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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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* Bug fix for vector initializer lists
When a vector was initialized with an initializer list:
float4 f = { 0, 1, 2, 3 };
we were following the logic for `struct` types (since `vector<T,N>` is technically a `struct` declaration in our stdlib...), but the type has no field, so we were (silently!) ignoring the actual operands.
I've applied a simple fix where we cast the operands to the element type of the vector, but a more complete fix will be needed sooner or later where we check the operand counts properly, etc.
* Create implicit cast AST nodes when calling initializers
The logic for dealing with implicit conversions was recently beefed up so that it would look at `__init` declarations in the target type, but in those cases the front-end would always create an `InvokeExpr` even when we would rather get an `ImplicitCastExpr` or (in the "rewrite" case) a `HiddenImplicitCastExpr`.
I've fixed this up for now by constructing a dummy expression to stand in for the "original" call expression when creating the final call (luckily our `TypeCastExpr` is already just a specialized `InvokeExpr`).
A better long-term solution might be to have implicit-ness or hidden-ness be modifiers or flags, rather than needing to use specialized forms of call nodes.
* Fix subscript operator for `RWTexture1D`
The index type was being declared as `uint1` instead of `uint`, and that created problems for downstream HLSL compilation when we introduced expressions like `uav[uint1(index)]` - the compiler would complain that a vector is not a valid index type.
* Fix up constant-folding of integer casts.
The old logic was checking for `InvokeExpr` before `TypeCastExpr`, but in the new setup a type cast *is* an `InvokeExpr`, so that case was never triggering.
All of the constant-folding code really needs to be revisited, though, so that it can use a more general-purpose evaluation scheme like the bytecode (so that we can handle a moral equivalent of `constexpr` in the long run).
* Fix implicit conversion costs for vector types
A recent change made it so that the logic for looking up implicit conversions now uses declarations of initializers in the standard library (rather than hand-coding all the cases in `check.cpp`).
One mistake made there was that we dropped the logic for computing implicit conversions between vectors of the same size, but different element types.
These conversions were still allowed by a catch-all (generic) declaration in the standard library, but that declaration didn't include any implicit conversion cost logic (since it was generic, there was no single cost to use).
This change explicitly enumerates the required conversions with their costs.
It is a bit unfortunate that this is an O(N^2) amount of code for N base types, but that seems unavoidable for now.
* Handle "lowering" of overloaded expressions
If we are in the `-no-checking` mode and the user calls an overloaded function from an `__import`ed file in a way such that Slang can't resolve the intended overload, we were failing to emit the definitions of the potential callees.
This change simply adds a case for `OverloadedExpr` in `lower.cpp` that explicitly lowers all the declarations that might have been referenced.
- There is a potentially for breakage here if we are outputting GLSL and one of the overloads is stage-specific.
- A more refined approach might try to recognize which over the overloaded options are even potentially applicable, and then output only those, but doing this would be way more complicated.
I've added a test case for this behavior, but it is a bit brittle because we need to confirm that we still produce the same error message as unmodified HLSL.
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