cstage cmd/w6c/cgen.c gained the missing N_DOT N_INDEX-lhs branch.
Covers both [N]*Struct and [N]Struct via fldloadop. wwstage already
handled [N]*Struct since 7c75dd2; refactored to mirror cstage exactly
and added [N]Struct. The spill workaround in dotchainresolve stays
(Pike rule); task #14 retires it as a follow-up.
Wwstage cgassign N_DOT(N_INDEX,...) silent store-drop discovered in
scope, filed as task #16.
Three branches (tagged/slice/str) in cgendecl.ww now structurally
symmetric — partial-fit reg+stack stitching. cgfn pre-scan predicate
widened to (istg || issl || isst). Variadic T... at straddle is the
last open class, deferred to task #12.
type_isunsigned recurses TY_ENUM and includes TY_RUNE on both stages.
13 LOAD + 6 STORE ladder sites (cstage) plus 4 more wwstage stragglers
in cgindex/cgforrange collapsed to fldloadop/fldstoreop helpers. N_CAST
narrow gate symmetrised; task #1's literal-kind workaround retired.
bool kept out of type_isunsigned, special-cased in field helpers.
Retroactively fixes a u32 mis-sign-extend in deref-compound (sz=4
hardcoded MOVSXD), pinned by new 660_field_signed row.
Loop-shaped spine walker for value-struct chains (o.i.a) and slice/str
pseudo-fields (s.buf.len), read+write, both stages. SB-fallback at the
catch-all preserved for unresolved module-qualified idents.
Follow-ups filed: tasks #7-#10 (wwstage >6-arg frame over-alloc, chained
array-elem field BX loss, & through chained DOT, signed sub-word field
loads zero-extend).
Five tags from ref/hare/errors/common.ha — invalid, noaccess, noentry,
exists, unsupported — all !void. lib/io keeps eof/closed as plain void
(no Hare analogue for ww's singleton-style done) and adds underread.
Drops errors.equal/isnil and the old str-sentinel surface.
Both stages were eagerly evaluating RHS regardless of LHS (eager
ANDQ/ORQ on the two results). Now: eval LHS into AX, CMPQ $0 +
JE/JNE to a per-call-site label, eval RHS into AX, fall through.
AX holds the LHS sentinel on the skipped path — typechecker
already enforces bool operands.
Surfaced by lib/getopt's nil-argv guard segfault. Six new rows in
test/wcc/700_e2e.c, three of which segfault pre-fix. lib/getopt
test comment relaxed; nested-if kept as regression marker.
temp mirrors Hare's temp: file, named, dir. file() routes through
named() and discards the path (no O_TMPFILE yet). Path randomizer
uses inline SplitMix64 seeded from getpid + O_EXCL retry (Hare uses
crypto::random which we don't ship). named() takes out-pointers for
fd + path — return shape gated on tasks #5 and #11. Caller closes
and removes; no defer in ww.
os gains mkdir, rmdir, flag.EXCL — straight ports of ref/hare/os.
selfhost combined files cascade; 995_self_rebuild byte-identity
holds.
Mirrors Hare's getopt subject to current cgen gaps: flat `command`
fields instead of slices, struct-not-tuple `option`, error/help
constructors take out-pointers. The `parse` wrapper plus
printusage/printhelp/printsubcmds are deferred (need fmt.fprintf
with {}-interpolation, which lib/fmt doesn't expose yet). SUBCMD
machinery dropped entirely per Drew — accept-but-inert would have
been a silent-misuse hazard.
Graduates in one go when cgen tasks #4#5#6#7#9#10#11#14
land. File header names the three surface sweeps that will follow.
Surfaces task #15 (w6c: && doesn't short-circuit, nil-arg deref
in test exposed it).
Two cgen/check bugs surfaced by new lib modules, plus the modules
themselves (crc64, siphash, random, base64, base32).
1. `(big_u64): u32` (and `: u16`, `: u8`, `: bool`) didn't truncate.
N_CAST emitted nothing for int↔int; the value stayed in AX with
its upper bits intact and downstream CMPQ/DIVQ misread the slot.
The TK_TILDE path already had clamp logic for the same reason —
N_CAST was the missing case. Both stages now MOVL r,r for u32 and
ANDQ $mask for u8/u16/bool. Signed-narrow (i8/i16/i32) stays
no-op until w6a grows reg-reg MOVSBQ/MOVSWQ/MOVSXD. selfhost
cgcast walks alias chains via aliaslookup before checking
primsize/typenameisunsigned so `(u: random)` where
`type random = u64` still bypasses the clamp.
See cmd/w6c/cgen.c N_CAST and selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenexpr.ww cgcast.
2. `mod.mod` type refs (`random.random` when the imported module
declares `export type random = u64;`) failed with "unknown type".
The driver concatenates imports into one flat scope, so SK_USE
`random` collided with SK_TYPE `random` and scope_define silently
dropped the use. resolve_typename's leaf lookup required
`kind == SK_USE` and gave up. Adds a `use_alias` flag to Sym; the
pass-1 decl scan now marks colliding syms in both directions
(use-after-type and type-after-use). resolve_typename and the
N_DOT cexpr branch treat `use_alias` like SK_USE for qualified
lookup. selfhost check.ww was already lenient on this path so no
ww-side change was needed; bootstrap fixed point (990-995) holds.
