Add a new low-level `describe` output for inspecting the canonical ABI details of
fitzgen opened this issue · comments
This is a potential alternative to #965 but they aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
The goal here is to create an easy way to see the concrete canonical ABI details for a particular WIT, on the command line.
This new "generator" would output the size and alignment of types, as well as the offsets of their fields where appropriate.
For example, given
point {
x: u32,
y: u32,
}
it would create output something like
record point:
size: 8
align: 4
fields:
x: 0
y: 4
Basically a human-readable dump of the IR that wit-bindgen
produces.
For functions, it should similarly produce a human-readable version of the operations required to lift/lower as well as the core Wasm signatures.
cc @titzer