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The basic idea here is that when lowering to the IR, the front-end will attach a "name hint" to the IR instruction(s) that represent a given declaration, and then the passes that work on the IR will try to preserve and propagate those names, and then finally the emit logic will use them in place of mangled or unique names when available.
This change does *not* try to deal with the issues that arise when we try to use those variable names in the output without any modification (e.g., handling cases where they might clash with keywords or builtins in the target language). Instead, it tries to establish baseline behavior for propagating through names, so that a later change can concentrate on the issue of using those names exactly when it is legal to do so.
In order to avoid issues around the name "hints" causing problems we take two main steps:
1. We "scrub" each name to reduce it down to the allowed set of identifier characters in C-like languages, and then ensure that it doesn't do things that would be illegal in some downstream languages (e.g., consecutive underscores are not allowed in GLSL) or could clash with Slang's mangled names. This process isn't guaranteed to give distinct results for distinct inputs (it isn't a mangling scheme, after all).
2. We generate a unique ID for each occurence of a given name and always use that as a suffix. This means that even if a name happens to overlap with a keyword (if you somehow have a variable named `do`), we will still add a suffix that makes it not a problem (we'd output `do_0` which is fine).
The logic for generating these names is mostly straightforward. For simple variables, we use their given name directly, while for other declarations we try to form a name that includes their parent declaration (e.g. `SomeType.someMethod`).
Various IR passes need to propagate or preserve this information. The most interesting is type legalization, when we take a variable with an aggregate type and split some of the fields out into their own variables. In that case we generate "dotted" names like `someVar.someTexture` and rely on the emit logic to turn that into `someVar_someTexture`.
During SSA generation, if we are promoting a variable to SSA temporaries, we will try to propagate the name of the variable over to the temporaries (unless they already have a name from some other place). The same applies to block parameters ("phi nodes").
Many of the test changes need their expected output to be updated for this change. Luckily in most cases the output has gotten easier to understand.
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This was a known issue in our IR representation, which was now biting a user. The basic problem is that in code like the following:
```hlsl
RWStructureBuffer<float4> buffer;
...
buffer[index].xz = value;
```
we ideally want to be able to reproduce the original HLSL code exactly, but that requires directly encoding the way that this code writes to two elements of a vector, but not the others.
The currently lowering strategy we had produced IR something like:
```hlsl
float4 tmp = buffer[index];
tmp.xz = value;
buffer[index] = tmp;
```
That transformation might seem valid, but it has some big problems:
* It generates UAV reads that are not needed, which could impact performance
* It performs read-modify-write operations on memory that the programmer didn't explicitly write, which could create data races
The fix here is somewhat obvious: if the "base" of a swizzle operation on a left-hand side resolves to a pointer in our IR, then we can output a "swizzled store" instead of the read-modify-write dance. We currently keep the read-modify-write around since it is potentially needed as a fallback in the general case.
Along the way I also tried to make sure that we handle the case where we have a swizzle of a swizzle on the left-hand side:
```hlsl
buffer[index].xz.y = value;
```
That code should behave the same as `buffer[index].z = value`. I am currently detecting and cleaning up this logic in the lowering path for `SwizzleExpr`, because that is the only place in the lowering logic that "swizzled l-values" currently get created.
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* Improve SSA promotion for arrays and structs
Fixes #518
The existing SSA pass would only handle `load(v)` and `store(v,...)`
where `v` is the variable instruction, and would bail out if `v` was
used as an operand in any other fashion.
The new pass adds support for `load(ac)` where `ac` is an "access chain"
with a gramar like:
ac :: v
| getElementPtr(ac, ...)
| getFieldAddress(ac, ...)
What this means in practical terms is that we can promote a local
variable of array or structure type to an SSA temporary even if there
are loads of individual elements/fields, as along as any *assignment* to
the variable assigns the whole thing.
I've added a test case to confirm that this change fixes passing of
arrays as function parameters for Vulkan.
* Fixup: disable test on Vulkan because render-test isn't ready
This is a fix for Vulkan, but I don't think our testing setup is ready
for it.
* Fixup: error in unreachable return case, caught by clang
* Fixups based on testing
These are fixes found when testing the original changes against the user code that originated the bug report.
* `emit.cpp`: Make sure to handle array-of-texture types when deciding whether to declare a temporary as a local variable in GLSL output
* `ir-legalize-types.cpp`: Make a not of a source of validation failures that we need to clean up sooner or later (just not in scope for this bug fix change).
* `ir-ssa.cpp`:
* When checking if something is an access chain with a promotable var at the end, make sure the recursive case recurses into the "access chain" logic instead of the leaf case
* Add some assertions to guard the assumption that any access chain we apply has been scheduled for removal
* Correctly emit an element *extract* instead of getting an element *address* when promoting an element access into an array being promoted
* Eliminate a wrapper routine that was setting up an `IRBuilder` and use the one from the block being processed in the SSA pass (since it was set up for stuff just like this)
* `ir-validate.cpp`
* Add a hack to avoid validation failures when running IR validation on the stdlib code. This case triggers for an initializer (`__init`) declaration inside an interface, since the logical "return type" is the interface type itself, which has no representation at the IR level and thus yields a null result type in a `FuncType` instruction.
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* There was a simple typo where we were emitting `RaytracingAccelerationStructureType` instead of `RaytracingAccelerationStructure`
* The IR lowering logic was failing to handle types with an `__intrinsic_type` modifier (which maps them to a single IR opcode) that weren't in one of the various special cases. I added a catch-all case to the handling of `DeclRefType`. This notably affected the `RayDesc` type.
* Even if we lower `RayDesc` to an intrinsic type, we still need to lower its *fields* too, and these were getting emitted with mangled names (as would happen for any user-defined fields). The solution I implemented was to allow for fields to have `__target_intrinsic` modifiers in the stdlib, to specify the un-mangled name they should use on each target.
I'm not 100% happy with this solution, because it seems odd to have `RayDesc` be an intrinsic type, but then to also have field keys used in `getField` instructions as if it were an ordinary `struct`. It seems like a better solution would be to have it lower to an IR `struct`, just with an appropriate modifier.
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The basic problem was that the lowering logic was constructing (more or less) `Ptr<@GroupShared X>` instead of `@GroupShared Ptr<X>`.
There were also problems with passes not propagating through rates that should have been (e.g., legalization).
I've added a test case to actually validate `groupshared` support.
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* Fix up name mangling/unmangling for extensions
This is required for the unmangling we do on some builtin function names.
The work here is mostly just a band-aid, and a more comprehensive pass over the name mangling/unmangling code is required to make any of this robust.
* fixup: UNREACHABLE_RETURN argument
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The main error here was checking for `IRSamplerType` instead of `IRSamplerTypeBase`, which means the relevant logic only triggered for the `SamplerState` type and not the `SamplerComparisonState` type.
The two affected places were type legalization (so that comparison samplers in `struct` types weren't being hoisted out) and the emit logic when deciding whether to introduce local temporaries (so we were emitting temporaries for comparison samplers, leading to GLSL errors).
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* Introduce an IR-level type system
Up to this point, the Slang IR has used the front-end type system to represent types in the IR.
As a result (but ultimately more importantly) the IR representation of generics and specialization has used AST-level concepts embedded in the IR.
For example, to express the specialization of `vector<T,N>` to a concrete type `float` for `T`, we needed an IR operation that could represent the specialization, with operands that somehow represented the type argument `float`.
The whole thing was very complicated.
The big idea of this change is to introduce a new representation in which types in the IR are just ordinary instructions, so that using them as operands makes sense. The hierarchy of IR types closely mirrors the AST-side hierarchy for now, and that will probably be something we should maintain going forward.
