F1 set str.sub = u8; the str-element-size readers no longer need a TY_STR special-case. cstage: delete the two 'if (kind==TY_STR) esz = ty_u8->size' blocks -- the general 'esz = sub->size' path already yields 1 for str (str.sub=u8), as the third index site (which never had the special-case) proves. Provably byte-id-NEUTRAL for ALL inputs: ty_str is the sole TY_STR instance and str.sub==ty_u8, so sub->size==ty_u8->size==1 in every case. No kind-gate (type_isstr/isstrtype arm-selectors) touched.
wwstage elemsizeof (cgenutil.ww) is COMMENT-ONLY: it names primtypesize("u8") directly because it operates on a raw type node with no stamped tinfo at the ident-base index path (str.sub lives on .type_.sub, unstamped here -- cf. cgforrange's 'if sti != nil'); that IS the str.sub-equivalent value, identical asm. Added the WHY + retargeted the citation to the surviving cstage path. The structural collapse there is blocked on tinfo-stamping, not intent -- filed (task #24); byte-id 990-997 guards the residual coupling.
Zero asm change both stages (cstage/wwstage .s byte-identical pre/post and cross-stage). main.combined.ww regenerated via the canonical make path (comment propagation only).
Reassign-destructuring a (scalar,str) tuple (a, s = call(), N_MASSIGN) stored only the str's ptr (DX->slot+0), dropping len/cap -- the last STORE-cluster gap. Reachable (valid ww; checker accepts str tuple elements) but unexercised in bootstrap (all N_MASSIGN sites returned <=8B tuples). Mirror the N_MLET destructure-store oracle (cgen.c:7475): on the one-str XOR, route the str's 3 words DX/CX/R8 -> slot+0/+8/+16; the slot pre-exists (localfind, not localadd). wwstage has no checker, so it derives str-ness from the callee return-type tuple via fnretlookupmod (structurally identical to cgmlet). Both XOR positions (str at l0 and l1). Kind-gated, never size==24. cstage==wwstage byte-identical.
Scope = one-str only, matching N_MLET exactly; str+str-both is unhandled by N_MLET too and is filed as a shared gap (task #22), with WHY-comments at both destructure sites. N_MLET emission unchanged (its edit is comment-only, verified byte-identical).
test/wcc/939: table-driven write-then-read-cap over both XOR positions (a,s=mk() and s,a=mk2()); cap!=len via mutation (not a sub-slice, #20); pre-poisoned via a non-G3 let-init; full triple+scalar asserted; fail-before/pass-after on both drivers. Completes the str-cap STORE cluster -- the read/write round-trip is now whole. main.combined.ww regenerated via the canonical make path.
Storing a str into a field reached through a *struct-valued expression (e.g. r.sym.flag = v) wrote only 2 words (ptr,len), dropping cap -- the second STORE-cluster fold. Direct transfer of G1 (c692923): the prior arm spilled only ptr/len across the base eval; now spill the full value (PUSHQ CX/BX/AX) after the rhs eval and before the base-expr eval (the stack slot insulates it, base-formation-agnostic), stage the *struct ptr in DX (off the AX/BX/CX str convention), store ptr/len/cap at foff+{0,8,16}. Mirrors the s.f=v oracle (cgen.c:2603); G2 adds the spill the oracle skips because the oracle's base is a slot read, not a clobbering expr. Kind-gated (TY_STR/typeisstr, never size==24). cstage==wwstage byte-identical at the store site.
test/wcc/938: table-driven write-then-read-cap over depth-2 (r.sym.f=) and depth-3 (r.a.b.f=) chained bases, both asm-confirmed to hit the chained arm. rhs is a cap!=len str; all 3 slot words pre-poisoned via a non-G2 direct store; full {ptr,len,cap} triple asserted. fail-before/pass-after verified on both drivers.
main.combined.ww regenerated via the canonical make path (md5-stable).
Storing a str into a field of an indexed element (arr[i].f = v) wrote only 2 words (ptr,len), dropping cap -- the write-side mirror of the arrfield read (c3bbe17), and the first STORE-cluster fold. The trap: the index scale (IMULQ via CX) clobbers CX=cap and the index-expr eval clobbers AX=ptr before the store. Fix composes two proven oracles -- arr[i]=v (cgen.c:3650) spills the value (PUSHQ CX/BX/AX) across the index/address computation, then s.f=v (cgen.c:2603) stages the dst address in DX (off the AX/BX/CX str convention) and stores ptr/len/cap at foff+{0,8,16}. Kind-gated (TY_STR/isstrtype, never size==24). cstage==wwstage byte-identical.
test/wcc/937: table-driven write-then-read-cap over [N]S / []S / [N]*S arr[i].f= ; rhs is a runtime cap!=len str (not a literal, which would be cap==len); all 3 slot words pre-poisoned via a DIFFERENT already-3-word store path so a stale 2-word store is detectable; asserts the full {ptr,len,cap} triple. Meaningful only now the reads are 3-word. fail-before/pass-after verified on both drivers.
main.combined.ww regenerated via the canonical make path (md5-stable).
A str-typed field read of an INDEXED element (arr[i].f) loaded 2 words (ptr,len), dropping cap -- the last 2-word str VALUE-read in the cluster. At the leaf the element base is always in AX; insert cap->CX at foff+16 (final order len->BX+8, cap->CX+16, ptr->AX+0 LAST). ONE shared leaf covers value-array / slice / pointer-element sub-cases (base-formation differs upstream, unaffected). Author-to-ABI, matched to the proven cgslicehdr(D_AX) / caseB slice-arm shape. Kind-gated (TY_STR / isstrtype, never size==24). cstage==wwstage byte-identical at the leaf.
test/wcc/936: table-driven runtime .cap-survives over [N]S-local / []S-local / [N]*S-pointer-elem reads; a 2-word read cannot coincidentally pass (the index scale-multiply clobbers CX, plus an interposed call). fail-before/pass-after verified independently on both drivers.
main.combined.ww regenerated via the canonical make path (md5-stable). Completes the str 3-word VALUE-read cluster (F2 element; C4.6/caseB/S3 fields; arrfield indexed-field). Store-side cap-drop and a struct-slice-creation divergence are separately filed.
Reading a str-typed tuple element by position (t.N) loaded 2 words (ptr,len), dropping cap -- the C4.6 coda with NO adjacent slice-element arm to mirror. Author the 3-word triple directly to the canonical {ptr,len,cap} ABI (AX,BX,CX off the BP frame slot; add cap->CX at +16). Kind-gated (TY_STR / isstrtype, never size==24). cstage==wwstage byte-identical -- cross-stage identity is the correctness oracle here, since there is no local slice sibling.
test/wcc/935: table-driven runtime .cap-survives over let s = t.1; poison rides the return ABI (R8) into the slot's cap word; a CX-clobbering call ensures a 2-word read cannot coincidentally pass. fail-before/pass-after verified INDEPENDENTLY on both stages.
main.combined.ww regenerated via the canonical make path (md5-stable).
The chained N_DOT path (o.p.f, depth>=2, base AX) still loaded a str-typed field as 2 words, dropping cap -- the C4.6 sibling deferred to caseB. Fold the str case onto the adjacent 3-word slice-field arm (widen kind-gate: cstage type_isstr, ww typeisstr; never size==24). Emits len->BX+8, cap->CX+16, ptr->AX+0 LAST (AX is the base). cstage==wwstage byte-identical; the slice arm is unchanged for slices.
test/wcc/934: table-driven runtime .cap-survives over the chained read; the row interposes a CX-clobbering call so a 2-word read cannot coincidentally pass on stale CX (per the 933 discriminator lesson). Verified fail-before/pass-after on both drivers.
main.combined.ww regenerated via the canonical make path (md5-stable).
Reading a str-typed struct field loaded only 2 words (ptr,len), dropping the cap word. Fold the str-field read onto the adjacent proven slice-field arm by widening its kind-gate to include str (type_isstr/isstrtype, never size==24). Sites: S1 direct struct field (local BP + global CX base) and S2 field through a *struct local (pst.f). cstage==wwstage byte-identical; the slice-field arms stay unchanged for slices.
