1Revision history for SPIRV-Tools 2 3v2023.6 2023-12-18 4 - General 5 - update_build_version.py produce deterministic header. (#5426) 6 - Support missing git in update_build_version.py (#5473) 7 - Optimizer 8 - Add ComputeDerivativeGroup*NV capabilities to trim capabilities pass. (#5430) 9 - Do not crash when tryingto fold unsupported spec constant (#5496) 10 - instrument: Fix handling of gl_InvocationID (#5493) 11 - Fix nullptr argument in MarkInsertChain (#5465) 12 - opt: support 64-bit OpAccessChain index in FixStorageClass (#5446) 13 - opt: add StorageImageReadWithoutFormat to cap trim (#5475) 14 - opt: add PhysicalStorageBufferAddresses to trim (#5476) 15 - Fix array size calculation (#5463 16 - Validator 17 - spirv-val: Loosen restriction on base type of DebugTypePointer and DebugTypeQualifier (#5479) 18 - spirv-val: Add WorkgroupMemoryExplicitLayoutKHR check for Block (#5461) 19 20v2023.5 2023-10-15 21 - General 22 - Support 2 Intel extensions (#5357) 23 - SPV_QCOM_image_processing support (#5223) 24 - Optimizer 25 - opt: fix StorageInputOutput16 trimming. (#5359) 26 - opt: add StoragePushConstant16 to trim pass (#5366) 27 - opt: enable StorageUniform16 (#5371) 28 - opt: add bitmask support for capability trimming (#5372) 29 - opt: Add SwitchDescriptorSetPass (#5375) 30 - opt: add FragmentShader*InterlockEXT to capability trim pass (#5390) 31 - opt: add Int64 capability to trim pass (#5398) 32 - opt: add Float64 capability to trim pass (#5428) 33 - opt: add raytracing/rayquery to trim pass (#5397) 34 - opt: add ImageMSArray capability to trim pass. (#5395) 35 - Add SPV_KHR_physical_storage_buffer to allowlists (#5402) 36 - Add SPV_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock to allow lists (#5393) 37 - Make sure that fragment shader interlock instructions are not removed by DCE (#5400) 38 - instrument: Use Import linkage for instrumentation functions (#5355) 39 - Add a new legalization pass to dedupe invocation interlock instructions (#5409) 40 - instrument: Ensure linking works even of nothing is changed (#5419) 41 - Validator 42 - Move token version/cap/ext checks from parsing to validation (#5370) 43 - val: re-add ImageMSArray validation (#5394) 44 - Linker 45 - linker: Add --use-highest-version option 46 47v2023.4 2023-07-17 48 - General 49 - Set cmake_policy CMP0128 (#5341) 50 - Add python3 requirement for the script (#5326) 51 - Add support for LiteralFloat type (#5323) 52 - SPV_KHR_cooperative_matrix (#5286) 53 - Allow OpTypeBool in UniformConstant (#5237) 54 - Allow physical storage buffer pointer in IO (#5251) 55 - Remove const zero image operands (#5232) 56 - Optimizer 57 - Enable vector constant folding (#4913) (#5272) 58 - Fold negation of integer vectors (#5269) 59 - Add folding rule for OpTranspose (#5241) 60 - Add SPV_NV_bindless_texture to spirv optimizations (#5231) 61 - Fix incorrect half float conversion (#5349) 62 - Add SPV_EXT_shader_atomic_float_add to allow lists (#5348) 63 - Instrument 64 - instrument: Cast gl_VertexIndex and InstanceIndex to uint (#5319) 65 - instrument: Fix buffer address length calculations (#5257) 66 - instrument: Reduce number of inst_bindless_stream_write_6 calls (#5327) 67 - Validator 68 - Validate GroupNonUniform instructions (#5296) 69 - spirv-val: Label SPV_KHR_cooperative_matrix VUID (#5301) 70 - Validate layouts for PhysicalStorageBuffer pointers (#5291) 71 - spirv-val: Remove VUID from 1.3.251 spec (#5244) 72 - Diff 73 - spirv-diff: Update test expectations (#5264) 74 - spirv-diff: Leave undefined ids unpaired. (#5262) 75 - spirv-diff: Properly match SPV_KHR_ray_query types. (#5259) 76 - diff: Don't give up entry point matching too early. (#5224) 77 78v2023.3 2023-05-15 79 - General 80 - Update spirv_headers to include SPV_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch (#5205) 81 - spirv-tools: Add support for QNX (#5211) 82 - build: set std=c++17 for BUILD.gn (#5162) 83 - Optimizer 84 - Run ADCE when the printf extension is used. (#5215) 85 - Don't convert struct members to half (#5201) 86 - Apply scalar