See cmd/wcc/check.c installdecl pass + N_DOT/resolve_typename and
cmd/wcc/ww.h Sym.use_alias.
New modules under lib/, each with @test vectors in *_test.ww and wired
into test/wcc/900_stdlib.c (26 modules → all compile):
- lib/hash/crc64 ECMA, ISO (mirror of crc32 shape)
- lib/hash/siphash SipHash-2-4, buffer-based sum/sum24
- lib/math/random SplitMix64 (init, next, u32n, u64n)
- lib/encoding/base64 RFC 4648 std + url-safe encode/decode + sizes
- lib/encoding/base32 RFC 4648 std + base32hex encode/decode + sizes
Seven fixes across the toolchain, plus three new lib/hash modules
(adler32, crc16, crc32) that surfaced them.
1. `~x` on u8/u16/u32 left the upper bits set: NOTQ inverts the
whole 64-bit register and nothing trimmed it back to type
width, so a returned `u16` would compare 64-bit against a
typed literal and disagree. Both stages now mask after NOTQ
for narrow unsigned: AND $0xFF/0xFFFF for u8/u16, MOVL r,r for
u32 (ANDQ $0xFFFFFFFF sign-extends imm32 and is a no-op).
Signed narrows stay sign-extended and need no fix-up. See
cmd/w6c/cgen.c N_UN TK_TILDE and selfhost cgenexpr.ww cgun
TK_TILDE with new nodeprimwidth helper.
2. w6a had no D_CONST immediate path for ANDQ / ORQ. cgen would
emit `ANDQ $65535, AX` and the rr encoder silently wrote
`21 /r` with garbage reg fields — the mask never happened.
Added `81 /4` (AND) and `81 /1` (OR) imm32 paths in both
cstage and selfhost w6a. The ~width fix above depends on this.
3. `s: []u8` cast as a direct fn argument produced a 0-length
slice. cgexpr for N_CAST left (AX=ptr, BX=len) from the str
source but never set CX (cap), and the arg-push fallback only
pushed AX. cgcast now synthesises CX=BX when target is slice
and source is str; node_isslice / arg-push recognise
cast-to-slice and emit the full (cap, len, ptr) triple. Both
stages.
4. `*[N]T` element-store used 8-byte stride + MOVQ regardless of
T's width. Indexing `buf: *[4]u16` would step 8 bytes and
write 8 bytes per element. Added idx_eff (drills *[N]T → T)
in cstage and the matching pointer-array drill in selfhost
elemsizeof. Also added MOVW / MOVZWQ / MOVSWQ to w6c, w6a,
and selfhost mirrors so 2-byte element stores/loads use the
right opcode (was falling through to MOVQ and trailing 6 bytes
into the next slot).
5. Slicing a top-level fixed array (`g[0:n]` where `g: [N]T` is
a global) computed the base from BP instead of the symbol —
localfind returned 0 and the cgen treated it as a local at
offset 0. Both N_SLICE-as-expression (cgslice) and N_SLICE-
as-call-arg paths now check let_islet / letvartnode and emit
LEAQ name(SB) when the base is a global array (or MOVQ
name(SB) for a global slice/pointer base). Both stages.
6. Top-level `let arr: [N]T = [v0, v1, ...]` link-failed on
cstage — emit_lets bailed when it saw N_ARRLIT init on an
array type, and the sz==8 scalar path then misemitted any
8-byte-sized array (e.g. [4]u16, [8]u8) as a single quad.
emit_lets now walks N_ARRLIT, evaluates each element as an
int/rune/bool/nil literal, packs per-element bytes
little-endian, and honours the trailing `...` repeat marker.
Selfhost already handled the literal-init path; fixed the
parallel sz==8 duplicate-DATAW emit on its side (the array
and the scalar paths both fired, last write winning at link
but the duplicate broke cross-stage byte-identicality on user
code with this shape).
7. w6a's per-line input buffer was a 1KB stack `char buf[1024]`.
A `DATAW` for a [256]u16 emits ~2080 bytes on one line, which
truncated mid-escape; the assembler then re-parsed the
remaining tail as garbage opcodes ("unknown opcode"). Bumped
cstage w6a to a 32K static buffer (selfhost w6a already
allocated per-line via amalloc).
lib: lib/hash/adler32, lib/hash/crc16, lib/hash/crc32 — pure
buffer-subset shape (matching lib/hash/fnv), with per-module
*_test.ww runnable via `ww test lib/hash/<name>`. Adler-32 plus
CRC-16 (CCITT/CMDA2000/DECT/ANSI) and CRC-32 (IEEE/Castagnoli/
Koopman) cover Hare's reference vectors bit-for-bit. Wired into
test/wcc/900_stdlib.c. .gitignore: lib/**/*.s,*.o so `ww test`
droppings stay untracked.
