wasmtime 11.0.0 → 12.0.0

data/ext/cargo-vendor/wasmtime-12.0.0/src/component/func/typed.rs

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+use crate::component::func::{Func, LiftContext, LowerContext, Options};
+use crate::component::matching::InstanceType;
+use crate::component::storage::{storage_as_slice, storage_as_slice_mut};
+use crate::{AsContextMut, StoreContext, StoreContextMut, ValRaw};
+use anyhow::{anyhow, bail, Context, Result};
+use std::borrow::Cow;
+use std::fmt;
+use std::marker;
+use std::mem::{self, MaybeUninit};
+use std::ptr::NonNull;
+use std::str;
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use wasmtime_environ::component::{
+    CanonicalAbiInfo, ComponentTypes, InterfaceType, StringEncoding, VariantInfo, MAX_FLAT_PARAMS,
+    MAX_FLAT_RESULTS,
+};
+use wasmtime_runtime::component::ComponentInstance;
+use wasmtime_runtime::SendSyncPtr;
+
+/// A statically-typed version of [`Func`] which takes `Params` as input and
+/// returns `Return`.
+///
+/// This is an efficient way to invoke a WebAssembly component where if the
+/// inputs and output are statically known this can eschew the vast majority of
+/// machinery and checks when calling WebAssembly. This is the most optimized
+/// way to call a WebAssembly component.
+///
+/// Note that like [`Func`] this is a pointer within a [`Store`](crate::Store)
+/// and usage will panic if used with the wrong store.
+///
+/// This type is primarily created with the [`Func::typed`] API.
+pub struct TypedFunc<Params, Return> {
+    func: Func,
+
+    // The definition of this field is somewhat subtle and may be surprising.
+    // Naively one might expect something like
+    //
+    //      _marker: marker::PhantomData<fn(Params) -> Return>,
+    //
+    // Since this is a function pointer after all. The problem with this
+    // definition though is that it imposes the wrong variance on `Params` from
+    // what we want. Abstractly a `fn(Params)` is able to store `Params` within
+    // it meaning you can only give it `Params` that live longer than the
+    // function pointer.
+    //
+    // With a component model function, however, we're always copying data from
+    // the host into the guest, so we are never storing pointers to `Params`
+    // into the guest outside the duration of a `call`, meaning we can actually
+    // accept values in `TypedFunc::call` which live for a shorter duration
+    // than the `Params` argument on the struct.
+    //
+    // This all means that we don't use a phantom function pointer, but instead
+    // feign phantom storage here to get the variance desired.
+    _marker: marker::PhantomData<(Params, Return)>,
+}
+
+impl<Params, Return> Copy for TypedFunc<Params, Return> {}
+
+impl<Params, Return> Clone for TypedFunc<Params, Return> {
+    fn clone(&self) -> TypedFunc<Params, Return> {
+        *self
+    }
+}
+
+impl<Params, Return> TypedFunc<Params, Return>
+where
+    Params: ComponentNamedList + Lower,
+    Return: ComponentNamedList + Lift,
+{
+    /// Creates a new [`TypedFunc`] from the provided component [`Func`],
+    /// unsafely asserting that the underlying function takes `Params` as
+    /// input and returns `Return`.
+    ///
+    /// # Unsafety
+    ///
+    /// This is an unsafe function because it does not verify that the [`Func`]
+    /// provided actually implements this signature. It's up to the caller to
+    /// have performed some other sort of check to ensure that the signature is
+    /// correct.
+    pub unsafe fn new_unchecked(func: Func) -> TypedFunc<Params, Return> {
+        TypedFunc {
+            _marker: marker::PhantomData,
+            func,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the underlying un-typed [`Func`] that this [`TypedFunc`]
+    /// references.
+    pub fn func(&self) -> &Func {
+        &self.func
+    }
+
+    /// Calls the underlying WebAssembly component function using the provided
+    /// `params` as input.
+    ///
+    /// This method is used to enter into a component. Execution happens within
+    /// the `store` provided. The `params` are copied into WebAssembly memory
+    /// as appropriate and a core wasm function is invoked.
+    ///
+    /// # Post-return
+    ///
+    /// In the component model each function can have a "post return" specified
+    /// which allows cleaning up the arguments returned to the host. For example
+    /// if WebAssembly returns a string to the host then it might be a uniquely
+    /// allocated string which, after the host finishes processing it, needs to
+    /// be deallocated in the wasm instance's own linear memory to prevent
+    /// memory leaks in wasm itself. The `post-return` canonical abi option is
+    /// used to configured this.
+    ///
+    /// To accommodate this feature of the component model after invoking a
+    /// function via [`TypedFunc::call`] you must next invoke
+    /// [`TypedFunc::post_return`]. Note that the return value of the function
+    /// should be processed between these two function calls. The return value
+    /// continues to be usable from an embedder's perspective after
+    /// `post_return` is called, but after `post_return` is invoked it may no
+    /// longer retain the same value that the wasm module originally returned.
+    ///
+    /// Also note that [`TypedFunc::post_return`] must be invoked irrespective
+    /// of whether the canonical ABI option `post-return` was configured or not.
+    /// This means that embedders must unconditionally call
+    /// [`TypedFunc::post_return`] when a function returns. If this function
+    /// call returns an error, however, then [`TypedFunc::post_return`] is not
+    /// required.
+    ///
+    /// # Errors
+    ///
+    /// This function can return an error for a number of reasons:
+    ///
+    /// * If the wasm itself traps during execution.
+    /// * If the wasm traps while copying arguments into memory.
+    /// * If the wasm provides bad allocation pointers when copying arguments
+    ///   into memory.
+    /// * If the wasm returns a value which violates the canonical ABI.
+    /// * If this function's instances cannot be entered, for example if the
+    ///   instance is currently calling a host function.
+    /// * If a previous function call occurred and the corresponding
+    ///   `post_return` hasn't been invoked yet.
+    ///
+    /// In general there are many ways that things could go wrong when copying
+    /// types in and out of a wasm module with the canonical ABI, and certain
+    /// error conditions are specific to certain types. For example a
+    /// WebAssembly module can't return an invalid `char`. When allocating space
+    /// for this host to copy a string into the returned pointer must be
+    /// in-bounds in memory.
+    ///
+    /// If an error happens then the error should contain detailed enough
+    /// information to understand which part of the canonical ABI went wrong
+    /// and what to inspect.
+    ///
+    /// # Panics
+    ///
+    /// Panics if this is called on a function in an asynchronous store. This
+    /// only works with functions defined within a synchonous store. Also
+    /// panics if `store` does not own this function.
+    pub fn call(&self, store: impl AsContextMut, params: Params) -> Result<Return> {
+        assert!(
+            !store.as_context().async_support(),
+            "must use `call_async` when async support is enabled on the config"
+        );
+        self.call_impl(store, params)
+    }
+
+    /// Exactly like [`Self::call`], except for use on asynchronous stores.
+    ///
+    /// # Panics
+    ///
+    /// Panics if this is called on a function in a synchronous store. This
+    /// only works with functions defined within an asynchronous store. Also
+    /// panics if `store` does not own this function.
+    #[cfg(feature = "async")]
+    #[cfg_attr(nightlydoc, doc(cfg(feature = "async")))]
+    pub async fn call_async<T>(
+        &self,
+        mut store: impl AsContextMut<Data = T>,
+        params: Params,
+    ) -> Result<Return>
+    where
+        T: Send,
+        Params: Send + Sync,
+        Return: Send + Sync,
+    {
+        let mut store = store.as_context_mut();
+        assert!(
+            store.0.async_support(),
+            "cannot use `call_async` when async support is not enabled on the config"
+        );
+        store
+            .on_fiber(|store| self.call_impl(store, params))
+            .await?
+    }
+
+    fn call_impl(&self, mut store: impl AsContextMut, params: Params) -> Result<Return> {
+        let store = &mut store.as_context_mut();
+        // Note that this is in theory simpler than it might read at this time.
+        // Here we're doing a runtime dispatch on the `flatten_count` for the
+        // params/results to see whether they're inbounds. This creates 4 cases
+        // to handle. In reality this is a highly optimizable branch where LLVM
+        // will easily figure out that only one branch here is taken.
+        //
+        // Otherwise this current construction is done to ensure that the stack
+        // space reserved for the params/results is always of the appropriate
+        // size (as the params/results needed differ depending on the "flatten"
+        // count)
+        if Params::flatten_count() <= MAX_FLAT_PARAMS {
+            if Return::flatten_count() <= MAX_FLAT_RESULTS {
+                self.func.call_raw(
+                    store,
+                    &params,
+                    Self::lower_stack_args,
+                    Self::lift_stack_result,
+                )
+            } else {
+                self.func.call_raw(
+                    store,
+                    &params,
+                    Self::lower_stack_args,
+                    Self::lift_heap_result,
+                )
+            }
+        } else {
+            if Return::flatten_count() <= MAX_FLAT_RESULTS {
+                self.func.call_raw(
+                    store,
+                    &params,
+                    Self::lower_heap_args,
+                    Self::lift_stack_result,
+                )
+            } else {
+                self.func.call_raw(
+                    store,
+                    &params,
+                    Self::lower_heap_args,
+                    Self::lift_heap_result,
+                )
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Lower parameters directly onto the stack specified by the `dst`
+    /// location.
+    ///
+    /// This is only valid to call when the "flatten count" is small enough, or
+    /// when the canonical ABI says arguments go through the stack rather than
+    /// the heap.
+    fn lower_stack_args<T>(
+        cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, T>,
+        params: &Params,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        dst: &mut MaybeUninit<Params::Lower>,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        assert!(Params::flatten_count() <= MAX_FLAT_PARAMS);
+        params.lower(cx, ty, dst)?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// Lower parameters onto a heap-allocated location.
+    ///
+    /// This is used when the stack space to be used for the arguments is above
+    /// the `MAX_FLAT_PARAMS` threshold. Here the wasm's `realloc` function is
+    /// invoked to allocate space and then parameters are stored at that heap
+    /// pointer location.
+    fn lower_heap_args<T>(
+        cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, T>,
+        params: &Params,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        dst: &mut MaybeUninit<ValRaw>,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        assert!(Params::flatten_count() > MAX_FLAT_PARAMS);
+
+        // Memory must exist via validation if the arguments are stored on the
+        // heap, so we can create a `MemoryMut` at this point. Afterwards
+        // `realloc` is used to allocate space for all the arguments and then
+        // they're all stored in linear memory.
