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@@ -69,9 +69,11 @@ There are a few differences between Binaryen IR and the WebAssembly language: it can read a wasm text file if it contains only s-expressions. * Binaryen uses Stack IR to optimize "stacky" code (that can't be represented in structured form). - * In rare cases stacky code must be represented in Binaryen IR as well, like - popping a value in an exception catch. To support that Binaryen IR has - `push` and `pop` instructions. + * When stacky code must be represented in Binaryen IR, such as with + multivalue instructions and blocks, it is represented with tuple types that + do not exist in the WebAssembly language. In addition to multivalue + instructions, locals and globals can also have tuple types in Binaryen IR + but not in WebAssembly. * Types and unreachable code * WebAssembly limits block/if/loop types to none and the concrete value types (i32, i64, f32, f64). Binaryen IR has an unreachable type, and it allows |