Passing an aggregate BY VALUE as a call argument worked ONLY for a ≤16B
struct from an IDENT source; every non-ident source — CALL mk(), N_DOT
o.f, N_INDEX a[i], DEREF *p — and every array / >24B-struct (even as an
ident) fell to the scalar default: one PUSHQ for a multi-word aggregate,
stack-imbalancing against the type-based multi-word drain. cs!=ww, both
garbage (f(mk()) cs4/ww236, f(o.f) cs8/ww108, f(a[i]) cs4/ww28, f(*p)
cs4/ww140; arrays + 32B sret struct same).
The arg-pass twin of the #265/#268 let-init copy. A new aggregate-arg
push arm materialises the source into the arg convention: the source
ADDRESS in SI (ident LEAQ / deref operand / dotchainaddr #253 /
&base[i] spine #252-270) then its ceil(sz/8) words pushed high→low; a
CALL receives first — ≤24B in AX/DX/CX pushed straight, >24B sret'd
into a per-fn @aggargscr then pushed from there. The pop-forward drain
gained a matching array / >16B-struct arm and the callee prologue an
is_bigagg receive (ceil(sz/8) GP eightbytes), so caller and callee
agree on the multi-word layout. The ≤16B-struct-IDENT fast path is
untouched (byte-id preserved).
The new-arm exclusion is TYPE-keyed (the stamped tinfo, mirroring
cstage node_isstructarg over args[i]->type), not the name-keyed
structparamsize — a name-keyed gate re-opened the #211/#13 cross-module
same-leaf collision (784 symmetric: an 8B `sa.s` struct whose
name-resolution collides with `sb.s = *vtable` would miss the struct
fast path and wrongly enter the new arm, diverging from cstage's
1-word push). A float-bearing ≤16B struct from a non-ident source
loud-stops in both stages (the #165 SSE eightbyte transport the GP
push/drain can't model; out of scope). A const array/struct `def`
global as an aggregate arg is aligned DOWN to the leaner wwstage
(both loud-stop) per rule-10.
#110: cgen is compiler-imported by w6c + wwdump — main.combined.ww
regen'd for both.
949 rows: arg_{struct16,arr16,struct32}_{call,dot,idx,deref,ident},
full member readback (struct 16B reg-class + 32B sret-class + array
[4]u32, each non-ident source + ident control); byteid=1 throughout
(master both-broken-and-divergent → converge on the correct full
push, #263). All 111 dotbaseaddr + 3/3 784 pass; test-unit 241 green;
sizelint + smoke OK; the full w6c compiler source (214705 asm lines)
self-compiles cs==ww byte-id.
Hojun-Cho
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