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lukewagner opened this issue Apr 20, 2016 · 1 comment
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no need to reserve 0 for "void" type #663

lukewagner opened this issue Apr 20, 2016 · 1 comment
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#640 removes, I believe, the only case in the binary encoding where 0 is used to mean "no type". When we "defragment" the opcode space, it'd be good to remove this hole too.
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Actually, like 0 for unreachable, it could be nice to keep 0 as a sentinel "no type" going forward.

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