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Spec tests with memory offsets

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
wasm
Domain
testing

Research direction

Start by locating the spec tests referenced in the issue and inspect existing atomic memory-access cases. Add coverage for constant offsets on memory addresses, then run the relevant spec test suite and confirm it fails for an implementation that ignores those offsets.

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Description

While working on implementation of atomics, I noticed that the spec tests from here passed despite the logic being trivially broken by ignoring const offsets on memory addresses. While I don't know what the coverage goal of spec tests is, const offsets seem like they may be worth having tests for to make it easier to write correct implementations.

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