HLSL Compiler and d3dcompiler_xx.dll

[Roderick Colenbrander]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Matijn Woudt <tijnema at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at> wrote:
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>> Am 14.04.2010 um 15:44 schrieb Henri Verbeet:
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>>> On 14 April 2010 15:07, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at> wrote:
>>>>> 3) Implement the compiler in d3dcompiler_xx.
>>>> I wrote a basic HLSL compiler as university project in 2008, this is where part of the assembler code came from. Do you have the sources, do you need them?
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>>> Quite frankly, I also believe that's where some of the issues in the
>>> early versions of those assembler patches came from. I don't know if
>>> that compiler has seen any work since 2008, but I'd be careful with
>>> taking it as too much of an example.
>> Yep, I recommend using Mattheo's code if possible. He has rebased my old code and fixed a bunch of issues. Beyond that, my compiler is fairly minimalistic. I think it supports most features except arrays(needs loop unrolling support). However, the optimizer is fairly simplistic. For better optimizations you may want to investigate SSA transformations and related stuff. I guess perfect optimization isn't a requirement for a first version though.
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> First thing would probably be cleaning up and getting something minimal past AJ.
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>> Just in case my git tree is here: http://84.112.174.163/~stefan/wine/ . It's not online all the time, and I am not guaranted a fixed IP(although it hasn't changed in years), so check it out as long as you can if you need it.
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> Am I supposed to find your compiler code there? It seems like a git
> tree of ages ago (where d3dx9_36 only contains math and font code).
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It might also make sense to explore whether compilers like LLVM (used
a lot these days including for OpenCL implementations by Apple,
Nvidia; and don't forget Gallium3D) and Open64 (used in Cuda) and
others.

Roderick