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.
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.