+        //
+        // Note that `realloc` will bake in a check that the returned pointer is
+        // in-bounds.
+        let ptr = cx.realloc(0, 0, Params::ALIGN32, Params::SIZE32)?;
+        params.store(cx, ty, ptr)?;
+
+        // Note that the pointer here is stored as a 64-bit integer. This allows
+        // this to work with either 32 or 64-bit memories. For a 32-bit memory
+        // it'll just ignore the upper 32 zero bits, and for 64-bit memories
+        // this'll have the full 64-bits. Note that for 32-bit memories the call
+        // to `realloc` above guarantees that the `ptr` is in-bounds meaning
+        // that we will know that the zero-extended upper bits of `ptr` are
+        // guaranteed to be zero.
+        //
+        // This comment about 64-bit integers is also referred to below with
+        // "WRITEPTR64".
+        dst.write(ValRaw::i64(ptr as i64));
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// Lift the result of a function directly from the stack result.
+    ///
+    /// This is only used when the result fits in the maximum number of stack
+    /// slots.
+    fn lift_stack_result(
+        cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        dst: &Return::Lower,
+    ) -> Result<Return> {
+        assert!(Return::flatten_count() <= MAX_FLAT_RESULTS);
+        Return::lift(cx, ty, dst)
+    }
+
+    /// Lift the result of a function where the result is stored indirectly on
+    /// the heap.
+    fn lift_heap_result(
+        cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        dst: &ValRaw,
+    ) -> Result<Return> {
+        assert!(Return::flatten_count() > MAX_FLAT_RESULTS);
+        // FIXME: needs to read an i64 for memory64
+        let ptr = usize::try_from(dst.get_u32())?;
+        if ptr % usize::try_from(Return::ALIGN32)? != 0 {
+            bail!("return pointer not aligned");
+        }
+
+        let bytes = cx
+            .memory()
+            .get(ptr..)
+            .and_then(|b| b.get(..Return::SIZE32))
+            .ok_or_else(|| anyhow::anyhow!("pointer out of bounds of memory"))?;
+        Return::load(cx, ty, bytes)
+    }
+
+    /// See [`Func::post_return`]
+    pub fn post_return(&self, store: impl AsContextMut) -> Result<()> {
+        self.func.post_return(store)
+    }
+
+    /// See [`Func::post_return_async`]
+    #[cfg(feature = "async")]
+    #[cfg_attr(nightlydoc, doc(cfg(feature = "async")))]
+    pub async fn post_return_async<T: Send>(
+        &self,
+        store: impl AsContextMut<Data = T>,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        self.func.post_return_async(store).await
+    }
+}
+
+/// A trait representing a static list of named types that can be passed to or
+/// returned from a [`TypedFunc`].
+///
+/// This trait is implemented for a number of tuple types and is not expected
+/// to be implemented externally. The contents of this trait are hidden as it's
+/// intended to be an implementation detail of Wasmtime. The contents of this
+/// trait are not covered by Wasmtime's stability guarantees.
+///
+/// For more information about this trait see [`Func::typed`] and
+/// [`TypedFunc`].
+//
+// Note that this is an `unsafe` trait, and the unsafety means that
+// implementations of this trait must be correct or otherwise [`TypedFunc`]
+// would not be memory safe. The main reason this is `unsafe` is the
+// `typecheck` function which must operate correctly relative to the `AsTuple`
+// interpretation of the implementor.
+pub unsafe trait ComponentNamedList: ComponentType {}
+
+/// A trait representing types which can be passed to and read from components
+/// with the canonical ABI.
+///
+/// This trait is implemented for Rust types which can be communicated to
+/// components. This is implemented for Rust types which correspond to
+/// interface types in the component model of WebAssembly. The [`Func::typed`]
+/// and [`TypedFunc`] Rust items are the main consumers of this trait.
+///
+/// For more information on this trait see the examples in [`Func::typed`].
+///
+/// The contents of this trait are hidden as it's intended to be an
+/// implementation detail of Wasmtime. The contents of this trait are not
+/// covered by Wasmtime's stability guarantees.
+//
+// Note that this is an `unsafe` trait as `TypedFunc`'s safety heavily relies on
+// the correctness of the implementations of this trait. Some ways in which this
+// trait must be correct to be safe are:
+//
+// * The `Lower` associated type must be a `ValRaw` sequence. It doesn't have to
+//   literally be `[ValRaw; N]` but when laid out in memory it must be adjacent
+//   `ValRaw` values and have a multiple of the size of `ValRaw` and the same
+//   alignment.
+//
+// * The `lower` function must initialize the bits within `Lower` that are going
+//   to be read by the trampoline that's used to enter core wasm. A trampoline
+//   is passed `*mut Lower` and will read the canonical abi arguments in
+//   sequence, so all of the bits must be correctly initialized.
+//
+// * The `size` and `align` functions must be correct for this value stored in
+//   the canonical ABI. The `Cursor<T>` iteration of these bytes rely on this
+//   for correctness as they otherwise eschew bounds-checking.
+//
+// There are likely some other correctness issues which aren't documented as
+// well, this isn't intended to be an exhaustive list. It suffices to say,
+// though, that correctness bugs in this trait implementation are highly likely
+// to lead to security bugs, which again leads to the `unsafe` in the trait.
+//
+// Also note that this trait specifically is not sealed because we have a proc
+// macro that generates implementations of this trait for external types in a
+// `#[derive]`-like fashion.
+pub unsafe trait ComponentType {
+    /// Representation of the "lowered" form of this component value.
+    ///
+    /// Lowerings lower into core wasm values which are represented by `ValRaw`.
+    /// This `Lower` type must be a list of `ValRaw` as either a literal array
+    /// or a struct where every field is a `ValRaw`. This must be `Copy` (as
+    /// `ValRaw` is `Copy`) and support all byte patterns. This being correct is
+    /// one reason why the trait is unsafe.
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    type Lower: Copy;
+
+    /// The information about this type's canonical ABI (size/align/etc).
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    const ABI: CanonicalAbiInfo;
+
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    const SIZE32: usize = Self::ABI.size32 as usize;
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    const ALIGN32: u32 = Self::ABI.align32;
+
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    const IS_RUST_UNIT_TYPE: bool = false;
+
+    /// Returns the number of core wasm abi values will be used to represent
+    /// this type in its lowered form.
+    ///
+    /// This divides the size of `Self::Lower` by the size of `ValRaw`.
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    fn flatten_count() -> usize {
+        assert!(mem::size_of::<Self::Lower>() % mem::size_of::<ValRaw>() == 0);
+        assert!(mem::align_of::<Self::Lower>() == mem::align_of::<ValRaw>());
+        mem::size_of::<Self::Lower>() / mem::size_of::<ValRaw>()
+    }
+
+    /// Performs a type-check to see whether this component value type matches
+    /// the interface type `ty` provided.
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    fn typecheck(ty: &InterfaceType, types: &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()>;
+}
+
+#[doc(hidden)]
+pub unsafe trait ComponentVariant: ComponentType {
+    const CASES: &'static [Option<CanonicalAbiInfo>];
+    const INFO: VariantInfo = VariantInfo::new_static(Self::CASES);
+    const PAYLOAD_OFFSET32: usize = Self::INFO.payload_offset32 as usize;
+}
+
+/// Host types which can be passed to WebAssembly components.
+///
+/// This trait is implemented for all types that can be passed to components
+/// either as parameters of component exports or returns of component imports.
+/// This trait represents the ability to convert from the native host
+/// representation to the canonical ABI.
+//
+// TODO: #[derive(Lower)]
+// TODO: more docs here
+pub unsafe trait Lower: ComponentType {
+    /// Performs the "lower" function in the canonical ABI.
+    ///
+    /// This method will lower the current value into a component. The `lower`
+    /// function performs a "flat" lowering into the `dst` specified which is
+    /// allowed to be uninitialized entering this method but is guaranteed to be
+    /// fully initialized if the method returns `Ok(())`.
+    ///
+    /// The `cx` context provided is the context within which this lowering is
+    /// happening. This contains information such as canonical options specified
+    /// (e.g. string encodings, memories, etc), the store itself, along with
+    /// type information.
+    ///
+    /// The `ty` parameter is the destination type that is being lowered into.
+    /// For example this is the component's "view" of the type that is being
+    /// lowered. This is guaranteed to have passed a `typecheck` earlier.
+    ///
+    /// This will only be called if `typecheck` passes for `Op::Lower`.
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    fn lower<T>(
+        &self,
+        cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, T>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        dst: &mut MaybeUninit<Self::Lower>,
+    ) -> Result<()>;
+
+    /// Performs the "store" operation in the canonical ABI.
+    ///
+    /// This function will store `self` into the linear memory described by
+    /// `cx` at the `offset` provided.
+    ///
+    /// It is expected that `offset` is a valid offset in memory for
+    /// `Self::SIZE32` bytes. At this time that's not an unsafe contract as it's
+    /// always re-checked on all stores, but this is something that will need to
+    /// be improved in the future to remove extra bounds checks. For now this
+    /// function will panic if there's a bug and `offset` isn't valid within
+    /// memory.
+    ///
+    /// The `ty` type information passed here is the same as the type
+    /// information passed to `lower` above, and is the component's own view of
+    /// what the resulting type should be.
+    ///
+    /// This will only be called if `typecheck` passes for `Op::Lower`.
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    fn store<T>(
+        &self,
+        cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, T>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        offset: usize,
+    ) -> Result<()>;
+}
+
+/// Host types which can be created from the canonical ABI.
+//
+// TODO: #[derive(Lower)]
+// TODO: more docs here
+pub unsafe trait Lift: Sized + ComponentType {
+    /// Performs the "lift" operation in the canonical ABI.
+    ///
+    /// This function performs a "flat" lift operation from the `src` specified
+    /// which is a sequence of core wasm values. The lifting operation will
+    /// validate core wasm values and produce a `Self` on success.
+    ///
+    /// The `cx` provided contains contextual information such as the store
+    /// that's being loaded from, canonical options, and type information.
+    ///
+    /// The `ty` parameter is the origin component's specification for what the
+    /// type that is being lifted is. For example this is the record type or the
+    /// resource type that is being lifted.
