[N]str array literals wrote only the .ptr half of each element.
cstage used esz=16 from `lu->sub->size` and a single per-element
MOVQ → .len trailed uninitialized stack residue. Wwstage was worse:
primsize("str")=0 fell through to esz=8, so element i+1's ptr-MOVQ
clobbered element i's .len slot, scrambling everything.
Worker-18 sidestepped during #18 by rewriting array primer rows to
[N]i64.
cstage cgen.c N_ARRLIT TY_STR branch: emit AX → base+i*16 then
BX → base+i*16+8. Repeat-`...` path mirrored. type_isstr handles
TY_UNTYPED_STR + TY_NAMED-aliased-str.
Wwstage cgenstmt.ww: isstrel flag conditionally drives the two-MOVQ
store in both the per-element walk and the repeat fill. The dispatch
loop was refactored to unify FIELD/ellipsis branches via isellip,
cleaning up the duplicated arms.
Wwstage cgenutil.ww slotsize/letslotsize: TNAME-"str" element gets
esz=16, replacing the primsize=0 → 8B fallback. Without this the
frame collapsed to 24B for [3]str.
Slice (24B), struct, tuple, tagged element arrays have the same root
cause but distinct width/layout concerns — deferred to #35 per rob.
Test 711 (arrlit_str_full): 7 rows × 2 stages = 14 fixtures —
str_lens_3el, str_ptrs_3el, str_repeat_5el (TK_ELLIPSIS), bool_3el,
rune_3el, i32_3el, i64_3el. Rune relies on the pre-existing esz==4
→ MOVL path (incidental correctness); sibling slot types pinned as
regression nets.
Followups filed: #34 (wwstage cgindex truncate on [N]str bare-let
read side, surfaced by this fix), #35 (composite element types),
#36 (primsize-returns-0-default-to-8 cleanup).
Hojun-Cho
cbb9fbbb65