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* Added the name to the EntryPointLayout so is always available
* Made spReflectionEntryPoint_getName use name
* Improved checking for entry point name in render-test
* Improved COMPILE test type to allow failure and output of failure.
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* Add basic support for entry points in `.slang-lib` files.
The basic idea here is that when writing out a `.slang-lib` file based on a compile request, we include new sections in the generated RIFF that represent the entry points that were requested. The entry-point information is serialized in an entirely ad hoc fashion (a future change might clean it up to use the `OffsetContainer` machinery), and contains the name, profile, and mangled symbol name of an entry point.
When deserializing this information, we create a list of "extra" entry points that gets attached to the front-end compile requests. These "extra" entry points get turned into `EntryPoint` objects at the same place in the code that entry points specified on the command line or via API would be checked, but the extra entry points bypass the semantic checking and just create "dummy" `EntryPoint` objects.
Aside: the ability for a compile request to end up with entry points that weren't originally specified via API or command-line is not new. We already had support for compiling a translation unit with entry points entirely specified via `[shader(...)]` attributes, and this new support tries to function similarly.
Because the "dummy" entry points don't retain AST-level information, several parts of the code have been modified to defensively check for `EntryPoint` objects without a matching AST declaration, and skip over them.
The main place where this creates a problem is paramete binding, where ignoring the dummy entry point is appropriate since we currently assume linked-in library code has been laid out manually.
One small cleanup here is that the `-r` command-line flag and the `spAddLibraryReference` API functio now bottleneck through a common routine to do their work, so that they both gain the new behavior without needing copy-paste programming.
In order to keep the existing test case for library linking with entry points working, I had to add a flag to the `render-test` tool so that it can skip specifying entry point names as part of the compile request it creates. In that case it must instead assume that the entry points will be added to the compile request via other means. This logic is a bit magical, and hints that we should be looking for other ways to expose the library linking functionality over time.
* fixup: remove alignment assertion
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* Initial work on representing layout at IR level
This change starts the process of making the back-end of the compiler independent of the AST-level layout information (`TypeLayout`, `VarLayout`, etc.) so that it instead only relies on layout information that is embedded into IR modules. This brings us incrementally closer to a world in which the back-end could be run without the AST-level structures even existing (e.g., for an application that just wants to ship IR without any AST information for IP protection, while still supporting some amount of linking and specialization).
The main parts of the change are:
* There is a bunch of incidental churn related to specifying entry points by index instead of the `EntryPoint` object for certain operations. This ends up being a better choice because we can use the index to look up side-band information about the entry point that might not be stored on the `EntryPoint` object itself. In particular...
* We expand the `ComponentType` interface to support looking up the mangled name of an entry point by index. In common cases (no generic/interface specialization) this would be the same as asking the `EntryPoint` for its mangled name, but in cases where we have specialized a generic entry point, the mangled name would include speicalization arguments that are only available on the `SpecializedComponentType` that wraps the entry point. This part of the change isn't ideal and there might be a better solution waiting to be invented. Note that we store mangled entry point names as strings rather than using `DeclRef`s because that ensures that the information could be serialized and deserialized without a dependence on the AST.
* The `TargetProgram` type (which represents binding a specific `ComponentType` for a shader program to a specific `TargetRequest` that represents the target platform) is expanded to include an `IRModule` that represents layout information, in addition to the AST-level `ProgramLayout` it already contained. We create both of these objects at the same time (on-demand) to simplify the overall flow (so that any code that triggers creation of the AST-level layout will also ensure that the IR-level layout exists).
* A bunch of code in the emit passes that was passing down layout-related objects has been eliminated. It appears that most of those objects weren't actually being used, so this is just a cleanup, but it helps ensure that the back-end steps are "clean" and don't depend on the AST-level information. The one big exception here is that the emit logic needs to know the stage for the entry point being emitted (to deal with one wrinkle in translating DXR to VKRT).