+    ///
+    /// Note that this has a default implementation but if `typecheck` passes
+    /// for `Op::Lift` this needs to be overridden.
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    fn lift(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, src: &Self::Lower) -> Result<Self>;
+
+    /// Performs the "load" operation in the canonical ABI.
+    ///
+    /// This will read the `bytes` provided, which are a sub-slice into the
+    /// linear memory described by `cx`. The `bytes` array provided is
+    /// guaranteed to be `Self::SIZE32` bytes large. All of memory is then also
+    /// available through `cx` for bounds-checks and such as necessary for
+    /// strings/lists.
+    ///
+    /// The `ty` argument is the type that's being loaded, as described by the
+    /// original component.
+    ///
+    /// Note that this has a default implementation but if `typecheck` passes
+    /// for `Op::Lift` this needs to be overridden.
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    fn load(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Self>;
+}
+
+// Macro to help generate "forwarding implementations" of `ComponentType` to
+// another type, used for wrappers in Rust like `&T`, `Box<T>`, etc. Note that
+// these wrappers only implement lowering because lifting native Rust types
+// cannot be done.
+macro_rules! forward_type_impls {
+    ($(($($generics:tt)*) $a:ty => $b:ty,)*) => ($(
+        unsafe impl <$($generics)*> ComponentType for $a {
+            type Lower = <$b as ComponentType>::Lower;
+
+            const ABI: CanonicalAbiInfo = <$b as ComponentType>::ABI;
+
+            #[inline]
+            fn typecheck(ty: &InterfaceType, types: &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()> {
+                <$b as ComponentType>::typecheck(ty, types)
+            }
+        }
+    )*)
+}
+
+forward_type_impls! {
+    (T: ComponentType + ?Sized) &'_ T => T,
+    (T: ComponentType + ?Sized) Box<T> => T,
+    (T: ComponentType + ?Sized) std::rc::Rc<T> => T,
+    (T: ComponentType + ?Sized) std::sync::Arc<T> => T,
+    () String => str,
+    (T: ComponentType) Vec<T> => [T],
+}
+
+macro_rules! forward_lowers {
+    ($(($($generics:tt)*) $a:ty => $b:ty,)*) => ($(
+        unsafe impl <$($generics)*> Lower for $a {
+            fn lower<U>(
+                &self,
+                cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, U>,
+                ty: InterfaceType,
+                dst: &mut MaybeUninit<Self::Lower>,
+            ) -> Result<()> {
+                <$b as Lower>::lower(self, cx, ty, dst)
+            }
+
+            fn store<U>(
+                &self,
+                cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, U>,
+                ty: InterfaceType,
+                offset: usize,
+            ) -> Result<()> {
+                <$b as Lower>::store(self, cx, ty, offset)
+            }
+        }
+    )*)
+}
+
+forward_lowers! {
+    (T: Lower + ?Sized) &'_ T => T,
+    (T: Lower + ?Sized) Box<T> => T,
+    (T: Lower + ?Sized) std::rc::Rc<T> => T,
+    (T: Lower + ?Sized) std::sync::Arc<T> => T,
+    () String => str,
+    (T: Lower) Vec<T> => [T],
+}
+
+macro_rules! forward_string_lifts {
+    ($($a:ty,)*) => ($(
+        unsafe impl Lift for $a {
+            fn lift(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, src: &Self::Lower) -> Result<Self> {
+                Ok(<WasmStr as Lift>::lift(cx, ty, src)?.to_str_from_memory(cx.memory())?.into())
+            }
+
+            fn load(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Self> {
+                Ok(<WasmStr as Lift>::load(cx, ty, bytes)?.to_str_from_memory(cx.memory())?.into())
+            }
+        }
+    )*)
+}
+
+forward_string_lifts! {
+    Box<str>,
+    std::rc::Rc<str>,
+    std::sync::Arc<str>,
+    String,
+}
+
+macro_rules! forward_list_lifts {
+    ($($a:ty,)*) => ($(
+        unsafe impl <T: Lift> Lift for $a {
+            fn lift(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, src: &Self::Lower) -> Result<Self> {
+                let list = <WasmList::<T> as Lift>::lift(cx, ty, src)?;
+                (0..list.len).map(|index| list.get_from_store(cx, index).unwrap()).collect()
+            }
+
+            fn load(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Self> {
+                let list = <WasmList::<T> as Lift>::load(cx, ty, bytes)?;
+                (0..list.len).map(|index| list.get_from_store(cx, index).unwrap()).collect()
+            }
+        }
+    )*)
+}
+
+forward_list_lifts! {
+    Box<[T]>,
+    std::rc::Rc<[T]>,
+    std::sync::Arc<[T]>,
+    Vec<T>,
+}
+
+// Macro to help generate `ComponentType` implementations for primitive types
+// such as integers, char, bool, etc.
+macro_rules! integers {
+    ($($primitive:ident = $ty:ident in $field:ident/$get:ident with abi:$abi:ident,)*) => ($(
+        unsafe impl ComponentType for $primitive {
+            type Lower = ValRaw;
+
+            const ABI: CanonicalAbiInfo = CanonicalAbiInfo::$abi;
+
+            fn typecheck(ty: &InterfaceType, _types: &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()> {
+                match ty {
+                    InterfaceType::$ty => Ok(()),
+                    other => bail!("expected `{}` found `{}`", desc(&InterfaceType::$ty), desc(other))
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        unsafe impl Lower for $primitive {
+            fn lower<T>(
+                &self,
+                _cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, T>,
+                ty: InterfaceType,
+                dst: &mut MaybeUninit<Self::Lower>,
+            ) -> Result<()> {
+                debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::$ty));
+                dst.write(ValRaw::$field(*self as $field));
+                Ok(())
+            }
+
+            fn store<T>(
+                &self,
+                cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, T>,
+                ty: InterfaceType,
+                offset: usize,
+            ) -> Result<()> {
+                debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::$ty));
+                debug_assert!(offset % Self::SIZE32 == 0);
+                *cx.get(offset) = self.to_le_bytes();
+                Ok(())
+            }
+        }
+
+        unsafe impl Lift for $primitive {
+            #[inline]
+            fn lift(_cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, src: &Self::Lower) -> Result<Self> {
+                debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::$ty));
+                Ok(src.$get() as $primitive)
+            }
+
+            #[inline]
+            fn load(_cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Self> {
+                debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::$ty));
+                debug_assert!((bytes.as_ptr() as usize) % Self::SIZE32 == 0);
+                Ok($primitive::from_le_bytes(bytes.try_into().unwrap()))
+            }
+        }
+    )*)
+}
+
+integers! {
+    i8 = S8 in i32/get_i32 with abi:SCALAR1,
+    u8 = U8 in u32/get_u32 with abi:SCALAR1,
+    i16 = S16 in i32/get_i32 with abi:SCALAR2,
+    u16 = U16 in u32/get_u32 with abi:SCALAR2,
+    i32 = S32 in i32/get_i32 with abi:SCALAR4,
+    u32 = U32 in u32/get_u32 with abi:SCALAR4,
+    i64 = S64 in i64/get_i64 with abi:SCALAR8,
+    u64 = U64 in u64/get_u64 with abi:SCALAR8,
+}
+
+macro_rules! floats {
+    ($($float:ident/$get_float:ident = $ty:ident with abi:$abi:ident)*) => ($(const _: () = {
+        /// All floats in-and-out of the canonical abi always have their nan
+        /// payloads canonicalized. conveniently the `NAN` constant in rust has
+        /// the same representation as canonical nan, so we can use that for the
+        /// nan value.
+        #[inline]
+        fn canonicalize(float: $float) -> $float {
+            if float.is_nan() {
+                $float::NAN
+            } else {
+                float
+            }
+        }
+
+        unsafe impl ComponentType for $float {
+            type Lower = ValRaw;
+
+            const ABI: CanonicalAbiInfo = CanonicalAbiInfo::$abi;
+
+            fn typecheck(ty: &InterfaceType, _types: &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()> {
+                match ty {
+                    InterfaceType::$ty => Ok(()),
+                    other => bail!("expected `{}` found `{}`", desc(&InterfaceType::$ty), desc(other))
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        unsafe impl Lower for $float {
+            fn lower<T>(
+                &self,
+                _cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, T>,
+                ty: InterfaceType,
+                dst: &mut MaybeUninit<Self::Lower>,
+            ) -> Result<()> {
+                debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::$ty));
+                dst.write(ValRaw::$float(canonicalize(*self).to_bits()));
+                Ok(())
+            }
+
+            fn store<T>(
+                &self,
+                cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, T>,
+                ty: InterfaceType,
+                offset: usize,
+            ) -> Result<()> {
+                debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::$ty));
+                debug_assert!(offset % Self::SIZE32 == 0);
+                let ptr = cx.get(offset);
+                *ptr = canonicalize(*self).to_bits().to_le_bytes();
+                Ok(())
+            }
+        }
+
+        unsafe impl Lift for $float {
+            #[inline]
+            fn lift(_cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, src: &Self::Lower) -> Result<Self> {
+                debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::$ty));
+                Ok(canonicalize($float::from_bits(src.$get_float())))
+            }
+
+            #[inline]
+            fn load(_cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Self> {
+                debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::$ty));
+                debug_assert!((bytes.as_ptr() as usize) % Self::SIZE32 == 0);
+                Ok(canonicalize($float::from_le_bytes(bytes.try_into().unwrap())))
+            }
+        }
+    };)*)
+}
+
+floats! {
+    f32/get_f32 = Float32 with abi:SCALAR4
+    f64/get_f64 = Float64 with abi:SCALAR8
+}
+
+unsafe impl ComponentType for bool {
+    type Lower = ValRaw;
+
+    const ABI: CanonicalAbiInfo = CanonicalAbiInfo::SCALAR1;
+
+    fn typecheck(ty: &InterfaceType, _types: &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()> {
+        match ty {
+            InterfaceType::Bool => Ok(()),
+            other => bail!("expected `bool` found `{}`", desc(other)),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+unsafe impl Lower for bool {
+    fn lower<T>(
+        &self,
+        _cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, T>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        dst: &mut MaybeUninit<Self::Lower>,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::Bool));
+        dst.write(ValRaw::i32(*self as i32));
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn store<T>(
+        &self,
+        cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, T>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        offset: usize,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::Bool));
+        debug_assert!(offset % Self::SIZE32 == 0);
+        cx.get::<1>(offset)[0] = *self as u8;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+unsafe impl Lift for bool {
+    #[inline]
+    fn lift(_cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, src: &Self::Lower) -> Result<Self> {
+        debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::Bool));
+        match src.get_i32() {
+            0 => Ok(false),
+            _ => Ok(true),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    fn load(_cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Self> {
+        debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::Bool));
+        match bytes[0] {
+            0 => Ok(false),
+            _ => Ok(true),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+unsafe impl ComponentType for char {
+    type Lower = ValRaw;
+
+    const ABI: CanonicalAbiInfo = CanonicalAbiInfo::SCALAR4;
+
+    fn typecheck(ty: &InterfaceType, _types: &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()> {
+        match ty {
+            InterfaceType::Char => Ok(()),
+            other => bail!("expected `char` found `{}`", desc(other)),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+unsafe impl Lower for char {
+    fn lower<T>(
+        &self,
+        _cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, T>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        dst: &mut MaybeUninit<Self::Lower>,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::Char));
+        dst.write(ValRaw::u32(u32::from(*self)));
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn store<T>(
+        &self,
+        cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, T>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        offset: usize,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::Char));
+        debug_assert!(offset % Self::SIZE32 == 0);
+        *cx.get::<4>(offset) = u32::from(*self).to_le_bytes();
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+unsafe impl Lift for char {
+    #[inline]
+    fn lift(_cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, src: &Self::Lower) -> Result<Self> {
+        debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::Char));
+        Ok(char::try_from(src.get_u32())?)
