The packed_{load,store}_active now functions take a pointer to a
location at which to start loading/storing, rather than an array
base and a uniform index.
Variants of the prefetch functions that take varying pointers
are now available.
There are now variants of the various atomic functions that take
varying pointers (issue #112).
Pointers can be either uniform or varying, and behave correspondingly.
e.g.: "uniform float * varying" is a varying pointer to uniform float
data in memory, and "float * uniform" is a uniform pointer to varying
data in memory. Like other types, pointers are varying by default.
Pointer-based expressions, & and *, sizeof, ->, pointer arithmetic,
and the array/pointer duality all bahave as in C. Array arguments
to functions are converted to pointers, also like C.
There is a built-in NULL for a null pointer value; conversion from
compile-time constant 0 values to NULL still needs to be implemented.
Other changes:
- Syntax for references has been updated to be C++ style; a useful
warning is now issued if the "reference" keyword is used.
- It is now illegal to pass a varying lvalue as a reference parameter
to a function; references are essentially uniform pointers.
This case had previously been handled via special case call by value
return code. That path has been removed, now that varying pointers
are available to handle this use case (and much more).
- Some stdlib routines have been updated to take pointers as
arguments where appropriate (e.g. prefetch and the atomics).
A number of others still need attention.
- All of the examples have been updated
- Many new tests
TODO: documentation
When creating function Symbols for functions that were defined in LLVM bitcode for the standard library, if any of the function parameters are integer types, create two ispc-side Symbols: one where the integer types are all signed and the other where they are all unsigned. This allows us to provide, for example, both store_to_int16(reference int a[], uniform int offset, int val) as well as store_to_int16(reference unsigned int a[], uniform int offset, unsigned int val). functions.
Added some additional tests to exercise the new variants of these.
Also fixed some cases where the __{load,store}_int{8,16} builtins would read from/write to memory even if the mask was all off (which could cause crashes in some cases.)
