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Right now `#import` only differs from `#include` in that it takes a string literal for a file name instead of a raw identifier (to which `.slang` gets appended).
The next step is to make `#import` respect preprocessor state, while `__import` doesn't.
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The main user-visible change here is that instead of `spAddTranslationUnitEntryPoint` we have `spAddEntryPoint`, to reflect that the list of entry points is "global" to a compile request.
As a result, `spGetEntryPointSource` now only needs the entry point index, and not the translation unit index.
There are a bunch more behind-the-scenes changes, though, reflecting a streamlining of the concepts related to compilation into a smaller number of classes.
Now there is:
- `Session` (unchanged) to manage the lifetimes of shared stuff like the stdlib
- `CompileRequest` (merges in `CompileOptions`) to handle all the lifetime related to a single invocation of the compiler
- `TranslationUnitRequest` (merges `TranslationUnitOptions`, `CompileUnit`) to represent a single translation unit ("module") that the user is trying to compile. This is a single file for HLSL/GLSL, but can be multiple files for Slang.
- `EntryPointRequest` (merges `EntryPointOption` and a bit of `EntryPointResult`) to track a single entry point that the user is asking to compile (that entry point always comes from a single translation unit)
A lot of functions used to take some combination of these and end up with really long signatures.
I've given most of the objects "parent" pointers so that they can get back to all the context they need, so most functions don't need as many parameters.
It may eventually be important to tease these apart again, in particular:
- The code-generation side of things (the `*Result` types) might need to be pulled out in case we want to codegen multiple times from the same AST
- Similarly, the layout stuff may also need to be pulled out, in case we want to lay things out multiple times with different rules.
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The basic idea of this change is that user code can just write:
#include "foo.h"
and then if `foo.h` gets found in a list of registered directories for "auto-import," then it actually gets interpreted as if the user had writte, more or less:
__import foo;
That is, the code in `foo.h` will be treated as Slang, and will be fully parsed and checked (no matter what the source language had been), and the scoping rules will be those of `__import` instead of `#include`.
This is a really big hammer, and I could imagine it smashing fingers if used poorly.
I'm not sure this feature will pan out, but we need to try things to know.
One big piece of that that I'll likely keep in either case is an overhaul of command-line options parsing for `slangc`. In particular, this logic has been moved into the core `slang` library (so that users can just pass options in via the API), and it is all done on UTF-8 strings rather than wide strings (which was always going to be Windows-specific).
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