replacement on vars with Pointer decorations (#5208) 87 - opt: Fix null deref in OpMatrixTimesVector and OpVectorTimesMatrix (#5199) 88 - instrument: Add set and binding to bindless error records (#5204) 89 - instrument: Change descriptor state storage format (#5178) 90 - Fix LICMPass (#5087) 91 - Add Vulkan memory model to allow lists (#5173) 92 - Do not remove control barrier after spv1.3 (#5174) 93 - Validator 94 - spirv-val: Label Interface Location/Component VUIDs (#5221) 95 - Add support for SPV_EXT_shader_tile_image (#5188) 96 - Fix vector OpConstantComposite type validation (#5191) 97 - spirv-val: Label new Vulkan VUID 07951 (#5154) 98 - Fuzz 99 - Do not define GOOGLE_PROTOBUF_INTERNAL_DONATE_STEAL_INLINE if it is already defined. (#5200) 100 101v2023.2 2023-03-10 102 - General 103 - build: move from c++11 to c++17 (#4983) 104 - tools: refactorize tools flags parsing. (#5111) 105 - Add C interface for Optimizer (#5030) 106 - libspirv.cpp: adds c++ api for spvBinaryParse (#5109) 107 - build: change the way we set cxx version for bazel. (#5114) 108 - Optimizer 109 - Fix null pointer in FoldInsertWithConstants. (#5093) 110 - Fix removal of dependent non-semantic instructions (#5122) 111 - Remove duplicate lists of constant and type opcodes (#5106) 112 - opt: fix spirv ABI on Linux again. (#5113) 113 - Validator 114 - Validate decoration of structs with RuntimeArray (#5094) 115 - Validate operand type before operating on it (#5092) 116 - spirv-val: Conditional Branch without an exit is invalid in loop header (#5069) 117 - spirv-val: Initial SPV_EXT_mesh_shader builtins (#5080) 118 119v2023.1 2023-01-17 120 - General 121 - Renamed "master" to "main" (issue#5051) 122 - Validate version 5 of clspv reflection (#5050) 123 - Remove testing support for VS2015 (#5027) 124 - Fix undef behaviour in hex float parsing (#5025) 125 - Require C++11 *or later* (#5020) 126 - Instrument 127 - Instrument: Fix bindless checking for BufferDeviceAddress (#5049) 128 - Optimizer 129 - Optimize allocation of spvtools::opt::Instruction::operands_ (#5024) 130 - spirv-opt: Fix OpCompositeInsert with Null Constant (#5008) 131 - spirv-opt: Handle null CompositeInsert (#4998) 132 - Add option to ADCE to remove output variables from interface. (#4994) 133 - Add support for tesc, tese and geom to EliminateDead*Components (#4990) 134 - Add pass to eliminate dead output components (#4982) 135 - spirv-opt: Add const folding for CompositeInsert (#4943) 136 - Add passes to eliminate dead output stores (#4970) 137 - Prevent eliminating case constructs in block merging (#4976) 138 - Validator 139 - Fix layout validation (#5015) 140 - Fix use of invalid analysis (#5013) 141 - Fix infinite loop in validator (#5006) 142 - Add validation support for SPV_NV_shader_invocation_reorder. (#4979) 143 - Only validate full layout in Vulkan environments (#4972) 144 - spirv-val: Label new Vulkan OpPtrAccessChain VUs (#4975) 145 - spirv-val: Add OpPtrAccessChain Base checks (#4965) 146 147 148v2022.4 2022-10-12 149 - General 150 - Support Narrow Types in BitCast Folding Rule (#4941) 151 - spirv-diff: Allow no SpecId (#4904) 152 - build: cmake: Add support for GNU/Hurd (#4895) 153 - Implement tool changes for SPV_EXT_mesh_shader. (#4915) 154 - Validator 155 - spirv-val: Add SPV_ARM_core_builtins validation (#4958) 156 - spirv-val: Add an option to use friendly names or not (#4951) 157 - spirv-val: Consistently quote ids in messages (#4950) 158 - spirv-val: Add initial SPV_EXT_mesh_shader validation (#4924) 159 - spirv-val: Make it legal to use arrays of ray queries (#4938) 160 - spirv-val: Better message for using OpTypeBool in input/output (#4901) 161 - spirv-val: Add SPV_KHR_ray_tracing storage class (#4868) 162 - Optimizer 163 - spirv-opt: Fix stacked CompositeExtract constant folds (#4932) 164 - Improve time to build dominators (#4916) 165 - Fix ADCE to mark scope and inlined_at of line instructions as live. (#4910) 166 - Improve algorithm to reorder blocks in a function (#4911) 167 - Add structs to eliminate dead input components (#4894) 168 - spirv-opt: fix copy-propagate-arrays index opti on structs. (#4891) 169 - Fix ADCE to not eliminate top level DebugInfo instructions (#4889) 170 - Fix array copy propagation (#4890) 171 172v2022.3 2022-08-08 173 - General 174 - Add SPV_KHR_fragment_shader_barycentric support (#4805) 175 - Add support for SPV_KHR_subgroup_rotate (#4786) 176 - use exec_tools instead of tools for better RBE compatibility (#4837) 177 - Write binary files to stdout in binary on windows. (#4834) 178 - Allow spirv-opt print-all to show pretty IDs (#4888) 179 - Validator 180 - spirv-val: Add PerVertexKHR (#4807) 181 - spirv-opt : Add FixFuncCallArgumentsPass (#4775) 182 - spirv-val: Add CullMaskKHR support (#4792) 183 - Require ColMajor or RowMajor for matrices (#4878) 184 - spirv-val: Add SPV_KHR_ray_query (#4848) 185 - spirv-val: Add SPV_KHR_ray_tracing instructions (#4871) 186 - Implement SPV_NV_bindless_texture related changes (#4847) 187 - spirv-val: Add OpConvertUToAccelerationStructureKHR (#4838) 188 - spirv-val: Add support for SPV_AMD_shader_early_and_late_fragment_tests (#4812) 189 - Optimizer 190 - Fold multiply and subtraction into FMA with negation (#4808) 191 - Add more folding for composite instructions (#4802) 192 - spirv-opt: add pass for interface variable scalar replacement (#4779) 193 - Don't try to unroll loop with step count 0. (#4769) 194 - spirv-opt: SPV_NV_bindless_texture related changes (#4870) 195 - Linker 196 - linker: Recalculate interface variables (#4784) 197 198v2022.2 2022-04-07 199 - General 200 - Add OpModuleProcessed to debug opcode (#4694) 201 - Optimizer 202 - Complete handling of RayQueryKHR type (#4690) 203 - Have scalar replacement use undef instead of null (#4691) 204 - Optimize Instruction::Instruction (#4705) 205 - Handle propagation of arrays with decorations (#4717) 206 - spirv-opt: Add OpExecutionModeId support (#4719) 207 - Optimize Type::HashValue (#4707) 208 - Optimize DefUseManager allocations (#4709) 209 - Add pass to remove DontInline function control (#4747) 210 - Better handling of 0xFFFFFFFF when folding vector shuffle (#4743) 211 - Reset the id bound on the module in compact ids (#4744) 212 - spirv-opt: (WIP) Eliminate Dead Input Component Pass (#4720) 213 - Support SPV_KHR_uniform_group_instructions (#4734) 214 - Handle shaders without execution model in spread-volatile-semantics (#4766) 215 - Validator 216 - Fix handling of Nontemporal image operand (#4692) 217 - [spirv-val] Allow 0 Component Count for DebugTypeArray for Shader (#4706) 218 - spirv-val: Validate DebugTypeMatrix (#4732) 219 - spirv-val: Label Vulkan VUID 04734 (#4739) 220 - spirv-val: Label VUID 06491 (#4745) 221 - spirv-val: Disallow array of push constants (#4742) 222 - spirv-val: Label Vulkan RuntimeArray VUID (#4749) 223 - spirv-val: Add Vulkan Image VUID 06214 (#4750) 224 - spirv-val: Add Vulkan Dref not allowed 3D dim VUID (#4751) 225 - spirv-val: Label and add test for PSB Aligned (#4756) 226 - spirv-val: Add Vulkan 32-bit bit op Base (#4758) 227 - spirv-val: Add more Vulkan VUID labels (#4764) 228 - Diff 229 - Introduce spirv-diff (#4611) 230 - Stabilize the output of spirv-diff (#4698) 231 - spirv-diff: Handle OpSpecConstant array sizes (#4700) 232 - spirv-diff: Match OpSpecConstantComposite correctly (#4704) 233 - spirv-diff: Use GetSingleWord*Operand (#4768) 234 - spirv-diff: Basic support for OpTypeForwardPointer (#4761) 235 - spirv-diff: Fix OpTypeFunction matching w.r.t operand count (#4771) 236 237v2022.1 2022-01-26 238 - General 239 - Add SPIR-V 1.6 support to wasm build (#4674) 240 - Improvements to disassembly within PassManager (#4677) 241 - Basic support for SPIR-V 1.6 (#4663) 242 - reflect debug (#4662) 243 - Fix endianness of string literals (#4622) 244 - Optimizer 245 - spirv-opt: add pass to Spread Volatile semantics (#4667) 246 - Fix constant propagation and folding of FClamp instructions (#4651) 247 - Manually fold floating point division by zero (#4637) 248 - Allow ADCE to remove dead inputs (#4629) 249 - Linker 250 - Linker improvements (#4679) 251 * test/linker: Code factorisation and small tweaks 252 * linker: Do not fail when going over limits 253 - Validator 254 - val: interface struct with builtins must be Block (#4665) 255 - Fuzzer 256 - Avoid id bound errors during opt fuzzing (#4658) 257 - Avoid uninitialised read when parsing hex float (#4646) 258 259v2021.4 2021-11-11 260 - General 261 - Add a WebAssembly build (#3752) 262 - Make cxx exceptions controllable (#4591) 263 - Validator 264 - Improve decoration validation (#4490) 265 - Optimizer 266 - Add spirv-opt pass to replace descriptor accesses based on variable indices (#4574) 267 - Do not fold snegate feeding sdiv (#4600) 268 - Handle overflowing id in merge return (#4606) 269 - Fuzzer 270 - Add libFuzzer target for spirv-fuzz (#4434) 271 - Linter 272 273v2021.3 2021-08-24 274 - General 275 - Initial support for SPV_KHR_integer_dot_product (#4327) 276 - Add non-semantic vulkan extended instruction set (#4362) 277 - Add common enum for debug info instructions from either opencl or vulkan (#4377) 278 - Validator 279 - Add validation for SPV_EXT_shader_atomic_float16_add (#4325) 280 - Disallow loading a runtime-sized array (#4473) 281 - spirv-val: Validate vulkan debug info similarly to opencl debug info (#4466) 282 - Optimizer 283 - spirv-opt: support SPV_EXT_shader_image_int64 (#4379) 284 - spirv-opt: Add dataflow analysis framework (#4402) 285 - Add control dependence analysis to opt (#4380) 286 - Add spirv-opt convert-to-sampled-image pass (#4340) 287 - spirv-opt: Add handling of vulkan debug info to DebugInfoManager (#4423) 288 - Fuzz 289 - spirv-fuzz: support AtomicLoad (#4330) 290 - spirv-fuzz: Support AtomicStore (#4440) 291 - spirv-fuzz: TransformationWrapVectorSynonym that rewrites scalar operations using vectors (#4376) 292 - spirv-fuzz: Add minimal SPIR-V example to test shaders (#4415) 293 - spirv-fuzz: support building using gn (#4365) 294 - Linter 295 - Add new target for spirv-lint (#4446) 296 - spirv-lint: add basic CLI argument handling (#4478) 297 - Add divergence analysis to linter (#4465) 298 299v2021.2 2021-06-18 300 - General 301 - Support SPV_KHR_subgroup_uniform_control_flow (#4318) 302 - Support Intel extensions for fixed point and hls-float (#4321) 303 - Fix crash when optimizing shaders with DebugPrintf (#4280) 304 305 - Validator 306 - Support Vulkan Storage Class for Execution Model (#4212) 307 308 - Optimizer 309 - Handle SPV_KHR_vulkan_memory_model in dead-code elimination (#4320) 310 - Support folding OpBitcast with numeric constants (#4247) 311 312 - Fuzz 313 - Add tests for MaybeGet* functions in fuzzerutil (#4284) 314 - Fix OutlineFunction in presence of unreachable blocks (#4308) 315 - Fix def-use update in PermutePhiOperands (#4309) 316 - Swap positions of two functions in a module (#4236) 317 318v2021.1 2021-04-19 319 - General 320 - Support SPV_KHR_linkonce_odr, SPV_KHR_expect_assume (#4161) 321 - Fixes for the vscode language server extension (#4150) 322 - Validator 323 - Add validation for SPV_EXT_shader_atomic_float_min_max (#4105) 324 - Add Vulkan Execution Scope checks (#4183) 325 - Vulkan 64-bit OpAtomicStore check (#4163) 326 - Optimizer 327 - Add interpolate legalization pass (#4220) 328 - Fuzz 329 - Various performance optimizations 330 - Do not add too many dead blocks (#4217) 331 - Add WGSL compatibility flag to context (#4193) 332 - Add persistent state to the fuzzer (#4137) 333 334v2020.7 2021-02-16 335 - General 336 - Support pending Intel extensions (#4116) 337 - Remove WebGPU support (#4108) 338 - Validator 339 - Vulkan image gather constant component (#4133) 340 - Add Vulkan PSB64 convert VUID (#4122) 341 - Validate SPV_KHR_workgroup_memory_explicit_layout (#4128) 342 - Validate VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory (#4124) 343 - Add Vulkan image gather offset VUID (#4118) 344 - Label Vulkan atomic semantics VUIDs (#4120) 345 - Label VUID 04662 (#4123) 346 - Label VUID 04683 (#4121) 347 - Add Vulkan EXT builtins (#4115) 348 - Validate Sampled=1 for Vulkan ImageQuerySizeLod, ImageQueryLevels, ImageQueryLod (#4103) 349 - Add Vulkan Memory Scope VUs (#4106) 350 - Add Vulkan Addressing Model check (#4107) 351 - Vulkan atomic storage class (#4079) 352 - Label standalone Vulkan VUID (#4091) 353 - Add Vulkan decroation VUID (#4090) 354 - Add Vulkan FP Mode VUID (#4088) 355 - Fix Vulkan image sampled check (#4085) 356 - Add Vulkan ForwardPointer VUID (#4089) 357 - Add Vulkan ImageTexelPointer format check (#4087) 358 - Add Vulkan Group Operation VUID (#4086) 359 - Add first StandAlone VUID 04633 (#4077) 360 - Add Subgroup VUIDs (#4074) 361 - validate return type of OpImageRead (#4072) 362 - tighter validation of multisampled images (#4059) 363 - validate OpTypeImage Sampled values for environemnts (#4064) 364 - validate StorageImageMultisampled capability (#4062) 365 - Add last TessLevelOuter and TessLevelInner VUID (#4055) 366 - Add last ClipDistance and CullDistance VUID (#4054) 367 - Add last ViewportIndex and Layer VUID (#4053) 368 - Add last Position VUID (#4052) 369 - Allow forward pointer to be used in types generally (#4044) 370 - Optimizer 371 - Mark module as modified if convert-to-half removes decorations (#4127) 372 - Fix binding number calculation in desc sroa (#4095) 373 - Run DCE when SPV_KHR_shader_clock is used (#4049) 374 - Debug Info 375 - Set correct scope and line info for DebugValue (#4125) 376 - Avoid integrity check failures caused by propagating line instructions (#4096) 377 - Linker 378 - Linker usability improvements (#4084) 379 - Instrumentation 380 - Generate differentiated error codes for buffer oob checking (#4097) 381 - Fuzz 382 - Fix OpPhi handling in DuplicateRegionWithSelection (#4065) 383 384v2020.6 2020-12-07 385 - General 386 CMake: Add SPIRV_TOOLS_BUILD_STATIC flag (#3910) 387 - Disassembler 388 Add some context comments to disassembly. (#3847) 389 - Optimizer 390 - Take new (raytracing) termination instructions into account. (#4050) 391 - Do run DCE if SPV_KHR_ray_query is used. (#4047) 392 - Handle 8-bit index in elim dead member (#4043) 393 - Add texel buffer out-of-bounds checking instrumentation (#4038) 394 - Update MeshShadingNV dependencies (and land Ray tracing updates) (#4028) 395 - Fix buffer oob instrumentation for matrix refs (#4025) 396 - Fix SSA re-writing in the presence of variable pointers. (#4010) 397 - Add support to prevent functions from being inlined if they have 398 DontInline flag (#3858) 399 - Add SPV_EXT_shader_image_int64 (#3852) 400 - Support SPV_KHR_fragment_shading_rate (#3943) 401 - Fix use-after-move in val/validate.cpp (#3848) 402 - Debug Info 403 - properly preserve DebugValue indexes operand (#4022) 404 - Add DebugValue for invisible store in single_store_elim (#4002) 405 - Propagate OpLine to all applied instructions in spirv-opt (#3951) 406 - Add DebugValue for DebugDecl invisible to value assignment (#3973) 407 - Add DebugValue for function param regardless of scope (#3923) 408 - Debug info preservation in convert-local-access-chains pass (#3835) 409 - Debug info preservation in redundancy-elimination pass (#3839) 410 - Debug info preservation in if-conversion pass (#3861) 411 - Validator 412 - Add validation support for the ray tracing built-in variables (#4041) 413 - Use less stack space when validating Vulkan builtins (#4019) 414 - Fix SPV_KHR_fragment_shading_rate VUID label (#4014) 415 - Label Layer and ViewportIndex VUIDs (#4013) 416 - Allow the ViewportIndex and Layer built-ins on SPIR-V 1.5 (#3986) 417 - Fix validation of OpPhi instructions (#3919) 418 - Fuzz 419 - Fix facts arising from CompositeConstruct (#4034) 420 - Do not flatten conditionals that create synonyms (#4030) 421 - Add support for reining in rogue fuzzer passes (#3987) 422 - Fix assertion failure in FuzzerPassAddCompositeExtract (#3995) 423 - Fix invalid equation facts (#4009) 424 - Fix bugs in TransformationFlattenConditionalBranch (#4006) 425 - Fix bug related to transformation applicability (#3990) 426 - Add expand vector reduction transformation (#3869) 427 - Add FuzzerPassAddCompositeExtract (#3904) 428 - Fix mismatch with shrinker step limit (#3985) 429 - Fix off-by-one error in replayer (#3982) 430 - Get order right for OpSelect arguments (#3974) 431 - Do not add synonym-creating loops in dead blocks (#3975) 432 - Skip OpTypeSampledImage when propagating up (#3976) 433 - Pass OpUndef in function call if needed (#3978) 434 - Fix off-by-one in TransformationCompositeConstruct (#3979) 435 - Tolerate absent ids in data synonym fact management (#3966) 436 - Fix to id availability (#3971) 437 - Fix operand types (#3962) 438 - Don't flatten conditional if condition is irrelevant (#3944) 439 - Do not produce OpPhis of type OpTypeSampledImage (#3964) 440 - Restrict fuzzer pass to reachable blocks (#3970) 441 - Handle more types when extending OpPhi instructions (#3969) 442 - Skip early terminator wrappers when merging returns (#3968) 443 - Avoid irrelevant constants in synonym-creating loops (#3967) 444 - Skip dead blocks in FuzzerPassAddOpPhiSynonyms (#3965) 445 - Avoid the type manager when looking for struct types (#3963) 446 - Fix to TransformationDuplicateRegionWithSelection (#3941) 447 - Skip OpFunction when replacing irrelevant ids (#3932) 448 - Use component-wise selectors when flattening conditional branches (#3921) 449 - Avoid void struct member when outlining functions (#3936) 450 - Do not allow Block-decorated structs when adding parameters (#3931) 451 - Fix to operand id type (#3937) 452 - Handle dead blocks in TransformationEquationInstruction (#3933) 453 - Do not allow sampled image load when flattening conditionals (#3930) 454 - Take care of OpPhi instructions when inlining (#3939) 455 - Fix to TransformationInlineFunction (#3913) 456 - Wrap early terminators before merging returns (#3925) 457 - Lower probability of adding bit instruction synonyms (#3917) 458 - Fix handling of OpPhi in FlattenConditionalBranch (#3916) 459 - Avoid creating blocks without parents (#3908) 460 - Do not allow creation of constants of block-decorated structs (#3903) 461 - Fixes related to irrelevant ids (#3901) 462 - Fix to transformation that adds a synonym via a loop (#3898) 463 - Fix to duplicate region with selection (#3896) 464 - Do not expose synonym facts for non-existent ids (#3891) 465 - Do not add synonyms involving irrelevant ids (#3890) 466 - Do not replace irrelevant ids that are not in blocks (#3892) 467 - Wrap OpKill and similar in function calls (#3884) 468 - Integrate spirv-reduce with shrinker (#3849) 469 - Report fresh ids in transformations (#3856) 470 - Support OpNot bit instruction case (#3841) 471 - Return IR and transformation context after replay (#3846) 472 473v2020.5 2020-09-22 474 - General 475 - Enable building with BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=1 (#3490) 476 - Avoid using /MP4 for clang on windows. (#3662) 477 - Fix compiler error on macOS with XCode12. (#3836) 478 - Optimizer 479 - Preserve OpenCL.DebugInfo.100 through private-to-local pass (#3571) 480 - Preserve debug info in scalar replacement pass (#3461) 481 - Debug info preservation in loop-unroll pass (#3548) 482 - Preserve debug info in dead-insert-elim pass (#3652) 483 - Improve non-semantic instruction handling in the optimizer (#3693) 484 - Let ADCE pass check DebugScope (#3703) 485 - Add undef for inlined void function (#3720) 486 - Fix SSA-rewrite to remove DebugDeclare for variables without loads (#3719) 487 - Handle DebugScope in compact-ids pass (#3724) 488 - Add buffer oob check to bindless instrumentation (#3800) 489 - Validator 490 - Update OpenCL capabilities validation (#3149) 491 - Validator support for non-semantic clspv reflection (#3618) 492 - OpenCL.DebugInfo.100 DebugTypeArray with variable size (#3549) 493 - Only validation locations for appropriate execution models (#3656) 494 - Validate more OpenCL.DebugInfo.100 instructions (#3684) 495 - Allow DebugTypeTemplate for Type operand (#3702) 496 - spirv-val: Add Vulkan VUID labels to BuiltIn (#3756) 497 - Allow SPV_KHR_8bit_storage extension. (#3780) 498 - Validate SPIRV Version number when parsing binary header (#3834) 499 - Reduce 500 - Support reducing a specific function (#3774) 501 - Fuzz 502 - adds TransformationReplaceCopyObjectWithStoreLoad (#3567) 503 - adds TransformationReplaceCopyMemoryWithLoadStore (#3575) 504 - adds TransformationReplaceLoadStoreWithCopyMemory (#3586) 505 - Implement the OpOuterProduct linear algebra case (#3617) 506 - Pass to replace int operands with ints of opposite signedness (#3612) 507 - TransformationMoveInstructionDown (#3477) 508 - Add TransformationMakeVectorOperationDynamic (#3597) 509 - TransformationReplaceAddSubMulWithCarryingExtended (#3598) 510 - FuzzerPassPropagateInstructionsUp (#3478) 511 - add FuzzerPassAddCompositeInserts (#3606) 512 - Add inline function transformation (#3517) 513 - Transformation to replace the use of an irrelevant id (#3697) 514 - Add SPIRV_FUZZ_PROTOC_COMMAND (#3789) 515 - Add TransformationDuplicateRegionWithSelection (#3773) 516 - Transformation to flatten conditional branch (#3667) 517 - Handle OpPhis in TransformationInlineFunction (#3833) 518 - Create synonym of int constant using a loop (#3790) 519 - Support dead blocks in TransformationAddSynonym (#3832) 520 - Linker 521 522v2020.4 2020-07-22 523 - General 524 - Changed variable names to be more descriptive (#3433) 525 - Add support to GPU-AV instrumentation for Task and Mesh shaders (#3512) 526 - Permit Simple and GLSL450 memory model in WEBGPU_0 (#3463) 527 - Support SPV_KHR_terminate_invocation (#3568) 528 - Optimizer 529 - Preserving debug information in optimizations 530 (#3389,#3420,#3425,#3356,#3459,#3444,#3492,#3451,#3497i,#3498,#3542) 531 - Eliminate branches with condition of OpConstantNull (#3438) 532 - Use structured order to unroll loops. (#3443) 533 - Updated desc_sroa to support flattening structures (#3448) 534 - Support OpCompositeExtract pattern in desc_sroa (#3456) 535 - Fix ADCE pass bug for mulitple entries (#3470) 536 - Sink pointer instructions in merge return (#3569) 537 - Validator 538 - Validate location assignments (#3308) 539 - Fix reachability in the validator (#3541) 540 - Reduce 541 - Fuzz 542 - Add support for OpSpecConstant* (#3373) 543 - Add replace linear algebra instruction transformation (#3402) 544 - Implement vector shuffle fuzzer pass (#3412) 545 - Swap operands in OpBranchConditional (#3423) 546 - Permute OpPhi instruction operands (#3421) 547 - Add FuzzerPassAddCopyMemoryInstructions (#3391) 548 - TransformationInvertComparisonOperator (#3475) 549 - Add variables with workgroup storage class (#3485) 550 - Add image sample unused components transformation (#3439) 551 - TransformationReplaceParameterWithGlobal (#3434) 552 - Support adding dead break from back-edge block (#3519) 553 - Fuzzer pass to interchange zero-like constants (#3524) 554 - Linker 555 556v2020.3 2020-05-27 557 - General 558 - Prevent Effcee from installing things when building spirv-tools with testing enabled (#3256) 559 - Update acorn version (#3294) 560 - If SPIRV-Headers is in our tree, include it as subproject (#3299) 561 - allow cross compiling for Windows Store, UWP, etc. (#3330) 562 - Optimizer 563 - Remove deprecated interfaces from instrument passes (#3361) 564 - Preserve debug info in inline pass (#3349) 565 - Handle more cases in dead member elim (#3289) 566 - Preserve debug info in eliminate-dead-functions (#3251) 567 - Fix Struct CFG analysis for single block loop (#3293) 568 - Add tests for recently added command line option (#3297) 569 - Consider sampled images as read-only storage (#3295) 570 - Allow various validation options to be passed to spirv-opt (#3314) 571 - Add debug information analysis (#3305) 572 - Preserve debug info for wrap-opkill (#3331) 573 - refactor inlining pass (#3328) 574 - Add unrolling to performance passes (#3082) 575 - Validator 576 - Add validation support for ImageGatherBiasLodAMD (#3363) 577 - Validate ShaderCallKHR memory scope (#3332) 578 - Validate Buffer and BufferBlock apply only to struct types (#3259) 579 - Reduce 580 - increase default step limit (#3327) 581 - Remove unused uniforms and similar (#3321) 582 - Fuzz 583 - Add support for StorageBuffer (#3348) 584 - Add validator