The bare-`main` carve-out (which keeps the link entry's main unmangled)
keyed on `leaf == "main" && imported == 0`. Under the combined path a
dependency's body folds in with imported==1, so only the root's main
stayed bare. Under separate compilation each package is its own unit and
a dependency's body carries a path-mangling module-reset but imported==0
(#57) — so an imported `fn main` matched the carve-out, emitted a bare
`TEXT main`, and collided with the root entry (`w6l: duplicate symbol
main`). The combined path was unaffected, so this only surfaced under sep.
Gate the carve-out with sep_isdep = (wwiout != NULL): the producer emits a
.wwi output only for dependency units, never for the root/link-entry unit
(root stripped, #69), symmetric on both stages. Only the root unit's main
now stays bare; an imported package's main mangles on its import path
(e.g. aa.bb.main). Both stages.
Gate: test/wcc/989_depmain_sep.c (table-driven, dotted + single-component
shapes, both stages; asserts the mangled dep main + a single bare root
main + cs==ww byte-id; combined path stays neutral).
The driver searchpath is srcd-first (srcd = the entry file's directory).
A co-located black-box test lib/<mod>/<mod>test.ww makes srcd=lib/<mod>,
so resolving `import <mod>` hit the sibling-FILE branch lib/<mod>/<mod>.ww
and folded it inline into the consumer unit under the wrong module tag
("package <mod> does not match import path <importer>") — 7 lib-run tests
fail under separate compilation. The combined amalgamator tolerated the
co-location; only sep surfaced it.
Resolve a package directory-first: walk ALL searchpath entries for a
directory match, and only fall back to a file match if no directory
exists anywhere. A dir-package now beats a same-named sibling file (fixes
the self-named shadow), while a leaf package with no directory (e.g.
lib/encoding/hex) still resolves via its file. This realizes the driver's
"a module is the directory" intent; the originally-specced per-directory
suppression was rejected because it broke leaf packages (rob-pike). Both
stages (cmd/ww/main.c + selfhost twin). The dir-beats-earlier-file
precedence change is latent and loud-failing (#101).
Move-set: ww + ww_ww (driver) only; w6c_ww/wwdump_ww/w6a_ww/w6l_ww HOLD.
Gate: test/wcc/989_coloimport_sep.c (table-driven, both stages).
The N_TTAGGED serializer emitted each variant via wwi_type but never
re-emitted the `...` prefix for TK_ELLIPSIS spread variants, so an
exported `(...inner | str)` round-tripped through .wwi as `(inner | str)`.
The consumer's checker then could not flatten inner's members into the
alias and variadic-assignability rejected bare members — under separate
compilation this broke fmt/log/getopt. Re-emit `...` before the variant
type, both stages; the producer stays purely syntactic (flatten/dedup
remain the consumer's type-store job, per ref/hare/hare/unparse/type.ha:290-300).
Gate: test/wcc/989_wwispread_sep.c — table-driven (2-arm + 3-arm spreads)
x both stages, asserts the marker survives the .wwi, the consumer binds
bare members under --sep (exit 0), and cs==ww .wwi byte-identity.
910_at_test.c and 997_at_test_ww.c build via `ww build` then read
<stem>.combined.ww as a driver side-effect; the E3 flip removes that
side-effect, so they cannot pass post-flip. Their coverage was fully
re-hosted in E2-C2 -- every axis (run-exit, -T cs/ww byte-id, the
userman/badsig/undefbody/linkfail rejects, the dup-decl family, modfn
coexist, user `fn run` coexist) has a live home in 989_septest_run,
911_attest_drop, or 989_declns_sep, several strengthened. Deleting them
before the flip keeps `make test` bisect-clean.
Also retargets a stale 'Sibling of 910_at_test' doc comment in
911_attest_record.c to the surviving gates.
Final E2-C2 commit. New decl-namespace gate, both stages: dup fn/type/def/let build-FAIL with a right-reason "duplicate <kind> <name>" diag (shared substring; ww has no line:col); builtin_redecl ACCEPT exit 7 (shadowing a pre-seeded builtin is redeclarable); modfn coexist reshaped to a real directory package (696 precedent) via ww build --sep on two layouts (modfn_coexist + _vbu use-before-value) so both run to 6, cs==ww per-pkg .s/.wwi/.unit.ww, cross-order byte-id on .s/.wwi (.unit.ww excluded: verbatim source flips by construction, order-independence is codegen). __root.s carries both CALL aa.helper and CALL main.aa distinctly. Test-only; all 5 pins hold; 443 to 444.
New direct-w6c -T gate adopting the 3 import-free fixtures 910/997 own (attest_nondrop/undefbody/calldropped.ww) so they outlive the .c gates the E3 flip retires. 8-row nondrop table: compile attest_nondrop.ww four ways (cstage/wwstage x non-T/-T) to .s; non-T keeps only the live sym, -T keeps all @test bodies; cs==ww byte-id on both flags (rule 10). undefbody: both stages reject (body type-checked before the splice). linkfail: full triple link must fail on the dropped @test symbol, guarded by a stderr grep so it fails for the right reason. Test-only; all 5 pins hold; 442 to 443.
A package-less primary's bare fn (module="") whose leaf collided with an
imported module's same-leaf exported fn was mis-mangled to the imported
qualified name (a user `fn run` emitted as `test.run`), producing a
dead-duplicate symbol the linker silently shadowed -- a #263-class silent
miscompile, gate-blind and symmetric across both stages. cgen now registers
bare-module fns and resolves a bare-ident reference to its own bare leaf:
mod_lookup_for_fn prefers the bare entry when the call carries no module
hint and skips bare entries when it does, so the moduled-caller path stays
byte-identical. The moduled `main` entry carve-out is an orthogonal rule
(the linker entry is force-bared) and is retained. Prereq for the @test
user-`run` coexist (#80). The bare non-fn (let/def/type) sibling is the
same class but hint-less; deferred as #85, noted at the retained skip.