`make test` (26/26), `make bootstrap` (ww2≡ww3≡ww4), and per-module
`ww test` all pass. cgen output is byte-identical across cstage and
selfhost for every repro that previously diverged.
`*p += 1` and the rest of the compound-deref family (-= *= |= &= ^=
<<= >>=) fell through the N_ASSIGN switch in both stages and emitted
nothing. The `*p = v` block was gated on TK_ASSIGN, the IDENT-compound
block required N_IDENT, and there was no N_UN/TK_STAR compound branch
between them. Test 994/995/997 byte-identity hid it: both stages
mis-compiled identically, so the diffs were clean.
Surfaced via fmt.println("hello") segfaulting in wwstage builds.
findvariadicparam in cgenutil.ww does `*nfixed_out += 1`; the drop
left nfixed at 0, so `fprint(fd, args...)` mis-counted variadic args,
gathered fd as a formattable element, and segfaulted on tagged
dispatch.
Adds the missing branch in cmd/w6c/cgen.c N_ASSIGN and
selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenexpr.ww cgassign: eval rhs → push, eval ptr →
BX, sized+extended load (BX) → AX (MOVZBQ for 1B, MOVSXD/MOVL for 4B
by signedness, MOVQ for 8B), pop rhs → CX, combine via
ADDQ/SUBQ/IMULQ/ANDQ/ORQ/XORQ/SHLQ/SHRQ on CX,AX, sized store back.
TK_SLASHEQ stays the rhs-only fallback, matching the IDENT path.
Float and aggregate deref compounds still fall through — uncommon.
`let x: T;` for str/slice/tuple/struct/tagged previously left the slot
holding stack garbage — only 8B-primitive slots were zeroed. This bit
`expectbindname` in lib/ww/parse: `let empty: str; *into = empty;` was
copying stack bytes (often a recently-vacated str descriptor) into the
caller's `id`, so wwstage emitted `_` discard nodes carrying random
text instead of "". Both stages now zero the full slot on no-rhs lets;
`[N]T` arrays keep the per-index-write contract.
Also tightens the two known buggy sites: parse.ww `expectbindname`
writes `*into = ""` directly, expr.ww `_` primary returns the bare
newnode (amalloc already zeroes).
Param-decl `name: T...` (Tparam.variadic=1, type []T), call-site
gather of N args into a fresh `[N]T`, forward via `xs...`, full
selfhost mirror, and lib/fmt graduated to the Hare shape.
Frontend:
- parse: `T...` after a param's type stamps Node.op=TK_ELLIPSIS
and breaks out (variadic must be last).
- check: resolve_type N_TFN / build_fn_type wrap the param type
as []T and set tp->variadic. N_CALL accepts either a tail of
args assignable to T (gather) or a single `xs...` spread of
[]T (forward); both bypass the "too many args" check on the
variadic slot.
- type: type_eq compares Tparam.variadic.
Cgen (cstage):
- call site: when the callee has a variadic last param,
materialise the tail args into a frame-resident `[N]T` via
localoff, write a 24B slice descriptor (ptr,len,cap), and
splice a synthesised N_IDENT into args[] so the downstream
widen/eval/pop loops see one slice slot. Tagged-element types
route each store through cg_widen_tagged_store. Forwarding
skips gather: the N_SPREAD wrapper is replaced with its inner
slice expression. Empty form writes {nil,0,0}. args[] / widen[]
bump from 16 to 64 to accommodate Hare's mixed-arg printers.
Selfhost mirror:
- lib/ww/parse: `T...` mark on N_PARAM.op.
- cgen: varargseq counter on Cg; scanlocals reserves
@vararg_d_N + @vararg_sl_N per variadic call (seq recorded on
N_CALL.uval so cgcall picks the same names). cgcall does the
same gather/forward and N_IDENT splice. cgfnparams treats
variadic params as 24B slice slots via a synthesised TSLICE
tnode. pushargsrev skips the tagged-widen detection for
variadic params (effective type is []T, not tagged).
- rhstargetname now recognises N_TRUE/N_FALSE/N_RUNELIT and
typed N_INTLIT so the variant-tag lookup finds bool/rune/iN
variants instead of falling through to "first non-str" (which
misassigned tag 0 to bool in tagged unions like formattable).
lib/fmt graduated: print/println/fprint/fprintln/errorln/fatal
take `args: formattable...`. Bare `error` (no -ln) is skipped —
the leaf name collides with strconv's `type error = !(invalid |
overflow)` under the driver's flat namespace.
Tests: 5 new e2e rows (plain gather, zero-arg, tagged element,
forwarding, fmt.println end-to-end). lib/CLAUDE.md workaround
paragraph replaced with the Hare-shape description.
Six fixes across the toolchain, surfaced by lib/lisp porting work.
1. f64 compound assigns (`acc += d`, `-=`, `*=`, `/=`). Both stages
load slot → X1, OP X0 into X1, store back (ADDSD/SUBSD/MULSD/
DIVSD are reg-reg only). Previous MOVSD-overwrite dropped the
OP. Locals and top-level lets.
