The archive walk skipped every member whose header name starts
with '/', which also dropped GNU long-name members (/N) -- any
member with a >15-char filename silently never linked. Only '/ '
(symbol index) and '//' (long-name table) are non-objects; /N
members index by content (names are never consulted). A member
that fails loadimage in the selective pull also stayed silently
unlinked with rc=0; it now reports and fails the link (rule 7).
wwstage w6l diagnostics ride the same .len idiom as the w6a sweep.
selfhost/, cmd/, internal/ join the tree-wide sweep: every section
banner dies (91 selfhost + the cmd C-style dividers -> 0); narration
and stale contracts deleted (pre-#22 bundler notes, retired
single-PT_LOAD and no-archive claims, superseded ABI tables); every
ref/harec/qbe cite, task cite, encoding/ELF contract, and rule-10
twin pointer kept; lost lifetime/rationale lines restored where the
sweep over-cut (elf_globals ownership, kwtab linear-scan). Comment-
only proven: all five wwstage tool binaries byte-identical across
the sweep; test-commit, test-byteid (161+1399, 0 pinned-divergent),
and test-bootstrap (fixed point + 991-995 byte-id) all exit 0.
The read-through banked 66 latent-bug leads (checkpoint).
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.
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.
.data now lives at the end of the dyn-path R+W PT_LOAD, just after
.dynamic. The single segment covers .got.plt + .dynamic + .data; its
filesz drops trailing zeros (BSS) while memsz spans the full extent.
Relocation moves from main.c into each emit function so the static
and dynamic paths use their own data_va — text→data refs land on the
right VA regardless of path. Removes the early-error in dynout.c
that previously refused any .data with -l/-L.
Tests: 810_dyn gains two new dyn+.data fixtures (mutable read+write
of an i32, plus a zero-init i64 verifying the BSS scan still produces
a valid p_filesz<p_memsz under the shared segment).
Scan the consolidated .data buffer (post-relocation) for trailing zero
bytes; set the R+W PT_LOAD's p_filesz to exclude them while p_memsz
covers the full region. The loader zero-fills the gap, so behaviour is
unchanged. Saves up to a page per binary on programs whose globals are
zero-init.
Mirrored in selfhost/cmd/w6l/out.ww so test 992's byte-identity diff
still holds. Dynamic-link path is untouched — it still errors on any
mutable global; that's the next feature.
Unblock literal initialisers for str/slice/struct globals by wiring
an R_X86_64_64 relocation kind through both assembler and static
linker.
w6a:
- new A_DATAR directive, syntax `DATAR slot+off(SB),target(SB)`,
records an R_X86_64_64 reloc at slot+off in .data pointing at
target. The slot must be pre-defined by a prior DATAW;
- parse_operand learned the `name+disp(SB)` shape so the slot's
byte offset can be addressed explicitly;
- Areloc carries a `section` flag (0=.text / 1=.data) and obj.c
splits the reloc list into .rela.text and .rela.data, emitting
the latter conditionally with sh_info pointing at .data.
w6l:
- Lrel grows the same `section` flag; obj.c loads `.rela.data`
sections into the global reloc list with offsets shifted by
each input's data_off;
- pass.c handles R_X86_64_64: target VA is data_va+sym.val for
in_data symbols (else text_va+sym.val), addend is added, and
the 8-byte slot is patched in l->data (or l->text).
Inputs without DATAR are unaffected — bootstrap, 991 (selfhost .o
diff) and 992 (selfhost exe diff) keep their byte-identical
output. 520_datar covers the new path: asm a DATAW+DATAR pair,
verify .rela.data has exactly one R_X86_64_64 entry, link, run,
confirm the relocated pointer feeds a 5-byte write that prints
"hello".
Selfhost mirror + w6c emission for str/slice/struct literal init
land in follow-ups.
Second step toward top-level mutable `let`. The static path now loads
.data PROGBITS sections from input .o files, page-aligns them after
.text, and emits a second PT_LOAD (R+W) covering them. Relocations
targeting data symbols compute against the data VA; text→text
displacements still cancel the absolute VAs and stay correct.
Inputs without any .data keep the original single-PT_LOAD layout
byte-for-byte — 992 (selfhost w6l .o diff) and 995 (self-rebuild)
depend on that invariant.
Dynamic-link path (-l/-L) rejects .data for now with a clear error;
folding writable globals into the existing R+W segment alongside
.got.plt/.dynamic is a follow-up.
Plan 9-style w-prefix on the per-arch tools, disambiguating from the
real Plan 9 6c/6a/6l in ref/plan9front/:
cmd/wwc/ → cmd/wcc/ libwwc.a → libwcc.a
cmd/6{c,a,l} → cmd/w6{c,a,l} binary names too
test/wwc/ → test/wcc/ 6 test files w/ w6 prefix
selfhost/cmd mirror in lockstep
bootstrap/amd64/{w6c,w6a,w6l} snapshot binaries (gitignored)
WW_6{C,A,L} → WW_W6{C,A,L} env-var overrides
Plan 9 source-tree refs ("Plan 9 6c shape", ref/plan9front/, etc.)
preserved. Hare-style driver, both C and ww sides:
ww test [path] discover *_test.ww in a directory module, run
each; single-file mode for `ww test foo.ww`
Module-by-name `ww build foo` resolves to foo.ww or foo/foo.ww
via search path (cwd : -I dirs : $WW_LIB)
Default-to-cwd `ww build` / `ww test` build the cwd module
Run pass-through `ww run path arg1 arg2` reaches the program
lib/os: getcwd (79) and getdents64 (217) syscalls power `.` resolution
and directory enumeration on the ww side.
Makefile: wwstage tool deps now include lib/os/os.ww (+ lib/strconv
for wwdump_ww) so lib/* edits force their rebuild instead of leaving
stale binaries — surfaced when test 995 first failed against a stale
w6c_ww built before the lib/os additions.
Test 993 byte-identical parity gate (C-side ww vs ww-side ww_ww on a
build corpus) stays green; all 19 tests pass.