Rewrite `make bootstrap` to the sep build path: sep-build w6c, orchestrated
by the cstage ww driver chaining the frontend via WW_W6C (stage2 w6c_ww ->
ww2; stage3 ww2 -> ww3; stage4 ww3 -> ww4; cmp ww2 == ww3 == ww4). wwdump is
unchainable under sep (no -o/-I, writes asm to stdout), so the chainable w6c
is the bootstrapped target (test 994 pins w6c == wwdump -c).
Honest boundary, no overclaim: cstage ww runs the sep glue only
(dep-discovery / per-package w6c -c / archive / link) and is NOT part of the
fixed point; the fixed point proves the wwstage compiler (w6c, genuinely
chained) plus assembler (w6a_ww) and linker (w6l_ww) reach a byte-stable
fixed point. The wwstage driver ww_ww is not yet in the loop (it can't swap
its frontend) -- that closer is #66.
Makefile only; all five wwstage binary pins unchanged. bootstrap is a
standalone dev target, not part of make test.
Make `ww test --sep` work the Hare +test way: the -T synth test-main emits a
qualified test.run, and the test package is injected as an ordinary
separately-compiled dependency instead of splicing lib/test source into a
flat unit. Additive — combined stays the default and 910/997 are untouched
(their migration is M4 E2).
- compiler synth (both stages): the -T main emits N_DOT test.run plus a
synthetic N_USE "test"; cmd/wcc/check.c + selfhost/cmd/wcc/check.ww.
- driver (both stages): build_one_sep gains is_test, injects the test package
as a root dep, and passes -T to the root; do_test --sep routes a single-file
test through the sep producer; cmd/ww/main.c + selfhost/cmd/ww/main.ww.
- 989_septest_run gate: ww test --sep on both stages, run-exit + cs==ww
byte-id of the sep .s, non-vacuous.
The synth's test.run is left ty_err by the checker in both regimes (lib/test's
run is scope-keyed under "" not "test"; cgen emits the correct CALL via run's
//ww:module test directive) — wwstage tolerates it like cstage (rule-10). The
genuine fix, module-keying run under sep so the call type-resolves, is #80.
w6c_ww/wwdump_ww/ww_ww move (their embedded source changed); w6a_ww/w6l_ww and
the combined codegen output are unchanged.
Make the sep-compile == combined-compile output equivalence a standing
regression test — the last criterion before M4 can delete the combined.ww
embedding model.
989_c6soak_run (phase-1): Tier-A/B + same-leaf collision soak. Two real
roots (utf8: encoding.utf8 dotted-path + strings; collide: strings.contains
+ bytes.contains) built both ways with isolated cold WW_PKGCACHE; asserts
combined-run-exit == sep-run-exit on both drivers, cs==ww per-pkg .s/.wwi,
and two distinct collision labels.
994_w6c_ww (phase-2): Tier-C folded into the existing w6c byte-id oracle.
A sep-built w6c emits byte-identical .s to a combined-built w6c on all five
bootstrap targets (w6c/wwdump/w6a/w6l/ww .combined.ww); .wwi is in the
compare set. The tool binaries themselves differ by a benign constant
link-layout delta — the oracle is tool OUTPUT, not tool-binary identity.
Test-only; the five wwstage binary pins are unchanged.
The parser folded a qualified type pkg.Type into two different node shapes by position: declaration position collapsed it into one N_TNAME (resolved via the strrchr-leaf path), but literal position left an N_DOT chain that the struct-literal typeref handoff had no resolver arm for, so pkg.Type{...} rejected with "expected type expression".
Normalize the literal-position N_DOT chain into the same source-order N_TNAME the declaration path emits, reusing the existing resolver; no new checker arm. cstage flattens at parseprimary struct-lit handoff; wwstage (no token peek) folds dots in parsepostfix and normalizes there, guarding numeric tuple components and staying in the postfix loop so trailing ops still chain. Both stages emit identical N_STRUCTLIT(N_TNAME). Prereq for qualifying wcc syntax refs (#75).
After the frontend consolidated into one syntax package, the wcc backend
imports syntax and calls its exported fns — whose signatures reference
types that were unexported. Producing syntax's .wwi interface re-triggered
check_exported_type ("exported declaration references unexported type"):
the residual of BUG-A at the one surviving syntax->wcc boundary. Export
the 16 types that appear in syntax's wcc-facing public surface (directly
in an exported signature, or via a recursively-referenced exported struct
field): nkind, node, lex, tok, tkind, parser, scope, sym, skind, tinfo,
tykind, tfield, tparam, ttupleelem, tctx, tinfocacheent. The set is
minimal (unexporting any one re-breaks the producer) and complete; pos
stays internal. Pure source change — exporting a type emits no code, so
the bootstrap binaries are byte-identical (verified against a clean base
build); only syntax's .wwi gains the type decls.
Post-frontend-reorg residual (#74). syntax now sep-produces clean both
stages. The separate concern of wcc's currently-unqualified refs to
syntax symbols (#75) is a distinct follow-up. Gate 989_syntaxexport_run.
The ww compiler frontend was split across packages lex (lex+tok), ww
(ast+sym+typ), and parse — mirroring Hare's ref/hare/hare/{ast,lex,parse}.
That split's only payoff is third-party reuse, which ww has zero of: the
frontend is consumed by exactly one client, the wcc backend. The split's
cost is a wide cross-package export surface — every fn over a sibling
package's type must export it, and under separate compilation that
re-triggers check_exported_type, plus a phantom `import tok;` (tok lives
in package lex). Consolidate into ONE package lib/ww/syntax/, modelled on
Go's cmd/compile/internal/syntax. The 9 files move in (package syntax);
the intra-frontend mutual references become same-package; wcc and the
tool mains import syntax. No cstage C change (the C frontend mangles from
the source package clause). Internal data shapes (AST kinds, token model,
lexer/parser state) still mirror ref/hare/hare per rule 6/12 — only the
module decomposition collapses; the stdlib is untouched.