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    fn load(_cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Self> {
+        debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::Char));
+        debug_assert!((bytes.as_ptr() as usize) % Self::SIZE32 == 0);
+        let bits = u32::from_le_bytes(bytes.try_into().unwrap());
+        Ok(char::try_from(bits)?)
+    }
+}
+
+// TODO: these probably need different constants for memory64
+const UTF16_TAG: usize = 1 << 31;
+const MAX_STRING_BYTE_LENGTH: usize = (1 << 31) - 1;
+
+// Note that this is similar to `ComponentType for WasmStr` except it can only
+// be used for lowering, not lifting.
+unsafe impl ComponentType for str {
+    type Lower = [ValRaw; 2];
+
+    const ABI: CanonicalAbiInfo = CanonicalAbiInfo::POINTER_PAIR;
+
+    fn typecheck(ty: &InterfaceType, _types: &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()> {
+        match ty {
+            InterfaceType::String => Ok(()),
+            other => bail!("expected `string` found `{}`", desc(other)),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+unsafe impl Lower for str {
+    fn lower<T>(
+        &self,
+        cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, T>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        dst: &mut MaybeUninit<[ValRaw; 2]>,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::String));
+        let (ptr, len) = lower_string(cx, self)?;
+        // See "WRITEPTR64" above for why this is always storing a 64-bit
+        // integer.
+        map_maybe_uninit!(dst[0]).write(ValRaw::i64(ptr as i64));
+        map_maybe_uninit!(dst[1]).write(ValRaw::i64(len as i64));
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn store<T>(
+        &self,
+        cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, T>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        offset: usize,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::String));
+        debug_assert!(offset % (Self::ALIGN32 as usize) == 0);
+        let (ptr, len) = lower_string(cx, self)?;
+        // FIXME: needs memory64 handling
+        *cx.get(offset + 0) = (ptr as i32).to_le_bytes();
+        *cx.get(offset + 4) = (len as i32).to_le_bytes();
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+fn lower_string<T>(cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, T>, string: &str) -> Result<(usize, usize)> {
+    // Note that in general the wasm module can't assume anything about what the
+    // host strings are encoded as. Additionally hosts are allowed to have
+    // differently-encoded strings at runtime. Finally when copying a string
+    // into wasm it's somewhat strict in the sense that the various patterns of
+    // allocation and such are already dictated for us.
+    //
+    // In general what this means is that when copying a string from the host
+    // into the destination we need to follow one of the cases of copying into
+    // WebAssembly. It doesn't particularly matter which case as long as it ends
+    // up in the right encoding. For example a destination encoding of
+    // latin1+utf16 has a number of ways to get copied into and we do something
+    // here that isn't the default "utf8 to latin1+utf16" since we have access
+    // to simd-accelerated helpers in the `encoding_rs` crate. This is ok though
+    // because we can fake that the host string was already stored in latin1
+    // format and follow that copy pattern instead.
+    match cx.options.string_encoding() {
+        // This corresponds to `store_string_copy` in the canonical ABI where
+        // the host's representation is utf-8 and the wasm module wants utf-8 so
+        // a copy is all that's needed (and the `realloc` can be precise for the
+        // initial memory allocation).
+        StringEncoding::Utf8 => {
+            if string.len() > MAX_STRING_BYTE_LENGTH {
+                bail!(
+                    "string length of {} too large to copy into wasm",
+                    string.len()
+                );
+            }
+            let ptr = cx.realloc(0, 0, 1, string.len())?;
+            cx.as_slice_mut()[ptr..][..string.len()].copy_from_slice(string.as_bytes());
+            Ok((ptr, string.len()))
+        }
+
+        // This corresponds to `store_utf8_to_utf16` in the canonical ABI. Here
+        // an over-large allocation is performed and then shrunk afterwards if
+        // necessary.
+        StringEncoding::Utf16 => {
+            let size = string.len() * 2;
+            if size > MAX_STRING_BYTE_LENGTH {
+                bail!(
+                    "string length of {} too large to copy into wasm",
+                    string.len()
+                );
+            }
+            let mut ptr = cx.realloc(0, 0, 2, size)?;
+            let mut copied = 0;
+            let bytes = &mut cx.as_slice_mut()[ptr..][..size];
+            for (u, bytes) in string.encode_utf16().zip(bytes.chunks_mut(2)) {
+                let u_bytes = u.to_le_bytes();
+                bytes[0] = u_bytes[0];
+                bytes[1] = u_bytes[1];
+                copied += 1;
+            }
+            if (copied * 2) < size {
+                ptr = cx.realloc(ptr, size, 2, copied * 2)?;
+            }
+            Ok((ptr, copied))
+        }
+
+        StringEncoding::CompactUtf16 => {
+            // This corresponds to `store_string_to_latin1_or_utf16`
+            let bytes = string.as_bytes();
+            let mut iter = string.char_indices();
+            let mut ptr = cx.realloc(0, 0, 2, bytes.len())?;
+            let mut dst = &mut cx.as_slice_mut()[ptr..][..bytes.len()];
+            let mut result = 0;
+            while let Some((i, ch)) = iter.next() {
+                // Test if this `char` fits into the latin1 encoding.
+                if let Ok(byte) = u8::try_from(u32::from(ch)) {
+                    dst[result] = byte;
+                    result += 1;
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                // .. if utf16 is forced to be used then the allocation is
+                // bumped up to the maximum size.
+                let worst_case = bytes
+                    .len()
+                    .checked_mul(2)
+                    .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("byte length overflow"))?;
+                if worst_case > MAX_STRING_BYTE_LENGTH {
+                    bail!("byte length too large");
+                }
+                ptr = cx.realloc(ptr, bytes.len(), 2, worst_case)?;
+                dst = &mut cx.as_slice_mut()[ptr..][..worst_case];
+
+                // Previously encoded latin1 bytes are inflated to their 16-bit
+                // size for utf16
+                for i in (0..result).rev() {
+                    dst[2 * i] = dst[i];
+                    dst[2 * i + 1] = 0;
+                }
+
+                // and then the remainder of the string is encoded.
+                for (u, bytes) in string[i..]
+                    .encode_utf16()
+                    .zip(dst[2 * result..].chunks_mut(2))
+                {
+                    let u_bytes = u.to_le_bytes();
+                    bytes[0] = u_bytes[0];
+                    bytes[1] = u_bytes[1];
+                    result += 1;
+                }
+                if worst_case > 2 * result {
+                    ptr = cx.realloc(ptr, worst_case, 2, 2 * result)?;
+                }
+                return Ok((ptr, result | UTF16_TAG));
+            }
+            if result < bytes.len() {
+                ptr = cx.realloc(ptr, bytes.len(), 2, result)?;
+            }
+            Ok((ptr, result))
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Representation of a string located in linear memory in a WebAssembly
+/// instance.
+///
+/// This type is used with [`TypedFunc`], for example, when WebAssembly returns
+/// a string. This type cannot be used to give a string to WebAssembly, instead
+/// `&str` should be used for that (since it's coming from the host).
+///
+/// Note that this type represents an in-bounds string in linear memory, but it
+/// does not represent a valid string (e.g. valid utf-8). Validation happens
+/// when [`WasmStr::to_str`] is called.
+//
+// TODO: should probably expand this with examples
+pub struct WasmStr {
+    ptr: usize,
+    len: usize,
+    options: Options,
+}
+
+impl WasmStr {
+    fn new(ptr: usize, len: usize, cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>) -> Result<WasmStr> {
+        let byte_len = match cx.options.string_encoding() {
+            StringEncoding::Utf8 => Some(len),
+            StringEncoding::Utf16 => len.checked_mul(2),
+            StringEncoding::CompactUtf16 => {
+                if len & UTF16_TAG == 0 {
+                    Some(len)
+                } else {
+                    (len ^ UTF16_TAG).checked_mul(2)
+                }
+            }
+        };
+        match byte_len.and_then(|len| ptr.checked_add(len)) {
+            Some(n) if n <= cx.memory().len() => {}
+            _ => bail!("string pointer/length out of bounds of memory"),
+        }
+        Ok(WasmStr {
+            ptr,
+            len,
+            options: *cx.options,
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the underlying string that this cursor points to.
+    ///
+    /// Note that this will internally decode the string from the wasm's
+    /// encoding to utf-8 and additionally perform validation.
+    ///
+    /// The `store` provided must be the store where this string lives to
+    /// access the correct memory.
+    ///
+    /// # Errors
+    ///
+    /// Returns an error if the string wasn't encoded correctly (e.g. invalid
+    /// utf-8).
+    ///
+    /// # Panics
+    ///
+    /// Panics if this string is not owned by `store`.
+    //
+    // TODO: should add accessors for specifically utf-8 and utf-16 that perhaps
+    // in an opt-in basis don't do validation. Additionally there should be some
+    // method that returns `[u16]` after validating to avoid the utf16-to-utf8
+    // transcode.
