-strcontains3 attempting
strings.contains tagged-variadic graduation: wwstage cgcall's
callee_variadic_param helper (cgenutil.ww:60-70) consumed the N_DOT
callee's leaf via callee.str but routed bare fnparamslookup — bypassed
the module hint at callee.lhs.str. When two modules export same-leaf
fns with differing variadic shapes (e.g. strings.contains(str|rune)...
+ bytes.contains scalar (u8|[]u8)), the bare walk returned the wrong
fn's params for arg-prep while the CALL targeted the correct
module-qualified symbol — ABI mismatch.
Direct sister of #34 (049ebc1) which graduated fnret's N_DOT arm
through fnretlookupmod. #4d's commit body (862715d) explicitly
deferred callee_variadic_param's *mod re-routing pending "future
stdlib port introducing a tagged-vs-scalar or variadic-vs-non-variadic
same-leaf N_DOT collision shape." This is that surfacing.
cgenutil.ww: split callee_variadic_param on callee.kind. N_IDENT stays
on bare fnparamslookup (same-module-first post-#4d). N_DOT routes
through fnparamslookupmod(c, callee.str, callee.lhs.str), pattern-
identical to cgcall's N_DOT branch at cgenexpr.ww:2922-2935.
Cstage cmd/w6c/cgen.c:4279-4302 reads callee params via typed AST
(n->lhs->type + cu->params) — module-aware natively, no sister
change needed (mirrors #4d/#28/#31/#34 cstage no-sister notes).
752_modparam_callee: table-driven 3 rows x 2 stages = 6 fixtures.
cross_module_same_leaf_variadic_vs_scalar (the wedge),
same_module_same_leaf (no-regress), bare_leaf_no_collision (control).
#17 filed for the wider convenience-wrapper audit (enumerate all
wwstage cgen* helpers that take *node and do bare-leaf lookups; sweep
for N_DOT-arm omissions). This commit is narrow to callee_variadic_param.
make test 126/126; ww2==ww3==ww4 byte-id holds via 995_self_rebuild.
pushargsrev's widening detection was N_IDENT-only — N_INDEX of a
sum-typed slice element fell through to the scalar widening branch,
which hardcoded the param's first-variant tag (MOVQ $1, AX) and
pushed AX as a single scalar word. Callees that match-dispatched
on the runtime tag always ran the static-guess arm on garbage.
cstage knew the arg's type via check.c so its widen[] flag stayed
off and the natural-push tagged-arg arm pushed CX/DX/AX (high → low)
high → low. wwstage now mirrors via two narrow arms in pushargsrev:
the aistagged guard treats N_INDEX-of-sum-typed-element matching
the param slot as already-tagged, and the natural-push fallthrough
emits PUSHQ CX / DX / AX for the same shape. Both arms gate on
istaggedtype(indexvaluetnode(arg)) so literal- and ident-source
sum args stay on their existing paths.
Sentinel 749_sumtype_forward table-drives the three forward shapes
(N_INDEX, N_IDENT, literal) and asserts per-stage runtime plus a
byte-id window over the callsite asm.
Combined.ww regen for wwdump_ww and w6c_ww follows the cgen source
change; smoke.combined.ww unaffected.
Tests: 123/123 pass; bootstrap fixed point holds (ww2==ww3==ww4).
Subsumes #36. Drop wwstage scanlocals pre-pass; both stages converge on
first-use+fail-loud frame growth, rule-10 polarity DOWN to leaner side.
#36's surfaces (frame-total divergence on match-arm case-let; sibling
offset divergence in variadic+iter+match-prev compositions) close
naturally — running-max c.frame includes every first-use binding.
selfhost/cmd/wcc: add atlocals persistent @-prefix registry surviving
cgblock save/restore; add cgoutbuf/cgoutmode/cgout_enable/disable/flush
for deferred prologue (emit body to buffer, finalise c.frame, then
TEXT/SUBQ + flush); localadd @-prefix dedups against atlocals +
fail-louds on size-grow (rule 7 — no silent truncate); cgreturn-tagged
routes through @retscr (was colliding with @tagscr on arg-widen sizes);
variadic gather esz uses raw primsize (rune->4) not slotsize (rune->8)
— matches cstage and fixes the #36 sibling runtime miscompile in
non-leaf variadic+iter+match-prev callees.
cmd/w6c/cgen.c: drop the over-allocation hack ("for byte-id with
wwstage scanlocals reservation") since wwstage no longer over-reserves;
add fail-loud on @sretscr size-grow; @tagscr sites pass actual slot_sz
instead of stale c.tagscrsz.
