Add an .optional arm to regToValue in comptime_vm.zig: read the
has_value flag at offset sizeof(child), bridge the payload recursively
into a { payload, i1=true } aggregate when set, yield .null_val (zero
{T,i1}) when clear or the bare null sentinel. Matching serialize arm in
serializeAggregateValue (emit_llvm.zig). Pointer/?Closure/?Protocol-child
optionals and array-payload aggregates bail loudly, not silently.
Regression: examples/comptime/0643-comptime-run-optional-aggregate.sx
(present ?T, present ?i64, null ?i64). Verified by 3 adversarial reviews.
Five adversarial reviews of the issue-0160 fix surfaced three more bugs in the
touched optional-chain / optional-coercion code; all fixed here:
1. A COLD generic-instance getter through `?.` (`?*Vec(i64)` `.getter`, never
called directly first) panicked with "unresolved type reached LLVM emission":
a cold instance method is absent from resolveFuncByName, so the getter's
return type resolved to .unresolved → a ?unresolved merge type. lowerOptionalChain
and getterReturnTypeOnDeref now warm the monomorph (ensureGenericInstanceMethodLowered)
before querying its return type. (The 0907 test passed only by luck — List(i64)
is warmed by stdlib use; 0907 now also exercises a cold user generic.)
2. A real-field read through a `?*T` chain (`op?.field`, op: ?*T) reinterpreted
the pointer bits as the field (silent garbage) — the some-branch real-field
path didn't load through the pointer. It now derefs `?*T` before the field
access. (Pre-existing — the else-branch predates 0160 — but it's the same
function and a silent miscompile, so fixed here.)
3. `?[]T = array` skipped the array→slice promotion (corrupt .len/.ptr): the
lowerVarDecl optional arm wrapped the raw array. It now coerces the value to
the optional's child type (array→slice) before wrapping.
Regression examples 0906/0907 extended to cover all three. Distinct PRE-EXISTING
bugs the reviews surfaced in untouched subsystems are filed as issues 0161
(struct-literal vs scalar), 0162 (#run returning an optional aggregate), 0163
(untagged-union payload-binding match).
