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.
Under M1 mangling, EXPORTED non-fn decls (let/def/type) skipped path-
qualification and emitted a BARE symbol (`types.I64_MAX` -> `I64_MAX`).
Under separate compilation two packages exporting the same data leaf
would then collide at w6l. Masked in-tree only because no two packages
export the same non-fn leaf.
§7-A (USER-locked, harec's model): path-qualify EVERY exported decl
(fn AND data) at the single mangle choke-point — mod_collect /
collectmods. Retire the `!isfn && d->export` (cstage) and `exported==0`
(wwstage) skips: every decl with a module now mangles `<mod>.<name>`.
The ONLY bare symbols left are @symbol FFI overrides (ffi_resolve at
emit) and the ROOT unit's `main` — both already carved out before the
map insert.
With exported decls in the map the exact-(name,hint)-or-bare value
dance is dead — its sole purpose was the bare-exported case. Delete
mod_lookup_value / mod_mangle_value / mahint (cstage) and
modlookupvalue / emitsymnamehint (wwstage); the value-global sites now
route through the same hint-aware-with-fallback lookup as fns
(mod_mangle_fn/mafn, emitfnname). Net negative LOC in the mangler.
Transparent rename on the live combined path: ref and def move in
lockstep, so cs==ww byte-id holds and the self-host still builds + runs
(fixed-point/995). Byte-id REBASELINE — all 5 ww binaries shift. The
w6c/wwdump combined.ww embed wcc cgen and are regenerated.
Strlit labels were emitted as `_S_<n>` from a global counter with no
per-unit prefix (cgen.c intern_strlit + wwstage internstrlit twin).
Under separate compilation two str-bearing packages both emit `_S_0`..
-> w6l link collision.
Prefix the label with the owning package PATH (`<module>._S_<n>`,
matching mklabel's spelling). The prefix is c->cur_mod, set per-fn by
cgfn and now per-decl by let_pre_intern (save/restore so the later
emit passes, which read cur_mod for fn-ptr relocs, are unaffected).
Pure function of the module path — NOT a build-nonce — so the
self-host fixed-point holds across ww2/ww3/ww4. Both stages, symmetric.
Transparent rename on the live combined path: the label is interned
once and shared by every reference, so ref and def move in lockstep.
cs==ww byte-id holds; the w6c/wwdump combined.ww embed wcc/cgen.ww and
are regenerated.
746_strdef_inline: the strdef-inline sentinel pinned the bare
`LEAQ\t_S_` shape; update to the module-prefixed form (alpha._S_ for
the in-module def, beta._S_ for the use-site-interned cross-module
inline).
989_m3sep_run: add the #49 LINK leg. The str sub-fixture (sleaf+smid)
was keystone-only — never linked — precisely because the global
counter made both emit `_S_0`. With the prefix, compile both `-c`
separately, link (w6l) + run (sroot reads a distinguishing byte through
each string's .ptr, so a collided label would corrupt the exit), both
stages + cs==ww final exe.
lib/types limit consts were bare `def`s, so the .wwi (sep-compile's
interface) correctly omitted them while the flat combined.ww let a
cross-package user (lib/strings splitn → types.I32_MAX) reach the
private def — sep-compile then failed (wwstage `asserttyped: dot
'I32_MAX'`; cstage undefined-ref). Hare exports types::I32_MAX and the
whole limit family (ref/hare/types/limits.ha, arch+x86_64.ha); ww not
exporting them was the divergence.
export the 24 existing limit defs ({I,U}{8,16,32,64}_{MIN,MAX},
INT/UINT/SIZE/UINTPTR_{MIN,MAX}) and the existing RUNE_MIN, and add
exported RUNE_MAX. ww's derived machine-word int/uint/size/uintptr
VALUES are kept verbatim (user-ratified 64-bit-int divergence); fidelity
here is the NAME SET + export-visibility, not the values. RUNE_MAX is
written `0x10ffff: rune` — same codepoint as Hare's '\U0010ffff', forced
because ww's lexer has no \u/\U escape (#50).
Exporting the consts made `w6c -I` walk them and fatal on RUNE_MIN
('\0'): the .wwi const-expr unparser had no N_RUNELIT arm. Add one,
both stages (wwi_rune / wwirune), rendering a \xHH-escaped rune literal
(>0xFF fails loud, #50). Const casts need no arm — the checker folds
them to integer literals before the producer runs. 989_m2wwi_run gains
a types.wwi gate (byte-id + re-parse + asserts export def I32_MAX and
RUNE_MAX reach the interface). byte-id-neutral: a def emits no symbol.
The M2 .wwi producer rendered an exported fn carrying @symbol("...")
as a bare prototype, dropping the FFI link-symbol binding. A
sep-compiled consumer reading the .wwi then emitted `CALL malloc`
instead of `CALL rt_malloc` for `@symbol("rt_malloc") export fn
malloc`, breaking the bodies-vs-.wwi byte-id and the link. Affects
every package whose closure reaches rt/os.
Emit codegen/link-relevant attributes through a single named
predicate (wwi_attr_relevant / wwiattrrelevant), today true iff the
name is "symbol" — the only such attribute that exists. @align/@offset
are NOT field attributes in ww (the parser parses no field attrs, the
N_TFIELD node has no attr slot); the predicate is named for the class
so they slot in if ww ever grows them (#51). attr is assigned at
exactly one site per stage (parse.c:1351 / decl.ww:168), both inside
parsefn, so only N_FNDECL carries attrs and the fn-decl render path
covers the whole class.