In order to make these changes work, though, I also had to do major overhauls of things like the way substitutions are performed, how we check interface conformances, the way lookup through interface types is done, etc. etc. This is a big change, and unfortunately any attempt to summarize it in the commit message wouldn't do it justice.
* Fix 64-bit build warning
* Fix up some clang warnings/errors
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* Don't emit interpolation modifiers on GLSL fields
The previous change that started passing through interpolation modifiers didn't account for the fact that the GLSL grammar doesn't allow interpolation modifiers on `struct` fields, so we shouldn't emit them in that case (and our legalization strategy for GLSL guarantees that varying input will never use a `struct` type anyway).
* Try to handle SV_Position semantic on GS input
HLSL allows `SV` semantics to be used for ordinary inter-stage dataflow in some cases (e.g., a VS can output `SV_Position` and it can then be read from a GS).
GLSL allows similar things with `gl_Position`, but there are some wrinkles.
One fix here is to correctly identify that `gl_FragCoord` should only be used as the translation of `SV_Position` for a fragment shader input (and not in the general case of *any* input).
The other "fix" here is a kludge to handle the fact that the right translation for a GS input is not to an array called `gl_Position`, but to the syntax `gl_in[index].gl_Position` (array-of-structs style). I am doing this by attaching a custom decoration to the global variable we create for `gl_Position` and then intercepting it during code emit. I'm not proud of this, and would like to do something better given time.
* Fix GLSL output for matrix-scalar multiplication
The output logic was assuming that any use of `operator*` in the input code that yields a value of matrix type must be translated to a `matrixCompMult()` call in GLSL, but this should really only apply if both of the *operands* are matrices (not just based on the result type). As a result matrix-times-scalar operations were emitting a call to `matrixCompMult()` and GLSL was complaining because it won't implicitly promote scalars to matrices.
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This is a short-term fix, because we (1) don't have an IR-level representation of interpolation qualifiers, and (2) can't introduce one until *after* the IR-level type system is introduced (to be able to handle `struct` fields).
The approach here is to find the AST-level declaration, either from layout information (in the case of an ordinary variable or function parameter), or from struct field information (because structs are being output from the AST form anyway).
I've included a single end-to-end rendering test to confirm that we handle the `nointerpolation` modifier the same as HLSL.
I also added the `noperspective` modifier, which seemed to be missing from our implementation.
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Fixes #466
Most of these are Vulkan-related regressions.
* Kludge the definition of `GroupMemoryBarrierWithGroupSync()` for GLSL so that it works around parentheses that the emit logic now introduces.
* Don't emit `static` for global constants when targetting GLSL
* Emit the `flat` modifier for varying input/output with integer type, when targetting GLSL
* Avoid checking parameter default-value expressions more than once, because this can crash when the checking introduces syntax that is not expected to appear in the input AST
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The big change here is that rather than trying to reproduce the exact line number and indentation of names as they appeared in the original code (which had been appropriate for the AST-to-AST translation strategy), we now emit code from the IR using a simple "pretty-printing" strategy, where indentation is determined by nesting.
Along the way I deleted a bunch of dead code in `emit.cpp` that was handling emit from AST declarations/statements/expressions. I probably should have pulled that out into its own change, but doing that now would be tricky.
This change also makes it so that we do *not* emit `#line` directives by default. Asking for `#line` directives in the output will probably become part of a Slang "debug mode" that tries to make the output code suitable for step-through debugging.
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* Add support for DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
This is an initial pass to add support to Slang for the shader stages introduced by DirectX Raytracing (DXR).
* Add declarations for DXR intrinsic types and functions to the Slang standard library. The way our compilation works, these will then get propagated through the IR as intrinsics and get spit back out again as-is during HLSL code emission.
* Declare the DXR-related stages. This is the main work that affects the compiler's C++ implementation rather than being something we can add via the standard library today.
* Switch around the encoding of the `Profile` type so that the stage is in the low bits, allowing API users to pass an ordinary `SlangStage` to operations that expect a `SlangProfileID`.
- This represents a direction I'd like to push in long term, where the user specifies stage and "feature level" separately rather than using composite profiles like `vs_6_0`. The introduction of these new stages seems like a good point to try and make a clean break here and not introduce, e.g., `rgs_6_1` for ray generatin shaders.
* Upgrade "effective profile" computation so that it advances the required version based on the specified stage (e.g., DXR stages seem to require at least shader model 6.1).
- This is a bit of a kludge overall, but ideally we don't want a typical user to have to think about "feature level" stuff much at all. The ideal workflow is that they just hand us a source file and we work out entry points and their required feature levels in the compiler (and let the user query it when we are done). Until we implement that for real, stopgaps like this are required.
Overall these are relatively small changes for supporting some major new API behavior. Slang's design helps out here, by allowing a lot of things to be specified in the stdlib (including generic intrinsic functions), but some of this is also owed to the DXIL-influenced design of DXR - e.g., the use of global functions in place of `SV_*` semantics.
* fixup: typos
* Fixup: use `pixel` instead of `fragment` as primary stage name
This is to match HLSL conventions when generating output code, even if the Slang project officially favors the more correct term "fragment shader."
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* Typo
* Add [shader(...)] and clean up some literal handling
* Add supporting for validating the `[shader(...)]` attribute, by checking that its argument is a string literal that names a known shader stage.
* Split the `ConstantExpr` class into distinct subclasses rooted at `LiteralExpr`, so we have `BoolLiteralExpr`, `IntegerLiteralExpr`, `FloatingPointLiteralExpr`, and `StringLiteralExpr`
* Add a `String` type to the stdlib, to be used as the type of a string literal.
This change allows code using `[shader(...)]` to be accepted by the front-end again, but it does nothing about emitting it in final HLSL.
* Allow entry points to be specified via [shader(...)]
Before this change, the compiler would track a list of `EntryPointRequest` objects, based on what the suer specified via API and/or command-line options. Each entry point request would get matched up with an AST `FuncDecl` as part of semantic checking, and then the back end steps (layout, codegen, etc.) would work from that information.
This change makes the compiler modal, in that it can *either* continue to use an explicit list of entry point requests (this is the mode when the list is non-empty), or it can rely on user-supplied attributes on entry point functions to drive codegen (this is the mode when the list is empty).
User-specified `[shader(...)]` attributes are processed at the same place where the association from `EntryPointRequest`s to `FuncDecl`s would otherwise be made, and basically does the same thing in the opposite direction: looks for `FuncDecl`s with the appropriate attribute and synthesizes an `EntryPointRequest` for them.
Subsequent processing should ideally not know where a given `EntryPointRequest` came from, and should handle both methods of specifying the entry points equivalently.
One design choice that might not make immediate sense is that we do *not* process a function as an entry point (applying further validation, etc.) just because it has a `[shader(...)]` modifier, unless we are in the appropriate mode (which in this case is the mode where the user didn't specify their own entry points via API or command line). This is to handle cases where the user wants to explicitly compile only one entry point, so that they (1) don't want us to spend time validating code they don't care about, (2) don't want do get output they don't expect, and (3) might actually be presenting us with code that violates the language rules due to a combination of `#define`s in effect (e.g., they might have a `[shader("vertex")]` function that transitively executes a `discard` because of how the preprocessor was configured, but they don't care because they are compiling a fragment entry point). This decision might be something we revisit over time.
