A slice VALUE stored through a whole-deref lhs `*p = v` dropped len+cap:
the `*p = v` arm kind-gated its 3-word {ptr,len,cap} stash+store on str
ONLY, so a slice fell to the 1-word fldstoreop default (ptr only). The
deref READ is 3-word, so the reader got garbage len/cap -- correctness,
not perf. str IS []u8 since #1, so the str machinery applies verbatim;
widen the gate str -> str||slice (kind-OR, not a sz==24 test). This is
the project #75 str-only-gate one level down (deref-store).
cstage cmd/w6c/cgen.c:3792/3800 (two gates); wwstage cgenexpr.ww `*p=v`
twin detects N_TSLICE syntactically (mirror str). Both stages dropped
identically, so cs==ww + 990-997 + byte-id are all gate-blind here --
only a store->read roundtrip catches it. New 944_deref_slice_store_run
asserts the {ptr,len,cap} survives a poisoned dst, via the direct local
and the field-deref read; str-deref + (*p).field controls guard the
untouched arms. Verified fail-before (1-word ptr store) / pass-after
(8/8), byte-identical asm both stages.
Out-of-gate, deferred to #80: the wwstage syntactic detection is
alias-BLIND -- a slice-alias `*Foo` (Foo=[]T) or non-ident deref-store
stays 1-word, the SAME retained divergence str already carries (cstage's
resolved-type vt fires in both). #80 unifies detection by aligning the
wwstage UP, not gating cstage down. Separately surfaced (filed apart,
not touched here): the whole-deref READ-into-let `let v = *p` drops
len+cap for a slice while the str form is 3-word -- the read-side twin
of this store hole.
Hojun-Cho
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