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*	[CBP] Pointer frontend changes + groupshared pointer support (#7848)	ArielG-NV	2025-08-29
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	Resolves #7628 Resolves: #8197 Primary Goals: 1. Add `Access` to pointer 2. AddressSpace::GroupShared support for pointers (SPIR-V) 3. Add `__getAddress()` to replace `&` * `&` is not updated to `require(cpu)` since slangpy uses `&`. This means we must: (1) merge PR; (2) replace `&` with `__getAddress()`; (3) add `require(cpu)` to `&` Changes: * Added to `Ptr` the `Access` generic argument & logic (for `Access::Read`). * Moved the generic argument `AddressSpace` from `Ptr` to the end of the type. * Added pointer casting support between any `Ptr` as long as the `AddressSpace` is the same * Disallow globallycoherent T* and coherent T* * Disallow const T, T const, and const T* * Fixed .natvis display of `ConstantValue` `ValOperandNode` * Support generic resolution of type-casted integers * Added `VariablePointer` emitting for spirv + other minor logic needed for groupshared pointers Breaking Changes: * Anyone using the `AddressSpace` of `Ptr` will now have to account for the `Access` argument * we disallow various syntax paired with `Ptr` and `T*` --------- Co-authored-by: slangbot <186143334+slangbot@users.noreply.github.com>
*	Pointer layout support (#2930)	jsmall-nvidia	2023-06-27
	* WIP looking at reflection with pointers. * Added GetPointerLayout. * Initial test via reflection with layout of ptr type. * WIP handles ptrs to types that have layout that hasn't been completed. * Move tests to ptr. * WIP try to take into account lowering correctly between AggTypeDecl and Type, but doesn't quite work. * WIP a different path to handling recursive lowering problem with Ptr. * Fix issues with reflection output. * Small tidy. * Fix for infinite recursion issue. * Lower IRPointerTypeLayout * Working with generics. Has a hack to work around Layout around Ptr in IR. The reflection around the generic - the name isn't much use, it should probably have the generic parameters, but that would require getName to do something more sophisticated. * Fix issue around calling finishOuterGenerics to early. * Remove feature/ptr test. * Fix type legalization being an infinite loop with Ptr self referencing. * Disable the pointer self reference test because produces an infintie loop on emit. * Fixed comment based on review. * Fix for issue with emit and pointers causing infinite recursion.