748_size_strategy_convergence: table-driven 4 rows x 2 stages
(tag_variadic_runearm, trim_iter_match_prev, variadic_gather_rune_stride,
leaf_baseline). Each exercises a #36 surface shape; 8/8 ok.
Net -1565 lines. Sister latents filed as cosmetic (cs/ws frame size
drift on multiple-variadic-call fns): labelseq drift + varargseq
stuck at 0 — both bootstrap-byte-id safe (ww2==ww3==ww4 holds since
both ww2 and ww3 are wwstage outputs).
make test 122/122; ww2==ww3==ww4 byte-id holds via 995_self_rebuild.
Class A silent miscompile, surfaced by landing strings.slice in
Hare's natural delegation form `fromutf8_unsafe(utf8.slice(begin,
end))` (ref/hare/strings/iter.ha:75). strings.slice itself returns
str, so the inner utf8.slice (cross-module N_DOT) call's cgcall
return-ABI fixup hit post-#4e fnretlookup's same-module-first walk
and grabbed strings.slice's own str return — emitted a spurious
`MOVQ DX, BX` after the cross-module CALL even though utf8.slice
returns []u8 (selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenexpr.ww cgcall return-ABI fixup,
line 3249-3261 pre-fix). Every other consumer of cgcall:3249's
str-shuffle decision sat on the same bare-leaf table and was
silently miscompiling on the same collision shape pre-#34.
Sibling: nodeisslice + nodeisstr N_CALL arms in
selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenutil.ww were N_IDENT-only — for a cross-
module N_DOT call returning a slice or str, pushargsrev fell
through to the natural 1-word PUSHQ AX, dropping the `.len`
(and `.cap` for slices) of the return value when consumed as a
call arg. strings.slice's body passes utf8.slice's []u8 result
to fromutf8_unsafe; pre-fix wwstage pushed 1 word vs cstage's
3, breaking the receiver's slice-3-pop drain.
Cstage carries no sister bug: cmd/w6c/cgen.c reads return shape
from the typed `n->lhs->type` (TY_FN sig) for both str-shuffle
and slice-/str-arg push counts — module-aware via the typed AST,
sidestepping any bare-leaf table. Mirror of #4e's cstage-no-
sister-bug note.
Fix: route cgcall return-ABI fixup + nodeisslice/nodeisstr N_CALL
arms through fnretlookupmod with `callee.lhs.str` (N_DOT
qualifier) or `c.curmod` (N_IDENT). Mirror of #28
fnparamslookupmod / #31 fnretlookupmod N_DOT re-routing.
Remaining bare-leaf fnretlookup consumer sites (~8 sites across
cgenexpr/cgenutil/cgenstmt/cgendecl listed in task #34a) stay
on the graduated bare-leaf path — none of the present-corpus
N_DOT leaf collisions have return-shape divergence at those
sites. A future stdlib port introducing a return-shape-divergent
same-leaf N_DOT collision will need the *mod re-routing — filed
as #34a sibling-latents.
Bundled three concerns per rule 11: cgcall fix, nodeisslice/
nodeisstr fix, and strings.slice retire + sentinel. (a) alone
leaves strings.slice byte-id breaking on slice-arg push count.
(b) alone leaves a phantom MOVQ DX, BX on the inner cross-
module CALL. (c) alone fails 995_self_rebuild without (a)+(b).
The three cannot land separately bisect-cleanly; the 745
sentinel pins the primary repro (cgcall str-shuffle) which
sentinel-flips on a cgcall:3257 revert.
745_fnret34_modshadow pins the fix with 1 row: caller.slice
returns str (same leaf as the cross-module callee, divergent
return shape); caller.run calls myutf8.slice returning []u8.