C4.6 bundles the S1 local-field fold with a FORCED global-field lift -- the rule-11 reason they cannot split: cstage reads a field with ONE unified base_reg arm, so folding str covers local AND global together. For byte-id, ww's global field path must then lift in the SAME commit -- but ww splits local/global and its global arm has no slice sibling, so it is authored as ww's own local slice-field arm retargeted to the CX base (cap->CX last, base survives). The underlying cstage-unifies / ww-splits field-arm divergence is a separate filed structural follow-up, not resolved here.
test/wcc/933: table-driven runtime .cap-survives over local/global/*struct field reads, both drivers; verified fail-before/pass-after. The local-field row interposes a CX-clobbering call so a 2-word read cannot coincidentally pass on stale CX (the field store otherwise leaves the cap word lingering in CX).
main.combined.ww regenerated via the canonical make path (md5-stable), per the 1140a59 precedent.
str element value read at N_INDEX dropped the cap word (2-word ptr,len load); str is 24B {ptr,len,cap} since 1140a59. A new named helper cgslicehdr (both stages) loads the full 3-word header and is called by the N_INDEX str-element sites, kind-gated type_isstr/elemisstr -- never size==24, since str and slice collide at 24B. The base-targeting word loads last (clobber-safe). cstage==wwstage byte-identical. The #9 typeassert leaf is split out to F2b (it needs a wwstage spill twin first).
test/wcc/932: table-driven runtime .cap-survives probe over both N_INDEX base forms and both drivers; verified fail-before/pass-after. NNN<950 mirrors the 928 precedent -- the fixtures are self-contained (/tmp, no imports), so rule-14's selfhost-sibling race does not apply.
main.combined.ww regenerated via the canonical make path (md5-stable) and committed alongside source, per the 1140a59 precedent.
str IS []u8 (#1 landed the 24B layout); F1 populates the element type
so the step-3 checker collapse can read str.sub instead of special-
casing TY_STR. No reader consumes str.sub yet, so this is byte-id-
neutral: every shared ->sub reader a TY_STR value can reach is
invariant under NULL->u8 -- u8 is unsigned + size-1, matching the
prior NULL-defaults (size->1, signed->0, isstr/istagged->false); the
only ->size derefs are guarded behind esz>1, which stays false for
str.
Verified inert: compiling a fixed source with the pre- and post-F1
compilers emits byte-identical asm on both stages; cross-stage
byte-id holds and full make test (135 tests incl. 990-997) is green.
cstage cmd/wcc/type.c, wwstage lib/ww/typ.ww; combined.ww regenerated
via the canonical make path.
Phase 2 step 4. The str and slice tagged-union payload stores were
byte-identical adjacent arms (3-word ptr/len/cap @ slot+8/+16/+24 +
tag) since #1 made str a 24B {ptr,len,cap}. Delete the dedicated str
arm and widen the slice arm's gate to accept str (cstage type_isstr,
wwstage nodeisstr). One site, both stages. Byte-id-neutral: str now
flows the identical slice arm; full test incl 990-997 green.
Phase 2 step 2. The N_INDEX element-stride for str hardcoded esz=1;
route it through the type table (cstage ty_u8->size, wwstage
primtypesize("u8")) so str's element width tracks the u8 SSoT. When
the TY_STR collapse (Phase 2 step 5) folds str onto the slice-of-u8
path, these sites need no second edit. Byte-id-neutral: u8 size is 1,
so emitted stride is unchanged; full test (incl 990-997 byte-id
gates) green.
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).
Hare's canonical runtime allocator is rt::malloc with linker symbol
rt.malloc (ref/hare/rt/malloc.ha:27,78). ww kept the dot→underscore
Plan 9 convention (CLAUDE.md rule 4) so the linker symbol becomes
rt_malloc; the lib/rt exported function name becomes malloc; ww
callers say rt.malloc(...).
The language builtin keyword stays `alloc(T)!` — unchanged from Hare
(ref/hare/hare/lex/token.ha:21 ltok::ALLOC, parse/expr.ha:398
builtin()). The rename only touches the lowered linker symbol and the
exported function name behind it; the user-facing syntax for
heap-allocation is identical to Hare.
Surface:
- rt/alloc.s: TEXT rt_alloc → TEXT rt_malloc, labels updated
- lib/rt/malloc.ww: @symbol("rt_malloc") fn malloc(...) (was rt_alloc/alloc)
- rt/ensure.ww: local FFI decl + call site updated to malloc; `!` dropped
on the direct FFI call (rt_malloc returns *void, not a tagged union)
- 18 .ww callers: rt.alloc(...) → rt.malloc(...)
- cstage cmd/wcc/check.c + wwstage selfhost/cmd/wcc/check.ww
alloc-builtin suppression gate routes through ffi_resolve("malloc")
for the lowering; the user-shadow check still keys on the BUILTIN
KEYWORD "alloc" since that is what `alloc(...)` parses as. Adding
"malloc" to the user-shadow check was unnecessary and was reverted
during pre-commit review.
- cstage cmd/w6c/cgen.c: 2× ffi_resolve("alloc") → ffi_resolve("malloc")
- wwstage cgenexpr/cgenstmt: 2× ffiresolve(c, "alloc") → ffiresolve(c, "malloc")
- Test fixtures (700_e2e, 758_cgalloc_str_field, 990_selfhost, 992_w6l_ww,
selfhost/test/tagged_ptr_ret.ww): updated inline ww sources to the new
decl + call form
This is commit 2 of 3 in the lib/rt extraction (#38). Commit 3 closes
the OOM contract — return type becomes nullable *void and the builtin
lowering null-checks + propagates nomem.
Verified 132/132 + 995_self_rebuild byte-identity (5 wwstage tools
round-trip identical) + make clean cold rebuild.
Drew's Hare-discipline framing: "no hardcoded size literals anywhere in
the compiler." This session spent 32 commits sweeping after-the-fact
and STILL kept introducing new bypass sites in our own structural
work (A.5's tupleelemslot/fieldslotsize most recently). The cure is a
gate that catches new violations at commit time, not a deeper sweep.
tools/sizelint (sh+gawk):
- Always-on: `.size = NN` / `->size = NN` / `prim(...,"name",NN,...)`.
- Context-gated literals (NN(u64|i64) and `return NN`) in files or fns
matching size|slot|elem|field|stride|paramfield|tinfo|primtype|
slotsize|letemit|tagged.
- Allow-list via `// sizelint-ok: <reason>` or `/* sizelint-ok: ... */`.
- Comment strip happens after allow-list match so prose mentions of
16/24 stay quiet.
Makefile: `test: all sizelint $(TESTS)` so the gate runs before any
binary builds.
CLAUDE.md rule 13 documents the discipline + escape hatch + optional
pre-commit-hook symlink.
Audit caught 3 real cstage bugs (cmd/wcc/check.c resolve_type:1002,
1079, 1531 hardcoded `tt->size = 16` / `= 32` for tagged-with-ptr and
tagged-with-slice payloads — should read `8 + sub.size`). Fixed
inline; behavioral no-op today (pt->size=16, st->size=24, sub.size=24
match the prior literals) but the SSoT seam carries forward through
#1/#34/#65.
8 SSoT-seed allow-lists added (cstage type.c ty_str/ty_slice prim
factories; wwstage primtypesize/tyslicesize; lib/ww/typ.ww tystr +
slice fields + their main.combined.ww mirrors). One amalloc-overalloc
allow-list at lib/ww/typ.ww:273 cites pending #36 (typed amalloc).
#66 filed for extending the filter once #65 routes lib/bytes +
lib/getopt's sizeof(slice) / sizeof(option) literals through SSoT —
naive line-pattern extension would false-positive on 22+ ELF wire-
format sites in dynout.ww.
131/131 + 994 + 995 + bootstrap green with `make sizelint` exit 0.
#43 (8e93b31 + 087c85c) routed many sizeof(str) / sizeof(slice)
sites through primtypesize / tyslicesize / ty_*->size, but missed
the cgparam regs-fit, cgparam stack-stitch, cgmlet mixed
scalar+str receive, and vararg slice gather paths in both stages.
A bare #1 bump (str→24B) on top of #43 reds ~60 tests because
those paths still hardcoded 16/24.
Cstage:
- cgen.c:7360-7361 cgmlet: sz0/sz1 → (int)u0->size / (int)u1->size.
- cgen.c:7557 cgparam regs-fit: slice|is_str → (int)pu->size.
- cgen.c:7586 cgparam stack-stitch: same.
- cgen.c:4368 cgcall vararg gather: localoff slice descriptor →
(int)vsu->size (the cstage twin of cgenexpr.ww:3084).
Wwstage:
- cgendecl.ww:225, :243 cgfnparams: 16 → primtypesize("str"): i32.
- cgenexpr.ww:3084 cgcall vararg gather: 24 → tyslicesize(): i32.
Plus a latent-bug fix at cgenstmt.ww cglet :1031 / :1040: the
str-init and slice-init arms dispatched on size only. Under #1's
str→24, both arms would have fired on a str let (duplicate
MOVQ BX,off+8 + bogus MOVQ CX,off+8). Added isstrtype / isslicetype
kind gates mirroring cstage cgen.c:6439's
`type_isstr(lt) && sz == ty_str->size`. Zero asm change today
because the size constants implicitly disambiguate at 16 vs 24.