2. Top-level `[N]u8` arrays + `&arr[i]`. let_emit_size grows a
TY_ARRAY branch so zero-init DATAW lands; cgindex / N_INDEX
store / `&base[i]` all detect a global array base and use
LEAQ name(SB) instead of LEAQ (BP). TK_AMP no longer pre-
evaluates the operand as a value-load — `&base[i]` computes
base + i*esz directly. Unblocks Hare's static-buffer pattern:
strconv.{u64,i64,f64}tos graduate to module-level `*_buf`
arrays and return owned views.
3. Cross-module `pkg.Enum.MEMBER`. Nested N_DOT chains that
don't fold to a known shape now emit `MOVQ <leaf>(SB), AX`
(mirrors the bare-IDENT unresolved fallback), so isolation
probes — and the test 990 cgen-match floor — stay consistent
across stages. strconv exposes `base` as a real `enum i32`;
callers updated. The `main` exemption (linker entry-point
keeps bare name even when not exported) mirrors C-side
collectmods into selfhost cgendecl.
4. Sum-typed parameter ABI. lib/bytes.{index,rindex} take
`(u8 | []u8)` needle; lib/strings.byteindex / rbyteindex take
`(str | rune)` needle (Hare-shaped; the byte-wise misnomer
`index` is dropped). tagged_arg_size cap bumps to 48 (6 int
regs), with a new partial-fit branch on the callee: when an
N-word tagged arg overflows remaining regs, fill what fits and
stitch the rest from positive BP offsets. scanlocals MCASE
handles slice binds (24B) and walks each arm with a saved /
restored seenmark set so two arms naming the same local each
get their own slot — matches cstage's per-arm scope reset.
5. 4-reg tagged-return ABI (AX=tag, DX=word0, CX=word1, R8=word2),
up from 3 regs. Slice-payload variants (`([]T | E)`, slot 32B)
round-trip ptr/len/cap end-to-end. Every receive site updates:
let-init via cgwidentaggedstore, match scrutinee spill, cgindex
tagged-element load (both N_IDENT and fallback bases),
pushargsrev tagged-ident arg (reads word count from slot size),
cgreturn slice variant in the shuffle path.
6. `expr: TaggedAlias` is a widening, not a re-interpret. C cgen +
selfhost cgwidentaggedstore peel an N_CAST whose destination IS
the union — so cgexpr's natural shape (str: AX=ptr, BX=len;
slice: AX=ptr, BX=len, CX=cap) is consumed by the matching
concrete-variant branch instead of being misread as a tagged
AX/DX/CX triple. Inner casts to a concrete variant (`7: i32`)
keep their type for proper tag lookup. `[N]Alias` arrays
resolve element size via slotsize + aliaslookup, and aliaslookup
strips a `pkg.` prefix so cross-module references work.
lib/fmt grows `formattable = (i64 | str | bool | rune)` plus
`printv` / `printlnv` taking an explicit `[]formattable` slice (the
receive side of Hare's `args: formattable...`). Call-site variadic
gather isn't wired — callers either hand-build the slice or compose
strconv.i64tos + strings.concat.
700_e2e: 114 → 123 rows (f64 compound, top-level u8 arrays + `&buf[i]`,
pkg.Enum.MEMBER, sum-typed (str|rune) and (u8|[]u8) params, 4-reg
slice-return ABI, formattable array). 26/26 tests, bootstrap stable
through ww4.
Closes the remaining tagged-union gaps after the prior two commits:
1. Tagged element in an array/slice (cstage). N_INDEX load now reads
slot words into AX/DX/CX, matching the tagged-return ABI so match
/ call-arg / let-init paths consume `arr[i]` uniformly. N_INDEX
store routes through a scratch slot + cg_widen_tagged_store +
byte-copy to &arr[i], so the full widening machinery (scalar /
str / struct payload / tagged subset / nullable fold) lights up
for element writes too.
2. Selfhost mirror — the cgen widen helpers (struct payload,
tagged-subset, spread-flatten) C cgen has had for two commits
finally land in selfhost:
cgwidentaggedstore — single writer for nullable / tagged ident /
tagged via AX:DX:CX / struct (lit + ident) /
str / scalar source shapes.
cgwidentagremap — CMPQ-chain tag remap for variant-subset.
rhsstructpayload — struct-name predicate; filters `!void` /
`!i32` aliases that share N_STRUCTLIT shape
but aren't structs.
rhstaggedident,
rhstaggedabicall — source-shape predicates.
flatvariantidx — spread-aware variant index lookup. Walks
`(...inner | T)` entries by resolving the
alias and inlining the inner's variants so
wwstage's tag order matches the check.c
flattening cstage does at type resolution.
cglet tagged init, cgassign tagged-ident reassign, cgreturn struct
/ subset payload, pushargsrev struct payload, cgindex tagged
element load, cgassign N_INDEX tagged element store all delegate
to these. cgmatch picks up scrutt from N_INDEX bases (element
type) and uses flatvariantidx for case dispatch.