Asserts CALL myutf8.slice present inside caller.run TEXT +
`MOVQ DX, BX` anti-check on each stage plus cs-vs-ws byte-id.
strings.slice retired in lib/strings/strings.ww: the deferral
block becomes the natural Hare delegation form with two local
utf8.decoder reconstructions for the iterator endpoints — ww
has no anonymous-embed (parallel to the existing `move` helper).
iter_slice_cases mirrors ref/hare/strings/iter.ha:110-127;
sidesteps the Hare `let t = s;` iterator-copy via fresh
strings.iter() to stay clear of #35's sibling latents.
119/119 ok. ww2 == ww3 == ww4 byte-id holds.
Wwstage's N_INDEX-lhs cgassign dispatch chain had a triple-site
N_DOT base gap (sister latents filed during #24 / #27 review):
Read (#28): `obj.mat[i][k]` over a struct field mat: **u8.
cgindex routes the outer N_INDEX's N_INDEX base through
indexvaluetnode; the recursion bottomed out at the inner
N_INDEX's N_DOT base with bt=nil. esz fell through to 8 +
signed_elem to false — wwstage emitted a stray outer
`MOVQ $8, CX; IMULQ CX, AX` plus `MOVQ (AX), AX` (8-byte
read over a 1-byte u8) instead of cstage's bare
`MOVZBQ (AX), AX`.
Write (#30): `obj.arr[i] = v` over a struct field arr:
[N]Tagged (e.g. (i64|str)). cgassign's N_DOT-base arm
computed esz via indexbaseesz but never set elemtn, so the
tagged-element store gate missed and the 24-byte tagged slot
was overwritten by a single scalar MOVQ — wrong-width store
+ tag/payload junk in the upper 16 bytes.
Cstage walks `n->lhs->type` directly via the typed AST
(cmd/w6c/cgen.c idx_eff + the N_INDEX-lhs N_ASSIGN branch).
Wwstage now mirrors via indexvaluetnode, which #24 (aa8ca47)
introduced for the N_INDEX-base case; #28/#30 graduate it for
N_DOT base via the existing dotfieldtnode helper.
Bundle graduates N_DOT base for the entire N_INDEX-lhs cgassign
chain: (a) indexvaluetnode in cgenutil.ww handles N_DOT base via
dotfieldtnode; (b) cgassign N_DOT-base arm in cgenexpr.ww calls
indexvaluetnode for elemtn; (c) scanlocals N_DOT-base arm in
cgendecl.ww parallels the existing N_IDENT arm for tagscr-bump.
Splits are bisect-incoherent: (b)-alone clobbers locals via
under-sized frame, (a)-alone leaves the write path with wrong
elemtn, (c)-alone has no consumer. Only the triple delivers a
complete N_DOT-base graduation matching #24's N_INDEX-base
pattern.
Cstage's first-use+fail-loud strategy for @tagscr (#26 commit
069548d) handles the N_DOT-base shape naturally; the scanlocals
N_DOT arm is wwstage-specific. Long-term rule-10 convergence
(wwstage DOWN from scanlocals to first-use+fail-loud on BOTH
stages) is filed as task #15.
Class A wwstage cgen UNDER. No in-tree consumer; sister latents
filed during #24 + #27 reviews. Test 741_dotbase_chained pins
the dispatch + cstage-byte-identical asm for both rows.
Sister latent (filed): indexbaseesz has no N_TARRAY arm for
scalar struct-field array writes — `s.arr: [N]i32` scalar write
falls through to esz=8 on wwstage. No in-tree exerciser; tight
scope kept here.
115/115 ok. ww2 == ww3 == ww4 byte-id.
Wwstage cgindex's base-inspection (cgenexpr.ww) only computed esz/
signed_elem when base.kind == N_IDENT or N_DOT. For a chained
`names[i][k]` (names: **u8) the outer N_INDEX has base.kind ==
N_INDEX; esz fell through to the default 8 so the outer load
emitted `MOVQ (AX), AX` over a 1-byte u8 plus a stray
`MOVQ $8, CX; IMULQ CX, AX` scaling on the outer index that cstage
doesn't emit. Wrong-width-narrow-load: the byte was read as 8 bytes
(reaching into adjacent memory) and the outer offset multiplied by
sizeof *u8 instead of sizeof u8.