* A big change (actually introduced by @jsmall-nvidia in a branch that this change copied and then built from) is to introduce some more explicit IR instructions to represent layout information, notably an `IRTypeLayout` and an `IRVarLayout`. For now these objects still reference their AST equivalents, but the separation gives us an incremental path to move information from the AST-level objects over to the IR ones. This work includes logic in `IRBuilder` to construct the IR-level layout objects from the AST-level ones on-demand, so that the existing code paths that try to attach AST-level layout will continue to work for now.
* Because layout information is now embedded in the IR, the `slang-ir-link.cpp` logic loses a lot of cases that used to deal with attaching AST-level layout objects to IR-level instructions during the linking process. Instead, the linker now assumes that one (or more) of the input IR modules will have layout information associated with it, and the linker makes sure to copy layout decorations (and the instructions they reference) from the input IR module(s) to the output using its more ordinary mechanisms.
* Inside `slang-lower-to-ir.cpp`, we add logic to construct an IR module in a `TargetProgram` that simply references the global shader parameters, entry points, etc. and attaches IR layout decorations to them. This is akin to the existing pass in the same file that constructs IR to represent specialization information, and both of these passes share infrastructure with the main AST->IR lowering pass. Eventually, it is expected that this pass will encompass more of the logic for copying AST-level layout information over to IR-level equivalents.
* One small wrinkle with this change was that the output for an HLSL generation test case changed some of its `#line` directives. The old code was actually more inaccurate than the new, so this change just updated the baseline. It also added some logic in the linker to make sure that when an IR instruction has multiple definitions, we try to pick up a source location from any of them, in case the "main" one somehow didn't get a location.
* Another small fix was that the key/value map in `StructTypeLayout` for mapping fields/members to their layouts was keyed on `Decl*` when it really should have been `VarDeclBase*`.
This change should in principle be a pure refactoring with no functionality changes, so no new tests were added. It is unfortunately also a change that has a high probability of breaking at least *some* client code, so we may want to be defensive and mark this with a new major version number (well, a new *minor* version number since we are pre-`1.0`) to give us some room for releasing hotfixes to the old version if needed.
* fixup: infinite recursion bug detected by clang
* fixup: remove commented-out code
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* First pass support for compiling to a loaded shared library.
* Improve documentation for cpu target.
* Removed the SLANG_COMPILE_FLAG_LOAD_SHARED_LIBRARY flag.
Use the SLANG_HOST_CALLABLE code target
Document mechanism.
* Fix typo in cpp-resource.slang
In test code if the target is 'callable' we don't need to compile (indeed there is no source file).
* Small refactor using CommandLineCPPCompiler as base class to implement VisualStudioCPPCompiler and GCCCPPCompiler.
* Improvements around CPPCompiler.
Mechanism to know products produced.
Cleaning up products after execution.
* Fix multiple definition of 'SourceType'
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* Expanded prelude for some other resource types. Disable C++ output for ParameterGroup.
* WIP: Layout for CPU.
* Fixes to CPU layout.
* WIP: The uniform is output, but the variable definition is not.
* WIP: Entry point parameters to global scope in C++.
Handling of resource types (in so far as outputting)
* Some discussion of ABI and different input types.
* WIP: More C++ support around resource types.
* WIP: Split up variables into different structures on emit.
* WIP: Emitting C++ with wrapping up of 'Context'
* WIP: C++ code has access to semantic values.
Wrap in struct so can use method calls to pass shared state.
Disable legalizeResourceTypes and legalizeExistentialTypeLayout
* Fix structured buffer layout for CPU.
* Remove testing/handling of global uniforms on CPU path.
Typo fix.
Changed CPU tests to use new CPU calling convention.
* Check globals are working. Initalize context to zero globals.
* Order the global parameters for C++ ouput by their layout.
Note - that layout isn't quite working correctly because the StructuredBuffer<int> the int seems to be consuming uniform space.