+    pub fn to_str<'a, T: 'a>(&self, store: impl Into<StoreContext<'a, T>>) -> Result<Cow<'a, str>> {
+        let store = store.into().0;
+        let memory = self.options.memory(store);
+        self.to_str_from_memory(memory)
+    }
+
+    fn to_str_from_memory<'a>(&self, memory: &'a [u8]) -> Result<Cow<'a, str>> {
+        match self.options.string_encoding() {
+            StringEncoding::Utf8 => self.decode_utf8(memory),
+            StringEncoding::Utf16 => self.decode_utf16(memory, self.len),
+            StringEncoding::CompactUtf16 => {
+                if self.len & UTF16_TAG == 0 {
+                    self.decode_latin1(memory)
+                } else {
+                    self.decode_utf16(memory, self.len ^ UTF16_TAG)
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn decode_utf8<'a>(&self, memory: &'a [u8]) -> Result<Cow<'a, str>> {
+        // Note that bounds-checking already happen in construction of `WasmStr`
+        // so this is never expected to panic. This could theoretically be
+        // unchecked indexing if we're feeling wild enough.
+        Ok(str::from_utf8(&memory[self.ptr..][..self.len])?.into())
+    }
+
+    fn decode_utf16<'a>(&self, memory: &'a [u8], len: usize) -> Result<Cow<'a, str>> {
+        // See notes in `decode_utf8` for why this is panicking indexing.
+        let memory = &memory[self.ptr..][..len * 2];
+        Ok(std::char::decode_utf16(
+            memory
+                .chunks(2)
+                .map(|chunk| u16::from_le_bytes(chunk.try_into().unwrap())),
+        )
+        .collect::<Result<String, _>>()?
+        .into())
+    }
+
+    fn decode_latin1<'a>(&self, memory: &'a [u8]) -> Result<Cow<'a, str>> {
+        // See notes in `decode_utf8` for why this is panicking indexing.
+        Ok(encoding_rs::mem::decode_latin1(
+            &memory[self.ptr..][..self.len],
+        ))
+    }
+}
+
+// Note that this is similar to `ComponentType for str` except it can only be
+// used for lifting, not lowering.
+unsafe impl ComponentType for WasmStr {
+    type Lower = <str as ComponentType>::Lower;
+
+    const ABI: CanonicalAbiInfo = CanonicalAbiInfo::POINTER_PAIR;
+
+    fn typecheck(ty: &InterfaceType, _types: &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()> {
+        match ty {
+            InterfaceType::String => Ok(()),
+            other => bail!("expected `string` found `{}`", desc(other)),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+unsafe impl Lift for WasmStr {
+    fn lift(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, src: &Self::Lower) -> Result<Self> {
+        debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::String));
+        // FIXME: needs memory64 treatment
+        let ptr = src[0].get_u32();
+        let len = src[1].get_u32();
+        let (ptr, len) = (usize::try_from(ptr)?, usize::try_from(len)?);
+        WasmStr::new(ptr, len, cx)
+    }
+
+    fn load(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Self> {
+        debug_assert!(matches!(ty, InterfaceType::String));
+        debug_assert!((bytes.as_ptr() as usize) % (Self::ALIGN32 as usize) == 0);
+        // FIXME: needs memory64 treatment
+        let ptr = u32::from_le_bytes(bytes[..4].try_into().unwrap());
+        let len = u32::from_le_bytes(bytes[4..].try_into().unwrap());
+        let (ptr, len) = (usize::try_from(ptr)?, usize::try_from(len)?);
+        WasmStr::new(ptr, len, cx)
+    }
+}
+
+unsafe impl<T> ComponentType for [T]
+where
+    T: ComponentType,
+{
+    type Lower = [ValRaw; 2];
+
+    const ABI: CanonicalAbiInfo = CanonicalAbiInfo::POINTER_PAIR;
+
+    fn typecheck(ty: &InterfaceType, types: &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()> {
+        match ty {
+            InterfaceType::List(t) => T::typecheck(&types.types[*t].element, types),
+            other => bail!("expected `list` found `{}`", desc(other)),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+unsafe impl<T> Lower for [T]
+where
+    T: Lower,
+{
+    fn lower<U>(
+        &self,
+        cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, U>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        dst: &mut MaybeUninit<[ValRaw; 2]>,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        let elem = match ty {
+            InterfaceType::List(i) => cx.types[i].element,
+            _ => bad_type_info(),
+        };
+        let (ptr, len) = lower_list(cx, elem, self)?;
+        // See "WRITEPTR64" above for why this is always storing a 64-bit
+        // integer.
+        map_maybe_uninit!(dst[0]).write(ValRaw::i64(ptr as i64));
+        map_maybe_uninit!(dst[1]).write(ValRaw::i64(len as i64));
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn store<U>(
+        &self,
+        cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, U>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        offset: usize,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        let elem = match ty {
+            InterfaceType::List(i) => cx.types[i].element,
+            _ => bad_type_info(),
+        };
+        debug_assert!(offset % (Self::ALIGN32 as usize) == 0);
+        let (ptr, len) = lower_list(cx, elem, self)?;
+        *cx.get(offset + 0) = (ptr as i32).to_le_bytes();
+        *cx.get(offset + 4) = (len as i32).to_le_bytes();
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+// FIXME: this is not a memcpy for `T` where `T` is something like `u8`.
+//
+// Some attempts to fix this have proved not fruitful. In isolation an attempt
+// was made where:
+//
+// * `MemoryMut` stored a `*mut [u8]` as its "last view" of memory to avoid
+//   reloading the base pointer constantly. This view is reset on `realloc`.
+// * The bounds-checks in `MemoryMut::get` were removed (replaced with unsafe
+//   indexing)
+//
+// Even then though this didn't correctly vectorized for `Vec<u8>`. It's not
+// entirely clear why but it appeared that it's related to reloading the base
+// pointer fo memory (I guess from `MemoryMut` itself?). Overall I'm not really
+// clear on what's happening there, but this is surely going to be a performance
+// bottleneck in the future.
+fn lower_list<T, U>(
+    cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, U>,
+    ty: InterfaceType,
+    list: &[T],
+) -> Result<(usize, usize)>
+where
+    T: Lower,
+{
+    let elem_size = T::SIZE32;
+    let size = list
+        .len()
+        .checked_mul(elem_size)
+        .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("size overflow copying a list"))?;
+    let ptr = cx.realloc(0, 0, T::ALIGN32, size)?;
+    let mut cur = ptr;
+    for item in list {
+        item.store(cx, ty, cur)?;
+        cur += elem_size;
+    }
+    Ok((ptr, list.len()))
+}
+
+/// Representation of a list of values that are owned by a WebAssembly instance.
+///
+/// This type is used whenever a `(list T)` is returned from a [`TypedFunc`],
+/// for example. This type represents a list of values that are stored in linear
+/// memory which are waiting to be read.
+///
+/// Note that this type represents only a valid range of bytes for the list
+/// itself, it does not represent validity of the elements themselves and that's
+/// performed when they're iterated.
+pub struct WasmList<T> {
+    ptr: usize,
+    len: usize,
+    options: Options,
+    elem: InterfaceType,
+    // NB: it would probably be more efficient to store a non-atomic index-style
+    // reference to something inside a `StoreOpaque`, but that's not easily
+    // available at this time, so it's left as a future exercise.
+    types: Arc<ComponentTypes>,
+    instance: SendSyncPtr<ComponentInstance>,
+    _marker: marker::PhantomData<T>,
+}
+
+impl<T: Lift> WasmList<T> {
+    fn new(
+        ptr: usize,
+        len: usize,
+        cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>,
+        elem: InterfaceType,
+    ) -> Result<WasmList<T>> {
+        match len
+            .checked_mul(T::SIZE32)
+            .and_then(|len| ptr.checked_add(len))
+        {
+            Some(n) if n <= cx.memory().len() => {}
+            _ => bail!("list pointer/length out of bounds of memory"),
+        }
+        if ptr % usize::try_from(T::ALIGN32)? != 0 {
+            bail!("list pointer is not aligned")
+        }
+        Ok(WasmList {
+            ptr,
+            len,
+            options: *cx.options,
+            elem,
+            types: cx.types.clone(),
+            instance: SendSyncPtr::new(NonNull::new(cx.instance_ptr()).unwrap()),
+            _marker: marker::PhantomData,
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the item length of this vector
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
+        self.len
+    }
+
+    /// Gets the `n`th element of this list.
+    ///
+    /// Returns `None` if `index` is out of bounds. Returns `Some(Err(..))` if
+    /// the value couldn't be decoded (it was invalid). Returns `Some(Ok(..))`
+    /// if the value is valid.
+    ///
+    /// # Panics
+    ///
+    /// This function will panic if the string did not originally come from the
+    /// `store` specified.
+    //
+    // TODO: given that interface values are intended to be consumed in one go
+    // should we even expose a random access iteration API? In theory all
+    // consumers should be validating through the iterator.
+    pub fn get(&self, mut store: impl AsContextMut, index: usize) -> Option<Result<T>> {
+        let store = store.as_context_mut().0;
+        self.options.store_id().assert_belongs_to(store.id());
+        // This should be safe because the unsafety lies in the `self.instance`
+        // pointer passed in has previously been validated by the lifting
+        // context this was originally created within and with the check above
+        // this is guaranteed to be the same store. This means that this should
+        // be carrying over the original assertion from the original creation of
+        // the lifting context that created this type.
+        let mut cx =
+            unsafe { LiftContext::new(store, &self.options, &self.types, self.instance.as_ptr()) };
+        self.get_from_store(&mut cx, index)
+    }
+
+    fn get_from_store(&self, cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, index: usize) -> Option<Result<T>> {
+        if index >= self.len {
+            return None;
+        }
+        // Note that this is using panicking indexing and this is expected to
+        // never fail. The bounds-checking here happened during the construction
+        // of the `WasmList` itself which means these should always be in-bounds
+        // (and wasm memory can only grow). This could theoretically be
+        // unchecked indexing if we're confident enough and it's actually a perf
+        // issue one day.
+        let bytes = &cx.memory()[self.ptr + index * T::SIZE32..][..T::SIZE32];
+        Some(T::load(cx, self.elem, bytes))
+    }
+
+    /// Returns an iterator over the elements of this list.