USER-approved (#74); spec .ai/rob-frontend-reorg.md (drew2 fidelity-
confirmed). Rule-6 carve-out documented in CLAUDE.md. Dissolves the tok
phantom import; collapses the intra-frontend export sprawl. Byte-id
rebaseline (lex.X/parse.X/ww.X -> syntax.X); cs==ww held. The residual
syntax->wcc export surface (10 types) + the unqualified-ref question are
separate follow-ups (#72/#75).
The .wwi (separate-compile interface) producer could not serialize an
exported def whose initializer is a struct/array literal (N_STRUCTLIT/
N_ARRLIT) — `export def f64info: floatinfo = floatinfo{...}` aborted with
"unhandled const-expr node kind 15". Such a def is a DATA-global per the
#52 model, so its value lives once in the defining package's .o; the
interface needs only the type+symbol. Emit a value-less prototype
`export def X: T;` for aggregate-initializer defs; scalar fold-eligible
defs keep their value (the importer const-folds those). The parser gains
an optional-init arm so the importer can parse the prototype — value-less
`def X: T;` is now legal in any source, symmetric with the existing
bodyless-fn prototype `fn f();` (USER ruling: unconditional; a value-less
def with no defining .o is a loud undefined-symbol error at link, never
silent). Both stages; producer + parser fold into one commit (the
producer's output is unparseable without the parser arm).
M3-tail commit-6 prerequisite #2 (surfaced by the c6 scout). The
aggregate-def-field const-fold boundary is documented inline (#71). Gate
989_sepstructdef_run proves struct+array exported defs sep-build, link,
and run via external DATA refs, cs==ww, with a value-less .wwi.
The --sep producer compiled the ROOT build-target with the .wwi-producer
-I flag, so check_exported_type ran on the root and rejected a real-tool
root's legitimate `export fn f(a: *t)` over an unexported local type t
(the root is terminal — its interface is never imported, and its .wwi is
never consumed). The combined build never passes -I, so it built fine.
For pi==root, invoke w6c with -c -o only, no -I. Both stages (the wwstage
twin builds the shorter root argv). Gates that asserted __root.wwi exists
encoded the buggy behavior; updated to assert __root.s (the consumed
product) while deps' .wwi byte-id is retained.
M3-tail commit-6 prerequisite. Gate 989_seproot_export_run reproduces the
export-fn-over-unexported-type root + proves it sep-builds, with a
non-vacuity leg that the forced -I path still rejects.
A separately-compiled package's primary body was emitted under a bare
`//ww:module-reset`, so its own `package <leaf>;` clause set curmod to
the leaf (e.g. utf8) while the importer spliced the .wwi under the full
`//ww:module encoding.utf8` — definer mangled `utf8.X`, importer wanted
`encoding.utf8.X`, unresolved. Thread the dotted path through the
directive: `//ww:module-reset <path>` sets curmod to the dotted path
(imported stays 0, so the root `fn main` stays bare per #32), and the
body's package clause is demoted to a leaf==last-component assertion
instead of overwriting curmod. Aligns sep-build to the M1 path-mangle
model; only the SEP emitter changes (the combined build_one arm is
untouched, so all combined byte-id gates hold). Both stages mirrored.
Commit-6 broad-soak prerequisite. Gate 989_sepdotpath_run sep-builds a
2-level dotted package and proves definer==importer qualification +
single-component non-vacuity, cs==ww.
Per-package build cache for `ww build --sep`: before recompiling a
package, recompute a plain-text key manifest (md5sum-hex lines of the
package sources, each direct dep's .wwi, the w6c and w6a binaries, plus
the compile flags) and reuse the cached .o/.wwi on a byte-for-byte key
hit. Both stages shell the same host md5sum (no ww-side md5) so the
non-compiler key lines are byte-identical cstage==wwstage; the compiler
md5 lines differ per stage BY DESIGN, giving each stage its own cache
namespace so a hit can never reuse the other stage's .o and mask a
cs!=ww codegen divergence. Cached outputs (.o/.wwi) stay byte-identical
across stages. Root package never cached; cache lives under $(OUT)
(gitignored, wiped by make clean). Both stages mirrored.
Dev-only convenience, off every bootstrap/byte-id gate. Gate
989_pkgcache_run (cold) proves miss-compiles / hit-skips-byte-id /
independent key-bust per input class with non-vacuity rehit.
Per-package .a archives are written by a self-hosted deterministic ar
writer (zeroed mtime/uid/gid, fixed mode 100644, stable member order)
so cstage and wwstage emit byte-identical archives. The linker
force-loads the root .o positionally and pulls deps from .a; a
post-pull PASS-3 over unloaded members reports duplicate symbols
through the archive (#31). Both stages mirrored (cmd/ + selfhost/).
USER-ruled D2 (self-hosted ar writer); pike P1/P2 link model. Gate
989_separchive_run proves cs.a==ww.a byte-identity, 3x-determinism,
link-consumes-.a (exit 7), and the masked-dup-through-.a loud fire.
Promote commit-3's tri-color topo bail into a loud dep_cycle error that names the full import cycle, byte-identical both stages (cmd/ww/main.c + selfhost/cmd/ww/main.ww, deps.ha:243 parity).
Add a non-vacuous negative gate (989_sepcycle_dup) proving the pre-existing w6l duplicate-symbol reject fires loud + non-zero on a cross-package collision; no new linker code.
#58(b)(c) link-arg parity deferred (system()-string vs procrun()-argv is structurally un-unifiable in this scope); #61 filed for the byte-id-blind w6l_ww dup-message divergence.
build_one_sep (both stages + ww/main.combined.ww regen): discover_deps
(transitive directory-package set, dotted-path identity), tri-color
reverse-topo (cycle bails; loud reject is commit 4), the transitive
producer loop (one w6c -c -I pass per package, dep-first, each both
consumer and producer of its .wwi), and a flat w6l of the .o set.
combined.ww stays the DEFAULT live path; --sep is additive.
Every dep is tagged by its full dotted import path on prepend
(//ww:module <path>), so the definer's qualified symbol (#53) == the
consumer's qualified reference (#40) and the sep .o set links. The
prepend is the TRANSITIVE closure (lead-ratified, superseding
rob-c3-spec §1.3 direct-deps): a dep's interface can name a transitive
dep's type (os exposes time.instant), so the consuming unit needs the
whole closure for resolution — direct-deps-only does not type-check.