* Work around for reflection not having all data needed for layout ordering for C++ code.
* Output constant buffers as pointers.
* Entry point parameters accessed through pointer to struct.
* WIP: Layout for CPU is reasonable for test case.
* Only output 'f' after float literal if type marks as a float.
* Cast construction works on C++.
* Made IntrinsicOp::ConvertConstruct to make intent clearer.
* C++ handling construction from scalar.
Handle access of a scalar with .x.
Check default initialization.
* Comment about need for split of kIROp_construct.
Release build works.
* Added support from constructVectorFromScalar to C/C++ target.
* Handling of in/out in C/C++.
* First pass documentation CPU support.
* Improvements to C++/C slang code generation documentation.
* Small doc change to include need for mechansim to specify cpp compiler path.
* Better handling of swizzling - allow swizzling a scalar into a vector.
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* Revise new COM-lite API
This change revises the "COM-lite" API that was recently introduced to try to streamline it and introduce some missing central/base concepts.
The central new abstraction in the API is the notion of a "component type," which is a unit of shader code composition. A component type can have:
* IR code for some number of functions/types/etc.
* Zero or more global shader parameters
* Zero or more "entry point" functions at which execution can start
* Zero or more "specialization" parameters (types or values that must be filled in before kernel code can be generated)
* Zero or more "requirements" (dependencies on other component types that must be satisfied before kernel code can be generated)
Both individual compiled modules, and validated entry points are then examples of component types, and we additionally define a few services that apply to all component types:
* We can take N component types and compose them to create a new component type that combines their code, shader parameters, entry points, and specialization parameters. A composed component type may also include requirements from the sub-component types, but it is also possible that by composing thing we satisfy requirements (if `A` requires `B`, and we compose `A` and `B`, then the requirement is now satisfied, and doesn't appear on the composite).
* We can take a component type with N specialization parameters, and specialize it by giving N compatible specialization arguments. The result of specialization is a new component type with zero specialization parameters. Under the right circumstances the specialzed component type will be layout compatible with the unspecialized one.
* One more example that isn't exposed in the public API today is that we can take a component with requirements and "complete" it by automatically composing it with component types that satisfy those requirements. This can be seen as a kind of linking step that pulls together the transitive closure of dependencies.
* We can query the layout for the shader parameters and entry points of a component type, for a specific target.
* We can query compiled kernel code for an entry point in a component type (for a specific target). This only works for component types with zero specialization parameters and zero requirements.
The idea is that by giving users a fairly general algebra of operations on component types, they can compose final programs in ways that meet their requirements. For example, it becomes possible to incrementally "grow" a component type to represent the global root signature for ray tracing shaders as new entry points are added, in such a way that it always stays layout-compatible with kernels that have already been compiled.
Much of the implementation work here is in implementing the unifying component type abstraction, and in particular re-writing code that used to assume a program consisted of a flat list of modules and entry points to work with a hierarchical representation that reflects the underlying algebra (e.g., with types to represent composite and specialized component types).
There's also a hidden "legacy" case of a component type to deal with some legacy compiler behaviors that can't be directly modeled on top of the simple algebra with modules and entry points.
This API is by no means feature-complete or fully developed. It is expected that we will flesh it out more when bringing up application code (e.g., Falcor) on top of the revamped API.
One notable thing that went away in this change is explicit support for "entry point groups" and notions of local root signatures (especially the Falcor-specific handling of the `shared` keyword, which a previous change turned into an explicitly supported feature). With the new "building blocks" approach, it should be possible for a DXR application to deal with local root signatures as a matter of policy (on top of the API we provide). If/when we need to provide some kind of emulation of local root signatures for Vulkan (and/or if Vulkan is extended with an explicit notion of local root signatures), we might need to revisit this choice.
* Fix debug build
There was invalid code inside an `assert()`, so the release build didn't catch it.