+    ///
+    /// Each item of the list may fail to decode and is represented through the
+    /// `Result` value of the iterator.
+    pub fn iter<'a, U: 'a>(
+        &'a self,
+        store: impl Into<StoreContextMut<'a, U>>,
+    ) -> impl ExactSizeIterator<Item = Result<T>> + 'a {
+        let store = store.into().0;
+        self.options.store_id().assert_belongs_to(store.id());
+        // See comments about unsafety in the `get` method.
+        let mut cx =
+            unsafe { LiftContext::new(store, &self.options, &self.types, self.instance.as_ptr()) };
+        (0..self.len).map(move |i| self.get_from_store(&mut cx, i).unwrap())
+    }
+}
+
+macro_rules! raw_wasm_list_accessors {
+    ($($i:ident)*) => ($(
+        impl WasmList<$i> {
+            /// Get access to the raw underlying memory for this list.
+            ///
+            /// This method will return a direct slice into the original wasm
+            /// module's linear memory where the data for this slice is stored.
+            /// This allows the embedder to have efficient access to the
+            /// underlying memory if needed and avoid copies and such if
+            /// desired.
+            ///
+            /// Note that multi-byte integers are stored in little-endian format
+            /// so portable processing of this slice must be aware of the host's
+            /// byte-endianness. The `from_le` constructors in the Rust standard
+            /// library should be suitable for converting from little-endian.
+            ///
+            /// # Panics
+            ///
+            /// Panics if the `store` provided is not the one from which this
+            /// slice originated.
+            pub fn as_le_slice<'a, T: 'a>(&self, store: impl Into<StoreContext<'a, T>>) -> &'a [$i] {
+                // See comments in `WasmList::get` for the panicking indexing
+                let byte_size = self.len * mem::size_of::<$i>();
+                let bytes = &self.options.memory(store.into().0)[self.ptr..][..byte_size];
+
+                // The canonical ABI requires that everything is aligned to its
+                // own size, so this should be an aligned array. Furthermore the
+                // alignment of primitive integers for hosts should be smaller
+                // than or equal to the size of the primitive itself, meaning
+                // that a wasm canonical-abi-aligned list is also aligned for
+                // the host. That should mean that the head/tail slices here are
+                // empty.
+                //
+                // Also note that the `unsafe` here is needed since the type
+                // we're aligning to isn't guaranteed to be valid, but in our
+                // case it's just integers and bytes so this should be safe.
+                unsafe {
+                    let (head, body, tail) = bytes.align_to::<$i>();
+                    assert!(head.is_empty() && tail.is_empty());
+                    body
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    )*)
+}
+
+raw_wasm_list_accessors! {
+    i8 i16 i32 i64
+    u8 u16 u32 u64
+}
+
+// Note that this is similar to `ComponentType for str` except it can only be
+// used for lifting, not lowering.
+unsafe impl<T: ComponentType> ComponentType for WasmList<T> {
+    type Lower = <[T] as ComponentType>::Lower;
+
+    const ABI: CanonicalAbiInfo = CanonicalAbiInfo::POINTER_PAIR;
+
+    fn typecheck(ty: &InterfaceType, types: &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()> {
+        <[T] as ComponentType>::typecheck(ty, types)
+    }
+}
+
+unsafe impl<T: Lift> Lift for WasmList<T> {
+    fn lift(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, src: &Self::Lower) -> Result<Self> {
+        let elem = match ty {
+            InterfaceType::List(i) => cx.types[i].element,
+            _ => bad_type_info(),
+        };
+        // FIXME: needs memory64 treatment
+        let ptr = src[0].get_u32();
+        let len = src[1].get_u32();
+        let (ptr, len) = (usize::try_from(ptr)?, usize::try_from(len)?);
+        WasmList::new(ptr, len, cx, elem)
+    }
+
+    fn load(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Self> {
+        let elem = match ty {
+            InterfaceType::List(i) => cx.types[i].element,
+            _ => bad_type_info(),
+        };
+        debug_assert!((bytes.as_ptr() as usize) % (Self::ALIGN32 as usize) == 0);
+        // FIXME: needs memory64 treatment
+        let ptr = u32::from_le_bytes(bytes[..4].try_into().unwrap());
+        let len = u32::from_le_bytes(bytes[4..].try_into().unwrap());
+        let (ptr, len) = (usize::try_from(ptr)?, usize::try_from(len)?);
+        WasmList::new(ptr, len, cx, elem)
+    }
+}
+
+/// Verify that the given wasm type is a tuple with the expected fields in the right order.
+fn typecheck_tuple(
+    ty: &InterfaceType,
+    types: &InstanceType<'_>,
+    expected: &[fn(&InterfaceType, &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()>],
+) -> Result<()> {
+    match ty {
+        InterfaceType::Tuple(t) => {
+            let tuple = &types.types[*t];
+            if tuple.types.len() != expected.len() {
+                bail!(
+                    "expected {}-tuple, found {}-tuple",
+                    expected.len(),
+                    tuple.types.len()
+                );
+            }
+            for (ty, check) in tuple.types.iter().zip(expected) {
+                check(ty, types)?;
+            }
+            Ok(())
+        }
+        other => bail!("expected `tuple` found `{}`", desc(other)),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Verify that the given wasm type is a record with the expected fields in the right order and with the right
+/// names.
+pub fn typecheck_record(
+    ty: &InterfaceType,
+    types: &InstanceType<'_>,
+    expected: &[(&str, fn(&InterfaceType, &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()>)],
+) -> Result<()> {
+    match ty {
+        InterfaceType::Record(index) => {
+            let fields = &types.types[*index].fields;
+
+            if fields.len() != expected.len() {
+                bail!(
+                    "expected record of {} fields, found {} fields",
+                    expected.len(),
+                    fields.len()
+                );
+            }
+
+            for (field, &(name, check)) in fields.iter().zip(expected) {
+                check(&field.ty, types)
+                    .with_context(|| format!("type mismatch for field {}", name))?;
+
+                if field.name != name {
+                    bail!("expected record field named {}, found {}", name, field.name);
+                }
+            }
+
+            Ok(())
+        }
+        other => bail!("expected `record` found `{}`", desc(other)),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Verify that the given wasm type is a variant with the expected cases in the right order and with the right
+/// names.
+pub fn typecheck_variant(
+    ty: &InterfaceType,
+    types: &InstanceType<'_>,
+    expected: &[(
+        &str,
+        Option<fn(&InterfaceType, &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()>>,
+    )],
+) -> Result<()> {
+    match ty {
+        InterfaceType::Variant(index) => {
+            let cases = &types.types[*index].cases;
+
+            if cases.len() != expected.len() {
+                bail!(
+                    "expected variant of {} cases, found {} cases",
+                    expected.len(),
+                    cases.len()
+                );
+            }
+
+            for (case, &(name, check)) in cases.iter().zip(expected) {
+                if case.name != name {
+                    bail!("expected variant case named {name}, found {}", case.name);
+                }
+
+                match (check, &case.ty) {
+                    (Some(check), Some(ty)) => check(ty, types)
+                        .with_context(|| format!("type mismatch for case {name}"))?,
+                    (None, None) => {}
+                    (Some(_), None) => {
+                        bail!("case `{name}` has no type but one was expected")
+                    }
+                    (None, Some(_)) => {
+                        bail!("case `{name}` has a type but none was expected")
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            Ok(())
+        }
+        other => bail!("expected `variant` found `{}`", desc(other)),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Verify that the given wasm type is a enum with the expected cases in the right order and with the right
+/// names.
+pub fn typecheck_enum(
+    ty: &InterfaceType,
+    types: &InstanceType<'_>,
+    expected: &[&str],
+) -> Result<()> {
+    match ty {
+        InterfaceType::Enum(index) => {
+            let names = &types.types[*index].names;
+
+            if names.len() != expected.len() {
+                bail!(
+                    "expected enum of {} names, found {} names",
+                    expected.len(),
+                    names.len()
+                );
+            }
+
+            for (name, expected) in names.iter().zip(expected) {
+                if name != expected {
+                    bail!("expected enum case named {}, found {}", expected, name);
+                }
+            }
+
+            Ok(())
+        }
+        other => bail!("expected `enum` found `{}`", desc(other)),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Verify that the given wasm type is a union with the expected cases in the right order.
+pub fn typecheck_union(
+    ty: &InterfaceType,
+    types: &InstanceType<'_>,
+    expected: &[fn(&InterfaceType, &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()>],
+) -> Result<()> {
+    match ty {
+        InterfaceType::Union(index) => {
+            let union_types = &types.types[*index].types;
+
+            if union_types.len() != expected.len() {
+                bail!(
+                    "expected union of {} types, found {} types",
+                    expected.len(),
+                    union_types.len()
+                );
+            }
+
+            for (index, (ty, check)) in union_types.iter().zip(expected).enumerate() {
+                check(ty, types).with_context(|| format!("type mismatch for case {}", index))?;
+            }
+
+            Ok(())
+        }
+        other => bail!("expected `union` found `{}`", desc(other)),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Verify that the given wasm type is a flags type with the expected flags in the right order and with the right
+/// names.