Both stages, byte-identical (rule 10). 989_m2wwi_run synth gate gains
an @symbol fn + a content assertion that the .wwi carries it verbatim.
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 scanner readahead silently fell through when start==0 and the
buffer was full at maxread, producing no bytes and no error. scanbyte
then spun forever re-requesting bytes that never came (catB-144) and
scanrune nil-dereferenced s.ptr[s.start] (catB-145).
Make readahead the single overflow choke-point: at the ceiling it
returns a bufio-local `overflow` before the grow, propagated through
scanbyte/scanrune/scanbytes (scanbytes drops its now-redundant manual
pre-check). Mirrors ref/hare/bufio/scanner.ha:174-182, which returns
errors::overflow there; ww uses bufio-local overflow because io.error
is a closed enum without an overflow member. Consumers (regex, the 778
embedded source) gain the totality arm.
Table-driven @test crosses {nil-ptr, zero-len} x {scanbyte, scanrune};
neutralizing the overflow return reproduces the catB-144 hang.
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.
A DATAR relocation against an undefined data slot was silently
dropped — the relocation vanished from the object. Reject loudly,
matching the cstage single-pass resolution behavior.
wwdump's -c/-r modes emitted output from a garbage parse silently.
Gate on the parse-error count first (the w6c main gate, main.ww:162);
wwstage-only — the C wwdump has no -c/-r modes.
The wwstage driver silently dropped directory entries past a 256
cap; the cstage twin already grows by realloc-doubling. Grow the
same way (seed 8, double) so both stages agree on any directory size.
wwstage's unguarded loop-label push wrote out of bounds at depth 17
(compiler-heap corruption); cstage guarded but emitted a wrong break
target. Loud cap error at the limit, both stages, agreeing wording.
wwstage capped defers at 16 and SILENTLY DROPPED the 17th; cstage
capped at 32. Align the cap at 32 and make exceeding it a loud
compile error in BOTH stages — the silent 16-vs-32 split was the bug
(a defer that never runs is a leaked resource). Both stages move in
one commit: one cap contract.
The try-operand resolution used bare lookups (ident + bare-leaf call);
a cross-module same-leaf collision mistyped the operand. Prefer the
current module. The historic 995 byte-id break attributed to this swap
was contamination from the guard-bug-carrying bundle — re-probed clean
in isolation and at the full stack. The N_DOT module-keyed leaf stays
task #51. Report item [11], lookup half.
The address-of-fn synthesis used a bare lookup — import order could
bind a same-leaf fn from another module, silently LEAQ-ing the wrong
function into a fn-ptr slot. Prefer the current module (mirror
check.c:410/1305). Report item #4 (loud and silent faces pinned).
A type lookup in a bundled build resolved to the newest-installed
same-leaf symbol from ANY module; prefer the current module first
(mirror cstage sym.c:131; the prior attempt's failure was its own
u64-vs-i32 guard bug, not a deeper layer — probe-proven). Also adds
the rule-7 #58 notes at the latent varianterr/scruttype pair and
rewrites the stale deferral block to closing cites. Report item [5].
Passing buf[1:] of a [MAX]u8 as a call arg dropped the default-hi
length (the arg-push N_SLICE arms' fallback covered only named-alias
bases). Same type-table resolve at pushargsrev local+global. This
closes the def-dim dimension family by construction: every N_INTLIT-
keyed dim consumer (cgslice, cgdot, letemitsize, arg-push) now
carries the tichase().alen fallback — grep-proven, no consumer
remains. Fourth member surfaced by the family grep.
buf.len on a [MAX]u8 returned 0 — the cgdot len arms (local/global/
def) and letemitsize only read an N_INTLIT dimension. Route a
non-literal dimension through tichase().alen (the #21 fix mirrored
into the field-read consumers; .ptr arms are dim-independent).
Review-era task #56.
alloc(alias{...}) keyed the size and field-fill off the syntactic
alias name — it under-allocated and emitted zero field stores. Chase
the alias via structlookupchain to the resolved struct (depth-2
chains verified). The scalar else-branch keeps its pre-existing
benign cs!=ww divergence, surfaced here and deferred as task #57
(site note at the arm). Review item #26.
The ?/! success-is-str decision was name-keyed off the FIRST variant
and only handled call operands — an ident operand with junk registers
unwrapped garbage, and error-first unions picked the wrong variant.
Key on the stamped success variant (successvariant + typeisstr,
mirror cgen.c:10459-10466/10595-10602). Review item #16.
Slicing an array whose dimension is a def constant gave len 0 — the
default-hi and cgbasecap arms only read an N_INTLIT dimension. Route
the dimension through the type table (one root, four arms: default-hi
and cgbasecap, local and global each), byte-identical for the def-dim
SLICE shape. The def-dim array .len/.ptr FIELD-read keeps the
N_INTLIT-only limitation — filed as task #56 (cgdot sibling).
Review item #21.
The unspecified tail of a short array literal repeated the last value
instead of zeroing — wwstage only (cstage already zeroes; the review's
both-stages reading didn't survive ground truth). Zero-fill the tail
per the zero-value semantics ruling. Review item #13.
