cgreturn's passthrough predicate was TYPE-only (istagged && type-eq), with
no source-kind filter. It forwarded the source's AX/DX/CX unchanged, which
is correct ONLY when the source already materialized the full tagged slot
into registers — N_CALL / N_INDEX / N_DOT (the #261-broadened set). For a
tagged LOCAL ident, cgexpr loads only word0 (the tag) into AX, never the
payload into DX, so passthrough dropped the payload: `return v` of a
`(i32|void)=7i32` exited 0 instead of 7. wwstage was already correct — its
forwardtagged kind filter excludes N_IDENT, routing it through the
scratch-widen path. The runtime oracle (cstage 0, wwstage 7) proved cstage
is the bug; this aligns cstage UP.
Gate passthrough to {N_CALL,N_INDEX,N_DOT}; a tagged-ident return now falls
to the existing scratch-slot widen path (cg_widen_tagged_store tagged-subset
N_IDENT arm), byte-identical to wwstage's return scratch-widen. cstage-only
(no combined.ww regen — combined.ww embeds the unchanged wwstage source;
byte-id is blind here, the new 949 rows are the net).
test/949: tagged_ident_ret_i32 (7) + tagged_ident_ret_void (void tag
survives) + register-resident controls tagged_call_ret_ctrl /
tagged_dot_ret_ctrl (passthrough must still fire); INDEX control already
present. All dual-stage run + cs==ww byte-id.
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