Consistent with the current flat-unit transitive-namespace model (the
visibility tighten is #45, post-M4).
Gate 989_sepbuild_run drives ww + ww_ww --sep on the real chain
root->os->{rt,time}: build+run (exit 7) + cs==ww per-pkg .s/.wwi/.unit
+ final binary + transitive-topo discovery + keystone bodies==.wwi
(os,root) through the real driver. Cold scratch; -o-redirected.
New `w6c -c` (both stages): separate-compile / primary-only codegen.
Emit code+DATA ONLY for a package's own (imported==0) decls; treat every
`.wwi`-sourced (imported==1) dep decl as an external. Pure addition behind
the flag — combined.ww stays the LIVE path, `-c` is off on every existing
invocation, so the 990-997 byte-id gates + all prior tests are unperturbed.
The keystone (rob): a `.wwi` is body-less/init-less prototype source, and
cgen already skips body-less fns as externs, so dep fns/types/defs emit
NOTHING for free. The single genuinely-new guard is an imported value-
global (`export let`): its DATAW would DUPLICATE the dep's own definition
(link collision), so it is skipped. The `imported==0` gate is applied at
all top-level emit sites for uniformity (close-by-construction): the fn
loop, emit_lets/emitletdataw, emit_defs/emitdefconstants, and
let_pre_intern/letpreintern — that last one because an imported dep's body
initializer interns strlits while its rhs-stripped `.wwi` does not, which
would shift the _S_ sequence; gating it keeps the strlit table a pure
function of the package's own decls. EXACTLY symmetric with M2's producer
`imported==0` filter — same predicate both directions.
Driver `--sep` build_one_sep + per-package archives + multi-.a link +
cache + BROAD real-target dual-path soak are M3-tail (#46, rob ruling B):
M3-core ships the codegen spine + a self-contained gate that proves all
codegen correctness without a production driver.
Gate 989_m3sep_run: a synth leaf->mid->root fixture carrying all four
cross-boundary fact-classes (fn signature, struct LAYOUT, `def` const
VALUE, `export let` value-global). Per package, holding `-c` constant:
`w6c -c` of (deps-as-bodies) == (deps-as-.wwi) byte-for-byte (the .wwi
conveys exactly the dep facts P's codegen needs); cs==ww at the .s AND
final-exe level (rule 10); sep-path determinism; the value-global guard
(imported origin_tag never re-emits DATAW); and behavioral identity (the
linked program's exit code is the real cross-boundary computation). COLD:
.wwi materialized fresh every run (no warm cache).
combined.ww regen'd for wwdump + w6c (both embed cgen.ww); diff is exactly
the four guards + the flag wiring, nothing spurious.
New `w6c -I <out.wwi>` flag (both stages) writes a re-parseable
ww-prototype rendering of a package's EXPORTED surface. M2 dead-code:
nothing consumes .wwi yet (combined.ww stays the live path); the flag is
off on every existing invocation, so the 990-997 byte-id gates and all
prior tests are unperturbed.
The unparse walks the AST type-expr subtree (N_T* nodes), not the
tinfo Type* (which collapses nominal pkg.Name identity). Deterministic
output: package line, byte-sorted imports, byte-sorted decls — a pure
function of the exported API. cmd/w6c/wwi.c + selfhost/cmd/wcc/wwi.ww
emit byte-identical .wwi (new cross-stage byte-id substrate, rule 10).
check_exported_type (drew) rides the producer entry, flag-gated: an
exported signature naming a non-exported nominal is loud-rejected before
any byte is written, identically on both stages. Ports harec
check.c:4092-4168, recursing the type-AST and gating on the resolved
SK_TYPE sym's decl export flag (Sym.exported is vestigial in both
stages; the predeclared synthetic `nomem` decl carries no source
position and is treated as a builtin leaf — cstage parity).
Two wwstage checker AST-mutations are normalized to cstage's pristine
view for byte-id: the N_TPARAM tuple-element wrapper (unwrapped) and the
variadic `T...`→`[]T` param desugar (peeled).
Gate 989_m2wwi_run: ascii/strings/getopt each produce a .wwi that
re-parses (wwdump -a) and is cs==ww byte-identical; a private-type-leak
fixture is rejected identically by both stages (non-vacuous check).
use_hint/usehint were unit-global first-leaf-match: two directory-
packages exporting the same fn leaf, each imported by a different module
aliasing the same bareword, mis-routed every qualified call to whichever
use was collected first. Identically wrong on both stages (byte-id-green
#263-class). Key the hint on (owner-module, alias) and prefer cur_mod,
mirroring the checker's use_path curmod-preference (55f54fb).
989_m1usehint_run: two same-leaf pick() across a.math/b.math, each
module's call routes to its own import (111/222) + cs.s==ww.s.
Switch symbol mangling from the import leaf clause to the full dotted import path for directory packages; single-file imports keep package-clause mangling (isdir-gate: imported<=>directory-import). The root build unit's fn main stays bare, every other top-level decl mangles, closing #31's duplicate-main hazard by construction (#32). Both stages, byte-identical.
Single commit, not split: the bare rename (f244af3) is red on its own because it unmasks cross-module resolution gaps that do not reproduce pre-M1, so the fixes are intrinsic to making the rename correct. Included: wwstage fnret/fnparamslookupmod map import alias->path (#199b cross-module union-variant scrutinee resolved the wrong fn's union); cstage use_path prefers the referencing module's import for an ambiguous leaf alias (sha256 crypto.math vs strconv math). Tests table-driven: 989_m1mangle_run/_sym, 989_m1union_run (gate-visible per-arm exit codes + cs==ww byte-id).