+pub fn typecheck_flags(
+    ty: &InterfaceType,
+    types: &InstanceType<'_>,
+    expected: &[&str],
+) -> Result<()> {
+    match ty {
+        InterfaceType::Flags(index) => {
+            let names = &types.types[*index].names;
+
+            if names.len() != expected.len() {
+                bail!(
+                    "expected flags type with {} names, found {} names",
+                    expected.len(),
+                    names.len()
+                );
+            }
+
+            for (name, expected) in names.iter().zip(expected) {
+                if name != expected {
+                    bail!("expected flag named {}, found {}", expected, name);
+                }
+            }
+
+            Ok(())
+        }
+        other => bail!("expected `flags` found `{}`", desc(other)),
+    }
+}
+
+/// Format the specified bitflags using the specified names for debugging
+pub fn format_flags(bits: &[u32], names: &[&str], f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
+    f.write_str("(")?;
+    let mut wrote = false;
+    for (index, name) in names.iter().enumerate() {
+        if ((bits[index / 32] >> (index % 32)) & 1) != 0 {
+            if wrote {
+                f.write_str("|")?;
+            } else {
+                wrote = true;
+            }
+
+            f.write_str(name)?;
+        }
+    }
+    f.write_str(")")
+}
+
+unsafe impl<T> ComponentType for Option<T>
+where
+    T: ComponentType,
+{
+    type Lower = TupleLower2<<u32 as ComponentType>::Lower, T::Lower>;
+
+    const ABI: CanonicalAbiInfo = CanonicalAbiInfo::variant_static(&[None, Some(T::ABI)]);
+
+    fn typecheck(ty: &InterfaceType, types: &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()> {
+        match ty {
+            InterfaceType::Option(t) => T::typecheck(&types.types[*t].ty, types),
+            other => bail!("expected `option` found `{}`", desc(other)),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+unsafe impl<T> ComponentVariant for Option<T>
+where
+    T: ComponentType,
+{
+    const CASES: &'static [Option<CanonicalAbiInfo>] = &[None, Some(T::ABI)];
+}
+
+unsafe impl<T> Lower for Option<T>
+where
+    T: Lower,
+{
+    fn lower<U>(
+        &self,
+        cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, U>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        dst: &mut MaybeUninit<Self::Lower>,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        let payload = match ty {
+            InterfaceType::Option(ty) => cx.types[ty].ty,
+            _ => bad_type_info(),
+        };
+        match self {
+            None => {
+                map_maybe_uninit!(dst.A1).write(ValRaw::i32(0));
+                // Note that this is unsafe as we're writing an arbitrary
+                // bit-pattern to an arbitrary type, but part of the unsafe
+                // contract of the `ComponentType` trait is that we can assign
+                // any bit-pattern. By writing all zeros here we're ensuring
+                // that the core wasm arguments this translates to will all be
+                // zeros (as the canonical ABI requires).
+                unsafe {
+                    map_maybe_uninit!(dst.A2).as_mut_ptr().write_bytes(0u8, 1);
+                }
+            }
+            Some(val) => {
+                map_maybe_uninit!(dst.A1).write(ValRaw::i32(1));
+                val.lower(cx, payload, map_maybe_uninit!(dst.A2))?;
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn store<U>(
+        &self,
+        cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, U>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        offset: usize,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        debug_assert!(offset % (Self::ALIGN32 as usize) == 0);
+        let payload = match ty {
+            InterfaceType::Option(ty) => cx.types[ty].ty,
+            _ => bad_type_info(),
+        };
+        match self {
+            None => {
+                cx.get::<1>(offset)[0] = 0;
+            }
+            Some(val) => {
+                cx.get::<1>(offset)[0] = 1;
+                val.store(cx, payload, offset + (Self::INFO.payload_offset32 as usize))?;
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+unsafe impl<T> Lift for Option<T>
+where
+    T: Lift,
+{
+    fn lift(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, src: &Self::Lower) -> Result<Self> {
+        let payload = match ty {
+            InterfaceType::Option(ty) => cx.types[ty].ty,
+            _ => bad_type_info(),
+        };
+        Ok(match src.A1.get_i32() {
+            0 => None,
+            1 => Some(T::lift(cx, payload, &src.A2)?),
+            _ => bail!("invalid option discriminant"),
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn load(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Self> {
+        debug_assert!((bytes.as_ptr() as usize) % (Self::ALIGN32 as usize) == 0);
+        let payload_ty = match ty {
+            InterfaceType::Option(ty) => cx.types[ty].ty,
+            _ => bad_type_info(),
+        };
+        let discrim = bytes[0];
+        let payload = &bytes[Self::INFO.payload_offset32 as usize..];
+        match discrim {
+            0 => Ok(None),
+            1 => Ok(Some(T::load(cx, payload_ty, payload)?)),
+            _ => bail!("invalid option discriminant"),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
+#[repr(C)]
+pub struct ResultLower<T: Copy, E: Copy> {
+    tag: ValRaw,
+    payload: ResultLowerPayload<T, E>,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
+#[repr(C)]
+union ResultLowerPayload<T: Copy, E: Copy> {
+    ok: T,
+    err: E,
+}
+
+unsafe impl<T, E> ComponentType for Result<T, E>
+where
+    T: ComponentType,
+    E: ComponentType,
+{
+    type Lower = ResultLower<T::Lower, E::Lower>;
+
+    const ABI: CanonicalAbiInfo = CanonicalAbiInfo::variant_static(&[Some(T::ABI), Some(E::ABI)]);
+
+    fn typecheck(ty: &InterfaceType, types: &InstanceType<'_>) -> Result<()> {
+        match ty {
+            InterfaceType::Result(r) => {
+                let result = &types.types[*r];
+                match &result.ok {
+                    Some(ty) => T::typecheck(ty, types)?,
+                    None if T::IS_RUST_UNIT_TYPE => {}
+                    None => bail!("expected no `ok` type"),
+                }
+                match &result.err {
+                    Some(ty) => E::typecheck(ty, types)?,
+                    None if E::IS_RUST_UNIT_TYPE => {}
+                    None => bail!("expected no `err` type"),
+                }
+                Ok(())
+            }
+            other => bail!("expected `result` found `{}`", desc(other)),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Lowers the payload of a variant into the storage for the entire payload,
+/// handling writing zeros at the end of the representation if this payload is
+/// smaller than the entire flat representation.
+///
+/// * `payload` - the flat storage space for the entire payload of the variant
+/// * `typed_payload` - projection from the payload storage space to the
+///   individaul storage space for this variant.
+/// * `lower` - lowering operation used to initialize the `typed_payload` return
+///   value.
+///
+/// For more information on this se the comments in the `Lower for Result`
+/// implementation below.
+pub unsafe fn lower_payload<P, T>(
+    payload: &mut MaybeUninit<P>,
+    typed_payload: impl FnOnce(&mut MaybeUninit<P>) -> &mut MaybeUninit<T>,
+    lower: impl FnOnce(&mut MaybeUninit<T>) -> Result<()>,
+) -> Result<()> {
+    let typed = typed_payload(payload);
+    lower(typed)?;
+
+    let typed_len = storage_as_slice(typed).len();
+    let payload = storage_as_slice_mut(payload);
+    for slot in payload[typed_len..].iter_mut() {
+        *slot = ValRaw::u64(0);
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+unsafe impl<T, E> ComponentVariant for Result<T, E>
+where
+    T: ComponentType,
+    E: ComponentType,
+{
+    const CASES: &'static [Option<CanonicalAbiInfo>] = &[Some(T::ABI), Some(E::ABI)];
+}
+
+unsafe impl<T, E> Lower for Result<T, E>
+where
+    T: Lower,
+    E: Lower,
+{
+    fn lower<U>(
+        &self,
+        cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, U>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        dst: &mut MaybeUninit<Self::Lower>,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        let (ok, err) = match ty {
+            InterfaceType::Result(ty) => {
+                let ty = &cx.types[ty];
+                (ty.ok, ty.err)
+            }
+            _ => bad_type_info(),
+        };
+
+        // This implementation of `Lower::lower`, if you're reading these from
+        // the top of this file, is the first location that the "join" logic of
+        // the component model's canonical ABI encountered. The rough problem is
+        // that let's say we have a component model type of the form:
+        //
+        //      (result u64 (error (tuple f32 u16)))
+        //
+        // The flat representation of this is actually pretty tricky. Currently
+        // it is:
+        //
+        //      i32 i64 i32
+        //
+        // The first `i32` is the discriminant for the `result`, and the payload
+        // is represented by `i64 i32`. The "ok" variant will only use the `i64`
+        // and the "err" variant will use both `i64` and `i32`.
+        //
+        // In the "ok" variant the first issue is encountered. The size of one
+        // variant may not match the size of the other variants. All variants
+        // start at the "front" but when lowering a type we need to be sure to
+        // initialize the later variants (lest we leak random host memory into
+        // the guest module). Due to how the `Lower` type is represented as a
+        // `union` of all the variants what ends up happening here is that
+        // internally within the `lower_payload` after the typed payload is
+        // lowered the remaining bits of the payload that weren't initialized
+        // are all set to zero. This will guarantee that we'll write to all the
+        // slots for each variant.
+        //
+        // The "err" variant encounters the second issue, however, which is that
+        // the flat representation for each type may differ between payloads. In
+        // the "ok" arm an `i64` is written, but the `lower` implementation for
+        // the "err" arm will write an `f32` and then an `i32`. For this
+        // implementation of `lower` to be valid the `f32` needs to get inflated
+        // to an `i64` with zero-padding in the upper bits. What may be
+        // surprising, however, is that none of this is handled in this file.
+        // This implementation looks like it's blindly deferring to `E::lower`
+        // and hoping it does the right thing.
+        //
+        // In reality, however, the correctness of variant lowering relies on
+        // two subtle details of the `ValRaw` implementation in Wasmtime:
+        //
+        // 1. First the `ValRaw` value always contains little-endian values.
+        //    This means that if a `u32` is written, a `u64` is read, and then
+        //    the `u64` has its upper bits truncated the original value will
+        //    always be retained. This is primarily here for big-endian
+        //    platforms where if it weren't little endian then the opposite
+        //    would occur and the wrong value would be read.
+        //
+        // 2. Second, and perhaps even more subtly, the `ValRaw` constructors
+        //    for 32-bit types actually always initialize 64-bits of the
+        //    `ValRaw`. In the component model flat ABI only 32 and 64-bit types
+        //    are used so 64-bits is big enough to contain everything. This
+        //    means that when a `ValRaw` is written into the destination it will
+        //    always, whether it's needed or not, be "ready" to get extended up
+        //    to 64-bits.
+        //
+        // Put together these two subtle guarantees means that all `Lower`
+        // implementations can be written "naturally" as one might naively
+        // expect. Variants will, on each arm, zero out remaining fields and all
+        // writes to the flat representation will automatically be 64-bit writes
+        // meaning that if the value is read as a 64-bit value, which isn't
+        // known at the time of the write, it'll still be correct.