3. Selfhost frame accounting: scanlocals reserves a 24B @tagscr slot
when the body contains a tagged-arr store, a struct-payload
tagged return, or a struct-payload call arg — dedup'd via
scanseenmark so multiple sites share one slot. N_LET stubs now
carry tnode so walk-time type checks see the array element type.
slotsize TARRAY learned to size tagged / struct / ptr / aliased
elements (was 8B-default for anything not N_TNAME-primitive,
undersizing tagged-element arrays).
Scalar / str call-arg widening keeps its direct-push fast path
(no scratch), so wwstage's asm on selfhost source remains
byte-identical to cstage's — 993/995 still pass.
700_e2e: 9 new rows — scalar/str/struct/subset/nullable variants in
arrays and slices, plus pass-arg / let-init / return / match shapes.
Three tagged-union gaps:
1. Struct-payload widening was broken at every site (call, let,
assign, return, struct-field init). cg_widen_tagged_store now
materialises str / scalar / struct-lit / struct-ident / tagged
payloads at slot+8+field_off and writes the tag last. Call sites
route through cg_widen_tagged_push (scratch slot + push high→low).
2. Tagged → wider tagged widening forwarded the source tag verbatim.
cg_widen_tag_remap emits a CMPQ-chain switch that translates each
source variant index to the destination's, then zero-pads to the
wider slot. type_eq grew a TY_TAGGED arm (was returning 1 for any
two unions); type_assignable now accepts variant-subset and
rejects the rest.
3. `(...inner | T)` spread parses (cmd/wcc/parse.c, lib/ww/parse).
Marks Node.op = TK_ELLIPSIS; resolve_type unwraps NAMED + flattens
when the spread bit is set so aliases inline like Hare's
tagged_type unwrap flag.
Selfhost mirror: spread parser ported. Cgen widen helpers not yet
mirrored — wwstage stays byte-identical to cstage on the existing
test corpus, but will emit wrong asm if user code uses the new
patterns (probe sp2 shows the divergence).
700_e2e: 9 new rows covering call/let/assign/return × struct +
tagged subset, plus the spread-flatten case.
Tagged-union widening already fired for `let r: (str|rune) = "...";`,
`r = "...";`, and `return "..."` from a tagged-returning fn — but not
at call sites, so `fn f(x: (str|rune))` couldn't be called with a bare
str or rune. The arg was pushed as its own static type (2 words for
str, 1 for rune) while the callee's slot expected 3 (tag + payload).
C cgen: at the call boundary, look up the callee's declared param
type per arg. When the param is TY_TAGGED and the arg is a concrete
variant, materialise (tag, value-words, padding) sized to the param's
tagged_arg_size — then the existing pop-into-arg-regs logic picks it
up. Nullable `(*T | void)` collapses to a single 8B push.
selfhost: fnret now carries the params head alongside rtype (amalloc
bumped to 48); pushargsrev takes the matching param node and runs the
same widening sequence per arg. The pop drain in cgcall already
handled extra slot words, so no change needed on that side.
Verified with a smoke covering str/rune literals, typed locals,
pre-existing tagged-local pass-through, and nullable widening from a
raw pointer. Selfhost emits byte-identical asm to C cgen on the test.
`type error = !(invalid | overflow)` miscompiled — istaggedtype
only matched N_TTAGGED directly, so an `e: error` param spilled
as 8B scalar and the match's slot+8 read trailed into saved BP.
Mirror isstrtype's alias+bang unwrap; add resolvetagged() for
is/as/match sites that need the inner N_TTAGGED. Frame scan
counts via slotsize so wwstage stays byte-identical to cstage.
Unblocks lib/strconv.strerror.
ascii: valid, validstr, ispunct, isprint, iscntrl, isgraph, isblank,
strcasecmp.
bytes: hasprefix, hassuffix, rindex, rindexbyte, contains, reverse,
zero.
strings: rindex, sub, trimprefix, trimsuffix, ltrimbyte, rtrimbyte,
trimbyte. The byte-set trim is a single-byte subset of Hare's
`trim(input, exclude: rune...)`; no variadic ABI yet.
path: dirname, basename, extension, join. Owned-str returns where the
result isn't a borrowed view of the input (join).
endian: full Hare table — be/le get/put for u16/u32/u64 plus the
network-order htonu/ntohu pair extended to 32/64.
lib/CLAUDE.md rewritten to reflect the post-graduation policy
(tagged-union returns, owned-str returns, plan9 names, documented
deviations for non-graduating modules).
Makefile picks up lib/ascii and lib/fmt as wwdump_ww / w6c_ww deps so
lib-only edits regenerate the affected binaries.
i64tos / u64tos / f64tos return a fresh owned str (caller frees via
os.free) instead of writing into a caller-supplied [N]u8. Adds typed
variants (i32tos / i16tos / i8tos and u32 / u16 / u8) and the missing
base parameter on stoi64 / stou64 + typed parse wrappers.
Base values are exported as plain-i32 `def`s (strconv.DEC,
strconv.HEX_UPPER, ...) rather than a `base` enum: cross-module
`strconv.base.DEC` chains miscompile in the cstage cgen — it emits a
memory load through `base(SB)` rather than inlining the constant.