Probe with temporary #1 bump (str.size=24) confirms 990_selfhost +
994_w6c_ww go green — the cgen-routing slice for #1 is now
closed. Remaining red under bump is lib/ww/typ.ww's parallel SSoT
seed + stringstest cap*16u64 strides + w6l_ww runtime SIGSEGV;
all tracked separately.
EIGHTBYTES register-count sites (cgen.c:7553-7554, cgendecl.ww:224
/:260) intentionally NOT touched — those are str ABI in-flight
3-reg work (task #34), not slot-width SSoT.
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.
`alloc([], n)` synthesizes ([]u8 | nomem) at expression level — that's
fine, since the slice form only legitimately appears in let-init
position where the LHS carries the real element type. In clet, after
type-checking the rhs, peel any N_TRYPROP/N_TRYUNW wrapper, match the
alloc-slice AST shape with the same-module shadow gate (from #23),
and retype the call's tagged return to ([]T | nomem) where T is the
declared LHS element. Then assignability sees []T vs []T and accepts.
Cgen N_LET shortcut gains a viatryprop arm next to the existing
viatryunw — on rt_alloc returning null, emits the tagged-return
nomem propagation (MOVQ $nidx, AX; epilogue) instead of exit(1).
nidx comes from cg_tag_for_variant on the enclosing fn's return type,
matching the existing TRYPROP propret path.
Wwstage mirrors all four hunks (check.ww + cgenstmt.ww). Promotes the
previously-silent conf=false skip into a confident accept.
Unblocks #6 (dupall) and lays the path for #4/#7. Byte-identity
holds modulo the pre-existing #44 alloc/rt_alloc symbol divergence.
Per Hare convention, alloc is a typed builtin that returns a tagged
union carrying nomem as the OOM variant. Callers spell their policy:
`alloc(T)!` aborts on OOM (the old behavior), `alloc(T)?` propagates
when the enclosing fn already returns nomem.
cstage: check builds TY_TAGGED{*T | nomem} (or {[]T | nomem}); cgen
emits AX=tag, DX=ptr per the general tagged-return ABI (the (*T|!void)
nullable-ptr fold gated in ea76ee4 keeps this clean). wwstage cgalloc
mirrors. rt/alloc.s zeroes AX on syscall error so the builtin's null
check sees a clean 0 instead of mmap's -errno leaking through as a
poisoned pointer.
Migration: 3 `!` sites in test/wcc/700_e2e.c, 1 `!` site in
rt/ensure.ww (preserves the pre-existing sizeof bug tracked by #27),
1 `?` site in selfhost/test/tagged_ptr_ret.ww (allocbox exercises
real `?` propagation against a (*T | nomem) return).
130/130 tests green, 994_w6c_ww + 995_self_rebuild stage byte-identity
preserved. Follow-ups #31 (wwstage checkletassign leniency), #32
(wwstage slice-form gap), #33 (tagged_ptr_ret.ww make-test wiring).
Per Hare convention, `nomem` is a language-level error type — no
import required, in scope alongside void/done/rune/str. ref/hare uses
it bare at errors/string.ha:14, types/c/strings.ha:89, net/uri/parse.ha:17
with no `use`. Precondition for graduating the `alloc` builtin to
`(*T | nomem)` returns.
cstage: ty_nomem is NAMED{under=ty_void, iserror=1}, installed by
typesinit and surfaced via lookup_builtin. wwstage seeds the same
shape in both check.ww (scope) and cgen.ww (aliases) — separate
tables, both consulted; without the cgen seed wwstage drops the
zero-init for `let e: nomem;` locals and breaks byte-identity.
Tests: tagged_ptr_ret.ww and trypromote.ww drop their local
`type nomem = !void;` aliases. 990_selfhost.c adds a regression that
a value named `nomem` does not collide with the predeclared type.
resolve_type for N_TTAGGED was peeling NAMED aliases to TY_VOID before
deciding the union is a nullable pointer, which caught (*T | nomem)
(nomem = !void) and routed it through cstage's ptr-in-AX shortcut.
wwstage's isnullabletype is purely AST-keyed on bare `void`, so any
alias or error-tagged void naturally fell through to the general
AX=tag, DX=word0 ABI. Rule 10 says align richer DOWN: gate the cstage
classifier on iserror==0 so only the literal (*T | void) shape still
folds to nullable-ptr. The literal void case stays intact for
700_e2e:642/661/1129.
Smoke test selfhost/test/tagged_ptr_ret.ww exercises (*u8 | nomem)
across both arms; cstage and wwstage now emit byte-identical asm
modulo the pre-existing #20 fmt.formatfield divergence.
Mirrors the existing abort/assert gates in cstage check.c (strict
same-module lookup rather than scope_lookup_prefer, since lib/os.alloc
under a `use os;` import must not suppress the bare-alloc builtin in
client code). cgen.c shadows the resolution: only fire the rt_alloc
path when the typer left N_CALL.lhs->type == ty_err. wwstage gets a
new samemodfn helper for the matching gate.
Test fixtures: package-main repair for the 3 alloc rows in 700_e2e.c
that the parser was inheriting curmod="os" from the concat'd os.ww;
new shadow-test row asserts a same-module `fn alloc(n: i64) i64`
beats the builtin in cgen.
Per CLAUDE.md rule 10, align cstage down to wwstage — when every
variant in a `?` propagation maps to itself, the remap loop emits
zero JMPs and the propret label is dead. Lazy-allocate it so the
label-counter ID is only consumed when at least one JMP fires.
Smoke test selfhost/test/trypromote.ww exercises same-shape
(i64|nomem)→(i64|nomem) propagation; cstage and wwstage now emit
byte-identical asm for the TRYPROP region.
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.
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.
Latent silent miscompile: cstage + wwstage mklabel emitted
<fn>_<prefix>_<seq> with no module qualification, so two top-level
fns sharing a leaf across modules (e.g. bytes.index + strings.index)
emitted colliding labels into the same combined .s. Last assembler
symbol-definition won; JNE/JMP rel32 resolved to the wrong fn's body.
Repro (HEAD pre-fix): two_modules_same_leaf row in 750 — mod1.locate
+ mod2.locate sharing match-over-(u8|[]u8)+for shape. mod1.locate's
JMP misresolved into mod2's body, exit 10. Post-fix: exit 0.
Latent already at HEAD: bytes.contains_match_next_1 +
strings.contains_match_next_1 collide today but the corpus had no
forwarding path that surfaced it.
cmd/w6c/cgen.c + selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgen.ww mklabel: prepend
<module>. when c->cur_mod / c.curmod non-NULL/non-empty. Plan-9
convention extension: TEXT directive already uses <module>.<fnname>
(lex.c:18 a_isidcont accepts '.'); mklabel now mirrors that for
local labels. Both stages symmetric per rule 10. Fragment input
(no `package`) collapses to pre-fix shape — no cross-unit risk.
750_mklabel_modscoped: table-driven 3 rows x 2 stages = 6 sub-cases
(two_modules_same_leaf, bytes_strings_contains, same_module_same_leaf
non-regression). All required substrings asserted via grep + runtime
rc check.
make test 124/124; ww2==ww3==ww4 byte-id holds via 995_self_rebuild.
@-prefix slot keys (cg_tagbase, cg_tagscr, @retscr) are orthogonal
(local_alloc keys, not mklabel emissions).
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.
cstage Sdef walk #2 N_DOT branch used c->cur_mod where n->lhs->str is
the correct module hint. Sister of #4c wwstage graduation; same shape
as the TY_FN branch which already uses mafn(c, n->str, n->lhs->str).
cmd/w6c/cgen.c: add sdef_mod_match_hint(s, hint); walk #2 routes hint
first then head-pick fallback, matching #4a/#28/#31/#34 *mod variant
pattern. selfhost: add deflookuprhsmod(c, name, mod); cgdot N_DOT
mod-qualified str-def value-load routes through it. Rule-10 symmetric
stages: both stages now share the lhs.str polarity (was: both used
cur_mod / cur-module hint).
747_def_modqual_modshadow: table-driven sentinel — gamma calls
alpha.MSG with beta.MSG (same-leaf-name) at head of c.defs/sdefs.
want_imm "$38," (alpha strlit len), bad_imm "$27," (beta strlit len),
plus cs-vs-ws byte-id. Reverting cstage walk #2 to head-pick → fails
$38 on cstage + diverges cs-vs-ws; reverting wwstage cgdot to plain
deflookuprhs → fails $38 on wwstage.
make test 121/121; ww2==ww3==ww4 byte-id holds.
let p2: T = p1; where T is a struct >8B and rhs is a local ident
silently dropped most of the copy. Cstage's N_LET fell past every
specialized rhs branch (str/tuple/tagged/structlit/call) without
matching the bare-ident case, then past the sz==8 fallback (false)
to the no-rhs zero-init (false: rhs present), emitting zero
instructions — the dest slot read fresh-stack zeros. Wwstage's
cglet fell to cgexpr+MOVQ AX which loads only the first qword
(cgident shape for struct ident), and for sz==16 slots the
str-init tail then stored a stale BX into +8. Reads after the
let saw whatever the stack held: silent partial copy.
