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Hojun-Cho 53c9e46c21 selfhost+test: route N_TSLICE variant through shape-aware index helper (#19)
Class A wwstage cgen miscompile, silent until wwstage path engaged.
Pre-fix wwstage's name-keyed flatvariantidx returned -1 for `[]T`
variants (pat.str empty on N_TSLICE), so cgmatch and
cgtagvariantidx collapsed every `(scalar | []T)` arm to tag 0.
Internally consistent within wwstage; cstage's structural
`type_eq` (cmd/w6c/cgen.c:466 cg_tag_for_variant) matched
correctly. Bootstrap stayed green because no selfhost-corpus path
exercises `(scalar | []T)` until lib/bytes / lib/strings landing
pulls bytes.index through wwstage compilation — 967_bytes_run
uses `ww run` (cstage only), so the wwstage path was never
exercised.

Polarity catalog entry: wwstage UNDER (missing N_TSLICE dispatch
arm in variantindex lookup), not REVERSE — worker's deeper read
corrected rob's initial diagnosis. cstage's structural type-eq is
the leaner-correct side; wwstage converges to it per rule 10.

Fix: new `flatslicevariantidx` helper in cgenutil.ww keyed on
N_TSLICE shape walking pat.lhs against vt.lhs alongside the existing
name-keyed flatvariantidx; extend `taggedvariantindex` shape-fallback
with a `wantslice == ivisslice` axis alongside the existing str
axis; route N_TSLICE in cgenexpr.ww's cgtagvariantidx (is/as)
and cgmatch (case) through the helper. No edits to cgenmatch's
dispatch codegen (CMPQ/JNE/spill) — that's symptom, the bug is
in the variantindex lookup.

Surfaced the 7th corpus-coverage-blind unmask of session 5 (sister
shape to STATUS-4 #11 / #14 / #21 wwstage UNDER family). Latent
within lib/bytes (a6abac2) since landing today; 967_bytes_run's
cstage-only `ww run` driver kept it dormant.

Tests:
  - 722_match_slice_variant pins cmp -s byte-id between stages
    for the canonical (u8|[]u8), reverse-order ([]u8|u8), and
    three-arm (u8|[]u8|str) shapes.
  - 926_match_slice_variant_run runtime-pins 7 rows × 2 stages
    (cstage + wwstage drivers): canonical, reverse-order, and
    other scalar-vs-slice-of-same-primitive matrices (i8|[]i8,
    i32|[]i32, u64|[]u64, rune|[]rune), three-arm with str.
    Verifies both arms reachable and payload survives.

Filed follow-ups (latent, NOT in this commit's scope):
  - flatslicevariantidx falls back to first slice slot when no
    element-name matches; `([]u8 | []i32)` would mis-route. No
    in-tree consumer.
  - 926 missing nested ((u8|[]u8) | i32) row per rob's spec.
  - 3-arm 32B tagged sequential-push payload corruption (both
    stages, asm byte-id passes, only 9xx runtime catches).
  - Chained inline pick() over 32B 3-arm slot (both stages,
    bind-to-let workaround documented at 926 row).

93/93 ok. 995_self_rebuild stays green (ww2==ww3==ww4 byte-id).
2026-05-18 01:51:57 +09:00

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