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Per Hare convention, alloc is a typed builtin that returns a tagged
union carrying nomem as the OOM variant. Callers spell their policy:
`alloc(T)!` aborts on OOM (the old behavior), `alloc(T)?` propagates
when the enclosing fn already returns nomem.
cstage: check builds TY_TAGGED{*T | nomem} (or {[]T | nomem}); cgen
emits AX=tag, DX=ptr per the general tagged-return ABI (the (*T|!void)
nullable-ptr fold gated in ea76ee4 keeps this clean). wwstage cgalloc
mirrors. rt/alloc.s zeroes AX on syscall error so the builtin's null
check sees a clean 0 instead of mmap's -errno leaking through as a
poisoned pointer.
Migration: 3 `!` sites in test/wcc/700_e2e.c, 1 `!` site in
rt/ensure.ww (preserves the pre-existing sizeof bug tracked by #27),
1 `?` site in selfhost/test/tagged_ptr_ret.ww (allocbox exercises
real `?` propagation against a (*T | nomem) return).
130/130 tests green, 994_w6c_ww + 995_self_rebuild stage byte-identity
preserved. Follow-ups #31 (wwstage checkletassign leniency), #32
(wwstage slice-form gap), #33 (tagged_ptr_ret.ww make-test wiring).
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