Both stages now byte-copy src slot → dst slot per qword with
a sized tail (MOVL/MOVB) for natural sizes not 8-aligned.
Mirrors cg_widen_tagged_store's struct-ident payload copy.
744_letcopy_struct pins the four struct shapes (3×i32, i32+str,
i32+[]u8, i32+tagged) on asm-presence in both stages, cmp -s
byte-id, and runtime exit code via both drivers.
Scope: only N_IDENT rhs at the local-ident-found path. Filed as
siblings (no in-tree consumer today, bootstrap byte-id proves it):
- N_DOT / N_INDEX / N_UN(deref) struct rhs.
- Top-level (non-local) struct ident rhs.
- TY_TUPLE same-shape ident-copy bug.
Row (a) uses tri{a=11, b=22, c=33} structlit init for p1 to
isolate this fix from STATUS-3 #15/#26c (no-rhs zero-init sz=12
vs sz=16 slot-padded divergence between stages, separate task).
Row (d) runtime check uses only p2.a to isolate from match-on-
tagged-field scrutinee spill divergence (same task).
118/118 ok. ww2 == ww3 == ww4 byte-id holds.
cstage variadic gather stored only AX (.ptr) per element; .len and
.cap read stack residue at the callee. Tagged-union variadic path
escaped because cg_widen_tagged_store wrote the full slot — but
primitive-type variadics (str..., slice...) silently dropped the
trailing fields. Selfhost only uses tagged-union variadics
(formattable...) so bootstrap byte-id ww2==ww3==ww4 stayed green;
the bug surfaced in worker-strings pre-flight (session 5) on the
Hare-faithful concat(strs: str...) shape.
Per-element store branch now mirrors selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenexpr.ww
velemstr (AX→slot+0, BX→slot+8) and velemslice (AX→slot+0,
BX→slot+8, CX→slot+16). Also swap dname-before-sname allocation
order in the variadic-pack frame layout to match wwstage scanlocals
+ localadd order (cgendecl.ww:507-516 and cgenexpr.ww:2949-2954);
without the swap post-fix asm has correct stores at mismatched
offsets vs wwstage.
Rule-10 alignment: cstage UP to wwstage's already-correct primitive
variadic path.
743_variadic_pack pins the contract: asm-presence ≥3 ptr-stores +
≥3 len-stores in caller TEXT on both stages, plus cs-vs-ws cmp -s
byte-id per row. 117/117 ok. Bootstrap byte-id ww2==ww3==ww4 holds.
Unblocks: lib/bytes contains-variadic, lib/strings sub variadic,
and the concat/trim/contains family that c1 shipped non-variadic.
Replace the cmd/ww + selfhost driver's file-walk import resolver
with true directory enumeration. `import encoding.utf8;` now finds
the lib/encoding/utf8/ directory and concatenates every *.ww file
in it (excluding *test.ww and the driver's *.combined.ww artifacts)
in byte-wise sorted order, instead of just finding the single
lib/encoding/utf8/utf8.ww file. Mirrors Hare's
hare/module/srcs.ha:183 _findsrcs minus tag handling.
Lookup order in both stages: (1) <dir>/<dot-as-slash>/ as directory
→ enumerate. (2) <dir>/<dot-as-slash>.ww as file. The legacy
<dir>/<name>/<name>.ww shape from #18's retained divergence is
dropped per rule-9 Hare-fidelity — Hare has no foo/foo.ha fallback;
a module IS the directory.
Symmetric across cstage (cmd/ww/main.c via opendir+qsort+stat) and
wwstage (selfhost/cmd/ww/main.ww via existing lib/os.getdents64 +
os.stat — no new lib/os surface needed; the rundirtests() walker
in main.ww from #18 was the model). Bootstrap ww2.s==ww3.s==ww4.s
byte-identical post-change.
Bundling justification (rule 11): strict-same-package validation is
bundled because the failure mode is dir-enum's own (a non-dir-enum
compilation unit cannot trigger mismatch across enumerated files).
The natural enforcement site is the driver — the parser can't
distinguish dir-enum concat from file-walk concat. Both stages
peek each file's first `package <name>;` line in expand_dir /
expanddir and exit(1) on mismatch with a precise error pointing
at the offending file. Hare's hare/module/srcs.ha:131 has the
same constraint via its README gate. Other half of #23 (strict
missing-package error tightening — 63 inline-source test wrappers
blocker) stays deferred per its filing.
Parser side (cmd/wcc/parse.c parseuse + lib/ww/parse/decl.ww
parseuse): n->str now carries only the LEAF identifier from a
dotted import. With the driver translating the full dotted path
to a directory walk, the checker only needs the package bareword
(last component) for the N_USE → decl disambiguation walk in
check.c's src_imports / decl_mod. Mirrors Hare's
`use encoding::utf8;` → `utf8::name` semantics
(ref/hare/hare/ast/import.ha:7).
Migration: lib/ww/sym.ww drops `import typ; import ast;`;
lib/ww/parse/parse.ww drops `import expr; import stmt; import
decl;`; lib/ww/lex/lex.ww drops `import tok;` — all sibling
imports auto-resolve via the new dir-enum when callers import the
package directory. lib/strings/, lib/encoding/utf8/utf8test.ww
migrate `import utf8;` → `import encoding.utf8;`. Makefile drops
-I lib/encoding/utf8 stopgap from wwdump_ww + w6c_ww. Seven test
wrappers (700_e2e, 966_strings_run, 970_fmt_run, 971_log_run,
972_fnmatch_run, 982_getopt_run, 990_selfhost) and 995_self_rebuild
drop the -I lib/encoding/utf8 runtime stopgap.
Tests: new 737_direnum C wrapper + test/wcc/data/direnum/ fixtures
pin (a) cross-pkg multi-file dir-enum build at runtime (both stages
must succeed) and (b) strict-same-package mismatch error (both
stages must surface "differs from" + exit non-zero). 738_module_decl
gains row 6 pinning the n_use->str leaf-only storage post-parser
change.
Retained workaround at selfhost/cmd/ww/main.ww expanddir loop:
`names[i][k]` nested-deref-then-index split into
`let nm: *u8 = names[i]; nm[k]` because wwstage cgen miscompiles
the chained form (treats inner u8 element as 8B sizeof *u8 instead
of 1B sizeof u8: extra MOVQ $8 + IMULQ on the inner index, MOVQ
instead of MOVZBQ load). Inline rule-8 WHY comment cites task #24
(wwstage cgen chained-index inner element size on **T). Two-step
form routes through the bare-pointer index path which both stages
handle byte-identically.
Class A wwstage cgen UNDER (chained-index inner element size on
**T) surfaced first time the codebase exercises the **T[i][k]
shape via enumeratedir() — corpus-coverage-blind landmine pattern,
same family as the trio (#27/#28/#31) from STATUS-5.
112/112 ok. ww2 == ww3 == ww4 byte-id holds.
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 frame-layout landmine pre-located; #26c queued for size-
strategy convergence per rule 10.
Cstage's tagged-scratch sites previously stamped per-call labels
via mklabel "tagbase"/"tagscr"/"argscr"/"idxscr", bumping labelseq
once per call and allocating a fresh frame slot. Wwstage routes
the same sites through localadd("@tagbase", ...) and
localadd("@tagscr", c.tagscrsz, nil) — the @-dedup shares ONE
slot per name per fn and never touches labelseq. @tagscr is
shared across THREE wwstage sites: cgenutil.ww:180 pushargsrev
struct-payload widen, cgenutil.ww:2918 cgwidentaggedstore
via_outer, cgenexpr.ww:3524 cgindex tagged-element. Worker's
initial draft introduced cg_argscr / cg_idxscr as separate
cache vars — names that don't exist in wwstage. Per rob's rule-10
amendment those collapsed to a single cg_tagscr shared across
the 3 sites, matching wwstage's @tagscr SSoT exactly.
Cstage now caches two slots matching wwstage's namespace exactly:
cg_tagbase (8B base spill, 1 site at cgwidentaggedstore via_outer)
and cg_tagscr (sized scratch shared across the 3 sites above).
Eliminates per-call labelseq bumps and per-call frame churn.