The sym carried an is_const flag (lib/ww/sym.ww) but wwstage never
set it at the let-install nor consumed it at assignment, so mutating
a `const` slipped through silently. Mirror cstage's two sites: set
is_const when n.op == TK_CONST at the local let-install (cmd/wcc/
check.c:2408) and reject an N_ASSIGN whose lhs ident resolves to an
is_const sym (cmd/wcc/check.c:1889-1896). cstage already rejected;
this aligns wwstage's w6c_ww UP. A bare `_` discard lvalue (empty
str) is skipped.
Regen w6c/wwdump combined.ww (checker embeds in both). Valid-program
codegen unchanged → cs==ww byte-id gate stays green.
wwstage's checkretassign short-circuited on a value-less `return;`
("skip flagging for now"), so `fn f() i32 = { return; }` built and
RET'd a garbage register. Mirror cstage cmd/wcc/check.c:2428-2439:
the no-value return has type void, then run isassignable(c.fnret,
void) — void→void and void→(T|void) accept, void→i32 is a confident
reject. cstage already rejected; this aligns wwstage's w6c_ww UP.
Regen w6c/wwdump combined.ww (checker embeds in both). Valid-program
codegen unchanged → cs==ww byte-id gate stays green.
wwstage's tuple-parse loop checked the RPAREN-break at the top, so
`(a,)` parsed as a 1-element N_TUPLE and reached cgen — a silent
wrong-accept. A trailing comma is legal only after >=2 elements.
Align the loop order to cstage cmd/wcc/parse.c:552-558 (parse each
element before the RPAREN-break); `(a,)` now errors at the next
parseexpr, `(a, b)` / `(a, b,)` are unchanged. cstage already
rejected; this brings wwstage's w6c_ww parser into agreement.
Regen w6c/wwdump combined.ww (parser embeds in both). Valid-program
codegen unchanged → cs==ww byte-id gate stays green.
cstage rejects a binop whose two integer operands have different
types (e.g. int vs i32 from len()); wwstage accepted it, miscompiling
under no-implicit-promotion. Align wwstage UP: unifyarith now chases
aliases and loud-rejects an integer-type mismatch, routing the
ordered-comparison ops through the same path with the error message
threaded on `e`. Per the user's no-implicit-promotion decision.
Scope carve-outs: EQ/NEQ stay out of the reject (#34, the comparison
operators keep their own widening rule) and a rune literal is exempt
(#35, N_RUNELIT is still untyped at this point). Adds the 29-case
test/wcc/949_intbinop_mismatch.c and its Makefile wiring.
Three lib functions had lost their Hare loud-abort preconditions, so an
out-of-domain argument silently returned garbage instead of aborting:
random.u32n / random.u64n assert(n != 0) ref/hare/math/random/random.ha:26,42
base64.decodedsize assert(sz%4 == 0) ref/hare/encoding/base64/base64.ha:597
Source-bundled lib change, identical on both stages (byte-id neutral).
989_libprecond_abort pins each precondition: n=0 / sz%4!=0 abort (rc!=0),
valid args return 0, run on cstage and wwstage.
wwstage's size/align/offset builtins returned i32 while their node
stamp was already untyped_int -- and cstage returns ty_untyped_int
(check.c:1570/1602). The diverging return false-rejected the canonical
Hare idiom `let x: size = size(T)` in wwstage (`let: not assignable
(i32 -> size)`) where cstage accepts; sha256.ww:189 was the live
casualty, quarantined as M_WWREJECT (#59.13) in the byte-id gate.
Align wwstage up: return untyped_int at the three sites (check.ww
size/align/offset). The len / slice .len / .cap returns stay i32 --
those match cstage (check.c:1534) and are correct. cstage is unchanged.
Regenerates the w6c and wwdump combined.ww. Full 990-997 byte-id holds
(a size()-mixing comparison emits CMPQ byte-identically on both stages,
so the untyped-int widening does not perturb the asm). Table-driven 844
test: the `let x: size = size(T)` family now compiles on both stages.
A tagged-union value nested in module-level array/struct static-init
mis-emitted in both stages: the lit-bytes emitters had no TY_TAGGED
arm, so a tagged element/field fell to the int path and the payload
landed in the TAG word -- match then read the wrong variant. The
zero-placeholder idiom (today the only way to declare a tagged global:
zero-init in static, write at runtime) was correct only by accident
(int-variant zero folds to (0,0), which equals the right (tag0,0)).
Extract a raw-byte core emittaggedbytes/emit_tagged_bytes -- variant
tag@+0, int payload@+8, zero-pad to the slot size; no directive, no
offset, no reloc -- and refactor the scalar tagged emitter to delegate
to it (byte-id-neutral). Add a TY_TAGGED member branch to the array
and struct lit-bytes emitters (both stages) that calls the core at the
existing full-slot stride, before the int fallthrough. Zero stays
(0,0) byte-identical; a non-zero element/field now emits (tag,payload)
correctly.
A wide (str/slice) or struct/>8B payload nested in an aggregate needs
reloc-at-member-offset machinery the aggregate byte-emitters don't
have, so it is loud-rejected (rule 7), deferred to #30; the existing
slice-of-tagged static-init reject is unchanged.
Regenerates the w6c and wwdump combined.ww. Table-driven 843 test:
non-zero array/struct (pre-fix returned the wrong variant), the
non-tag-0 bool-variant edge, byte-id-neutral zero-placeholder rows,
and wide-payload reject rows; each run row also pins cs-vs-ww asm.
A second top-level decl named `main` (fn/let/def/type) collides with
the entry main on the single bare `main` symbol: today both lower to a
bare `main`, w6l silently accepts the duplicate, and the program links
rc=0 then segfaults (or runs wrong), in both stages. The existing
duplicate-decl rejects key on (name, module), so a cross-module
`foo.main` vs the bare entry `main` read as distinct and slip through.
Add a program-global, name-only, cross-module uniqueness check on
`main` in the checker (both stages), colocated with the duplicate-decl
rejects and counting user decls before the -T synthesized test main.
Corpus-safe: a lone `fn main` in any package stays legal (ww has no
package-main convention -- cmatrix/lisp/mandelbrot are non-main-package
entries and keep building). This converts the silent segfault to a
loud compile error and subsumes the w6l silent-dup-main case (#31);
correct package-aware mangling of a non-entry main is deferred to the
root-unit entry-detection work (#22/#32).