As part of this work, I had to add some logic to pick a "profile version" to use for a combination of a target and stage (because when you specify `[shader("vertex")]` the compiler can't tell if you want `vs_5_0`, `vs_5_1`, etc.). This isn't really complete right now, because something like `-target dxbc` *also* doesn't determine a profile, so there is a bit of a kludge at present. We need to figure out a good long-term plan here, which might involve keeping target format, feature level/version, and pipeline stage as truly orthogonal concepts, rather than conflating them. That would involve more work in the API and command-line layers to de-compose things when the user specifies, e.g., `vs_5_1`, but might make downstream logic easier to manage.
* Emit [shader(...)] attribute on entry point for SM 6.1 and later
This should help ensure that the output from Slang can be compiled with dxc `lib_*` profiles.
* Fix warning
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The existing code parsed all of the square-bracket `[attributes]` into `HLSLUncheckedAttribute`, and then went on to hand-convert some of them to specialized subclasses of `HLSLAttribute`. When attributes didn't check, they were left as-is, and no error message was issued, because at the time the compiler was focused on accepting arbitrary input.
This change greatly overhauls the handling of `[attributes]`. Attributes are now declared in the stdlib, with declarations like:
```hlsl
__attributeTarget(LoopStmt)
attribute_syntax [unroll(count: int = 0)] : UnrollAttribute;
```
In this syntax, the `unroll` part is giving the attribute name (the `[]` are just for flavor, to make the declaration look like a use site; we could drop it if we don't like the clutter), the `count` is a parameter of the attribute, which we expect to be of type `int`, and which has a default value of `0` if unspecified.
The `: UnrollAttribute` part specifies the meta-level C++ class that will implement this attribute (and corresponds to a class in `modifier-defs.h`). This syntax is similar to our current `syntax` declarations. I'm starting to think we should change it to something like a `__meta_class(UnrollAttribute)` modifier, and then use that uniformly across all cases (e.g., also replacing the curreent `__magic_type(Foo)` syntax).
The `__attributeTarget(LoopStmt)` is a modifier that specifies the meta-level C++ class for syntax that this attribute is allowed to attach to. It is legal to have more than one of these.
Attributes continue to be parsed in an unchecked form, so that we don't tie up semantic analysis and parsing more than necessary. During checking, we look up the attribute name in the current scope, and then replace the unchecked attribute with a more specific one *if* the checking passes.
Checking proceeds in generic and attribute-specific phases. The generic phase includes checking the number of arguments against those specified in the attribute declaration (I don't currently check types, or handle default arguments), and then checking that at least one `__attributeTarget(...)` modifier applies to the syntax node being modified.
The attribute-specific phase then applies to the specialized C++ subclass of `Attribute`, and does the actual checking right now (e.g., that step is responsible for actually type-checking things at present). This can obviously be improved over time.
With this support I went ahead and added declarations for all the HLSL attributes I could find documented on MSDN. I also added a provisional declaration for the `[shader(...)]` attribute that has been added to dxc, but which is not yet documented.
One important detail here is that lookup of attribute names needs to be done carefully, so that we don't let, e.g., local variables shadow an attribute declaration:
```hlsl
int unroll = 5;
// This attribute should *not* get confused by the local variable `unroll`
[unroll] for(...) { .. }
```
The lookup logic already has a notion of a `LookupMask` that can be used to filter declarations out of the result. In this change I surfaced that mask through the main lookup API (rather than requiring a second pass to "refine" lookup results), and made is so that the default lookup mask does *not* include attributes, while an explicit mask can be used to look up *only* attributes.
(An alternatie design we discussed was to follow the approach of C# and have the declaration of an attribute like `[unroll]` actually be `unrollAttribute`, with a suffix. I decided not to follow that approach for now because it seemed like printing good error messages in that case could require us to carefully trim the `Attribute` suffix off of names at times, and using the existing mask behavior seemed simpler.)
To verify that the shadowing behavior is indeed correct, I modified the `loop-unroll.slang` test case.
Smaller notes:
* Removed the `HLSL` prefix from several of the C++ attribute classes
* Made sure to actually validate the modifiers on statements
* Special-cased checking for `ParamDecl` with a null type, because I'm re-using `ParamDecl` for attribute parameters, but can't give a concrete type to some of them right now
* Deleting some old, dead emit-from-AST logic around attributes, rather than try to "fix" code that doesn't run (a more complete scrub of that code is still needed)
* Fixed AST inheritance hierarchy so that a `Modifier` is a `SyntaxNode` rather than a `SyntaxNodeBase`. I have *no* idea why we have both of those, and we need to clean that up soon.
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This allows users who call `spAddBuiltins` to specify `struct` types that are provided for a target, and that should not be part of the generated HLSL/GLSL from Slang.
The existing emit logic already skips emitting any basic, vector, matrix, or resource types, so this case really only triggers when the standard library needs to declare a completely ordinary `struct`.
No provision is made right now for a `struct` type that might be builtin on one target, but need to be declared on another. That is a clear next step for this feature.
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The main practical change here is that things that used to be `IRValue`s, like literals, are now being expressed as instructions in the global scope.
In order to validate that things are actually being handled correctly, this change introduces an explicit "validation" pass that can be run on the IR to check for different invariants (although it doesn't check many of the important ones right now). I've left the validation pass turned off by default, but with a command-line flag to enable it. We may want to make it be on by default in debug builds, just to keep us honest. The main invariant for the moment is that when on IR instruction is used as an operand to another, it had better come from the same IR module.
Some of the existing passes were violating this rule, in particular when it came to cloning of witness tables related to global generic parameter substitution. Those features can in theory be handled better now by allowing `specialize` instructions at other scopes, but I didn't want to over-complicate this change, so I make just enough fixes to ensure that these steps always clone witness tables they get from the "symbols" on an IR specialization context. In order for this to work when recursively specializing, I had to ensure that the logic for generic specialization had a notion of a "parent" specialization context that it would fall back to to perform cloning when necessary.
This change keeps the logic that was caching and re-using the instructions for literal values within a module, but adds some logic that isn't really being tested right now for picking the right parent instruction to insert a constant instruction into. This logic doesn't trigger right now because all of the cases we are using it on have zero operands (and so they always get "hoisted" to the global scope), but eventually for things like types we want to be able to support instructions with operands (e.g., `vector<float, 4>`) and handle the case where some of those operands come from different scopes (e.g., when nested inside a generic).
The final change here is mostly cosmetic: the `IRBuilder` is now more abstract about where insertion occurs: it tracks a single `IRParentInst` to insert into, and then an optional `IRInst` to insert before. In the common case, that parent is an `IRBlock`, but it could conceivably also be the global scope, or a witness table, etc. Use sites where we used to change those fields directly now use distinct methods `setInsertInto(parent)` and `setInsertBefore(inst)` which capture the two cases we care about. Accessors are also defined to extract the current block (if the current parent is a block), and the current "function" (global value with code, if the current parent is a global value with code, or a block inside one).
With this work in place, it should be possible for a follow-on change to start putting `specialize` instructions at the global scope and thus clean up some of the on-the-fly specialization work. This work should also help with some of the requirements around a distinct IR-level type system and more explicit generics.
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* IR: "everything is an instruction"
This change tries to streamline the representation of the IR in the following ways:
* Every IR value is an instruction (there is no `IRValue` type any more)
* All IR values that can contain other values share a single base (`IRParentInstruction`)
* Dynamic casts to specific IR instruction types can be accomplished with a new `as<Type>(inst)` operation, that uses the IR opcode to implement casts.
The biggest change in terms of number of lines is getting rid of `IRValue`. The diff here could probably be smaller if I'd just done `typedef IRInst IRValue;`.