Class A byte-id drift (silent corpus-coverage-blind landmine)
closed for the 1-name shape match. Model: STATUS-3 #15 commit
987391b routed @retscr through the same SSoT via cg_retscr;
this commit extends the carve-out to @tagbase and @tagscr.
Size strategy: cstage has no scanlocals pre-pass (wwstage's
c.tagscrsz pre-pass at cgendecl.ww:32 tagscrbump computes the
per-fn max). First call across the 3 @tagscr sites sizes the
slot; subsequent calls reuse if sz <= cached, fatal() if larger
(rule 7: surface-don't-silently-corrupt). Long-term rule-10
convergence — wwstage DOWN from scanlocals to first-use+fail-loud
on BOTH stages (per rob: aligning richer DOWN to leaner) — is
filed as #26c, separate concern from #26's name-SSoT graduation.
Tests:
- 736_cstage_label_ssot succ_rows: pins cstage-vs-wwstage cmp -s
byte-id on the canonical pointer-rooted two-tagged-store shape
(two `c.v = (...: bag);` writes through *cell). Pre-fix cstage
frame was 16B+48B larger (2*@tagbase + 2*@tagscr per call);
post-fix single-slot SSoT matches wwstage byte-for-byte.
- 736_cstage_label_ssot fail_rows: pre-locates the size-grow
landmine. A fn with two unions of different slot sizes (16B
then 24B) routed through @tagscr; cstage must fatal() with
"@tagscr cached sz" + size mismatch + #26c follow-up cite.
Gates corpus growth into this shape against silent miscompile.
110/110 ok. 995_self_rebuild byte-id holds (ww2 == ww3 == ww4).
Class A silent miscompile, latent until two modules export the same
str-typed def leaf name and the .ptr/.len field-fold path consumes
the wrong-module strlit address/length. Wwstage's deflookuprhs
(selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgen.ww) walked c.defs head-first by dname; cgdot's
.ptr/.len field-fold handed it the bare leaf from N_IDENT.str,
silently inlining the wrong-module strlit. Cstage carries the same
shape at cmd/w6c/cgen.c (Sdef walk #3 N_DOT field-fold): Sdef keyed
by name only, head-pick on every cross-module collision. No in-tree
corpus declares two same-leaf str defs, so 995_self_rebuild stayed
green (same surfacing pattern as #4a enumlookup post-strings and
#4b structlookup).
Sixth leaf of the trio leaf-name lookup graduation (after #27
aliaslookup, #28 fnparams, #31 fnret, #4a enum, #4b struct). Same
bundle precedent as #4a (which bundled wwstage enumlookup +
enumlookupmod + cstage scope_lookup_prefer sister fix under one
structural concern): four sister changes ship together.
- defent +dmod field; collectdefs captures d.module.
- wwstage deflookup two-pass walk — cosmetic (bool return is
invariant under head-pick vs same-module-first), kept for
structural symmetry with deflookuprhs.
- wwstage deflookuprhs two-pass walk — load-bearing for the
.ptr/.len field fold.
- cstage Sdef +mod field; sdef_collect captures d->module raw
(matches cgfn's raw cur_mod convention); new sdef_mod_match
helper handles NULL-safe strcmp; cstage Sdef walk #3 N_DOT
field-fold graduation (sister of wwstage deflookuprhs).
Two additional cstage Sdef walks (N_IDENT bare load + N_DOT mod-
qualified fallback) are DEFERRED. Both consume wwstage's
cgenexpr.ww:553 path which is independently broken (str-def bare/
qualified reference emits MOVQ symname(SB) where strlit-inline is
required); sentinel rows for those walks fail cs-vs-ws byte-id
regardless of the cstage prefer-pass behavior. Per rule 7 the
prefer-pass cannot ship without sentinels. Filed: task #11 (cstage
walk #2 also needs n->lhs->str as hint source rather than cur_mod,
matching #4a/#28/#31's *mod variant pattern) + task #12 (wwstage
str-def symbol-load fix that unblocks both deferrals).
735_def_modshadow pins the fix with 1 row: bare-leaf .len of MSG
in module alpha must fold against alpha's own def MSG (strlit
length 41) even with beta's same-leaf 27-char def MSG at the head
of c.defs / sdefs. Asserts the matching immediate inside the right
TEXT sym + bad_imm anti-check on both stages plus byte-id between
stages.
Class A silent miscompile, latent until two modules export the same
enum leaf name. Wwstage's enumlookup (selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgen.ww)
walked c.enums head-first by ename; cgdot handed it the bare leaf
from N_DOT.lhs.str for both `Color.MEMBER` (lhs N_IDENT) and
`pkg.Color.MEMBER` (lhs N_DOT) shapes, silently dropping the
explicit qualifier on the second. Cstage's enum-member fold
(cmd/wcc/check.c cexpr N_DOT) was carrying the same head-pick on
the lhs-ident lookup — pre-fix the mismatch surfaced as a
"not assignable to <same-leaf>" checker error rather than a silent
wrong-constant because resolve_typename for the fn return spec
already used scope_lookup_prefer correctly, so the rhs's wrong-
module-Color clashed with the return type's right-module-Color.
No in-tree corpus currently declares two same-leaf enums, so
995_self_rebuild stayed green and the latent miscompile only
surfaces once a stdlib port introduces the collision (same shape
as #27 surfacing when lib/strings dragged utf8's invalid alias
into the chain alongside strconv's invalid).
Fourth leaf of the trio leaf-name lookup graduation (after #27
aliaslookup, #28 fnparamslookupmod, #31 fnretlookupmod): wwstage
enumlookup grows a same-module-first walk before the head-walk
fallback, mirroring aliaslookup's two-pass shape (cgen.ww:75).
The N_DOT consumer surface — `pkg.Enum.MEMBER`, already used
in-corpus by os.flag.RDONLY, temp.mode.RDWR, os.whence.SET etc.
— routes through a new enumlookupmod variant with the explicit
N_DOT.lhs.lhs.str as the mod qualifier (mirror of fnret/
fnparamslookupmod). Cstage's check.c cexpr N_DOT lhs lookup
graduates from scope_lookup to scope_lookup_prefer to align
symmetrically (rule 10: both stages pick same-module-first on
the bare-leaf shape).
733_enum_modshadow pins both surfaces with 3 rows: row 1 bare-leaf
in module M must fold against M's own Color even with another
module's same-leaf Color at the head of c.enums; row 2 same-module
`mod.Color.MEMBER` from inside that mod pins the API surface; row 3
cross-module `othermod.Color.MEMBER` from a third module with no
local Color sentinel-flips the cgdot etmod tracking + enumlookupmod
path independently of row 1's same-module-first fallback. Asserts
the matching \$N, immediate inside the right TEXT sym + bad_imm
NOT-presence anti-check on both stages plus byte-id between stages
per row.
Callee N_IDENT word-copy loop was driven off slot-padded rt->size;
trailing narrow field (e.g. bool@32 in 33B/40B struct) widened to
MOVQ at the loop tail, diverging from wwstage's natural-size MOVB.
Class A cgen divergence. 9th unmask of session 5, corpus-coverage-
blind on the cstage side — no in-tree lib struct had a narrow
(bool/u8/i8/i16) trailing field until lib/strings.iterator landed
`reverse: bool` per Hare's ref/hare/strings/iter.ha:8.
Pre-fix: cstage cgreturn's sret arm (cgen.c) used `int sz =
(int)rt->size` for its chained `while (k+8<=sz)` MOVQ-MOVL-MOVW-MOVB
copy loop. rt->size is slot-padded (8-rounded for downstream
frame alloc), e.g. 40B for {i32, []u8, bool}. Loop emitted MOVQ
at offset 32 covering the 1-byte bool tail plus 7 bytes of
padding into the caller's sret slot — clobbering the next 7 bytes
of caller frame on read-side. Wwstage's mirror loop drives off
sretretsize → structnaturalsize → max(foff+fsz) = 33B, so it
correctly stops at offset 32 and emits MOVB.
Polarity catalog: cstage OVER-WIDE — slot-padded size driving the
field-copy width. Convergence cstage → wwstage's structnaturalsize
discipline (rule 10 inverse: leaner-correct side wins).
Fix: compute natural size locally in the N_IDENT/N_STRUCTLIT sret
arm via walk over `rt->fields` (max foff+fsz), mirroring wwstage's
`structnaturalsize` (cgenutil.ww:1377). Frame allocation and
`cg_sret_retsize` (used for the caller-side @sretscr slot)
intentionally keep using rt->size — caller scratch sizing is
separate from callee per-field copy width.
