slang.git - Making it easier to work with shaders

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2019-11-21	Remove support for explicit register/binding syntax on TEST_INPUT (#1132)	Tim Foley
	The `TEST_INPUT` facility allows textual Slang test cases to provide two kinds of information to the `render-test` tool: 1. Information on what shader inputs exist 2. Information on what values/objects to bind into those shader inputs Under the first category of information, there exists supporting for attaching a `dxbinding(...)` annotation to a `TEST_INPUT` which seemingly indicates what HLSL `register` the input uses. There is a similar `glbinding(...)` annotation, used for OpenGL and Vulkan. It turns out that these annotations were, in practice, completely ignored and had no bearing on how `render-test` allocates or bindings graphics API objects. There was some amount of code attempting to validate that explicit registers/bindings were being set appropriately, but the actual values were being ignored. The visible consequence of the `dxbinding` and `glbinding` annotations being ignored is issue #1036: the order of `TEST_INPUT` lines was de facto determining the registers/bindings that were being used by `render-test`. This change simply removes the placebo features and strips things down to what is implemented in practice: the `TEST_INPUT` lines do not need target-API-specific binding/register numbers, because their order in the file implicitly defines them. I added logic to the parsing of `TEST_INPUT` lines to make sure I got an error message on any leftover annotations, and went ahead and systematicaly deleted all of the placebo annotations from our test cases. If we decide to make `TEST_INPUT` lines not depend on order of declaration in the future, we can build it up as a new and better considered feature. The main alternative I considered was to keep the annotations in place, and change `render-test` and the `gfx` abstraction layer to properly respect them, but that path actually creates much more opportunity for breakage (since every single test case would suddenly be specifying its root signature / pipeline layout via a different path using data that has never been tested). The approach in this change has the benefit of giving me high confidence that all the test cases continue to work just as they had before.
2019-10-31	Reference IR modules with entry point (#1101)	jsmall-nvidia
	* Added RiffReadHelper * Move type to fourCC in Chunk simplifies some code. * Make MemoryArena able to track external blocks. Allow ownership of Data to vary. Changed IR serialization to use moved allocations to avoid copies. As it turns out all of the array writes could use unowned data, but doing so requires the IRData to stay in scope longer than IRSerialData, which it does at the moment - but perhaps needs better naming or a control for the feature. * Write out slang-module container. * WIP on -r option. Loading modules - with -r. * Making the serialized-module run (without using imported module). * Split compiling module from the test. * Separate module compilation with a function working. * Remove serialization test as not used. * Fix warning on gcc. * Updated test to have types across module boundary. * Allow entry point declaration. A test that tries to build with just an entry point declaration and a module. * Try to make link work with multiple modules. * Multi module linking first pass working. * Multi module test working with -module-name option * Use isDefinition - for determining to add decorations to entry point lowering.
2019-10-30	WIP: Simple separate IR module linkage working (#1100)	jsmall-nvidia
	* Added RiffReadHelper * Move type to fourCC in Chunk simplifies some code. * Make MemoryArena able to track external blocks. Allow ownership of Data to vary. Changed IR serialization to use moved allocations to avoid copies. As it turns out all of the array writes could use unowned data, but doing so requires the IRData to stay in scope longer than IRSerialData, which it does at the moment - but perhaps needs better naming or a control for the feature. * Write out slang-module container. * WIP on -r option. Loading modules - with -r. * Making the serialized-module run (without using imported module). * Split compiling module from the test. * Separate module compilation with a function working. * Remove serialization test as not used. * Fix warning on gcc. * Updated test to have types across module boundary.