Cstage walks n->lhs->type directly via the typed AST
(cmd/w6c/cgen.c idx_eff → eff->sub->size at N_INDEX). Wwstage
needed the parallel via indexvaluetnode — return the value-type
of an N_INDEX expression by stripping one element layer off base's
type, recursing for chained inner. cgindex's else-if chain now
adds the N_INDEX arm: call indexvaluetnode + elemsizeofc/
elemissignedc.
Class A wwstage cgen UNDER. Surfaced first time the codebase
exercised the **T[i][k] shape — through expanddir in
selfhost/cmd/ww/main.ww (post-#22 dir-enum, commit 9e0816e). The
workaround there split names[i][k] into `let nm: *u8 = names[i];
nm[k]` to route through the bare-pointer index path. Retired in
this commit: expanddir uses the natural chained form since the
read path is now byte-identical across stages.
Bundling justification (rule 11): the workaround retirement is
the in-tree verification this fix works — without retiring,
neither bootstrap byte-id nor 995_self_rebuild exercises the
chained read shape. Test 739_chained_index pins cstage-byte-
identical asm for **u8 (MOVZBQ load, 1 inner-stride-8 IMULQ pair,
no outer scale) + **i32 (MOVSXD load, inner $8 + outer $4 IMULQ
pairs).
Sister latents filed (no in-tree consumer, no probe):
Task #27 — cgassign chained-write N_INDEX: write path
`names[i][k] = v` for **u8 has the same dispatch gap. Selfhost +
lib grep is empty.
New latent (filed during review) — cgindex N_DOT base on chained
index: `obj.mat[i][k]` over a struct-field base falls back to
esz=8. indexvaluetnode currently handles N_IDENT + N_INDEX bases
only.
113/113 ok. ww2 == ww3 == ww4 byte-id.
User-mandated language redesign: source files declare their own
namespace via the new `package <name>;` keyword and pull dependencies
via `import <path>;`. Both keywords use Plan-9 `.` separator (user
override on Hare's `::` — `import encoding.utf8;`). Internal token-
kind enum values TK_MODULE=86 and TK_USE=17 kept stable for 990
wwdump byte-diff symmetry; only kwtab strings + tokname spellings
rotated. Executables (selfhost/cmd/{ww,w6c,w6a,w6l,wwdump}/main.ww)
declare `package main;` per Go convention; lib/ + selfhost/cmd/wcc/
files declare their parent-dir basename.
One-commit bundle per the brief's all-at-once directive: a per-stage
split breaks bootstrap byte-id mid-rewrite (cstage with new keyword
can't parse old `module`/`use` files and vice-versa). Body documents
the bundle per rule 11.
Two retained divergences from the user's stated ask, both filed per
rule 7 / rule 8 with inline task pointers at the deferred sites:
Task #22 — Directory-as-module enumeration in the driver. User
asked: "module is combination of files in directory" (golang/hare
shape). After this commit lib/ww/{ast,sym,typ}.ww all declare
`package ww;` but are still pulled into the compilation unit via
explicit sibling `import` chains (sym.ww does `import ast;` etc.),
not via dir enumeration. The cstage scaffold for true dir
enumeration was drafted and reverted because the symmetric wwstage
port requires a ww-side opendir/readdir wrapper around getdents64
(~150-200 lines new ww). Inline citation at locate_import_in /
locatein in both stages points to task #22.
Task #23 — Parser strict missing-`package` error. The original
brief mandated: parser errors when a .ww source omits `package
<name>;` as its first non-comment item. Softened here to silent-
default because 63 test wrappers (200_parse, 100_lex, 300_check,
400_w6c, ..., the inline-source-fragment family) build ad-hoc ww
source strings that lack `package` and the strict error cascaded
into 60+ test failures. Migration is mechanical-sed but deferred
so this commit ships green. Inline citation at parsefile in both
stages points to task #23.
Node.module renamed to Node.nmod and modent.module to modent.nmod
in wwstage source — the field name `module` would collide with the
freshly-reserved TK_MODULE token. The rename is left in place as
clean separator between AST-field-name and reserved-keyword
namespaces. Cstage's n->module retained — C has no `package` or
`module` keyword.
rt/ensure.ww deliberately ships WITHOUT a package declaration so
its `export fn rt_ensure` keeps the bare linker symbol; adding
`package rt;` would mangle to `rt.rt_ensure` and break libwwrt.a
linkage. Documented at the file head.
