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Brendan Punsky daa5b7cb79 rexcode: add core:rexcode/ir — the IR API layer (no concrete IR yet)
A sibling to core:rexcode/isa for the intermediate representations (WASM,
SPIR-V, LLVM bitcode + the LLVM dialects AIR/DXIL). Holds the shared
vocabulary every IR package builds on, implements no specific IR.

Design stance (see docs/ir_design.md): keep the ISA layer's spirit, but
where IRs are structurally MORE uniform than ISAs (SSA + a type system
regularize the operand/module shape), the shared core is richer. ir/ owns:

  status.odin  Error/Error_Code (shape-identical to isa.Error)
  refs.odin    Id/Ref/Ref_Space/Symbol_Table (the label analog: structural
               id references, not PC-relative byte offsets)
  types.odin   Type/Type_Ref/Type_Kind (the type table -- no ISA analog)
  module.odin  Module/Function/Block/Operation/Operand/Result/Dataflow
               (the structured model; Operation = isa.Instruction + an
               optional typed Result, opcode a u16 like Mnemonic)
  print.odin   token kinds + options + num-fmt (parallels isa.print)

Three honest concessions vs the ISA API, made explicit not inert: a
structured Module replaces the flat []Instruction; a first-class type
system; id-based entity refs replace labels. The encode/decode verbs take
a Module and drop label_defs/resolve/base_address. Dataflow hosts both the
WASM value stack and SSA; the codec is pluggable (table for WASM/SPIR-V,
bitstream for the LLVM family -- AIR/DXIL are LLVM dialects, not peers).

Package compiles; a hand-built SSA module round-trips through the types.
2026-06-18 19:03:27 -04:00
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