+        match self {
+            Ok(e) => {
+                map_maybe_uninit!(dst.tag).write(ValRaw::i32(0));
+                unsafe {
+                    lower_payload(
+                        map_maybe_uninit!(dst.payload),
+                        |payload| map_maybe_uninit!(payload.ok),
+                        |dst| match ok {
+                            Some(ok) => e.lower(cx, ok, dst),
+                            None => Ok(()),
+                        },
+                    )
+                }
+            }
+            Err(e) => {
+                map_maybe_uninit!(dst.tag).write(ValRaw::i32(1));
+                unsafe {
+                    lower_payload(
+                        map_maybe_uninit!(dst.payload),
+                        |payload| map_maybe_uninit!(payload.err),
+                        |dst| match err {
+                            Some(err) => e.lower(cx, err, dst),
+                            None => Ok(()),
+                        },
+                    )
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn store<U>(
+        &self,
+        cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, U>,
+        ty: InterfaceType,
+        offset: usize,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        let (ok, err) = match ty {
+            InterfaceType::Result(ty) => {
+                let ty = &cx.types[ty];
+                (ty.ok, ty.err)
+            }
+            _ => bad_type_info(),
+        };
+        debug_assert!(offset % (Self::ALIGN32 as usize) == 0);
+        let payload_offset = Self::INFO.payload_offset32 as usize;
+        match self {
+            Ok(e) => {
+                cx.get::<1>(offset)[0] = 0;
+                if let Some(ok) = ok {
+                    e.store(cx, ok, offset + payload_offset)?;
+                }
+            }
+            Err(e) => {
+                cx.get::<1>(offset)[0] = 1;
+                if let Some(err) = err {
+                    e.store(cx, err, offset + payload_offset)?;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+unsafe impl<T, E> Lift for Result<T, E>
+where
+    T: Lift,
+    E: Lift,
+{
+    fn lift(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, src: &Self::Lower) -> Result<Self> {
+        let (ok, err) = match ty {
+            InterfaceType::Result(ty) => {
+                let ty = &cx.types[ty];
+                (ty.ok, ty.err)
+            }
+            _ => bad_type_info(),
+        };
+        // Note that this implementation specifically isn't trying to actually
+        // reinterpret or alter the bits of `lower` depending on which variant
+        // we're lifting. This ends up all working out because the value is
+        // stored in little-endian format.
+        //
+        // When stored in little-endian format the `{T,E}::Lower`, when each
+        // individual `ValRaw` is read, means that if an i64 value, extended
+        // from an i32 value, was stored then when the i32 value is read it'll
+        // automatically ignore the upper bits.
+        //
+        // This "trick" allows us to seamlessly pass through the `Self::Lower`
+        // representation into the lifting/lowering without trying to handle
+        // "join"ed types as per the canonical ABI. It just so happens that i64
+        // bits will naturally be reinterpreted as f64. Additionally if the
+        // joined type is i64 but only the lower bits are read that's ok and we
+        // don't need to validate the upper bits.
+        //
+        // This is largely enabled by WebAssembly/component-model#35 where no
+        // validation needs to be performed for ignored bits and bytes here.
+        Ok(match src.tag.get_i32() {
+            0 => Ok(unsafe { lift_option(cx, ok, &src.payload.ok)? }),
+            1 => Err(unsafe { lift_option(cx, err, &src.payload.err)? }),
+            _ => bail!("invalid expected discriminant"),
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn load(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Self> {
+        debug_assert!((bytes.as_ptr() as usize) % (Self::ALIGN32 as usize) == 0);
+        let discrim = bytes[0];
+        let payload = &bytes[Self::INFO.payload_offset32 as usize..];
+        let (ok, err) = match ty {
+            InterfaceType::Result(ty) => {
+                let ty = &cx.types[ty];
+                (ty.ok, ty.err)
+            }
+            _ => bad_type_info(),
+        };
+        match discrim {
+            0 => Ok(Ok(load_option(cx, ok, &payload[..T::SIZE32])?)),
+            1 => Ok(Err(load_option(cx, err, &payload[..E::SIZE32])?)),
+            _ => bail!("invalid expected discriminant"),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+fn lift_option<T>(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: Option<InterfaceType>, src: &T::Lower) -> Result<T>
+where
+    T: Lift,
+{
+    match ty {
+        Some(ty) => T::lift(cx, ty, src),
+        None => Ok(empty_lift()),
+    }
+}
+
+fn load_option<T>(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: Option<InterfaceType>, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<T>
+where
+    T: Lift,
+{
+    match ty {
+        Some(ty) => T::load(cx, ty, bytes),
+        None => Ok(empty_lift()),
+    }
+}
+
+fn empty_lift<T>() -> T
+where
+    T: Lift,
+{
+    assert!(T::IS_RUST_UNIT_TYPE);
+    assert_eq!(mem::size_of::<T>(), 0);
+    unsafe { MaybeUninit::uninit().assume_init() }
+}
+
+macro_rules! impl_component_ty_for_tuples {
+    ($n:tt $($t:ident)*) => {paste::paste!{
+        #[allow(non_snake_case)]
+        #[doc(hidden)]
+        #[derive(Clone, Copy)]
+        #[repr(C)]
+        pub struct [<TupleLower$n>]<$($t),*> {
+            $($t: $t,)*
+            _align_tuple_lower0_correctly: [ValRaw; 0],
+        }
+
+        #[allow(non_snake_case)]
+        unsafe impl<$($t,)*> ComponentType for ($($t,)*)
+            where $($t: ComponentType),*
+        {
+            type Lower = [<TupleLower$n>]<$($t::Lower),*>;
+
+            const ABI: CanonicalAbiInfo = CanonicalAbiInfo::record_static(&[
+                $($t::ABI),*
+            ]);
+
+            const IS_RUST_UNIT_TYPE: bool = {
+                let mut _is_unit = true;
+                $(
+                    let _anything_to_bind_the_macro_variable = $t::IS_RUST_UNIT_TYPE;
+                    _is_unit = false;
+                )*
+                _is_unit
+            };
+
+            fn typecheck(
+                ty: &InterfaceType,
+                types: &InstanceType<'_>,
+            ) -> Result<()> {
+                typecheck_tuple(ty, types, &[$($t::typecheck),*])
+            }
+        }
+
+        #[allow(non_snake_case)]
+        unsafe impl<$($t,)*> Lower for ($($t,)*)
+            where $($t: Lower),*
+        {
+            fn lower<U>(
+                &self,
+                cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, U>,
+                ty: InterfaceType,
+                _dst: &mut MaybeUninit<Self::Lower>,
+            ) -> Result<()> {
+                let types = match ty {
+                    InterfaceType::Tuple(t) => &cx.types[t].types,
+                    _ => bad_type_info(),
+                };
+                let ($($t,)*) = self;
+                let mut _types = types.iter();
+                $(
+                    let ty = *_types.next().unwrap_or_else(bad_type_info);
+                    $t.lower(cx, ty, map_maybe_uninit!(_dst.$t))?;
+                )*
+                Ok(())
+            }
+
+            fn store<U>(
+                &self,
+                cx: &mut LowerContext<'_, U>,
+                ty: InterfaceType,
+                mut _offset: usize,
+            ) -> Result<()> {
+                debug_assert!(_offset % (Self::ALIGN32 as usize) == 0);
+                let types = match ty {
+                    InterfaceType::Tuple(t) => &cx.types[t].types,
+                    _ => bad_type_info(),
+                };
+                let ($($t,)*) = self;
+                let mut _types = types.iter();
+                $(
+                    let ty = *_types.next().unwrap_or_else(bad_type_info);
+                    $t.store(cx, ty, $t::ABI.next_field32_size(&mut _offset))?;
+                )*
+                Ok(())
+            }
+        }
+
+        #[allow(non_snake_case)]
+        unsafe impl<$($t,)*> Lift for ($($t,)*)
+            where $($t: Lift),*
+        {
+            fn lift(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, _src: &Self::Lower) -> Result<Self> {
+                let types = match ty {
+                    InterfaceType::Tuple(t) => &cx.types[t].types,
+                    _ => bad_type_info(),
+                };
+                let mut _types = types.iter();
+                Ok(($(
+                    $t::lift(
+                        cx,
+                        *_types.next().unwrap_or_else(bad_type_info),
+                        &_src.$t,
+                    )?,
+                )*))
+            }
+
+            fn load(cx: &mut LiftContext<'_>, ty: InterfaceType, bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Self> {
+                debug_assert!((bytes.as_ptr() as usize) % (Self::ALIGN32 as usize) == 0);
+                let types = match ty {
+                    InterfaceType::Tuple(t) => &cx.types[t].types,
+                    _ => bad_type_info(),
+                };
+                let mut _types = types.iter();
+                let mut _offset = 0;
+                $(
+                    let ty = *_types.next().unwrap_or_else(bad_type_info);
+                    let $t = $t::load(cx, ty, &bytes[$t::ABI.next_field32_size(&mut _offset)..][..$t::SIZE32])?;
+                )*
+                Ok(($($t,)*))
+            }
+        }
+
+        #[allow(non_snake_case)]
+        unsafe impl<$($t,)*> ComponentNamedList for ($($t,)*)
+            where $($t: ComponentType),*
+        {}
+    }};
+}
+
+for_each_function_signature!(impl_component_ty_for_tuples);
+
+pub fn desc(ty: &InterfaceType) -> &'static str {
+    match ty {
+        InterfaceType::U8 => "u8",
+        InterfaceType::S8 => "s8",
+        InterfaceType::U16 => "u16",
+        InterfaceType::S16 => "s16",
+        InterfaceType::U32 => "u32",
+        InterfaceType::S32 => "s32",
+        InterfaceType::U64 => "u64",
+        InterfaceType::S64 => "s64",
+        InterfaceType::Float32 => "f32",
+        InterfaceType::Float64 => "f64",
+        InterfaceType::Bool => "bool",
+        InterfaceType::Char => "char",
+        InterfaceType::String => "string",
+        InterfaceType::List(_) => "list",
+        InterfaceType::Tuple(_) => "tuple",
+        InterfaceType::Option(_) => "option",
+        InterfaceType::Result(_) => "result",
+
+        InterfaceType::Record(_) => "record",
+        InterfaceType::Variant(_) => "variant",
+        InterfaceType::Flags(_) => "flags",
+        InterfaceType::Enum(_) => "enum",
+        InterfaceType::Union(_) => "union",
+        InterfaceType::Own(_) => "owned resource",
+        InterfaceType::Borrow(_) => "borrowed resource",
+    }
+}
+
+#[cold]
+#[doc(hidden)]
+pub fn bad_type_info<T>() -> T {
+    // NB: should consider something like `unreachable_unchecked` here if this
+    // becomes a performance bottleneck at some point, but that also comes with
+    // a tradeoff of propagating a lot of unsafety, so it may not be worth it.
+    panic!("bad type information detected");
+}