A sub-slice `base[lo:hi]` now sets cap to base_cap - lo (the storage
remaining to the underlying end; Go/Hare-identical) instead of hi - lo
(== len). base_cap is the array length N for [N]T, or the .capacity
word carried in a slice/str header at +16. Authored once per stage in
the cg_base_cap / cgbasecap helper, applied at both cap sites: the
N_SLICE value path (which serves let-init since the prior commit) and
the call-arg push. Both stages stay byte-identical (find-4 closed).
cap arithmetic per ref/harec/src/eval.c:1017 (slice: slice.cap -=
start) and eval.c:1024 (array: cap = array.length - start); capacity
is a distinct field per ref/hare/rt/ensure.ha:4-8 and cap >= len per
ref/harec/src/check.c:596. Only the cap arithmetic transfers: the ptr
stays unscaled (lo*esz is #76) and eval.c's stricter start>=end bound
is not ported (ww's runtime bound is start>end).
str[lo:hi] yields str with a real .capacity (D1), so the str base uses
the same +16 load -- no downgrade to []u8. base_cap falls back to len
(prior behavior) where it isn't cleanly available: a non-ident base
(its header cap was discarded by cgexpr; len is likewise wrong for a
defaulted hi there, pre-existing) and a global str base (wwstage
cgslice has no global-str load, #73 -- the carve-out keeps both
stages byte-identical).
Test: 942_subslice_cap_run, table-driven over both drivers, array /
slice / str base + an append-no-realloc row, each shape chosen so
base_cap-lo != hi-lo.
Fold in three pre-existing fixtures that asserted the old cap == len
and so failed under the corrected semantics (project #20):
681_arr_elem_field_write (slice_field_value_write,
slice_field_ptr_write, slice_field_distinct_bytes),
693_dot_tagged_source (local_struct_slice_variant,
via_ptr_slice_variant, letinit_slice_roundtrip, top_level_global_slice),
and 695_match_bind_struct (slice_neg_control). Each cap word updated to
base_cap - lo: a [8]u8 base sliced at lo=0 yields cap 8 (5->8, 3->8);
distinct_bytes slices a [16]u8 at lo=0, yielding cap 16 (6->16). len /
mark / ptr assertions are unchanged -- only the cap word moved.
Extended cg_widen_tagged_store (cstage) / cgwidentaggedstore (wwstage)
to take a base_reg/basereg parameter so the primitive supports non-BP
destinations. Cstage extends body in-place via via_outer gate +
spill+scratch+copy-out; wwstage splits into wrapper (non-BP) +
cgwidentaggedstorebp (BP-only) to dodge the no-goto constraint. New
N_ASSIGN field TY_TAGGED branch routes through the primitive for all
rhs shapes.
Scope-adjacent: fieldsize recurses through N_TTAGGED via slotsize and
TNAME-aliased-to-tagged via aliaslookup. Needed for the test fixtures.
Wwstage read-side N_DOT-of-tagged-field source is filed as task #28;
test rows use mark-canary verification until that lands.
Parallel to TY_STR/TY_SLICE branches at cgen.c:1939/1962. Word-copy
from src slot to field+k*8 via AX, MOVL/MOVB ragged tail. N_IDENT
rhs only — struct-call-result and struct-literal rhs are different
code paths, filed as task #27. Symmetric in N_ASSIGN field case AND
spine-walker terminal; mirrored in wwstage cgassign four sub-shapes
(*struct base, direct local, global, spine terminal).
Parallel to the existing TY_STR branch at cgen.c:1939. Stores AX/BX/CX
at field+0/+8/+16 across three sub-shapes (via_ptr, is_global, direct
local) — DX as addr scratch where needed so CX (cap) survives.
Symmetric in wwstage cgassign. Surfaces tasks #25 (whole-struct rhs)
and #26 (whole-tagged rhs) in the same locus class.
Symmetric write-side counterpart of #8, bundled across both stages.
cstage [N]Struct write was broken (1986 gated on TY_PTR); wwstage had
no N_DOT(N_INDEX) write branch at all. New branch covers both
[N]*Struct and [N]Struct via viaptr flag, uses fldstoreop for
scalar/sub-word, MOVSS/MOVSD for float, two-MOVQ for str rhs.
Compound (PLUSEQ etc.) wired for integer scalar.
