Stable names and backwards compat for serialized IR modules (#7644)

* stable names

* tests, options and ci for stable names

* Add back compat design document

* fix warnings

* formatting

* comment

* neaten

* regenerate command line reference

* consolidate ci scripts

* faster ci

* remove libreadline

* Move new function to end of interface

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Co-authored-by: slangbot <186143334+slangbot@users.noreply.github.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/slang/slang-compiler.h b/source/slang/slang-compiler.h
index 7cdd1614c..6054492bc 100644
--- a/source/slang/slang-compiler.h
+++ b/source/slang/slang-compiler.h
@@ -2251,6 +2251,11 @@ public:
         const char* path,
         slang::IBlob* source,
         slang::IBlob** outDiagnostics = nullptr) override;
+    SLANG_NO_THROW SlangResult SLANG_MCALL loadModuleInfoFromIRBlob(
+        slang::IBlob* source,
+        SlangInt& outModuleVersion,
+        const char*& outModuleCompilerVersion,
+        const char*& outModuleName) override;
     SLANG_NO_THROW slang::IModule* SLANG_MCALL loadModuleFromSource(
         const char* moduleName,
         const char* path,
@@ -2344,6 +2349,9 @@ public:
     SourceManager* m_sourceManager = nullptr;
     RefPtr<CommandLineContext> m_cmdLineContext;
 
+    // Used to store strings returned by the api as const char*
+    StringSlicePool m_stringSlicePool;
+
     // Name pool for looking up names
     NamePool namePool;