Along the way I also renamed the `getArg`/`getArgs`/`getArgCount` combination over to `getOperand`/`getOperands`/`getOperandCount` to avoid being confusing when we have something like a `call` instruction where the "arguments" of the call don't line up with the operands of the instruction.
I also tried to clean up the representation of lists of child instructions to try to make it easier to iterate over them with C++ range-based `for` loops. Developers still need to be careful about mutating the contents of a block while iterating over it in this fashion (e.g. if you remove the "current" element, the iteration will end prematurely).
Probably the thorniest change here is that parameters are now just represented as the first N instructions in a block, which means:
* We need to perform a linear search to find the end of the parameter list. This is probably not often a problem, because usually you would be iterating over the parameters anyway, and that will be linear in the number of parameters.
* Algorithms that iterate over a block either need to ignore parameters, treat parameters just like other instructions, or somehow cleave the list into the range of parameters, and the range of "ordinary" instructions (which involves the same linear search above).
* When inserting into a block, we need to be careful not to insert instructions at invalid locations (e.g., insert a temporary before the parameters, or insert a parameter in the middle of the code). I can't pretend that I've handled the details of that here. (This is no different than having to make the same adjustments for phi nodes in a typical SSA representation)
* One possible future-proof approach is to implement a pass that sorts the instructions in a block so that parameters always come first. That would let us implement passes without caring about this detail, and then clean up right before any pass that cares about the relative order of parameters and other instructions.
The current change is missing any work to make literals and other instructions that used to be `IRValue`s properly nest inside of their parent module. Right now these instructions are just left unparented, and may actually end up being shared between distinct modules. Fixing that will need a follow-up change. The biggest challenge there is that it introduces instructions at the global scope that aren't `IRGlobalValue`s.
This change doesn't try to take advantage of any of the new flexibility (e.g., by nesting `specialize` instructions inside of witness tables). The goal is to do exactly what we were doing before, just with a different representation.
* Warning fix
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Pull BaseType, TextureFlavor and SamplerStateFlavor enums and helper functions into a shared file "type-system-shared.h".
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These changes are related to getting a first Slang geometry shader to translate to GLSL. There are some unrelated cross-compilation fixes in here as well.
* Add direct support to shader parameter layout for GS output streams, so that they are reflected as a container type
* Fix the declarations of the `SampleCmp` methods; they should always return `float`, independent of the nominal element type of the texture.
* Fix up our handling of `__target_intrinsic` modifiers, so that we are a little bit more careful in how we detect something as being just a simple name replacement (e.g., `__target_intrinsic(glsl, "foo")` should make us output `foo(original, args, here)`) vs. a custom expression (e.g., `__target_intrinsic(glsl, "bar+1")` should output `bar+1` and not use any arguments, even without any `$` substitutions).
* Don't emit the `[unroll]` modifier when outputting GLSL. Eventually we need to fully unroll loops for GLSL output anyway.
* Inspect th entry point parameter list (from the layout information) when emitting a GS, so that we can write out the correct `layout` modifiers for input primitive type and output primitive topology.
* Add a new case to `ScalarizedVal` to handle cases where an HLSL system value needs to map to a GLSL built-in variable with a slightly different type (e.g., `SV_RenderTargetArrayIndex` is a `uint` while `gl_Layer` is an `int`). For now this is only hanlding trivial cases (where a direct cast can achieve the result we want), but eventually it might need to handle things like conversion between arrays and vectors.
* This is mostly just the infrastructure for the feature, and the actual enumeration of the correct types for all the system values is still to be done.
* Handle a few more cases in assignment between `ScalarizedVal`. In particular, deal with cases where `materializeValue` is called on a tuple that has an array type, so that we need to construct the individual array elements.
* Add translation for GS output stream `Append()` and `RestartStrip()`
* Note that the translation of `Append()` seems to ignore its argument; this is because we desugar the operation during legalization for GLSL (see next item)
* When legalizing for GLSL, detect an entry point parameter that is a GS stream, and translate it into `out` variables for its element type, and then rewrite any calls to `Append()` in the body of the entry point to be preceded by assignment to those variables. This works in tandem with the above translation of HLSL `Append()` calls into GLSL `EmitVertex()` calls.
* We are detecting calls to `Append()` in a slightly hacky way, by looking at decorations on the callee to make sure that it is a function that is determined to translate to `EmitVertex()`.
* Right now we aren't handling calls to `Append()` in other functions. It wouldn't be hard in principle to walk all the functions in the module and apply the translation (assuming we don't want to start supporting multiple output streams), but this wouldn't handle the passing of the GS output stream between functions. (This points out that there is a need for an additional type legalization pass that desugars away parameters of types that aren't actually meaningful on the target).
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This allows us to get rid of `IRGlobalValue::dispose()`.
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* Initial work on validating "constexpr"-ness in IR
The underlying issue here is that certain operations in the target shading languages constrain their operands to be compile-time constants. A notable example is the optional texel offset parameter to the `Texture2D.Sample` operation.
When calling these operations in GLSL, the user is required to pass a "constant expression," and any variables in that expression must therefore be marked with the `const` qualifier (and themselves be initialized with constant expressions). Any GLSL output we generate must of course respect these rules.
When calling these operations in HLSL, the user is not so constrained. Instead, they can pass an arbitrary expression, which may involve ordinary variables with no particular markup, and then the compiler is responsible for determining if the actual value after simplification works out to be a constant. In some cases, the requirement that a value be constant might actually trigger things like loop unrolling. Also, it is okay to use a function parameter to determine such a constant expression, as long as the argument turns out to be a constant at all call sites.
The way we have decided to tackle these challenges in Slang is that we we propagate a notion of `constexpr`-ness through the IR. This is currently being tackled in `ir-constexpr.cpp` with a combination of forward and backward iterative dataflow:
* When the operands to an instruction are all `constexpr`, and the opcode is one we believe can be constant-folded, then we infer that the instruction *can* be evaluated as `constexpr`
* When instruction is required to be `constexpr`, then we infer that all of its operands are also required to be `constexpr`.
If this process ever infers that a function parameter is required to be `constexpr`, then we might have to continue propagation at all the call sites to that function.
If after all the propagation is done, there are any cases where an instruction is *required* to be `constexpr`, but it *can't* be `constexpr` (we weren't able to infer `constexpr`-ness for its operands), then we issue an error.
This implementation encodes the idea of `constexpr`-ness in the IR as part of the type system, using a simplified notion of rates. This change adds a `RateQualifiedType` that can represent `@R T`, and then introduces a `ConstExprRate` that can be used for `R`. Many accessors for the type information on IR nodes were updated to distinguish when one wants the "full" type of an IR value (which might include rate information) vs. just the "data" type.
A `constexpr` qualifier was added in the front-end, and is being used to decorate the texel offset parameter for `Texture2D.Sample`. Lowering from AST to IR looks for this qalifier and infers when a function parameter must be typed as `@ConstExpr T` instead of just `T`.
There are lots of limitations and gotchas in the implementation so far:
* The `@ConstExpr` rate is the only one added in this change, but it seems clear that the conceptual `ThreadGroup` rate that was added to represent `groupshared` should probably get folded into the representation.
* I'm not 100% pleased with how many places in the IR I have to special-case for rate-qualified types. At the same type, pulling out rate as a distinct field on `IRValue` would probably require that we pay attention to rate everywhere.
* I've added a test case to show that we can issue errors when users fail to provide a constant expression for the texel offset, but the actual error message isn't great because it doesn't indicate *why* a constant expression was required. Realistically the "initial IR" should contain a few more decorations we can use to relate error conditions back to the original code (even if this is in a side-band structure).