Regenerates the w6c and wwdump combined.ww. Table-driven 842 test:
reject rows for let/fn/def/type main (genuine cross-module import form)
plus a negative single-main corpus-safe row that must still build+run.
A match whose scrutinee is a tagged field of a GLOBAL value-struct read
the tag/payload from the BP region (saved-BP + return-addr) instead of
g(SB) and returned garbage. Both stages were identical-wrong, so the
byte-id gate could not see it -- a gate-blind regression introduced by
M1 (#25): M1's in-place N_DOT match arm uses localfind(base), which
returns the 0 not-found sentinel for a global base, so 0+field.offset
landed in the frame.
Gate the in-place arm on a confirmed-local base -- `localfind(base)==0
&& let_islet/isletvar(base)`, verbatim from cstage's own global test at
cgen.c:2000 (both stages, same spelling). A global base now falls
through to the existing spill path, which cgexprs the scrutinee and
resolves g(SB). M1's local-field in-place ($32) path is untouched.
Regenerates the w6c and wwdump combined.ww. Table-driven 841 test
(global int/reassign/str-payload + a local-field M1 regression row),
runtime-discriminating: pre-fix returns garbage, post-fix 42 on both
stages; rob's direct-global-field spill caveat confirmed at runtime.
libdirs, lflags and inputs were fixed 64-slot arrays written with no
bound check; the 65th -L/-l flag (or input) wrote past the allocation
-> heap corruption. Size all three by argc instead, the true upper
bound since each argv slot yields at most one entry, mirroring cstage
cmd/w6l/main.c:63-67 (calloc(argc, ...)). Drop the now-dead maxinputs
"too many inputs" cap -- cstage has none, and argc-sizing makes it
unreachable.
Regenerates the w6l combined.ww. Table-driven 632 test reaches a lib
only via the Nth -L (N in {1,64,65,100,128}, both stages); pre-fix the
nflags=65 row fails (slot one past the 64-array).
wwstage cgmatch unconditionally spilled any non-ident match scrutinee
-- including an addressable BP-relative N_DOT struct field -- into
@match_spill and dispatched off the copy (frame $48); cstage reads
such a field in place at its BP offset ($32). Both stages were already
runtime-correct (latent rule-10 leanness, not a miscompile); this
aligns wwstage down to cstage so the asm is byte-identical.
The new in-place arm mirrors cstage cgen.c:10241-10296 verbatim: an
N_DOT scrutinee with a bare N_IDENT base whose type chases to a value
TY_STRUCT and whose field is found by name reads tag/payload at
localfind(base)+field.offset. The *ptr-field and call-result cases
stay on the spill path by construction (their base does not chase to
TY_STRUCT) -- no extra guard. A global value-struct base mis-resolves
identically in both stages (localfind returns 0); left untouched as a
shared latent (#29), since a ww-only guard would break byte-id.
Regenerates the w6c and wwdump combined.ww. Table-driven 831 test:
6 rows (local-field, *ptr-field, plain-ident, call-result, payload
remap, str payload) x runtime-both-stages + cs-vs-ww byte-id.
The one-sided guard `v > 214748364` never fired for the last digit:
at v==214748364 a next digit of '8'/'9' made `v*10+digit` overflow
i32 and wrap negative, slipping past the signed args-index bound
check at fmt.ww:703 -> OOB arg read -> SIGSEGV on any format
directive carrying an over-i32 digit run (index, width or precision).
Complete it to the canonical two-part pre-multiply Horner guard
(MAX/10, MAX%10). Hand-rolled in signed i32, not Hare scan_sz's
unsigned post-multiply wrap-check (ref/hare/strconv/stou.ha:60),
which would be signed-overflow UB-class here; noted at the site.
Table-driven subprocess test over all three scandigits call sites,
5 rows x both stages; reverting the guard reproduces exit=139.
Compound `OP=` through an index (gs[i]/a[i]) or a bare ident (g) on a
tagged union silently misbehaved: cstage dropped the index compound and
plain-stored, and BOTH stages compiled an ident compound into an add on
the tag word -- byte-identical, so the gate stayed green while the tag
was corrupted. A compound op on a whole union is nonsense.
Gate the index plain-store arm on TK_ASSIGN so a compound falls to the
existing #133 reject (wwstage's byte-id twin); add a dedicated #21 ident
reject in both stages. This closes the compound half of the tagged-payload
write class (deref #18, dot #34 already reject).
#19 (global tagged-array static-init DATA) is a separate emitter, still open.
The wwstage compound-deref arm narrowed the store for scalar pointees and
otherwise emitted a single MOVQ, so `*p OP= v` with p:*tagged clobbered
one word (the tag) and returned -- silently miscompiling what cstage
already rejects. A compound op on a whole union is nonsense. Gate the arm
on a scalar pointee size and let a tagged pointee fall through to the
existing assign-resolver reject, the byte-id twin of the cstage fatal.
cstage is unchanged.
This closes the deref member of the compound-on-tagged class; the index
and ident members (gs[i] OP= v, g OP= v) reject in a follow-up (#20/#21).
The indexed tagged-element assign arm computed its base without the
isglobal -> LEAQ name(SB) branch the scalar element arm already has, so
`gs[i] = v` on a global tagged array stored to a junk frame base and was
lost -- cstage rc=0 where wwstage (which has the branch) rc=42. Mirror
the scalar arm's base resolution; cstage aligns up to wwstage. Local
tagged arrays and scalar globals are unchanged.
The global tagged-array static initializer still mis-packs its DATA in
both stages -- a separate emitter path, filed as #19.
The N_UN/TK_STAR plain-deref assign arm fell to a single fldstoreop for
every pointee, so `*p = v` with p:*tagged wrote the rhs into the tag word
and never the payload -- identically in both stages, leaving the byte-id
gate green while the store corrupted the tag (#263-class, gate-blind).
Gate on TY_TAGGED and route through cg_widen_tagged_store into a scratch
slot, then word-copy to the destination -- the proven runtime-index arm.
