cg_widen_tagged_store (cmd/w6c/cgen.c) and the wwstage twin cgwidentaggedstorebp (selfhost/cmd/wcc/cgenutil.ww) wrote only the tag (slot+0) and value (slot+8) in their scalar and float arms, leaving the high pad words (slot+16..sz) as stack garbage on the BP/let/assign/return-scratch path, which never pre-zeroes. A passthrough return or u8-reinterpret of a narrow scalar/float widened into a >16B union (fmt's field = (...formattable | *mods) is 32B via the str variant) then read that garbage. Both stages were wrong identically, so the byte-id gates stayed green while the runtime truncated; fmt's spread-union scalar widen is the first real consumer. Both arms now tail-zero slot+16..sz (gated size>16), mirroring the tagged-subset/struct tail-zeros and keeping the stages byte-identical (rule 10). Adds runtime test 793; regenerates w6c/wwdump combined.ww. fmt byte-id graduation still awaits the other residual, #226 (io.read nominal-remap).
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