Surfaced by lib/strings commit-2 (#30) iterator pre-flight when
the Hare-faithful `reverse: bool` field tripped the cstage-only
mis-width on 993/995 byte-id (strconv → strings → wwdump_ww +
w6c_ww). lib/strings c2 was stashed to land cleanly after this fix.
Note (out-of-scope): the chained MOV loop has no MOVW arm in
either stage, so a trailing i16 emits 2× MOVB at consecutive
offsets. Worth a future cleanup; both stages agree today.
Tests:
- 730_sret_narrow_field pins narrow-MOV store + load width and
no-MOVQ@trailing-offset assertions for bool / u8 / i16 / i32
trailing fields in a 33B-natural struct. 4 rows × 5 sentinels
= 20 fixtures. cmp -s cstage vs wwstage byte-id per row.
- 930_sret_narrow_field_run runtime-pins bool true/false, u8
high-bit, i16 negative, i32 negative, mixed (bool+i32+i64 after
slice) — 6 scenarios × 2 stages = 12 rows.
104/104 ok. 995_self_rebuild stays green (ww2==ww3==ww4 byte-id).
cgen.c's two ≤24B / tagged-widen return scratch allocations called
mklabel(c, "retscr"), bumping labelseq once per function with a
struct or tagged return. Wwstage's mirror uses the fixed `@retscr`
name through `c.retscroff` SSoT (post-#14 b401cce) and never
touches labelseq for the scratch alloc. Result: cstage's labelseq
runs 1 ahead of wwstage in every fn with a struct/tagged return,
so every subsequent ct_N / ce_N / end_N branch label diverged by
the same offset.
Class A byte-id drift, previously latent. Filed STATUS-3 #15 —
promoted to bootstrap-blocking once lib/strings's time.add-chain
and nested-if shapes compounded the cumulative skew past the
993/995 byte-id threshold. The label name was never emitted (it's
a hidden local-table key); only the labelseq side-effect mattered.
Polarity catalog: cstage OVER — extra mklabel per fn. Convergence
cstage → wwstage's fixed-name SSoT per rule 10 (wwstage's pattern
is the cleanup target; STATUS-3 #14 already enforced single-slot
@retscr on both stages, this commit aligns the *name source* too).
Site 2 (struct/tagged @retscr in cgreturn) is the actively-tripping
site that reproduces in the in-tree corpus (lib/strings's time.add
chain). Site 1 is preventive symmetry per rule 10 — its sentinel
flip is masked by pre-existing pre-existing #20/#21 struct-widen
offset latents, documented inline.
Filed follow-up (NOT in scope here): #26 graduate the other
hidden-name mklabel sites (tagscr, tagbase, argscr, idxscr) to
@-prefix SSoT. Same family but per-site allocations, structurally
bigger; belongs with STATUS-4 task #1 variant-widen consolidation
refactor.
Tests:
- 725_nested_if_labels pins cstage vs wwstage cmp -s byte-id on
a canonical struct-return row mirroring lib/time.add shape
(multi-arm if + struct {sec,nsec: i64} return). This row
actually exercises mklabel site 2; the prior worker draft used
a scalar-widen path that bypassed both mklabel sites.
97/97 ok. 995_self_rebuild stays green (ww2==ww3==ww4 byte-id).
Class A compile-time fatal retirement — `return f()` from an sret
callee bailed both stages with "sret return-forwarding for >24B
struct not wired (task #23)" at every site, forcing every caller
into a `let r = f(); return r;` workaround that materialised an
intermediate >24B copy in outer's frame. Forwarding now elides the
copy: outer reloads its own @sretarg into RDI for the inner CALL
via `MOVQ @sretarg(BP), DI` (NOT `LEAQ <local>, DI`), inner writes
directly into outer's caller-prealloc dest, RAX (inner's returned
dest pointer per the sret discipline) is already outer's return
value.
Wires 2 sites × 2 stages (same triangle as #23): caller arg-shift
in cgcall/pushargsrev gains an RDI-source switch via
cg_sret_forward / c.sretforward; callee return-arm in cgreturn
replaces the fail-loud abort with cgexpr-into-cgcall + epilogue.
The @sretscr scratch slot is still pre-allocated on the forwarding
branch (unused) — eliding would need AST-walk awareness in
scanlocals; symmetric-allocate is the simpler path and keeps
byte-id with non-forwarding callers.
Latent surfaced and filed during probe (NOT in this commit's
scope): multi-sret-receive in a single fn diverges between stages
— cstage always allocates @sretscr on first sret CALL, wwstage
only when sretdestoff == 0. Bootstrap stays green because the
selfhost corpus has zero >1-sret-receive call sites.
Tests:
- 721_sret_struct_return gains 2 forwarding rows + a 4th asm-
presence sentinel: at the inner CALL site inside outer fn, the
RDI source must be `MOVQ -K(BP), DI` (reload of outer's saved
@sretarg) NOT `LEAQ -K(BP), DI` (a temporary local would write
inner's payload into outer's frame, not caller's dest).
- 925_sret_struct_return_run gains 3 forwarding rows: simple
quad forward, multi-arg inner (pair-by-value + scalar args
alongside the hidden RDI), and slice-payload (decoder
{ i64, []u8 } — the utf8 iterator shape, asserts ptr/len/cap
survive the @sretarg chain).
90/90 ok. 995_self_rebuild stays green (ww2==ww3==ww4 byte-id).
Class B shared miscompile pre-fix: cstage skipped the CALL emit at the
receive site (frame collapsed, exit 11); wwstage emitted CALL but
truncated 32B return to AX only (slice payload garbage, segfault on
g.b[0]). Both stages now lower plain TY_STRUCT > 24B through the SysV
sret discipline: caller pre-allocates dest, passes &dest in RDI as a
hidden first-arg (user args shift to SI/DX/CX/R8/R9/+stack), callee
saves RDI to @sretarg at the prologue and writes through it, returns
RDI in RAX. Surfaced by lib/encoding/utf8 pre-flight when the
Hoehrmann decoder (32B) hit 698_cgreturn_struct.c's OUT-OF-SCOPE
marker.
Scope: plain TY_STRUCT > 24B only — tagged unions, tuples, str, slice
keep their existing register-return ABIs. `return f()` forwarding
from a sret callee is fail-loud-not-wired (compile-time error in
both stages, follow-up filed); the workaround `let r = f(); return
r;` is wired and byte-identical. Discard-context calls (`f();` of an
sret-returning function) share a per-fn single-slot @sretscr;
consecutive discards reuse the same slot.
698_cgreturn_struct.c's OUT-OF-SCOPE marker retired in the same
commit; three positive rows (32B quad, 32B decoder, 40B five) now
assert the sret discipline across both stages via byte-id diff.
Tests:
- 721_sret_struct_return pins three asm-presence sentinels per
row: (a) LEAQ -K(BP), DI immediately before CALL at the receive
site, (b) MOVQ -K(BP), AX before RET in the callee (sret return-
the-pointer), (c) negative-assert no MOVQ AX, -K(BP) capture for
return type >8B. Three rows × both stages × cmp -s byte-id.
- 925_sret_struct_return_run runtime-pins 7 rows × 2 stages
including the collision row (25B+ struct BOTH returned AND passed
by-value as arg — catches arg-shift, sister site to #11), nested
struct payload, slice payload, reassign-receive, N_IDENT return
rhs.
89/89 ok. 995_self_rebuild stays green (ww2==ww3==ww4 byte-id).
emit_lets / emitletdataw's scalar-8B and array arms only matched bare
N_INTLIT / N_RUNELIT / N_TRUE / N_FALSE / N_NIL on the let rhs. `let
x: i8 = -1i8;` arrives as N_UN(TK_MINUS, N_INTLIT(1)) — none of those
— so cstage's scalar arm hit `else continue;` and dropped the DATAW
row entirely; the array arm bailed at the first non-foldable element
and the skip-array-with-non-NIL-rhs fall-through dropped the whole
row. Wwstage's mirror arms silently emitted zero bytes for negative
literals in both shapes.
Severity split — cstage symptom is no DATA emit, the linker fails
loudly at build time. Wwstage symptom is silent-zero element
substitution for negative array values: compiles, runs, returns
wrong answers. Corpus-coverage-blind on the wwstage side, only
surfaces when a consumer reads the wrong value. Single N_UN-fold
helper application retires both symptoms across both stages. Fourth
corpus-coverage-blind unmask this session (catalog: i64 div/mod CQO
#16, IDENT-local /= no-op, #21 call-arg DX drop, now #19 wwstage
silent-zero).
Route all four sites through fold_int_literal / foldintliteral, the
same helper #24 used on the def-emit side (which already covered
N_UN over the leaf set). The wwstage array arm also picks up an
N_CAST peel and drops a dead non-`...` N_FIELD branch (the parser
never emits non-`...` N_FIELD inside an N_ARRLIT — only as the `...`
repeat marker). Same-path sibling cleanup; rule-11 justified.
