cgreturn's forwardtagged detection was keyed on the CALLEE NAME
(N_IDENT/N_DOT only via fnretlookupmod), so any other callee shape
fell through to the variant-tag synthesis path — clobbering the
just-returned AX/DX/CX/R8 tagged-ABI words. The deref-call case
`(*r)(...)` (impl-e1-resume STOP, 994 w6c_ww byte-id red) was the
proximate trigger.
Replace with a TYPE-BASED predicate over the checker-stamped tinfos
(rhs.type_ vs c.fnret.type_), mirroring cstage cgen.c:8007 passthrough.
Peel TY_NAMED on both sides then identity-check the underlying
TY_TAGGED — sufficient for the NAMED case because tinfocache memoizes
per typedecl (#191 lineage). Variant-pointer fallback walks the
params chain when identity fails so anonymous unions like the
cross-module (i32 | void) shared between strings.byteindex and
bytes.index still forward correctly; full recursive tinfo
structural-eq is gated by #178 (typeeqast's TY_TAGGED arm
conservatively returns false today).
Probe 770_return_tagged_forward covers 6 rows — IDENT forward, widen
non-matching, deref-call (the bug), scalar (sanity), nested call,
cross-module forward — each gated on cstage runtime + wwstage runtime
+ cs.s == ww.s byte-identity.
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