111/111 ok (110 + new 738_module_decl sentinel). 995_self_rebuild
byte-id holds (ww2 == ww3 == ww4). All 5 frozen
selfhost/cmd/*/main.combined.ww regenerated under the new driver.
CLAUDE.md rule 5 amended with the language-layer divergence note.
Class A silent miscompile, latent until two modules export the same
struct leaf name. Wwstage's structlookup (selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenutil.ww)
walked c.structs head-first by sname, returning the FIRST match.
cgdot's *struct field-load branch handed it inner.str (the bare
leaf from a parsed N_TPTR whose inner is N_TNAME) and the head-pick
silently emitted the wrong-module field offset — a displacement
against BX that loaded whatever the colliding-module struct happened
to align there. Cstage carries no sister bug: resolve_typename
(cmd/wcc/check.c:65) already routes bare-leaf TY_STRUCT names
through scope_lookup_prefer per c->cur_mod, and cgen.c reads
fi.foff off the typed Sym — cs vs ws asm diverged on every bare-
leaf collision but no in-tree corpus declares two same-leaf
structs, so 995_self_rebuild stayed green (same surfacing pattern
as #4a enumlookup post-strings).
Fifth leaf of the trio leaf-name lookup graduation (after #27
aliaslookup, #28/#31 fnparams/fnretlookupmod, #4a enumlookup):
structlookup grows a same-module-first walk before the head-walk
fallback, mirroring aliaslookup's two-pass shape. No structlookupmod
variant — pkg.S collapses at parse time (lib/ww/parse/parse.ww
joindotted) into a single N_TNAME str routed through the existing
embedded-dot smod==pkg branch, so there's no cgdot-style N_DOT
consumer surface to add a *mod variant for (deferred per rob until
one surfaces). No cstage symmetric fix needed for the same reason
the bug doesn't surface there.
734_struct_modshadow pins the fix with 2 rows: row 1 bare-leaf in
module M must fold against M's own S even with another module's
same-leaf S at the head of c.structs (asserts the matching field-
load disp inside the right TEXT sym + bad disp NOT-presence anti-
check + byte-id between stages); row 2 pkg-qualified alpha.S
from inside alpha is defensive coverage of the pre-existing
embedded-dot smod==pkg branch — same path pre/post-fix (no
sentinel-flip on this commit), pinned here so a future regression
to the embedded-dot lookup is caught.
Wwstage matchscrutt now mirrors cstage's typed-AST scrutinee-type
lookup for module-qualified mod.fn(...) callees, restoring per-arm
tag dispatch on cross-module shadowed-name 4-arm matches. Class A
runtime miscompile, silent across collectfnrets shadowing — was
the 8th unmask of session 5.
Pre-fix: wwstage's matchscrutt N_DOT branch (cgenutil.ww:2061)
called `fnretlookup(c, callee.str)` — name-only resolution.
collectfnrets prepends to c.fnrets, so when a caller fn (e.g.
lib/strings's `next`) shadows a callee fn-name (utf8's `next`),
the prepend chain has the caller's narrower tagged return at the
head. matchscrutt then resolved the scrutinee type to the WRONG
tagged shape, and variantindex lookups for arms past the
shadowing caller's variant count returned -1 → want=0 →
match-arm `CMPQ $0, AX` for arms 2 and 3 on a (rune | done |
more | invalid) probe. Effect: arms 2/3 silently unreachable
even when the runtime tag matched, falling through to default.
Cstage gets the scrutinee type via the checker-set callee type
on the N_DOT node, so picks the correct utf8.next return shape.
Polarity catalog: wwstage UNDER — fnretlookup missing module-
preferring discipline. **Third leaf in the same trio**: #27
(aliaslookupmod), #28 (fnparamslookupmod), #31 (fnretlookupmod).
Pattern is recurring; full graduation of all leaf-name lookups
to same-module-first is a candidate for STATUS-3 task #1
variant-widen consolidation refactor (deferred to next session
opener per rob).
Fix: new fnretlookupmod helper in cgen.ww (same-module-first
walk, fallback to existing first-match — cell-for-cell mirror
of fnparamslookupmod from #28). matchscrutt N_DOT branch
extracts `cmod` from callee.lhs.str and routes through the
helper. Other 13 fnretlookup callsites untouched per #28's
"fix only what has a real consumer" discipline. fnret.fmod
field + collectfnrets f.fmod assignment already landed in #28.