* fixup: warnings
* fixup: more warnings-as-errors
* fixup: review notes
* fixup: use component type visitors in place of dynamic casting
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Currently if the user gives two global shader parameters conflicting bindings, they get a warning diagnostic:
```hlsl
Texture2D a : register(t0);
Texture2D b : register(t0); // WARNING: overlapping bindings
```
This change adds a way to locally disable that warning using an attribute:
```hlsl
[allow("overlapping-bindings")] Texture2D a : register(t0);
[allow("overlapping-bindings")] Texture2D b : register(t0); // OK
```
Note that as a policy decision, the implementation requires `[allow("overlapping-bindings")]` on both declarations in order to disable the warning, under the assumption that the behavior should be strictly opt-in, and not silently affect a programmer who adds a new shader parameter with no knowledge or expectation of possible overlap.
The `[allow(...)]` attribute is intended to be a fairly generally mechanism for disabling optional diagnostics within certain scopes (e.g., for the body of a function definition), but as implemented in this change it is quite restrictive:
* Only the single name `"overlapping-bindings"` will be recognized, and this name cannot be used with, e.g., a `-W` flag on the command line to enable/disable the same diagnostic, or turn it into an error. Adding more cases would be easy enough, but wiring it up to command-line flags could be trickier.
* Only the code that checks for parameter binding overlap is currently checking for `[allow(...)]` attributes, so it is not "wired up" to enable/disable any others. Doing this systematically would ideally involve something in `diagnose()`, but there could be complications to a systematic approach (finding the AST node(s) to use when searching for `[allow(...)]`.
On gotcha here is that versions of Slang without this feature will error out on the `[allow(...)]` attribute since they don't understand it, and if we add future diagnostics that it covers then old compiler versions will (as written) error out on a diagnostic they haven't heard of rather than just assume the `[allow(...)]` attribute doesn't apply to them. These kinds of issues can and should be addressed in future changes.
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* Start exposing a new COM-lite API
This change is mostly about exposing a new API to the Slang compiler that allows more fine-grained control over the compilation flow. The basic concepts in the new API are:
* An `IGlobalSession` is the granularity at which we load/parse the Slang stdlib, and therefore gives applications a way to amortize startup cost for the library across multiple compiles. This is a concept that might be able to go away in a future version of Slang.
* An `ISession` owns all the code that gets loaded/compiled/generated. Any `import`ed modules are shared across everything in a session (we don't re-parse/-check the code when we see another `import` for the same module). Any generic- or interface-based code in the session can be specialized using types from the same session (but not necessarily across sessions).
* An `IModule` is the unit of code loading and scoping. It doesn't expose any API in this change, but would be the right scope for looking up types or entry points by name.
* An `IProgram` is a "linked" combination of modules and entry points from which code can be generated and reflection information queried.
This change re-uses the existing reflection API types, rather than introduce a new API that duplicates that functionality. That will probably change in a future revision.
There are two major pieces of functionality added here that aren't related to the new API:
* We now have an API concept of "entry point groups" which are one or more entry points that are intended to be used together so that they need to have non-overlapping parameters. For now this is being used to handle "hit groups" and local root signatures for ray tracing, but I'm not sure this is a concept we will keep in the long run.
* We have a very special-case (client-application-specific) flag that ascribes special meaning to the `shared` keyword, so that it can be attached to global parameters to indicate that they are actually to be part of the local root signature rather than the global one for DXR.
None of the API design (including naming) here is finalized; the only reason to check in the changes at this point to avoid having a long-running branch that leads to merge pain. Clients should *not* try to depend on the new API just yet, since it is still a work in progress.
* fixup: clang warning
* fixup: try to detect clang C++11 support
* fixup
* fixup
* fixup
* fixup
* fixup: review feedback
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* Prefixing source files in source/slang with slang-
* Prefix source in source/slang with slang- prefix.
* Rename core source files with slang- prefix.
* Update project files.
* Fix problems from automatic merge.
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