Scalar pointees keep the single-store path unchanged.
A module-level nullable `(*T | void)` GLOBAL has no storage path in
either stage: let_emit_size / letemitsize returned 0 for the nullable
TY_TAGGED, so let_collect skipped registration and emit_lets skipped
DATA. The three READ paths then miscompiled SILENTLY and identically-
wrong (a #263-class both-wrong gap, not a wwstage align-up): match read
0(BP) = saved BP via the let_islet-gated #87 arm falling to localfind;
`g is *T` / `g as *T` emitted MOVQ name(SB) for a symbol with no DATA →
w6l undefined-reference. cstage's #87 match arm was itself `!is_nullable`-
gated, so both stages were wrong.
This is the silent→loud bridge: die loud at the size/storage layer the
instant a nullable global is declared, so all three read paths hit one
diagnostic instead of a silent miscompile. A silent gap here is exactly
what "stable before CSP" forbids — CSP's process/handle/chan singletons
(`let c: *Chan | void`) are THE canonical nullable-global consumer. The
full storage + read-class arc (real DATA, nil/void/address-of init, let-
registration, the three SB-resolution read arms) is deferred to task #15
(CSP-prereq); the `&`-init sub-problem additionally couples to the #48
static address-of relocation gap (which already bites a plain `*T` global
init the same way).
Diagnostic core text is identical both stages ("nullable-global storage
unimplemented (task #15)"); cstage's fatal() adds the harness-wide "ww: "
err.c prefix err.ww does not, the same per-stage asymmetry every existing
both-stage reject carries. Byte-id-neutral: the corpus declares zero
nullable globals (grep-verified), so the loud path is unreached in self-
compile and the emitted asm is zero-move; the embedded w6c/wwdump
combined.ww amalgamations are regenerated for the cgen.ww source change.
New 989_nullableglobal_reject: 6 reject rows (match/is/as on a &gv init,
plus nil-init and void-init match, plus an inline non-aliased nullable
form) prove rc!=0 + the shared diagnostic on both stages, init- and
form-invariant; 2 controls (non-nullable tagged global, plain nil-init
*T global) prove the reject is keyed on the nullable TY_TAGGED and the
#87 storage path is untouched.
A `x.f = o` copy of a whole struct field emits a MOVQ run for the
8-byte chunks plus a tail. Both stages inlined a tail that handled only
{4,1}: a 4-byte remainder went MOVL, a 1-byte MOVB, but {2,3,5,6,7} fell
through to an 8-byte MOVQ that OVER-READS the source and OVER-WRITES the
field's natural-offset successor. With #44 packing a successor at its
natural offset, that is a live clobber: outer2{i:inner2{u8,u8}, mark:i32}
copies i with `MOVQ -8(BP),AX; MOVQ AX,-16(BP)` and wipes mark@-12; the
correct move is a single MOVW. Same defect in cstage (cgen.c) and the
four wwstage field-copy sites (cgenexpr.ww: via-ptr, direct-BP-local,
global, and the multi-hop dot-chain CX variant).
Fix: replace each inline {4,1} tail with the descending greedy 4/2/1
(MOVL/MOVW/MOVB) the canonical aggregate-copy emitters already use, so
the tail is complete on every natural size. This is path (alpha) of the
#73 brief — a corpus-neutral, no-workaround completion of the inline
tail. Routing field copies through the shared aggcopy/cg_aggcopy choke-
point (beta) is the balloon: those emitters hardcode (SI)->(BX) at offset
k with zero base displacement, but the four field-copy dsts are
heterogeneous (foff(BX), boff+foff(BP) with no base reg, totaloff(CX)),
so routing forces per-site-per-stage LEAQ src->SI + LEAQ dst->BX rewrites
with no mechanical cross-stage mirror at the CX site = a gate-blind
cs!=ww risk. The emitter extraction is filed as a later addressing-
unification arc (#12). The ragged tail is corpus-absent (every corpus
field copy is tail in {0,4}, where greedy 4/2/1 emits exactly what the
old {4,1} tail did), so this is CLASS-N: zero corpus move on both stages,
byte-id holds by construction.
The cstage <=24 N_CALL receive site (cgen.c:5234) is a different copy
family (sret result read from AX/DX/CX, not a mem-to-mem field copy) and
already handles 4/2/1; left untouched. The str/slice/tagged/tuple 4/1
sites (#76) are likewise a separate family, filed not folded.
989_structcopytail_run pins it on both driver twins: tail2 (MOVW), tail6
(MOVL+MOVW), tail7 (the full MOVL+MOVW+MOVB ladder, the MOVB-path row),
plus an 8-aligned ctl8 (tail-0 control). Pre-fix cstage clobbers mark and
exits non-zero -> cs!=ww; post-fix 4/4 ok cs==ww.
wwstage's slotsize() shared its TY_STRUCT arm with TUPLE/ARRAY and
returned ti.slotsize — the SUM of the slot-padded field widths. For a
struct LOCAL that over-reserves the frame slot whenever a field is a
sub-8 nested composite: a nested inner{x:u8,y:u8} (size 2, slotsize 8)
pads its in-struct footprint, and the local inherits that pad. cstage
has no slotsize SSoT — it reserves the local at f->type->size, the
checker's NATURAL r.size (cmd/w6c/cgen.c). So on outer{a:u8,
p:inner{x:u8,y:u8}, z:i64} wwstage emitted frame $32 / struct-base
-24(BP) while cstage emitted $16 / -16(BP): a uniform -8 BP shift on
every field access. Both stages exit 0 (each self-consistent), so it is
runtime-invisible — but it is a cs!=ww .s divergence (rule 10) and a
latent byte-id gate-landmine the day such a struct enters the corpus.
Same dual-SSoT leak as #44 (field-OFFSET) / #55, one notion over:
struct-local-slot-SIZE.
