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Support loading/storing 8 bits

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
wasm
Domain
compilers

Research direction

Start by reading the issue's comparison between existing memory instructions and regular array instructions. No files, tests, or entry points are identified; the work is not complete until the design and required behavior for loading and storing 8-bit array elements are defined.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

If we end up reusing the existing memory instructions and only allow i8 arrays there will be some overlap with the regular array instructions. e.g.

i32.store8 (type $i8_array) will effectively be the same as array.set

and likewise for loads

i32.load8_s (type $i8_array) will effectively be the same as array.get_s
i32.load8_u (type $i8_array) will effectively be the same as array.get_u

Dominant language
WebAssembly
Stars
4
Forks
1
Avg merge
16h 35m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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