* I've added a test case that is supposed to show that we can back-propagate `constexpr`-ness to local variables, and I've manually confirmed that it works for Vulkan/SPIR-V output, but the level of Vulkan support in `render_test` today means I can't enable the test for check-in.
* While I'm attempting to propagate `@ConstExpr` information from callees to callers, I haven't implemented any logic to specialize callee functions based on values at call sites.
* In a similar vein, there is no handling of control-flow dependence in the current code. If we infer that a phi (block parameter) needs to be `@ConstExpr`, then it isn't actually enough to require that the inputs to the phi (arguments from predecessor blocks) are all `@ConstExpr` because we also need any control-flow decisions that pick which incoming edge we take to be `@ConstExpr` as well.
* As a practical matter, implicit propagation of `@ConstExpr` from a function body to a function parameter should only be allowed for functions that are "local" to a module. Any function that might be accessed from outside of a module should really have had its `@ConstExpr` parameter marked manually, and our pass should validate that they follow their own rules. Right now we have no kind of visibility (`public` vs `private`) system, so I'm kind of ignoring this issue.
While that is a lot of gaps, this is also just enough code to get the Falcor MultiPassPostProcess example working, so I'm inclined to get it checked in.
* Fixup: missing expected output for test
* Fixup: disable test that relies on [unroll] for now
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This is to workaround with the issue that the Types returned in ProgramLayout may reference to IRWitnessTables via GlobalGenericParamSubstitution.
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1. reorder destruction order of several key classes to avoid using deleted IR objects when destroying Types
2. remove Session::canonicalTypes and make each Type own a RefPtr to the canonicalType, to allow types to be destroyed along with each IRModule it belongs to.
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1, make IRModule class own a memory pool for all IR object allocations
2. For now, we allow IR objects to own other (externally) heap allocated objects, such as String, List and RefPtrs by tracking all IR objects that has been allocated for the IRModule in a list named `IRModule::irObjectsToFree`. and call destructor for all these objects upon the destruction of the IRModule. In the long term, we should eliminate the use of all these externally allocated types in IR system and get rid of this tracking and explicit destructor calls.
3. remove non-generic `createValueImpl` functions and retain only generic versions in IRBulider so we can properly call the constructor of the IR types to set up virtual tables correctly for destructor dispatching.
4. add `MemoryPool` class for allocation of the IR objects.
5. Make sure we are disposing IRSpecContexts when we are done with the specialized IR module.
6. Add `_CrtDumpMemoryLeaks()` calls to check memory leaks upon destruction of a Slang session. If we are to support multiple sessions at a time, this call should probably be replaced with the more advanced MemoryState versions of the memory leak checker.
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* stdlib fixes for Vulkan
- Make sure to emit `image*` instead of `texture*` for `RWTexture*` types
- Change `GetDimensions` to call `imageSize` instead of `textureSize` when we use images
- Always output a `layout(rgba32f)` for variables that translate to `image` types
- TODO: we should emit an appropriate format based on the type, or let the user specify one
- Fix GLSL translation for `any()` function (required boolean inputs)
- Add GLSL translation for `GroupMemoryBarrierWithGroupSync()`
- Map HLSL `groupshared` to GLSL `shared`
These together are enough to get the Falor `ComputeShader` example to work.
* fixup for warning
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The approach here isn't ideal. We already have a pass that transforms HLSL varying input/output types into GLSL global variables. This change makes it so that when those inputs/outputs have system-value semantics, we generate a global variable declaration with the appropriate `gl_*` name (leaving the type the same for now). Later, when emitting code, we just skip emitting declarations for declarations with mangled names that start with `gl_*`.
A more complete implementation will be needed later on, which handles cases where the translation requires types to be changed (so that conversion code needs to be inserted).
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* Fix bugs around IR legalization of GLSL input/output
- Add case to handle assignment of one `ScalarizedVal::Flavor::address` to another (still need to make sure we are handling all the possible cases there)
- Revamp logic for creating global variable declarations for varying inputs/outputs.
- Actually handle creating array declarations (not sure if binding locations will be correct)
- Properly deal with offsetting of locations for nested fields
- Only create varying input/output layout information as needed for the separate `in` and `out` variables we create to represent a single HLSL `inout` varying
* During SSA generation, recursively remove trivial phis
This is actually written up in the original paper I used as a reference, but I hadn't implemented the case yet.
When you eliminate one phi as trivial (because its only operands were itself and at most one other value), you might find that another phi becomes trivial (because it had this phi as an operand, but now it will have the other value...).
The one thing that made any of this tricky is that our "phi" nodes are really block parameters, and thus they don't technically have operands (`IRUse`s). The `IRUse`s for each phi were being tracked in a separate array, and had their `user` field set to null.
With this change, I set their `user` to be the corresponding `IRParam` for the phi (and that means I changed `IRParam` to inherit from `IRUser` even though it shouldn't really be required).
* Re-build SSA form after specialization/legalization
The main reason to do this is that legalization might scalarize types, and thus might allow us to clean up resource-type local variables that we were not able to clean up when they were part of an aggregate.
Note: we shouldn't really need to do this, because the front-end should actually be guaranteeing that types that include resources are used in "safe" ways, but we currently don't have the analyses required to support that.
* Give an error message if we get GLSL input
The API and command-line interface still recognize and nominally support GLSL input files, because they need to be supported in the "pass-through" mode.
This change just adds an error message if we encounter a GLSL input file in anything other than "pass-through" mode.
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The basic problem here is that when unlinking an `IRUse` from the linked list of uses, there were several cases where I was failing to set the `prevLink` field of the next node to match the `prevLink` field of the node being removed. That doesn't show up when walking the linked list of uses forward, but it breaks it whenever you have subsequent unlinking operations.
This change fixes the bugs of that kind I could find, and also adds a debug validation method to try to avoid breaking it again. I also made more access to `IRUse` go through accessor methods rather than using fields directly, to try to avoid this kind of error. I stopped short of making anything `private`, because I tend to find that it creates more hassles than it avoids.
A few other fixes along the way:
- Made the `List<T>` type default-initialize elements when you resize it. I hadn't realized we weren't doing that.
- Add a standalone `dumpIR(IRGlobalValue*)` so help when debugging issues.
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* Basic IR support for `static const` globals
Our strategy for lowering global *variables* can fall back to putting their initialization into a function, but that isn't really appropriate for global constants (it also isn't appropriate for arrays, but we'll need to deal with that seaprately).
This change adds a distinct case for global constants (rather than treating them as variables), and forces the emission logic to always emit them as a single expression.
Doing this makes assumptions about how the IR for these constants gets emitted (and what optimziations might do to it).
In order to make things work, I had to switch the handling of initializer-list expressions to not be lowered via temporaries and mutation (since that isn't a good fit for reverting to a single expression).
I've added a single test case to ensure that this works in the simplest scenario. My next priority will be to see if this unblocks my work in Falcor.
* Fixup: bug fixes
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* Re-define deprecated compile flags
By including these flags in the header file, with a value of zero, we can allow some existing code to compile even after the major changes to the implementation.
* The `SLANG_COMPILE_FLAG_NO_CHECKING` option will effectively be ignored, since checking is always enabled.
* The `SLANG_COMPILE_FLAG_SPLIT_MIXED_TYPES` option will now act as if it is always enabled (and indeed some of the code has been relying on this flag being set always).
* Make subscript operators writable for writable textures
This even had a `TODO` comment saying that we needed to fix it, and now I'm seeing semantic checking failures because we didn't define these and so we find assignment to non l-values.