Fix: split the TY_STRUCT arm out and return round8(ti.size). The TUPLE
arm (8B/elem slot, user ruling #60) and the ARRAY arm (element stride,
#48 [N]Alias 24B) keep ti.slotsize — those are deliberate, ruled
divergences and are untouched. The struct-local slot consumers
(cgendecl.ww letslotsize via cglet, cgenstmt.ww) all flow through this
arm; si.totsize (registerstruct → structabisize / global-emit) is a
separate consumer and is not this path.
CLASS-N corpus-neutral: every corpus struct local is 8-aligned, so
round8(ti.size) == slotsize for all of them and the w6c_ww/wwdump_ww
emission does not move (994 byte-id on 18 corpus inputs + 995 5-tool
self-rebuild both green post-fix). 989_structlocal_frame is the
FRAME-ABSOLUTE proof (w6c vs w6c_ww .s byte-diff; nested3 + tail_u32 +
flat control) — the .s twin of the runtime 989_nestfield_run, which
deliberately does not gate the frame and points here for it.
wwstage carried TWO struct-layout sources. registerstruct (cgenutil.ww)
recomputed each field's `fi.foff` via fieldsize — slot-padded, round-8 —
for the WRITE (construction / field store) path, while the READ path
(cgplaceaddr / dotbaseaddr) used the checker's natural `tfield.offset`.
They diverged iff a struct had a nested sub-8 composite field
(slotsize != size) plus a successor: ww wrote the successor at the
slot-padded offset and read it at the natural offset, mis-addressing its
own field. cstage has no structinfo and reads tfield directly, self-
consistently natural (cmd/w6c/cgen.c).
Fix: make `fi.foff` a VIEW of the checker's already-built natural layout.
Lock-step walk tstruct.list (AST N_TFIELD) and ti.fields (tfield) — both
head-first declared order, both skip non-TFIELD identically — and copy
foff = tf.offset, fsz = tf.type_.size. si.totsize keeps the slot-padded
stack-slot number (ti.slotsize, already 8-rounded at check.ww:2259).
fieldsize is no longer called here (its `*p OP=` scalar-width caller is
untouched). LOUD nil-guards on tstruct.type_ / tichase / a tfield walk
desync — all unreachable post-check, never silent. fi.tnode stays the
AST node (its node-keyed readers need it); repointing the ~60 fi.foff
readers to tfield is the out-of-scope (ii-b) follow-up.
This unifies ww's second source onto the value cstage already emits, so
cs==ww is preserved, not newly created (wwstage-cgen only; no cstage
edit). The shape is corpus-absent — ww uses both sources on its own
structs, so a divergent struct would have broken the bootstrap — hence
gate-blind; 989_nestfield_run is the proof (nested inner{x:u8,y:u8} in
outer{a:u8,p:inner[,z:i64]}, every field read back == written, dual-stage
cs==ww). It also makes 681 ragged_tail_12B genuinely correct: the
predecessor #71 already shrank the whole-struct copy to the source's
natural length, so packing mark at natural offset 12 no longer clobbers.
w6a's parsenum diverged from the C twin's strtoll(s,end,0)
(cmd/w6a/lex.c:30) on three hand-written-asm edge shapes (all
gate-blind — w6c emits the canonical $5/$8/-8(BP), never these):
(a) `$ 5` — leading whitespace: strtoll skips it (->5); ww had no
skip and silently encoded imm 0.
(b) `$08` — strtoll base-0 reads a leading 0 as octal, stops at '8'
(->0); ww parsed it as decimal 8.
(c) `-(BP)` — strtoll/cstage require a digit after the sign, so a bare
`-(` is unrecognised operand; ww silently took it as 0(BP).
Add the whitespace skip + octal base-0 detection to parsenum, and the
digit-after-sign guard to the operand scanner — both assemblers now
agree byte-for-byte (a/b) and both reject (c).
Not a Hare item (w6a is ww's plan9-lineage assembler); reference is the
C strtoll twin. w6a embeds into its own combined.ww snapshot; regen'd.
530_w6a_parsenum pins the byte-identity + both-reject matrix.
dirs build() capped the composed path at the 256B pathbuf with a silent
break, so a HOME (or XDG_*) near/over ~240 bytes produced a truncated
path that lookup() then mkdir'd and returned rc=0 — a silently-wrong,
freshly-created directory. ref/hare/dirs/xdg.ha routes through
path::set/push whose too_long error the `!` aborts loudly. Precompute
the composition length in build() and rt_abort when it won't fit; drop
the now-dead silent caps. (Shape (a); routing dirs through lib/path is
the filed fidelity follow-up.)
975_dirs_toolong_run pins the abort + no-stray-dir on both driver twins.
parsefile's recovery fallback chewed an unrecognized top-level
construct to the next ';' without emitting an error or bumping p.errs,
so a typo'd keyword / stray token silently vanished from the AST and
the build succeeded rc=0 with the declared work gone — no link error
catches a dropped @test or unreferenced exported fn. The C twin
(parse.c:1395-1400) errorf+p->errs++ and rejects. Emit errmsg in the
fallback arm; wwstage now rejects in lockstep with cstage.
lib/ww embeds into the w6c/wwdump combined.ww snapshots; both regen'd.
989_unknowndecl_reject pins the reject-matrix on both driver twins.
wwstage parseint dropped the pre-multiply overflow guard the C twin
carries (cmd/wcc/lex.c:156, if (v > (u64)~0ULL / (u64)base)), so any
integer literal exceeding u64 was silently accepted mod 2^64 while
cstage loudly rejected with 'bad integer literal' — a rule-10 stage
divergence and a silent wrong constant. Port the guard before the
multiply-add; wwstage now rejects in lockstep with cstage.
lib/ww embeds into the w6c/wwdump combined.ww snapshots; both regen'd.
989_intoverflow_reject pins the reject-matrix on both driver twins.
When the dynamic section pushed the header past the first page, the
entry point kept its first-page address — every sufficiently large
dynamic binary SIGSEGV'd into the headers. Recompute e_entry as
entry - 0x1000 + text_off in both stages (ELF: the entry must point
into .text wherever it lands). Both stages move in one commit: one
ELF contract; the 989_dynentry gate pins the field and the run.