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Can tables be shared?

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Estimated time
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Issue type
Documentation
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Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
wasm
Domain
compilers

Research direction

Compare the shared-limits text in proposals/threads/Overview.md with the limits syntax in the linked WebAssembly core specification. Determine whether tables are intended to be shareable and whether either document is outdated; done means the discrepancy and the required documentation change are resolved.

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Description

In overview https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/blob/main/proposals/threads/Overview.md :

[Spec Changes][spec]

The [limits type][] now has an additional field specifying whether
the linear memory or table is shared:

limits ::= {min u32, max u32?, share}
share  ::= unshared | shared

But in the specification https://webassembly.github.io/threads/core/syntax/types.html#syntax-limits the limits doesn't have shared. Is the overview outdated? Seems that tables cannot be shared?

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