* Fix definitions of any() and all() intrinsics
These should always return a scalar `bool` value, but they were being defined wrong in two ways:
1. They were using their generic type parameter `T` in the return type
2. They were returning a vector in the vector case, and a matrix in the matrix case.
This change just alters the return type to be `bool` in all cases.
* Fix bug in SSA construction
When eliminating a trivial phi node, it is possible that the phi is still recorded as the "latest" value for a local variable in its block.
When later code queries that value from the block (which can happen whenever another block looks up a variable in its predecessors), it would get the old phi and not the replacement value.
I simply added a loop that checks if the value we look up is a phi that got replaced, and then continues with the replacement value (which might itself be a phi...). A more advanced solution might try to get clever and have the map itself hold `IRUse` values so that we can replace them seamlessly.
* Simplify IR control flow representation
This change gets rid of various special-case operations for conditional and unconditional branches, and instead requires emit logic to recognize when a direct branch is targetting a `break` or `continue` label.
The new approach here isn't perfect, but it seems beter than what we had before, because it can actually work in the presence of control-flow optimizations (including our current critical-edge-splitting step).
* Load from groupshared isn't groupshared
When loading from a `groupshared` variable, the resulting temporary shouldn't have the `groupshared` qualifier on it.
This might eventually need to generalize to a better understanding of storage modifiers in the IR, but I don't really want to deal with that right now.
* Don't emit references to typedefs in output code
Now that we are using the IR for all codegen, we shouldn't be dealing with surface-level things like `typedef` declarations in the output code; just use the type that was being referred to in the first place.
* Fix floating-point literal printing for IR
The IR was calling `emit()` instead of `Emit()` (we really need to normalize our convention here), and was implicitly invoking a default constructor on `String` that takes a `double` (that constructor should really be marked `explicit`), and which doesn't meet our requirements for printing floating-point values.
* Fix error when importing module that doesn't parse
We already added a case to bail out if semantic checking fails, but neglected to add a case if there is an error during parsing of a module to be imported.
Note: this logic doesn't correctly register the module as being loaded (but still in error), so users could see multiple error messages if there are multiple `import`s for the same module.
* Improve error message for overload resolution failure
- Drop debugging info from the candidate printing
- Add cases to print `double` and `half` types properly
* Fixup: switch loopTest to ifElse in expected IR output
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* Generate SSA form for IR functions
The basic idea here is simple: in the front-end after we have lowered the AST to initial IR we will apply a set of "mandatory" optimization passes. The first of these is to attempt to translate the all functions into SSA form so that they are amenable to subsequent dataflow optimizations. Eventually, the mandatory optimization passes would include diagnostic passes that make sure variables aren't used when undefined, etc.
Just doing basic SSA generation already cleans up a lot of the messiness in our IR today, because constructs that used to involve many local variables can now be handled via SSA temporaries.
The implementation of SSA generation is in `ir-ssa.cpp`, and it follows the approach of Braun et al.'s "Simple and Efficient Construction of Static Single Assignment Form." I used this instead of the more well-known Cytron et al. algorithm because Braun's algorith mis very simple to code, and does not require auxiliary analyses to generate the dominance frontier.
The main wrinkle in our SSA representation right now is that instead of using ordinary phi nodes, we instead allow basic blocks to have parameters, where predecessor blocks pass in different parameter values. This encodes information equivalent to traditional phi nodes, but has two (small) benefits:
1. There is no fixed relationship between the order of phi operands and predecessor blocks, so we don't have to worry about breaking the phis when we alter the order in which predecessors are stored. This is important for us because predecessors are being stored implicitly.
2. It is easy to operationalize a "branch with arguments" either when lowering to other languages, or when interpreting the IR. A branch with arguments is implemented as a sequence of stores from the arguments to the parameters of the target block (very similar to a call), followed by a jump to the block.
Relevant to the above, this change also adds an interface for enumerating the predecessors or successors of a block in our CFG. Rather than use an auxliary structure, we directly use the information already encoded in the IR:
* The sucessors of a block are the target label operands of its terminator instruction. In our IR this is a contiguous range of `IRUse`s, possible with a stride (to account for the way `switch` interleaves values and blocks).
* The predecessors of a block are a subset of the uses of the block's value. Specifically, they are any uses that are on a terminator instruction, and within the range of values that represent the successor list of that instruction.
One important limitation of the "blocks with arguments" model for handling phis is that it is really only convenient to stash extra arguments on an unconditional terminator instruction. This change works around this prob lem by breaking any "critical edges" - edges between a block with multiple successors and one with multiple predecessors. We assume that "phi" nodes will only ever be needed on a block with multiple predecessors, and because critical edges are broken, each of these predecessors will then have only a single successor, so its branch instruction can handle the extra arguments.
This change introduces a notion of an "undefined" instruction in the IR. This is handled as an instruction rather than a value because I anticipate that we will want to distinguish different undefined values when it comes time to start issuing error messages (those messages will need to point to the variable that was used when undefined).
* Fix expected test output.
Another change was merged that enabled the `glsl-parameter-blocks` test, and its output is affected by our IR optimization work.
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The standard library already has a bunch of these decorations, since they were added to support Slang->Vulkan codegen on the AST-to-AST path. This change makes the IR code generator able to exploit the modifiers so that we pick up a bunch of Vulkan support "for free" in the short term.
The basic change is in `lower-to-ir.cpp` where we copy over any `TargetIntrinsicModifier`s to become `IRTargetIntrinsicDecoration`s with the same information. We then need a bit of logic in `ir.cpp` to make sure we clone them as needed.
The core work of using the modifiers is in `emit.cpp`, where I basically just copy-pasted the existing logic that applied in the AST path (all the AST-related code there is dead, and we should clean it up soon).
The big change that comes with this logic is that when dealing with a member function, the numbering of the argument used in the intrinsic definition string changes, so that `$0` refers to the base object (whereas before the base object was looked up via the base expression of a `MemberExpr` used for the function). This requires a bunch of the definitions in the library to be updated; hopefully I caught them all.
For kicks, I've re-enabled a cross-compilation test just to confirm that we are generating valid SPIR-V for code that performs texture-fetch operations. I don't expect us to keep that test enabled as-is in the long term, though, because it would be much better to instead use render-test to do the same thing. Alas, beefing up the Vulkan support in render-test is an outstanding work item, and I didn't want to pollute this change with more work along those lines.
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The basic change is simple: remove support for all code generation paths other than the IR.
There is a lot of vestigial code left, but the main logic in `ast-legalize.*` is gone.
Doing this breaks a *lot* of tests, for various reasons:
- We can no longer guarantee exactly matching DXBC or SPIR-V output after things pass through out IR
- Many builtins don't have matching versions defined for GLSL output via IR (even when they had versions defined via the earlier approach that worked with the AST)
- A lot of code creates intermediate values of opaque types in the IR, which turn into opaque-type temporaries that aren't allowed (this breaks many GLSL tests, but also some HLSL)
I implemented some small fixes for issues that I could get working in the time I had, but most of the above are larger than made sense to fix in this commit.
For now I'm disabling the tests that cause problems, but we will need to make a concerted effort to get things working on this new substrate if we are going to make good on our goals.
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* Remove support for the -no-checking flag
Fixes #381
Fixes #383
Work on #382
- No longer expose flag through API (`SLANG_COMPILE_FLAG_NO_CHECKING`) and command-line (`-no-checking`) options
- Remove all logic in `check.cpp` that was withholding diagnostics (including errors) when the no-checking mode was enabled
- Remove `HiddenImplicitCastExpr`, which was only created to support no-checking mode (it represented an implicit cast that our checking through was needed, but couldn't emit because it might be wrong)
- Remove logic for storing function bodies as raw token lists when checking is turned off. I'm leaving in the `UnparsedStmt` AST node in case we ever need/want to lazily parse and check function bodies down the line.