Surfaced by lib/strings commit-2 pre-flight: probe iter+next
shape calls utf8.next; the probe's own `fn next` shadows
utf8.next at the c.fnrets head. Bootstrap-stable because no
selfhost-corpus path shadows a fn name across modules with a
wider tagged return on the shadowed side; lib/strings.iter
pulling utf8.next under wwstage was the first exerciser.
Filed follow-up (NOT in scope here): #32 wwstage runtime stomp
on utf8.next via *iterator caller — separate Class A surfaced
by 929 direct utf8.next regression row design. #31's fix is
correct in isolation; #32 blocks lib/strings commit 2 (#30).
Tests:
- 728_match_4arm_cross_module pins distinct CMPQ $K, AX tags
in TEXT b.next via bitmap covering [0..arms), robust to
arm ordering. Three cross-module shadowed-name shapes × cmp
-s byte-id. Sentinel-flip-verified: revert fnretlookupmod
route → 3/6 wwstage fixtures fail "arm K repeats tag $0
(collapse)".
- 929_match_4arm_cross_module_run runtime-pins 6 rows × 2
stages per-arm exit-code shape: 3/4/5/6-arm boundary,
mixed (i32|str|rune|u8), reverse arm-order in match source.
Confirms bug follows fnretlookup-resolved type, not match
source order.
102/102 ok. 995_self_rebuild stays green (ww2==ww3==ww4 byte-id).
Wwstage's cglet skipped MOVQ $0 for sz=8 slots that cstage
zero-inits unconditionally — !void error types (utf8.invalid)
and void-alias variant tags (utf8.done / utf8.more) drifted
byte-id post-utf8 + lib/strings; promotes STATUS-3 #22 from
latent to bootstrap-blocking. Cstage emits MOVQ $0, -K(BP) in
the prologue for any sz=8 let-decl slot via the natural
type-fallthrough; wwstage's `typeis8byteprimitive` helper
returned false on N_TBANG and on N_TNAME pointing to an alias
that resolves to void, so the gate never fired and the slot
stayed uninitialised.
Polarity catalog: wwstage UNDER — `typeis8byteprimitive`
classifier too narrow at N_TBANG and void-alias N_TNAME.
Convergence wwstage → cstage's natural sz=8 fallthrough (rule
10). N_TBANG arm recurses on inner type (cmd/wcc/check.c:290
resolve_type copies T's kind, only sets iserror — so !T is
8B iff T is 8B); void-alias N_TNAME resolves through alias-
recursion the same way.
Tests:
- 724_letdecl_zeroinit pins MOVQ $0, -K(BP) presence between
function prologue and body on canonical !void and void-
alias rows, plus cmp -s byte-id between stages per row.
Filed follow-up (NOT in scope here): #25 wwstage 8B struct
without rhs still under-emits (structlookup != nil short-
circuits the classifier). Same family as STATUS-4 #36 primsize
composite-aware sizing. No in-tree consumer.
96/96 ok. 995_self_rebuild stays green (ww2==ww3==ww4 byte-id).
Wwstage call-arg-emit recognized slice args only when source was
IDENT/SLICE/CAST/DOT. For N_CALL returning []T the natural-push
fallthrough emitted one PUSHQ AX (lost .len/.cap) and cgcall's
pop-count under-drained by 2 words — corrupting R8/R9 and every
subsequent arg. Class A runtime miscompile with stack misalignment
and 3-POPs-of-garbage at the receiving call. Sister to #21
(tagged-CALL arg) but for plain []u8 slice, not tagged-variant —
wwstage's pushargsrev grew the tagged-CALL arm at #21 and never
grew the plain-composite arm.
Surfaced by lib/strings landing's `bytes.X(toutf8(in), p)` call
sites: 995_self_rebuild's wwstage rebuild tripped on byte-id
divergence at w6c_ww + wwdump_ww emit. 967_bytes_run was green
because `ww run` exercises the cstage path. Corpus-coverage-blind
on the wwstage side until lib/strings pulled the chain through
wwstage compilation.
