slotsize selected the slot-padded width for a frame slot via an AST
walker over TBANG / TPTR / TFN / TCHAN / TSLICE / TTUPLE / TTAGGED /
TNAME / TARRAY / TSTRUCT — duplicating the size + slot-pad math
tinfofornode already runs at check time. With A.6.2 stamping every
N_T* kind's n.type_, plus #61 A.5 splitting tinfo.slotsize from
tinfo.size, the dispatch collapses to a kind switch over the
populated tinfo:
- TY_VOID → 0
- TY_PTR/SLICE/CHAN/FN/STR/TAGGED → ti.size (size == slotsize for
these kinds)
- TY_STRUCT/TUPLE/ARRAY → ti.slotsize (slot-padded by check.ww's
TSTRUCT/TTUPLE/TARRAY arms with the same field-pad / stride
rules cgenutil's registerstruct uses)
- primitives → catch-all 8 (pad-to-8 lives at the read site, not
in ti.slotsize, so [N]i32 stride stays 4)
Ww-to-Hare divergence (deliberate, team consensus): Hare's struct
type carries only `size` (ref/harec/include/types.h:134-137); QBE
handles slot padding downstream. ww emits Plan 9 amd64 asm directly,
so slot-padding is part of the ww calling convention and belongs on
the type table. Cstage scatters pad-to-8 inline at ~30+ localoff
sites + the `(su->kind == TY_TAGGED) ? su->size : 16` tagged-spill
pattern at cmd/w6c/cgen.c:4850 / :5193 — that scattering would be a
rule-13 (no hardcoded size literals) violation in ww. Centralizing
on tinfo.slotsize IS the rule-13-compliant shape; #61 A.5 put it
there, and #48 just consumes it. Rule 9 is lib/-scoped; tinfo is
compiler-internal (already diverges via node.type_ as a checker
invariant Hare/harec lacks). Rule 10 covers inference power, not
data shape — byte-identity (994/995) holds at 133/133.
Body went from ~150 LOC AST walk to ~15 LOC tinfo dispatch. Two
nil guards (typn == nil, ti == nil) fall through to 8 — same outcome
as cstage's `(t && t->size > 0) ? sz : 8` defensive shape.
`c: *cgen` retained unused for callsite stability (localloadop
precedent, 68219a1).
Net -453 LOC across cgenutil.ww + two .combined.ww bundler regens.
Follow-up filed: grow cstage Type.slot_size symmetrically and
sizelint-ok-annotate the surviving inline 8s until ported.
Hojun-Cho
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