WebAssembly / WebAssembly/wabt

Add a flag that constrains features to the W3C recommendation

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Description

Since this is a repo in the org for the W3C core recommendation, I think it is a fair ask to have a flag that constrains features to what's included in that, and no more. It will help with tracking https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt#supported-proposals and make upgrades seamless.

I'm not asking for this to be by default turned on, rather to make it possible to achieve undoing all the flags that turn on things not in the recommended spec. Ex. --enable-1.0 (please don't call whatever flag MVP as that's jargon and not a W3C version number).

Ex. just like enable-all

      --enable-1.0                             Enable only features in version 1.0 of the core WebAssembly standard

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Research direction

The issue does not name implementation files or tests. Start by tracing the existing enable-all and --enable-1.0 command-line option handling, then inspect how supported WebAssembly proposals are represented. Done means a flag can enable exactly the features in the W3C core WebAssembly 1.0 recommendation without changing the default behavior.

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cli
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Feature
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