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(ArrayBuffer or SharedArrayBuffer) is invalid IDL

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
wasm
Domain
api

Research direction

Review the linked WebIDL issue 865 first, then locate the API's IDL declaration in the WebAssembly threads proposal. Confirm the declaration uses valid WebIDL and resolves the ArrayBuffer versus SharedArrayBuffer question consistently with that discussion.

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Description

IDL does not have a SharedArrayBuffer type. I think this has to be [AllowShared] ArrayBuffer, but see https://github.com/heycam/webidl/issues/865. (I was surprised this wasn't caught in Firefox, but I think Firefox does not implement this API through IDL.)

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