Ranging a str (for (let b .. = s)) and reading the loop var back emitted MOVZBQ on cstage (correct u8 zero-extend) but MOVQ on wwstage (the missed case, #14). Align wwstage UP. ww cgforrange derived the element-type node only for slice/array; for a str scrutinee it left elemt=nil, so the loop var registered with no type and localloadop short-circuited to MOVQ. Fix: for a str scrutinee, synthesize a u8 element node (type_ = str.sub = u8, from F1) as elemt, so localadd hands the loop var a u8 tnode and the GENERIC narrow-load fires (MOVZBQ) -- consuming str.sub as F1 intended, mirroring how []u8 supplies its element node. NOT an if-str special-case. cstage already correct, untouched (ww-only). str's own type stays nominal.
GATE is the ASM SHAPE byte-id (cstage==wwstage at the loop-var read), NOT a runtime probe: the divergence is runtime-benign (MOVQ and MOVZBQ read the same zero-extended byte) so a runtime test passes both ways and cannot distinguish -- it was a byte-id-INVISIBLE divergence (990-997 green despite cstage!=ww, since no bootstrap input exercises a narrow-read str loop var). Verified fail-pre (the cstage-MOVZBQ vs wwstage-MOVQ 1-line diff) / pass-post (.s byte-identical). []u8/slice/array for-range emission unchanged. test/wcc/940 carries the fixture (runtime corpus coverage, both drivers).
main.combined.ww regenerated via the canonical make path.
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