Pointer layout support (#2930)

* WIP looking at reflection with pointers.

* Added GetPointerLayout.

* Initial test via reflection with layout of ptr type.

* WIP handles ptrs to types that have layout that hasn't been completed.

* Move tests to ptr.

* WIP try to take into account lowering correctly between AggTypeDecl and Type, but doesn't quite work.

* WIP a different path to handling recursive lowering problem with Ptr.

* Fix issues with reflection output.

* Small tidy.

* Fix for infinite recursion issue.

* Lower IRPointerTypeLayout

* Working with generics.
Has a hack to work around Layout around Ptr in IR.
The reflection around the generic - the name isn't much use, it should probably have the generic parameters, but that would require getName to do something more sophisticated.

* Fix issue around calling finishOuterGenerics to early.

* Remove feature/ptr test.

* Fix type legalization being an infinite loop with Ptr self referencing.

* Disable the pointer self reference test because produces an infintie loop on emit.

* Fixed comment based on review.

* Fix for issue with emit and pointers causing infinite recursion.

1 files changed, 51 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/reflection/ptr/ptr-generic.slang.expected b/tests/reflection/ptr/ptr-generic.slang.expected
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7aebc0187
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/reflection/ptr/ptr-generic.slang.expected
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+result code = 0
+standard error = {
+}
+standard output = {
+{
+    "parameters": [
+        {
+            "name": "genericPtr",
+            "binding": {"kind": "uniform", "offset": 0, "size": 8},
+            "type": {
+                "kind": "pointer",
+                "valueType": "GenericStruct"
+            }
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "outputBuffer",
+            "binding": {"kind": "uniform", "offset": 8, "size": 16},
+            "type": {
+                "kind": "resource",
+                "baseShape": "structuredBuffer",
+                "access": "readWrite",
+                "resultType": {
+                    "kind": "scalar",
+                    "scalarType": "int32"
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    ],
+    "entryPoints": [
+        {
+            "name": "computeMain",
+            "stage:": "compute",
+            "parameters": [
+                {
+                    "name": "dispatchThreadID",
+                    "semanticName": "SV_DISPATCHTHREADID",
+                    "type": {
+                        "kind": "vector",
+                        "elementCount": 3,
+                        "elementType": {
+                            "kind": "scalar",
+                            "scalarType": "uint32"
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            ],
+            "threadGroupSize": [4, 1, 1]
+        }
+    ]
+}
+}