The Sdef path resolves correctly, so callers say `strconv.DEC` and
both cgens lower to an immediate.
Also renames strings.byteindex / rbyteindex to strings.indexbyte /
rindexbyte, matching bytes.indexbyte and reserving the Hare name
`byteindex` for the future `(str | rune)`-needle shape.
fmt drops printint / printlnint / fprintint — those were stand-ins
for variadic `fmt::println(42)`; with the owned-str graduation the
substitute is one call: `fmt.println(strconv.i64tos(42, strconv.DEC))`.
strerror is sketched in a comment but not shipped — match arms over
the wider `error = !(invalid | overflow)` union still expose a
cstage-vs-wwstage spill divergence.
ascii.digitval/isidstart/isidpart are lexer-private, not Hare-stdlib.
Moved into lib/ww/lex/lex.ww as fn (renamed digitval to hexval since
its sole job is the \\xHH escape decoder).
bytes.copy and fmt.errpos have no Hare counterpart and no external
callers; gone.
Makefile sets WW_W6C=$(BIN)/w6c_ww so `make`, `make test`, and
`make demo` all use the ww-built backend. With the wwstage cgen
fixes in selfhost/cmd/wcc/ the demo no longer needs to dodge:
- bug #1+#2 (global addressing): symbol interner indexes
sym_off / sym_len / sym_blob directly. No `let blob = sym_blob;`
aliasing.
- bug #3 (chained non-pointer sub-struct field): not retired here
(lexer.cur is still flattened) but the cgen now handles the
shape; un-flattening is cosmetic.
- bug #4 (f64 through every boundary): vfloat writes p.fval = v
directly; promote_v's FLOAT branch is one assign; to_f64 reads
v.ival as f64 / v.fval directly. Drops fbuf, FVAL_OFF, copybytes.
- bug #7 (xs[i].field): builtins write xs[0].kind / xs[0].car
directly; no `let p = xs[0];` first.
lisp_test still 101/101.
CLAUDE.md marks each historical bug as retired or still load-
bearing; #6 (slice-len in tagged-union return) and #8 (f64
compound assign) are the remaining shapes to avoid.
Surfaced via examples/lisp, which had to work around the following in
source. Each lowering now matches cstage on the same shape.
- cgassign / cgdot: two-level field through a non-pointer sub-struct.
`(*L).cur.kind = k` (cur a struct-by-value field of L) silently
dropped the store; the corresponding read fell into the SB-symbol
fallback and the linker reported `undefined reference to kind`. The
two new branches resolve outer-field offset + inner-field offset
and emit a single direct store/load at the combined slot, both for
T-by-value and *T-base shapes.
- cgdot: `xs[i].field` chains the trailing field load through the
N_INDEX result for [N]T / []T / *T element-of-struct-ptr. The
cgforrange loop variable now carries the elem tnode so the same
fast path covers `for (let x .. xs) { x.field }`.
- cgindex / cgassign: top-level `[N]T` array and `*T` pointer used
as an index base. cgindex now emits LEAQ name(SB) (array) or
MOVQ name(SB) (pointer) with the correct element scaling; without
this the fallback emitted neither base and walked off the saved
BP slot. Adds letvartnode() helper, an N_TARRAY branch to
letemitsize so the array shows up in c.lets, and an N_TARRAY
initialiser path in emitletdataw that lays the literal bytes into
DATAW.
- cglet / scanlocals: infer the local's tnode for an unannotated
`let x = f()` / `let x = f()?`. inferletcalltype() reads the
callee's declared return; `?` and `!` strip to the success variant
so a tagged-union let allocates the full 24B slot and the
struct-field dispatch in cgdot/cgassign sees the right type.
letslotsize now defers to slotsize on the inferred type.
- slotsize: follow type aliases for tagged-union variants. With
`type parserr = !str;`, the variant slot was 8B instead of the
required 16B; the tagged let stomped on the next slot at the
AX/DX/CX spill.
- cgreturn: tagged-union return forwarding. `return f();` where f
also returns a tagged union now passes the (tag, payload1,
payload2) triple through unchanged instead of re-wrapping it.
- cgreturn / cglet / taggedvariantindex: dispatch by variant name
with module-qualified-vs-bare matching, and recognise N_STRUCTLIT
as the variant tag for `return eof{};`. cgexpr default emits
`MOVQ $0, AX` so the surrounding return shuffle isn't left with
a stale AX.
- isstrtype / nodeisstr: resolve through `!T` aliases. `parserr =
!str` was not propagating the str-shape to the rhs check and the
MOVQ BX,CX shuffle was being dropped from str-typed local
returns.
- exprfloatkind: recognise `p.field` as f64/f32 when the struct
field is so declared, so `v.fval: i64` lowers to CVTTSD2SI on X0.
- cgassign: str field on a direct struct local writes both halves.
`L.src = s;` previously dropped s.len.
- cgcall: pop into the int reg window only up to 6 (DI..R9); rest
stays on the stack and the caller emits ADDQ to clean up.
cgfnparams accepts >6-arg signatures by registering the overflow
params at positive BP offsets (16+8*k(BP)), no spill instruction
emitted.
