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Matt Pharr
f81acbfe80 Implement unbound varibility for struct types.
Now, if a struct member has an explicit 'uniform' or 'varying'
qualifier, then that member has that variability, regardless of
the variability of the struct's variability.  Members without
'uniform' or 'varying' have unbound variability, and in turn
inherit the variability of the struct.

As a result of this, now structs can properly be 'varying' by default,
just like all the other types, while still having sensible semantics.
2012-02-21 10:28:31 -08:00
Matt Pharr
6d7ff7eba2 Update defaults for variability of pointed-to types.
Now, if rate qualifiers aren't used to specify otherwise, varying
pointers point to uniform types by default.  As before, uniform
pointers point to varying types by default.

   float *foo;  // varying pointer to uniform float
   float * uniform foo;  // uniform pointer to varying float

These defaults seem to require the least amount of explicit
uniform/varying qualifiers for most common cases, though TBD if it
would be easier to have a single rule that e.g. the pointed-to type
is always uniform by default.
2012-02-21 06:27:34 -08:00
Matt Pharr
83c8650b36 Add support for "local" atomics.
Also updated aobench example to use them, which in turn allows using
foreach() and thence a much cleaner implementation.

Issue #58.
2012-02-03 13:15:21 -08:00
Matt Pharr
89cb809922 Short-circuit evaluation of ? : operator for varying tests.
? : now short-circuits evaluation of the expressions following
the boolean test for varying test types.  (It already did this
for uniform tests).

Issue #169.
2012-02-01 11:03:58 -08:00
Matt Pharr
e19f4931d1 Short-circuit evaluation of && and || operators.
We now follow C's approach of evaluating these: we don't evaluate
the second expression in the operator if the value of the first one
determines the overall result.  Thus, these can now be used 
idiomatically like (index < limit && array[index] > 0) and such.

For varying expressions, the mask is set appropriately when evaluating
the second expression.

(For expressions that can be determined to be both simple and safe to
evaluate with the mask all off, we still evaluate both sides and compute
the logical op result directly, which saves a number of branches and tests.
However, the effect of this should never be visible to the programmer.)

Issue #4.
2012-01-30 05:58:41 -08:00
Matt Pharr
664dc3bdda Add support for "new" and "delete" to the language.
Issue #139.
2012-01-27 14:47:06 -08:00
Matt Pharr
d805e8b183 Add clock() function to standard library.
Also corrected the declaration of num_cores() to return a
uniform value.
2012-01-22 13:05:27 -08:00
Matt Pharr
602209e5a8 Tiny updates to documentation, comment for switch stuff. 2012-01-12 05:55:42 -08:00
Matt Pharr
b67446d998 Add support for "switch" statements.
Switches with both uniform and varying "switch" expressions are
supported.  Switch statements with varying expressions and very
large numbers of labels may not perform well; some issues to be
filed shortly will track opportunities for improving these.
2012-01-11 09:16:31 -08:00
Matt Pharr
fda00afe6e Rename .txt files in docs to .rst (which is what they actually are). 2012-01-08 14:11:04 -08:00