cgdot of a tagged-union struct field previously dropped the AX/DX/CX/R8
payload-register convention used by tagged-union returns: cstage's
direct-struct branch stopped at CX (size > 16) and never loaded R8
(slice-payload variants, slot 32B); the via_ptr branch had no TY_TAGGED
handler at all, falling through to fldloadop and yielding only the tag
in AX. The N_DOT scrutinee fallback in N_MATCH similarly stored only AX
into the spill slot. Wwstage cgdot had no TY_TAGGED branch in any of
the direct, *struct, or top-level-global field-load paths, and cgmatch's
non-ident scrutinee branch didn't recognise N_DOT — dispatch always
computed want = 0 and the spill scratch was hardcoded 24B. The combined
effect: any code reading `s.taggedfield` and consuming more than one
quadword of the payload saw garbage in the upper halves.
Cstage: extended the direct-struct TY_TAGGED branch with an R8 load for
size > 24 (CX still loaded last so global LEAQ-into-CX rooting
survives), added a parallel TY_TAGGED handler to the via_ptr (TY_PTR
inner TY_STRUCT) field branch, and extended the N_DOT scrutinee spill
fallback in N_MATCH to write DX/CX/R8 alongside AX.
Wwstage: new cgloadtaggedfield helper emits the four-register load with
CX-last ordering, and dotfieldtnode resolves a field's declared type
node for a local-ident or *struct base. cgdot grew three TY_TAGGED
branches (direct local, *struct deref staging in BX, top-level global
through CX). cgmatch's non-ident-scrutinee branch grew an N_DOT type-
extraction path mirroring the N_CALL / N_INDEX shapes and now sizes the
@match_spill slot from slotsize(scrutt) so slice-payload variants don't
overflow the historical 24B alloc. rhstaggedabicall accepts N_DOT so
`let copy: ev = h.e;` and tagged-arg call sites pass through the
tagged-source spill branch of cgwidentaggedstore.
Out of scope for #28 and left as separate latents: wwstage's match-arm
bind for a TY_STRUCT-typed variant copies only 8B (cstage falls back
to bu->size; wwstage's bsz=8 default), and the variant-index lookup
for an i64 literal in (i32 | i64) picks the wrong tag on the write
side. Both surface in struct-payload tagged unions and merit their
own tasks; the new test rows steer clear so #28's fix verifies
end-to-end on scalar / str / slice payloads.
Test 693_dot_tagged_source — three variant shapes (16B i64, 24B str,
32B slice) read from direct local, *struct param, top-level global,
and let-init round-trip. The 32B-slice rows verify v.cap (R8 / +24)
so dropping the upper-word load isn't masked by len-only checks; the
top-level-global row routes the write through *p because the direct
global-LHS tagged store is a separate wwstage gap (followup). Three
negative controls (untagged i32 / str / slice fields) keep the new
TY_TAGGED guard from shadowing the existing field-load paths. Wired
into make test; 37 tests total. Bootstrap ww2 == ww3 == ww4
byte-identical.
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