All 26 harness tests pass; bootstrap reaches a byte-stable fixed
point at ww3 == ww4.
vstr now copies the input bytes into the trans arena and promote_v
does the same into perm at the top-level boundary. STR cells used
to borrow the lexer's input slice; the REPL's buf-shift between
forms overwrote those bytes, so a top-level (define x "...") would
print garbage after the next read. Mirror of Hare's strings::dup,
arena-routed so the bytes share the cell's lifetime.
Parser learns dotted-pair literals: '(a b . c) splices the tail
into the cdr of the last cons. A bare '.' inside a list lexes as
tkind.DOT; outside a list it's still a parser error. Pre-fix the
'.' lexed as a one-byte SYM, producing a 3-element proper list.
Drop the unused args_to_slice — eval inlines on purpose (the
wwstage cgen drops slice.len through a tagged-union return).
Tests: 18 new probes (str-survives-3-defines, str-from-lambda,
dotted-pair walk + error edges) + a check_str helper. 101/101.
cgexpr leaves float results in X0, not AX, but the struct-field paths
emitted MOVQ AX,off(BX) and MOVQ off(BX),AX — so every store wrote
garbage and every load read garbage, except by accidental register
survival across an unrelated call. examples/lisp only worked because
parsef's X0 happened to live across the broken MOVQ shuffle into
vfloat; any inserted f64 op between them would silently corrupt.
Wire MOVSD/MOVSS X0,… (and the matching loads) into eight field
sites on both compilers: alloc(T{...}), p.x = v through local/ptr/
global, chained r.sub.x = v, *p = v for *f64, let v: T = T{...},
base.x reads, *T.x reads, and chained a.b.c.x reads.
83/83 lisp_test probes still pass; bootstrap reaches a byte-stable
fixed point at ww3 == ww4.
Two bump arenas. arena_reset_trans() runs between top-level forms;
top-level define / set! deep-copy the bound value graph into perm
via Cheney-style forwarding (pin = -1 + stashed fwd pointer in
.car/.val) so no perm cell ever points into trans. Args slice in
eval's apply path also gets explicit os.free per dispatch — without
that the rt_ensure page-per-call leak dominated and masked the
reset. test_huge peaks at ~2.6 MB under massif --pages-as-heap=yes,
down from ~525 MB pre-arena (~200x).
Replaces rt_alloc-per-cell (one 4 KiB mmap each) with arena_alloc
over 64 KiB chunks. test_huge peak under massif --pages-as-heap=yes
drops from ~525 MB to ~253 MB. Same lifetime semantics; remaining
bulk is per-call append() in eval's arg slice (rt_ensure still
mmaps page-per-call).
Demo program that lives entirely on lib/* and libwwrt.a — no @symbol
FFI of its own. The interpreter sits in lispcore.ww (exports for the
test driver); lisp.ww is a 3-line entry that calls lispcore.repl().
Language surface: integers, floats, symbols, strings, lists, lambdas
with closures, define / set! / if / quote / let / begin, recursion
(fact / fib / ackermann / gcd), map / filter / reduce as user code.
REPL is line-buffered: each read tries to parse one top-level form,
asks for more on "unterminated list", evaluates and prints, then
shifts consumed bytes off the front of the buffer. Lookahead-aware —
the parser primes one extra token so we shift to L.curstart, not
L.pos, otherwise the first byte of the next form gets eaten.
lisp_test.ww exec'd as a regular binary (ww test drops -I in single-
file mode); 66 probes cover arithmetic, lists, closures, recursion,
errors. test_*.lisp drive the live REPL through `make demo`.
The wwstage cgen still mis-lowers a handful of patterns at this
shape of program — top-level array indexing, global-ptr deref,
two-level field stores, f64 routing through *T, alloc(structlit{})
for f64/str fields, (slice | E) returns, xs[i].kind chains, f64
compound assigns. Each workaround is annotated at its use site;
the full taxonomy is in examples/lisp/CLAUDE.md.
Exercises match/yield/?/!/alloc/free/slice/tagged-union end-to-end:
the @symbol FFI binds initscr/mvaddch/init_pair/getch/napms; setup
returns (*void | initerr) propagated via `?`; main unwraps the clock
via `!`; dispatch is a nested match-as-expression that yields a
bool; key handlers fold into switch/enum (q/space) and (i32 |
speederr | void) for 1..4 + the '0' error overlay.
No definite or indirect leaks under valgrind (the only "possibly
lost" / "still reachable" bytes are libncurses's process-lifetime
terminfo caches, freed only with --with-leaks).