- Remove a few of the code-generation paths we had to contend with, but keep the comment about them in place.
- Remove GLSL-based tests that can't meaningfully work with the new approach.
- Fix other tests that used a GLSL baseline so that their GLSL compiles with `-pass-through glslang` instead of invoking `slang` with the `-no-checking` flag.
- Remove tests that were explicitly added to test the "rewriter + IR" path, since that is no longer supported.
There is more cleanup that can be done here, now that we know that AST-based rewrite and IR will never co-exist, but it is probably easier to deal with that as part of removing the AST-based rewrite path.
We've lost some test coverage here, but actually not too much if we consider that we are dropping GLSL input anyway.
* Fixup: test runner was mis-counting ignored tests
* Fixup: turn on dumping on test failure under Travis
* Fixup: enable extensions in Linux build of glslang
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* Basic fixes to gets some Vulkan GLSL out of the IR path
We haven't been paying much attention to the Vulkan output from the IR path, but that needs to change ASAP. This commit really just implements quick fixes, without concern for whether they are a good fit in the long term.
- Add some more mappings from D3D `SV_*` semantics to built-in GLSL variables, and stop redeclaring those built-in variables in our output GLSL.
- Add custom output logic for HLSL `*StructuredBuffer<T>` types, so that they emit as `buffer` declarations with an unsized array inside. This has some real limitations:
- What if the user passes the type into a function? The parameter should be typed as an (unsized) array, and not a buffer.
- What happens if we have an array of structured buffers? We need to declare an array of blocks (which GLSL allows), but this changes the GLSL we should emit when indexing.
- Customize the way that we emit entry point attributes (e.g., `[numthread(...)]`) to also support outputting equivalent GLSL `layout` qualifiers.
In many of these cases, a better fix might involve doing more of this work in the IR as part of legalization (e.g., we already have a pass that deals with varying input/output for GLSL, so that should probalby be responsible for swapping the `SV_*` to `gl_*`, especially in cases where the types don't match perfectly across langauges).
* Start adding Vulkan support to render-test
- Add both Vulkan and D3D12 as nominally supported back-ends
- Add a git submodule to pull in the Vulkan SDK dependencies
- I don't want our users to have to install it manually, since the SDK is huge
- Checking in the binaries to our main repository seems like a bad idea, but my hope is that we can prune the bloat using a subodule with the `shallow` cloning option
- Implement enough logic for the Vulkan back-end to get a single test passing on Vulkan
* Fix warning
* Fixup: disable new compute tests for Linux
* Fixup: ignore Vulkan tests on AppVeyor
* Dynamically load Vulkan implementation
Rather than statically link to the Vulkan library, we will dynamically load all of the required functions.
This removes the need to have the stub libs involved at all.
* Remove vulkan submodule
I had set up a `vulkan` submodule to pull in the headers and stub libs, but now that we are going to dynamically load all the symbols anyway, the stub lib binaries aren't needed and we can just commit the headers.
* Add Vulkan headers to external/
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1. allow spReflection_FindTypeByName to accept arbitrary type expression string
2. allow const int generic value to be used as expression value, and as array size
3. various bug fixes in witness table specialization / function cloning during specializeIRForEntryPoint to avoid creating duplicate global values, not copying the right definition of a function from the other module, not cloning witness tables that are required by specializeGenerics etc.
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- support overloaded generic function. this involves adding a new expression type, `OverloadedExpr2` to hold the candidate expressions for the generic function decl being referenced.
- make BitNot a normal IROp instead of an IRPseudoOp
- make sure we clone the decorations of parameters when cloning ir functions
- propagate geometry shader entry point attributes (`[maxvertexcount]` and `[instance]`) through HLSL emit
- IR emit: handle geometry shader entry-point parameter decorations, such as 'triangle'.
- IR emit: treat geometry shader stream output typed ir value as `should fold into use`.
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fixes #362
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This commit changes the type of `DeclRefBase::substitutions` from `RefPtr<Substitutions>` to `SubstitutionSet`, which is a new type defined as following:
```
struct SubstitutionSet
{
RefPtr<GenericSubstitution> genericSubstitutions;
RefPtr<ThisTypeSubstitution> thisTypeSubstitution;
RefPtr<GlobalGenericParamSubstitution> globalGenParamSubstitutions;
}
```
This change get rid of most helper functions to retreive the substitution of a certain type, as well as surgery operations to insert a `ThisTypeSubstitution` or `GlobalGenericTypeSubstittuion` at top or bottom of the substitution chain. It also simplies type comparison when certain type of substitution should not be considered as part of type definition.
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* Add core.natvis file to Slang DLL build
It seems that when `slang.dll` gets loaded into a user's project, the debugger is able to pick up the custom visualizers implemented in `slang.natvis` (which is directly added to the DLL project) but not `core.natvis` (which is added to a static library project that the DLL project references). Adding `core.natvis` to the DLL project directly seems to resolve this and greatly improve the debugging experience when in user code.
* Bug fix: emit type of CB before CB when using IR
The problem here was the logic for emitting types used by an IR declaration before the declaration.
I refactored it to share logic between variables with initializers and functions, but in doing so failed to have an ordinary variable (which includes constant buffers) ensure that its own type was emitted before the variable.
This is a one-line fix.
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fixes #325
This commit includes following changes:
1. Including a default DeclaredSubtypeWitness argument when creating a default GenericSubstitution for a DeclRefType, so that the witness argument can be successfully replaced with an actual witness table after specialization. (check,cpp)
2. Not emitting full mangled name for struct field members. Since the declref of the member access instruction do not include necessary generic substitutions for its parent generic parameters, so the mangled names of the declaration site and use site mismatches. Instead we just emit the original name for struct fields. (emit.cpp)
3. Allow IRWitnessTable to represent a generic witness table for generic structs. Adds necessary fields to IRWitnessTable for generic specialization. For now, the user field of the IRUse is not used and is nullptr. (ir-inst.h)
4. Make IRProxyVal use an IRUse instead of an IRValue*, so that an IRValue referenced by IRProxyVal (as a substitution argument) can be managed by the def-use chain for easy replacement. This is used for specializing witness tables. (ir.cpp, ir.h)
5. Add a `String dumpIRFunc(IRFunc*)` function for debugging.
6. Add name mangling for generic / specialized witness tables (mangle.cpp)
7. improved natvis file for inspecting witness tables.
8. Add specialization of witness tables:
1) `findWitnessTable` will simply return the specialize IRInst for a generic witness table.
2) make `cloneSubstitutionArg` call `cloneValue` to clone the argument instead of calling `context->maybeCloneValue`, so we can make use of the cloned value lookup machanism to directly return the specialized witness table (which is done when we process the `specialize` instruction on the generic witness table before process the decl ref).
3) bug fix: the argument in ir.cpp:3338 should be `newArg` instead of `arg`.
4) add `specializeWitnessTable` function to specailize a generic witness table. It clones the witness table, and recursively calls `getSpecailizedFunc` for the witness table entries.
5) make `specailizeGenerics` function also handle the case when an operand of the `specialize` instruction is a witness table. We will call `specializeWitnessTable` here and replace the `specialize` instruction with the specialized witness table. The replacement mechanism based on IR def-use chain works here because we have already make IRProxyVal a part of the def-use chain.