Tests:
- 719_signed_data_emit asserts DATAW <sym>(SB),"<bytes>" lines are
present in both stages' .s for the {i8, i16, i32, i64} × {scalar,
1D array} matrix, plus cmp -s byte-id between stages per row.
Corpus-coverage-blind sentinel per rob's STATUS-3 note.
- 923_signed_data_emit_run runtime-pins the same matrix plus a
TK_TILDE row through cstage and wwstage drivers.
995_self_rebuild stays green (ww2==ww3==ww4 byte-id).
B1 (63332fe) landed CQO in both stages' assemblers and switched the
binary `/` and `%` paths to it. The compound-assign sisters (`/=`,
`%=`) were six explicit workarounds across both stages, all calling
out either "fallback for TK_SLASHEQ" or just falling through with no
case at all. With CQO available, every site mechanically ports to the
same "park rhs in CX, slot value into AX, CQO/IDIVQ CX, ferry result
back" sequence.
wwstage cgenexpr.ww:5381-5403 silently no-op'd IDENT-local signed
compound div/mod — `x /= y` and `x %= y` produced no IDIV emit at
all, just a load-bearing `MOVQ BX, off(BP)` that wrote the freshly
loaded slot value back unchanged. Bootstrap byte-id passed because
no selfhost-corpus path exercises signed compound. Latent miscompile
retired alongside the workaround revert.
cstage cgen.c:3735 (top-level-let global compound) was NOT in the
initial five-site bundle and surfaced via worker probing the
wwstage:5147 fix — `let gs: i32 = 100; gs /= 7;` returned 7 (divisor)
on cstage but 14 (correct quotient) on wwstage. Rule 10 caught the
would-be Class A divergence; the sixth site bundles in.
Six sites, one family:
cmd/w6c/cgen.c:3549 deref-compound `*p OP= v`
cmd/w6c/cgen.c:3735 top-level-let `gs OP= v`
cmd/w6c/cgen.c:3765 IDENT-local `x OP= v`
selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenexpr.ww:3338 deref-compound
selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenexpr.ww:5147 top-level-let
selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenexpr.ww:5381 IDENT-local (silent-no-op)
test/wcc/978_intdiv_signed.c adds 7 compound rows × 2 drivers = 14
fixtures (now 68/68): IDENT-local /= /=- /=u, deref *p /= *p %= *p
/=u, with negative-dividend, negative-divisor, and unsigned-high-
bit-set coverage. Top-level-let compound coverage is deferred per
task #18 — single-file inline drivers hit a pre-existing linker
`undefined reference to '<file>.gs'` for LEAQ name(SB) targets.
cstage:3735 and wwstage:5147 are code-review-verified for rule-10
symmetry until #18 lands.
Grep-sweep (`if (n < 0) { neg = true; n = -n; }`) returned two sites
in lib/fmt/fmt.ww i64dec and lib/strconv/strconv.ww — both mirror
ref/hare/strconv/itos.ha's pre-negate idiom for INT64_MIN safety.
Per the Hare-faithful filter, both stay.
Shared miscompile in both stages — not a divergence. Bootstrap byte-id
passed throughout because both stages emitted the same wrong asm. Both
the C cgen (cmd/w6c/cgen.c TK_SLASH/TK_PERCENT) and the ww cgen
(selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenexpr.ww) prepped IDIVQ with `MOVQ $0, DX`, which
is the unsigned 128-bit dividend shape. For a negative RAX, the CPU
then divides 2^64 + (-RAX) by the divisor — unsigned wraparound, not
signed division. Surfaced via lib/time/add() needing the verbatim Hare
signed-%-normalisation in ref/hare/time/arithm.ha.
Fix: emit CQO (sign-extend RAX into RDX:RAX, REX.W 99) on the signed
arm; keep MOVQ $0, DX on the unsigned arm where the DIVQ-vs-IDIVQ
dispatch was already correct. Since both stages always emit 64-bit
IDIVQ regardless of source width, a single CQO suffices for
i64/i32/i16/i8 — the dividend already lives in RAX sign-extended. No
CDQ/CWTL/CBTW needed.
Symmetric stages (rule 10): both stages were broken identically; both
get the same surgical fix. Adds A_CQO to each assembler's opcode set:
cstage in cmd/w6c/6.out.h + cmd/w6c/txt.c + cmd/w6a/{parse,asm}.c;
wwstage in selfhost/cmd/w6a/{types,parse,asm}.ww.
Class B (shared miscompile) — new in the session's polarity catalog.
Bootstrap byte-id is useless for catching it; semantic 9xx runtime
tests are the right shape. test/wcc/978_intdiv_signed.c covers 27 rows
× 2 drivers = 54 fixtures across {i8,i16,i32,i64,u8,u16,u32,u64} ×
{/, %} with width-boundary minima (INT8_MIN, INT16_MIN, INT32_MIN,
INT64_MIN/2) and high-bit-set unsigned anchors. INT64_MIN is spelled
(-INT64_MAX) - 1 per task #17 (wwstage NEGQ-over-imm drops digits on
-9223372036854775808i64); that literal-cgen bug is unrelated to this
fix.
Two known compound-assign workarounds at cmd/w6c/cgen.c:3765
(TK_SLASHEQ IDENT-local) and :3549 (TK_SLASHEQ/TK_PERCENTEQ
deref-compound) remain in tree; both depend on the assembler having
CQO, so they revert in a follow-up commit citing this one.
wwstage's $64 frame was 24B below required — the second struct-return's
@retscr write at -88(BP) landed below SP. Silent miscompile masked by
bootstrap-window luck. The fix retires the stomp by enforcing single-slot
@retscr at emit-time.
cstage was per-site-fresh (wasteful but safe, frame $96); aligned UP to
single-slot for ABI consistency with wwstage's @-prefix convention, not
for correctness. Both stages now produce $64 frame; second return reuses
the first's -64..-48(BP) slot.
Generalizes #38's c.tagscrsz SSoT pattern to c.retscroff (wwstage) and
cg_retscr (cstage). Returns are terminal — only one fires per call, so
the two slots' lifetimes never overlap; single-slot is structurally
correct. wwstage's emit-side dedup was incomplete post-#27 (cgblock
save/restore unwinds the @-prefix stub); the @retscr fast path in
localadd bypasses the c.locals walk.
Test 718: 4 rows × {cstage runtime, wwstage runtime, byte-id, stomp
sentinel}. Stomp sentinel scans .s for any -N(BP) where N>64 and fails
the row if found — catches below-SP writes that bootstrap byte-id would
miss in a lucky window. Row 2 (3-return) byte-id disabled per task #15
(pre-existing label-counter skew, unrelated to #14).
Polarity catalog this session:
- #9 wwstage OVER (tagged-return slot)
- #11 wwstage UNDER (struct-by-value param decompose)
- #14 wwstage UNDER (struct multi-return @retscr — silent stomp)
#30 (82be8b9) shipped the f64 variant-widen MOVSD path, but
cg_widen_tagged_store's float-arm gate `fld_isfloat` only accepted
declared f64/f32 — not TY_UNTYPED_FLOAT. cunop on TK_MINUS over an
N_FLOATLIT returns the operand's type (ty_untyped_float), and
cbinop on two untyped-floats returns ty_untyped_float too. So
`let a: (i64 | f64) = -2.5;` and `(2.5 + 1.0)` fell through to the
scalar fallback and stored AX residue at payload+8 (tag still set
correctly, payload = 0).
Wwstage post-#30 was already correct via exprfloatkind's AST walk.
Extend fld_isfloat to accept TY_UNTYPED_FLOAT (defaults to f64, no
TY_UNTYPED_F32 exists). Acceptance set now matches cg_isfloat
exactly. All 15 other fld_isfloat call sites pass declared field /
element / pointee types that never carry TY_UNTYPED_* post-check —
no over-trigger.
Test 715 grows from 7 → 10 rows: unary_neg_floatlit_direct (`-2.5`),
unary_neg_floatlit_paren (`-(2.5)`), binop_floatlit_sum (`2.5+1.0`).
All pin payload bits via hex-u64 punning through *u8 — direct/paren
land 0xC004000000000000 (sign=1, exp=0x400, mant=0x4000000000000);
sum lands 0x400C000000000000 (3.5). Hex literal use is documented
inline pointing at #41 (orthogonal comparison-ladder bug surfaced
during test development; decimal-u64 RHS of != miscompiles).
