If `@intrinsic()` is followed by `[expr_list]` then those expresses will
be used to create the intrinsic rather than the function's parameters,
allowing for reordering, adding extra parameters or even complex
expressions.
However, only the parsing is implemented.
The goal is to make it easy to get size/coord/base types from image
types without creating a zillion type functions.
It was necessary to make it possible for any type to have an attribute
function (returns an expression so it can be more useful: types are
returned via type expressions). Algebra types were the first victim
(which was nice for testing).
I had already implemented the code generation side (though using type
ids instead of encodings is a nice change), but I hadn't implemented the
actual evaluation or even called it. Now return types can be computed
from generic parameters (eg, ivecN from vecN).
They should now work in generic contexts, but the pressing need to work
on arrays was due to constant expressions for element counts breaking.
As a side effect, function pointers are now a thing (and seem to work
like they do in C)
GA expressions need to be optimized so things that should cancel out do,
and this requires everything to be dagged. Doing so in expr_process gets
most of the expressions, and then a few stragglers in proc_field. There
might still be some more, but my test scene compiles again.
They're buggy in that the defspaces for parameters and locals are
incorrect (they need to point to the calling scope's space). Also,
parameters are not yet hooked up correctly. However, errors (because I
need to allow casts from scalars to vectors) do get handled.
xvalue symbols refer to two expressions: an lvalue and an rvalue. They
are meant to be used with xvalue expressions.
xvalue expressions are useful when a distinction must be made between
the behavior of something (eg, a pascal function symbol) must change
depending on whether it's an lvalue (assignment of the function's return
value) or an rvalue (a call to the function, especially when the
function takes no parameters).
Because the glsl front-end uses Ruamoko to compile its builtins, it
needs to switch languages, and the cleanest way to do so is to use a
context object that gets passed around. This removes not only the
current_language global, but also (as a bonus) any real references to
flex's scanner object (there's still a pointer in rua_ctx_t, but it's no
longer a parameter (which caused some pain in the change)).
The main goal was to make it possible to give generic functions
definitions (since the code would be very dependent on the actual
parameter types), but will also allow for inline functions. It also
helped move a lot of the back-end dependent code out of semantics
processing and almost completely (if not completely) out of the parser.
Possibly more importantly, it gets the dags flushing out of the parser,
which means such is now shared by all front-ends.
There's probably a lot of dead code in expr.c now, but that can be taken
care of another time.
I found a need to check for shifts separately (not sure it's the right
approach for that problem, though), and there are a few more math ops
than just +-*/.
Explicitly typed compound initializers are what C uses and allows them
to initialized `auto` vars and even pass through `...`. Not tested yet
other than ensuring existing tests didn't break.
I guess that was a mental FIXME for later, but later came sooner. The
declaration doesn't seem to be working properly, but I'll worry about
that later when I can get some automated tests going.
Since spir-v needs actual bools for its conditional instructions, the
time to do bool properly finally came. As expected, the changes caused
quite a mess, but Ruamoko now does bool/true/false.
I've long felt build_function_call was getting a bit big, and expr.c
especially so. This should make it easier to rewrite build_function_call
for dealing with target-specific code. As a bonus, the int through ...
warning is already cleaned up.
spir-v uses SSA, so temps cannot be assigned to directly, so instead use
the temp expression as a reference for the result id of the rhs of the
assignment. This would get function calls working if the they actually
emitted any code (right now, just a place-holder id so spirv-dis doesn't
fall over).
Also, fix some missing docs. Unfortunately, there are still some
problems (incorrect resolution for multiple files/functions with the
same name, and a bug with doxygen's verbatim/code blocks).
While a reference var can't be initialized yet, using them seems to work
in that they get dereferenced when the value needs to be read or written
(though I haven't seen any generated code for them yet).
Now declarations can be deferred too, thus things like generic/template
and inline functions should be possible. However, the most important
thing is this is a step towards a cleaner middle layer for compilation,
separating front-end language from back-end code-gen.
I don't remember why I thought it was a good idea at the time, but I
decided that having the union was a bit iffy and making the list
"official" would be a good idea. In the end, it removed a nice chunk of
code (redundant list manipulations).
And they even pass validation (though it turns out there's a bug in
glslangValidator regarding specialization constants with expressions (or
possibly spirv-val, but it seems to be the former as my bug report shows
signs of activity in that direction)).
https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang/issues/3748
I want to use new_field_expr for specialized field expressions instead.
However, I don't particularly like new_deffield_expr as a name, but I
can't think of anything better just yet.
I plan to do this eventually for Ruamoko, but I need it to keep working
for now; it's rather nice having multiple languages. I expect this will
open up a lot of options for inlining, generic/template function
instantiation, etc. Right now, it's helping with specialization
constants in glsl.
They're currently wrong since they're meant to be for specialization
constants (and that whole system is currently broken anyway) but are
instead raw code expressions, but progress is progress.