9. Add two more test cases for nested generics with constraints. (generic-list.slang and generic-struct-with-constraint.slang)
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Fixes #318
Most of the required support was actually in place, so this is just a bunch of fixes:
- Detect when we are in "full IR" mode, so that we can always emit `struct` declarations with their mangled named (which will produce different names for different specializations, since we emit decl-refs)
- Carefully exclude builtin types from this for now. We'll need a more complete solution for mapping HLSL/Slang builtin types to their GLSL equivalents soon.
- Skip emitting types referenced by generic IR functions, since they might not be usable.
- Also fix things up so that we emit types used in the initializer for any global variables.
- Fix bug in generic specialization where we specialize the same function more than once, with different type arguments. We were crashing on a `Dictionary::Add` call where the key already exists from a previous specialization attempt.
- Fix name-mangling logic so that when outputting a possibly-specialized generic it looks for the outer-most `GenericSubstitution` rather than just the first one in the list. This is to handle the way that we insert other substitutions willy-nilly in places where they realistically don't belong. :(
All of these changes together allow us to pass a slightly modified (more advanced) version of the test case posted to #318.
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* IR: fixes for subscript accessors
Fixes #320
This is a bunch of fixes for handling of `__subscript` operations on builtin types (notably `RWStructuredBuffer` and `StructuredBuffer` at this point).
- Automatically add a `GetterDecl` to any subscript decalratio was declithout any accessors. This avoids hitting a null- dereference in the emit logic.
- Add a notion of a `RefAccessor` (declared with `ref`) as a peer to getters and setters. The idea is that a `ref` accessor returns a pointer to the element data, so that it can be used for both getting and setting values. This is closer to the behavior of `RWStructuredBuffer` element access in HLSL.
- Fixes for dealing with "access chains" where there might be a combination of a subscript (where the is a `get` and `set` but no `ref`) and member access, so that we have to read the base value into a temp, modify it, and then write it back.
- This logic is still a bit of a mess, so we will eventually want to take a more consistent pass over this to deal with how we "materialize" values for setters.
- Update `RWStructuredBuffer` to have a `ref` accessor, and then fix up the IR tests to handle the new opcode that I added for it.
- Note: I didn't handle this as an intrinsic simply because the `tests/ir/*` tests aren't really set up to handle builtins with ugly mangled names.
* Fixup: type error in VM for buffer element ref
I was using the result type of the op as the element type for computing the element address, but the result type is a pointer to the real element type.
This caused test failures on 64-bit platforms, where the stride of the buffer in the `ir/factorial` test needs to be 4.
The fix is to assume the result type is a pointer, and extract the pointed-to type out of that.
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* Fix: try to improve float literal formatting
An earlier change switched to using the C++ stdlib to format floats, but I neglected to check that it would correctly print values that happen to be integral with a decimal place (e.g., print `1.0` instead of just `1`). That causes some obscure cases to fail (e.g., when you write `1.0.xxxx` in HLSL, and we print out `1.xxxx`).
I've tried to resolve the issue by using the "fixed" output format, but that may also create problems for extremely large or small values (which really need to use scientific notation). However, this at least puts us back where we were before...
* Add support for source locations to the IR
- Add a `sourceLocation` field to all `IRValue`s
- Add some logic to associate locations with operations while lowering (using a slightly "clever" RAII approach)
- Make sure that when cloning instructions, we also clone the location
- Make the emit logic use the existing support for source locations when emitting code from the IR
A nice cleanup to this work would be to have the source locations for IR values not be hyper-specific about both line and column; it is probably enough to just emit on the correct line.
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* Fix up parameter block emit for mixed rewriter+IR
The basic problem here arose when a parameter block was declared in code that will be lowered via IR, but is referenced from user code that will use the AST-based lowering pass. The type legalization would split up the parameter block, and the AST would refer to the new variables, but it would fail to recognize when those variables represent constant buffers, and thus should get implicit-dereference behavior.
The fix here was just to propagate type information through when creating new AST (pseudo-)expressions to represent IR declarations that were split.
A more complete fix down the road should try to make sure that both the expression emit logic and the declaration-emit logic agree on whether a particular declaration of a parameter block or constant buffer needs to support the "implicit dereference" case or not. I'm leaving that to future work.
With this change, two test cases that had been disabled now pass.
* Fixup: don't do implicit deref for `ParameterBlock` values
Right now the rules for `ParameterBlock` and all other uniform praameter groups needs to be different, but the `isImplicitBaseExpr` logic wasn't taking that into account.
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There was a bug that arose in the context of Falcor, because:
- Slang uses `sprintf` to format floating-point values when outputting HLSL/GLSL source
- Falcor (or a library it uses) does the equivalent of `setlocale(LC_ALL, "")` to set the global locale for the process based on the user's environment variables
This led to a floating-point literal of `0.5` getting printed as `0,5f`, with a comma for the decimal point. This then gets consumed by `glslang` which (luckily for us) complains that `5f` is not a valid floating-point literal in their language (since it has neither decimal point nor exponent).
The most expedient fix in this case was to switch from using C `sprintf` for formatting floating-point numbers over to using the C++ `<stdio>` implementation, which allows the locale to be set per-stream so that we don't have to rely on (or potentially disrupt) the global locale set by an application using Slang.
Longer term if we have the time/resources to do the Right Thing, it would be best to implement our own printing logic for floating-point numbers, since we would eventually need/want to support arbitrary-precision numbers for literals.
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* Work on getting rewriter + IR playing nice together.
There are a few different changes here, with the goal of improving the interaction between the "rewriter" code generation approach and the new IR and type legalization code.
The main changes are:
- Add a new pass that occurs before the AST legalization pass, which walks the (used) AST declarations and tries to discover (1) which declarations need to be specialized/lowered via the IR, and (2) which declarations need to be included in the resulting AST module.
- AST-based legalization now uses the generated list when in "rewriter" mode, so that we should be working around issues that users were seeing with types not getting emitted.
- TODO: we still need an equivalent fixup in the case of non-"rewriter" emit, so this may still be a problem for `.slang` files.
- IR type legalization now precedes AST legalization, so that we can record information on how any IR global values got legalized (e.g., if they got split). Then AST legalization includes logic to reconstruct suitable tuple expressions to reference a split global.
- When emitting using IR + AST, we walk all of the declarations that we decided belonged to the IR, but which were subsequently referenced in the AST, to make sure they get output (this would include `struct` types that are declared in a file compiled via IR, but never used in IR-based code).
The rewriter+IR use case still doesn't *quite* work, but the logic for walking the AST in a pre-pass ends up being needed/useful to fix some pure rewriter bugs, so I'm getting this checked in sooner rather than later.
* Fixup: walk arguments to generic declaration reference
The gotcha here is that the code for walking the AST would walk a line of code like:
SomeType a;
and know to traverse the declaration of `SomeType`, but if it saw a line of code like:
ParameterBlock<SomeType> b;
it would traverse the declaration of `ParameterBlock`, but fail to visit that of `SomeType`.
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I'm adding a small cross-compilation test to try to make sure that we are testing the binding generation for GLSL output. We probably still need a more complex test that uses multiple blocks, plus variables not in a block.
The big changes here are:
- Change the `containerTypeLayout` field to a `containerVarLayout` in the `ParameterGroupTypeLayout`, so that we can store the base offsets for the fields in a uniform fashion (even though these will all be zero).
- Switch the emit logic to carefully use either the container or element var layout depending on what they are emitting bindings for. This involved adding something akin to the "reflection path" notion that Falcor has to use, but only for the emit step.
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