After this lands, lib/fmt/fmttest.ww's 3 routed-around rows (cited
at 7f320d3) can drop the `let nv: f64 = -2.5;` indirection and use
the direct literal — sibling cleanup.
Initializing a tagged-union variant slot with a runtime f64 source
(let, cast, fn call, unary, struct field, etc.) stored the i64 bit
pattern in the payload, not the float bit pattern. cgexpr leaves f64
in X0; the existing scalar-fallback MOVQ-from-AX wrote whatever was
last in AX (typically pre-conversion integer or stale residue).
Worker-fmtfloat surfaced this during #17 pre-flight (probe at
.ai/probe_f64_union_widen.ww). Blocks #17 fmt.float dispatch arm.
TK_FLOAT literals were coincidentally correct because the lowering
loads bits into AX before passing through X0 — the literal_1_0 test
row pins that as the principled MOVSD path now.
cstage cg_widen_tagged_store: add fld_isfloat arm between the slice
and scalar fallbacks. Emit MOVSD (f64) / MOVSS (f32) from X0 to the
payload offset, then the tag MOVQ. Mirrors existing str/slice/
structlit field-flow dispatchers.
Wwstage cgwidentaggedstorebp: mirror via exprfloatkind. Resolves a
secondary gap by looking up the variant tag directly via
flatvariantidx(c, dt, "f64"/"f32") — rhstargetname has no N_FLOATLIT
/ N_CALL / N_DOT branch and would fall through to str-fallback
returning tag 0.
No in-tree consumer triggered this pre-fix (no f64 in any tagged
union yet) — hence latent silence. arr[i]= and append() have the
same class gap but no in-tree exerciser today; same shape if/when
[N]f64 / []f64 land.
Test 715 (tagged_widen_f64): 7 rows × 2 stages = 14 fixtures with
bit-pinning via *u8 punning. literal_1_0 (regression lock-in),
cast_1_f64, call_makeone, unary_neg_f64, ident_f64, field_f64
(rob's extra row), i64_rhs_still_integer (negative control).
Diagnosable 0/1/2 return codes distinguish pass / wrong-tag /
wrong-payload.
ww2 == ww3 == ww4 byte-identical post-fix.
cmd/wcc/check.c silently accepted `let a; let a;` in the same block
and similar redecls. Pre-#27 the localoff dedup masked it; post-#27
last-write-wins via head-first localfind. Surfaced by worker-27
during the #27 review.
Cstage: 5 guard sites (check_scope_define-NULL → err) covering
N_LET block-bind, N_MLET tuple binders (incl. same-tuple
`let (a,a)`), N_FORRANGE tuple binders, top-level let, fn param.
Voice: "<kind> '<name>' redeclared in same scope" for inner;
"duplicate let %s" for top-let, matching the existing
"duplicate <kind>" idiom at 1812/1851/1872.
Wwstage: TODO(#11) comments at the 4 mirror sites (installdecl,
N_FORRANGE, N_LET, installparams). Full enforcement waits on the
checkfile pass per rob.
**Unmasked by #32 (worth flagging):** selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenexpr.ww
cgcall had `let callee: *node = n.lhs;` twice at fn-body scope
(copy-paste, identical value). Pre-fix silent-redecl absorbed it;
post-fix the new guard rejects. Removed the second decl — outer
`callee` stays visible across the intermediate block.
Test 712 (redecl): 10 rows (6 neg + 4 pos), cstage-only per rob.
Negative rows cover all 5 guard sites + same-tuple-dup. Positive
rows pin the legal counter-shapes (cross-block, name-only bucket,
forrange body, mcase-per-arm).
Test 300 row 34 ("shadowing in inner scope; same scope flagged")
was incorrectly asserting the bug; flipped to expect "redeclared"
and added a sibling row pinning cross-block shadow stays ok. Test
709's `same_block_redecl_pin` canary (explicitly documented as
flipping under #32) removed; pointer to 712 left in its place.
[N]str array literals wrote only the .ptr half of each element.
cstage used esz=16 from `lu->sub->size` and a single per-element
MOVQ → .len trailed uninitialized stack residue. Wwstage was worse:
primsize("str")=0 fell through to esz=8, so element i+1's ptr-MOVQ
clobbered element i's .len slot, scrambling everything.
Worker-18 sidestepped during #18 by rewriting array primer rows to
[N]i64.
cstage cgen.c N_ARRLIT TY_STR branch: emit AX → base+i*16 then
BX → base+i*16+8. Repeat-`...` path mirrored. type_isstr handles
TY_UNTYPED_STR + TY_NAMED-aliased-str.
Wwstage cgenstmt.ww: isstrel flag conditionally drives the two-MOVQ
store in both the per-element walk and the repeat fill. The dispatch
loop was refactored to unify FIELD/ellipsis branches via isellip,
cleaning up the duplicated arms.
Wwstage cgenutil.ww slotsize/letslotsize: TNAME-"str" element gets
esz=16, replacing the primsize=0 → 8B fallback. Without this the
frame collapsed to 24B for [3]str.
Slice (24B), struct, tuple, tagged element arrays have the same root
cause but distinct width/layout concerns — deferred to #35 per rob.
Test 711 (arrlit_str_full): 7 rows × 2 stages = 14 fixtures —
str_lens_3el, str_ptrs_3el, str_repeat_5el (TK_ELLIPSIS), bool_3el,
rune_3el, i32_3el, i64_3el. Rune relies on the pre-existing esz==4
→ MOVL path (incidental correctness); sibling slot types pinned as
regression nets.
Followups filed: #34 (wwstage cgindex truncate on [N]str bare-let
read side, surfaced by this fix), #35 (composite element types),
#36 (primsize-returns-0-default-to-8 cleanup).
cstage's N_CAST narrow-clamp emitted `MOVL AX, AX` on u32 → enum-u32
casts. wwstage's cgcast walker steps through N_TBANG / N_TNAME alias
links only; an enum's aliaslookup returns the N_TENUM body, which
breaks the loop and skips the clamp. The asymmetry surfaced during
#10 (lib/os/stat) when kstat.mode typed as u32 tripped the cross-
stage diff; worker-stat sidestepped by typing kstat.mode as `mode`.
Single-site gate: skip the narrow-clamp when the destination type is
TY_ENUM. Mirrors wwstage's N_TENUM lacuna exactly. Predicate
recursion (type_isint, type_isunsigned) over TY_ENUM stays intact —
this is emit-side only.
Wwstage unchanged.
Test 710 (cast_enum_movl): 5 rows × {exit-code per driver, asm
byte-id when w6c_ww built} = 10+ assertions. u32→enum-u32 headline,
enum-u32→u32 reverse (pins direction-of-asymmetry), u32→enum-u8
different-width, i64→enum-i32 signed-narrow, struct-field rt mirror
of `out.mode = k.mode` (the #10 trip-wire).
A principled identity-width identity-sign skip across both stages is
filed as #33. The lib/os.ww kstat.mode workaround revert is a
sibling cleanup, not in #25 scope.
localoff (cstage) / localadd (wwstage) deduped stack slots by name
alone, ignoring scope. Outer `let a: [128]u8` and an inner-block
`let a: *u8` shared one 8B slot; prologue truncated to inner size
and outer-scope writes past saved RIP corrupted the frame. Worker-19
hit it during #19 (selfhost/cmd/w6a/main.ww carries a defensive
asm→s rename pointing at this task).
Drop the name-dedup. Each let allocates fresh. Then preserve
outer-scope visibility across inner blocks: cgstmt's N_BLOCK case
saves `*locals` head, walks body, restores. cgfn iterates fn->body
->list directly (bypassing the outermost N_BLOCK) so defers and the
implicit-return epilogue still see fn-body locals after the loop.
Wwstage symmetric: localadd keeps dedup only for `@`-prefixed
synthetic scratches (`@tagscr` / `@retscr` / `@tagbase`) which need
single-slot semantics; user names get fresh stubs. scanlocals always
counts + always appends a fresh stub for N_LET / N_MLET / N_FORRANGE
so prologue SUBQ stays in sync with emit-time offsets. cgblock and
cgfn mirror cstage.
ww2 == ww3 == ww4 byte-identical post-fix.
Test 709 (localoff_scope): 8 rows × 2 drivers = 16 fixtures —
inner_first_outer_bigger, outer_first_inner_writes, nested_3_deep,
same_name_diff_type, same_block_redecl_pin, defer_shadow,
forrange_body_shadow, if_body_shadow. defer_shadow pins the cgfn
body-bypass; if_body_shadow pins the save/restore independently.
Asm byte-id not diffed in 709 — 995_self_rebuild covers cross-stage
drift more broadly.
Follow-ups (filed): #32 (check: refuse same-block let-redecl), w6a
`s`→`asm` revert sibling commit.