Fix is minimal: `nodeisslice` (selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenutil.ww) gains
an N_CALL arm structurally identical to the existing N_CALL arm in
`nodeisstr` (only swap: isslicetype for isstrtype). The downstream
natural-push slice path (PUSHQ CX/BX/AX, extra=2 pop-count) was
already correct — it just needed the N_CALL-of-slice-return shape
to be recognized as a slice. pushargsrev and cgcall untouched.
Polarity catalog: wwstage UNDER — missing N_CALL arm in slice
shape recognition. Convergence wwstage → cstage per rule 10
(cstage reads typed-AST `type_isslice` natively).
Tests:
- 723_composite_call_arg pins the 3-PUSH order (CX, BX, AX)
between `CALL view` and next CALL on canonical `f(g())` shape,
plus cstage vs wwstage cmp -s byte-id.
- 927_composite_call_arg_run runtime-pins 7 rows × 2 stages =
14 fixtures: canonical, slice-CALL + let-slice (hasprefix
shape), two composite-CALL args (arg-shift collision),
middle-argpos, nested composite-in-composite, slice + scalar
pop-count mix, tagged-CALL regression alongside (confirms
#21 still holds).
95/95 ok. 995_self_rebuild stays green (ww2==ww3==ww4 byte-id).
Class A wwstage cgen miscompile, silent until wwstage path engaged.
Pre-fix wwstage's name-keyed flatvariantidx returned -1 for `[]T`
variants (pat.str empty on N_TSLICE), so cgmatch and
cgtagvariantidx collapsed every `(scalar | []T)` arm to tag 0.
Internally consistent within wwstage; cstage's structural
`type_eq` (cmd/w6c/cgen.c:466 cg_tag_for_variant) matched
correctly. Bootstrap stayed green because no selfhost-corpus path
exercises `(scalar | []T)` until lib/bytes / lib/strings landing
pulls bytes.index through wwstage compilation — 967_bytes_run
uses `ww run` (cstage only), so the wwstage path was never
exercised.
Polarity catalog entry: wwstage UNDER (missing N_TSLICE dispatch
arm in variantindex lookup), not REVERSE — worker's deeper read
corrected rob's initial diagnosis. cstage's structural type-eq is
the leaner-correct side; wwstage converges to it per rule 10.
Fix: new `flatslicevariantidx` helper in cgenutil.ww keyed on
N_TSLICE shape walking pat.lhs against vt.lhs alongside the existing
name-keyed flatvariantidx; extend `taggedvariantindex` shape-fallback
with a `wantslice == ivisslice` axis alongside the existing str
axis; route N_TSLICE in cgenexpr.ww's cgtagvariantidx (is/as)
and cgmatch (case) through the helper. No edits to cgenmatch's
dispatch codegen (CMPQ/JNE/spill) — that's symptom, the bug is
in the variantindex lookup.
Surfaced the 7th corpus-coverage-blind unmask of session 5 (sister
shape to STATUS-4 #11 / #14 / #21 wwstage UNDER family). Latent
within lib/bytes (a6abac2) since landing today; 967_bytes_run's
cstage-only `ww run` driver kept it dormant.
Tests:
- 722_match_slice_variant pins cmp -s byte-id between stages
for the canonical (u8|[]u8), reverse-order ([]u8|u8), and
three-arm (u8|[]u8|str) shapes.
- 926_match_slice_variant_run runtime-pins 7 rows × 2 stages
(cstage + wwstage drivers): canonical, reverse-order, and
other scalar-vs-slice-of-same-primitive matrices (i8|[]i8,
i32|[]i32, u64|[]u64, rune|[]rune), three-arm with str.
Verifies both arms reachable and payload survives.
Filed follow-ups (latent, NOT in this commit's scope):
- flatslicevariantidx falls back to first slice slot when no
element-name matches; `([]u8 | []i32)` would mis-route. No
in-tree consumer.
- 926 missing nested ((u8|[]u8) | i32) row per rob's spec.
- 3-arm 32B tagged sequential-push payload corruption (both
stages, asm byte-id passes, only 9xx runtime catches).
- Chained inline pick() over 32B 3-arm slot (both stages,
bind-to-let workaround documented at 926 row).
93/93 ok. 995_self_rebuild stays green (ww2==ww3==ww4 byte-id).
