Apparently we didn't use those yet. MSL seems to be able to alias struct
types and variable types to a degree, so that's why it has escaped
testing until now.
This allows shaders to declare and use pointer-type variables. Pointers
may be loaded and stored, be the result of an `OpSelect`, be passed to
and returned from functions, and even be passed as inputs to the `OpPhi`
instruction. All types of pointers may be used as variable pointers.
Variable pointers to storage buffers and workgroup memory may even be
loaded from and stored to, as though they were ordinary variables. In
addition, this enables using an interior pointer to an array as though
it were an array pointer itself using the `OpPtrAccessChain`
instruction.
This is a rather large and involved change, mostly because this is
somewhat complicated with a lot of moving parts. It's a wonder
SPIRV-Cross's output is largely unchanged. Indeed, many of these changes
are to accomplish exactly that! Perhaps the largest source of changes
was the violation of the assumption that, when emitting types, the
pointer type didn't matter.
One of the test cases added by the change doesn't optimize very well;
the output of `spirv-opt` here is invalid SPIR-V. I need to file a bug
with SPIRV-Tools about this.
I wanted to test that variable pointers to images worked too, but I
couldn't figure out how to propagate the access qualifier properly--in
MSL, it's part of the type, so getting this right is important. I've
punted on that for now.
A block name cannot alias with any name in its own scope,
and it cannot alias with any other "global" name.
To solve this, we need to complicate the name cache updates a little bit
where we have a "primary" namespace and "secondary" namespace.
We were passing a constant '1' to `emit_atomic_func_op()`--which caused
us to refer to SPIR-V value `%1`, which is almost certainly not what we
want! What we really want is to add/subtract the literal constant '1'
to/from the memory location.
In SPIR-V, builtin integral vectors can be either signed or unsigned,
but in MSL they're always unsigned. Unfortunately, the MSL spec forbids
implicit conversions between vector types--even if the corresponding
scalar types would implicitly convert. If you try, the result is a
cryptic error message such as:
```
program_source:37:60: error: cannot convert between vector values of different size ('int4' (aka 'vector_int4') and 'vector_uint4' (vector of 4 'unsigned int' values))
float4 r3 = as_type<float4>((as_type<int4>(r0) * gl_LocalInvocationID.xyyy) + as_type<int4>(r2));
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
```
Therefore, uses of these builtins must be explicitly cast, since the
rest of the binary likely assumes that the builtin is of its declared
type.
When the name of an alias global variable collides with a global
declaration, MSL would emit inconsistent names, sometimes with the
naming fix, sometimes without, because names were being tracked in two
separate meta blocks. Fix this by always redirecting parameter naming to
the original base variable as necessary.
Update SPIRV-Tools/glslang commits.
Use vulkan1.1 environment for testing.
Found new "errors" in SPIRV-Tools, so disable validation on those shaders
for now.
Support Workgroup (threadgroup) variables.
Mark if SPIRConstant is used as an array length, since it cannot be specialized.
Resolve specialized array length constants.
Support passing an array to MSL function.
Support emitting GLSL array assignments in MSL via an array copy function.
Support for memory and control barriers.
Struct packing enhancements, including packing nested structs.
Enhancements to replacing illegal MSL variable and function names.
Add Compiler::get_entry_point_name_map() function to retrieve entry point renamings.
Remove CompilerGLSL::clean_func_name() as obsolete.
Fixes to types in bitcast MSL functions.
Add Variant::get_id() member function.
Add CompilerMSL::Options::msl_version option.
Add numerous MSL compute tests.
Hans-Kristian Arntzen
Chip Davis
Hans-Kristian Arntzen
Bill Hollings