Three gaps in the wwstage cgen relative to C w6c, plus a matching
C-side bug surfaced along the way.
cgmatch (selfhost) handles non-ident scrutinees: `match (foo())` now
spills the AX:DX:CX return triple into a 24B `@match_spill` slot
rather than reading garbage off BP+0. scanlocals counts the slot so
the prologue SUBQ stays in sync. For N_CALL we recover the return
type via fnretlookup so nullable dispatch picks the pointer-vs-null
discriminator. Mirrors @match_spill in cmd/w6c/cgen.c N_MATCH.
cgcall (selfhost) special-cases `alloc(structlit{...})`: lower to
rt_alloc(totsize) + per-field MOV* at the struct's field offsets,
mirroring cmd/w6c/cgen.c's existing path. Previously the structlit
fell into pushargsrev and produced wrong code.
check.ww's N_MCASE branch now pushes a fresh scope around each arm
body. Without this, `case let e: str` inside a fn with an outer
`let e: *T` collided with scopedefine's same-scope dedup, the inner
binding silently dropped, and references to `e` inside the arm
resolved through the outer type.
Both cgens save/restore the locals head around case bodies so arm
binds (and nested arm-body lets) don't leak past the arm — code
after the match resolves names back through the outer scope.
w6c gains `local_alloc`: same as `localoff` minus the dedup. N_MATCH
case-bind allocation switches to it. Previously `let e: *T` (8B)
shadowed by `case let e: str` (16B) reused the outer 8B slot and the
inner str.len store overflowed into the saved BP, segfaulting on
return.
Tests 26/26.
Mirror of 548547a in the wwstage cgen.
cgexpr learns N_SLICE: `base[lo:hi]` leaves (AX=ptr, BX=len, CX=cap)
so callers (return, arg push, reassignment, let init for fn-returning-
slice / slice-ident) share one triple ABI. Without this, the existing
let-init that just forwards (AX,BX,CX) to the slot was silently storing
junk on a base[lo:hi] rhs.
cgassign gains a slice branch parallel to str: for a local slice ident
lhs, store all three halves to off+0/+8/+16; for a slice global, stash
CX into DI before LEAQ-ing the symbol address into CX (CX is both the
incoming cap and the LEAQ scratch), then store AX/BX/DI at +0/+8/+16.
N_IDENT slice-local triple load was already in place from the earlier
selfhost port; only the cgexpr and cgassign halves needed adding.
Byte-identical to C w6c on the corpus — make test 26/26, 994_w6c_ww
passes on 10 inputs, 990_selfhost + 995_self_rebuild reach fixed point.
Lexer: `lexnum` now parses the digit/exponent tail into an f64 via a
new `parsef64` (decimal-only, integer-arith driver + pow-10 multiply,
no strtod). The IEEE bits are also stashed in tok.uval via pointer
reinterpret so cgen consumers stay integer-only.
Parser: TK_FLOAT → N_FLOATLIT, carrying both fval and uval. Parser
state grows curfval to plumb the lexer's f64 through refill.
cgen:
- cgfloatlit reads n.uval and materialises X0 via the standard
MOVQ-PUSHQ-MOVSD-ADDQ trampoline.
- cglet, cgident, cgassign learn float-typed branches: MOVSS/MOVSD
for locals; LEAQ-indirect MOVSS/MOVSD for globals.
- cgbin handles ADDSD/SUBSD/MULSD/DIVSD (+ SS variants) and
UCOMISD/UCOMISS-based comparisons. cgun handles float negate
via the `0 - X0` shape C cgen uses.
- cgcast routes int↔float and f32↔f64 through CVTSI2SD/CVTTSD2SI/
CVTSD2SS/CVTSS2SD and their SS twins.
- cgcall + pushargsrev push float args via SUBQ+MOVSD and pop into
the X0..X7 stream, tracked by a per-class counter alongside the
int DI..R9 stream. cgfnparams loads float params from the same
stream.
- emitletdataw bakes FLOATLIT init bits into DATAW (4B for f32,
8B for f64).
Tests: smoke programs (literal init, reassign, arithmetic, fn args/
returns, casts) produce byte-identical asm through `w6c` and
`wwdump_ww -c`, and the resulting binary exits with the same value
whether compiled by the C or wwstage toolchain. Full `make test` is
26/26 and `make bootstrap` still reaches its byte-identical
ww2==ww3==ww4 fixed point.
.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.
N_IDENT for a slice local now loads (AX=ptr, BX=len, CX=cap), matching
the existing global-slice load.
cgexpr learns N_SLICE: `base[lo:hi]` leaves the same triple in
registers, so callers (return, arg push, reassignment) all share
one shape. The let-init's pre-existing N_SLICE direct-store path
stays as a specialisation; the new generic slice let-init catches
fn-returning-slice and slice-ident initialisers.
N_ASSIGN gains a TY_SLICE branch parallel to TY_STR: store all
three halves to the local slot or, for globals, stash CX into DI
before LEAQ-ing the address (CX is both the new cap and the
address scratch).
Field write extends the existing TY_TAGGED branch with an is_global
arm: LEAQ name(SB),CX after cgexpr (no AX/BX clobber), then MOVQ
into slot+foff+0 (tag) and slot+foff+8 (value, plus +16 for str-
typed variants).
Field read now treats tagged fields specially — load AX=tag,
DX=val0, CX=val1 (when union >16B), mirroring the tagged-return
ABI that let-init and match dispatch already expect. Previously
the scalar-load path read 8B into AX and left DX/CX with junk,
which silently broke local tagged-field reads too.