options (#3254) 585 - Limit adding of new variables to 'basic' types (#3257) 586 - Transformation to add OpConstantNull (#3273) 587 - Handling of more fuzzing opportunities (#3277, #3280, #3281, #3290, #3292) 588 - Respect rules for OpSampledImage (#3287) 589 - Do not outline regions that produce pointer outputs (#3291) 590 - Linker 591 592v2020.2 2020-03-26 593 - General: 594 - Support extended instructions in the vscode language server 595 - Make spvOpcodeString part of the public API (#3174) 596 - Added guide to writing a spirv-fuzz fuzzer pass (#3190) 597 - Add support for KHR_ray_{query,tracing} extensions (#3235) 598 - Optimizer 599 - Debug Printf support (#3215) 600 - Add data structure for DebugScope, DebugDeclare in spirv-opt (#3183) 601 - Fix identification of Vulkan images and buffers (#3253) 602 - Validator 603 - Add support for SPV_AMD_shader_image_load_store_lod (#3186) 604 - Add validation rules for OpenCL.DebugInfo.100 extension (#3133) 605 - Adding WebGPU specific Workgroup scope rule (#3204) 606 - Disallow phis of images, samplers and sampled images (#3246) 607 - Reduce 608 - Fuzz 609 - Fuzzer passes to add local and global variables (#3175) 610 - Add fuzzer passes to add loads/stores (#3176) 611 - Fuzzer pass to add function calls (#3178) 612 - Fuzzer pass that adds access chains (#3182) 613 - Fuzzer pass to add equation instructions (#3202) 614 - Add swap commutable operands transformation (#3205) 615 - Add fuzzer pass to permute function parameters (#3212) 616 - Allow OpPhi operand to be replaced with a composite synonym (#3221) 617 - Linker 618 619v2020.1 2020-02-03 620 - General: 621 - Add support for SPV_KHR_non_semantic_info (#3110) 622 - Support OpenCL.DebugInfo.100 extended instruction set (#3080) 623 - Added support for Vulkan 1.2 624 - Add API function to better handle getting the necessary environment (#3142) 625 - Clarify mapping of target env to SPIR-V version (#3150) 626 - Implement constant folding for many transcendentals (#3166) 627 - Optimizer 628 - Change default version for CreatInstBindlessCheckPass to 2 (#3096, #3119) 629 - Better handling of OpLine on merge blocks (#3130) 630 - Use placeholder switch instead of placeholder loop in MergeReturn pass. (#3151) 631 - Handle TimeAMD in AmdExtensionToKhrPass. (#3168) 632 - Validator 633 - Fix structured exit validation (#3141) 634 - Reduce 635 - Fuzz 636 - Fuzzer pass to merge blocks (#3097) 637 - Transformation to add a new function to a module (#3114) 638 - Add fuzzer pass to perform module donation (#3117) 639 - Fuzzer passes to create and branch to new dead blocks (#3135) 640 - Fuzzer pass to add composite types (#3171) 641 - Linker: 642 - Remove names and decorations of imported symbols (#3081) 643 644v2019.5 2019-12-11 645 - General: 646 - Export SPIRV-Tools targets on installation 647 - SPIRV-Tools support for SPIR-V 1.5 (#2865) 648 - Add WebGPU SPIR-V Assembler in JavaScript. (#2876) 649 - Add Bazel build configuration. (#2891) 650 - Add support for building with emscripten (#2948) 651 - Update SPIR-V binary header test for SPIR-V 1.5 (#2967) 652 - Add fuzzer for spirv-as call path (#2976) 653 - Improved CMake install step. (#2963) 654 - Add fuzzer for spirv-dis call path (#2977) 655 - Ensure timestamp does not vary with timezone. (#2982) 656 - Add a vscode extension for SPIR-V disassembly files (#2987) 657 - Add iOS as a supported platform (#3001) 658 - utils/vscode: Add SPIR-V language server support 659 - Respect CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR in installed CMake files (#3054) 660 - Permit the debug instructions in WebGPU SPIR-V (#3063) 661 - Add support for Fuchsia. (#3062) 662 - Optimizer 663 - Add descriptor array scalar replacement (#2742) 664 - Add pass to wrap OpKill in a function call (#2790) 665 - Fold FMix during constant folding. (#2818) 666 - Add pass to replace AMD shader ballot extension (#2811) 667 - Add pass to make Float32 operation relax precision (#2808) 668 - Add pass to make relax precision operation Float16 (#2808) 669 - Add pass to replace uses of 3 AMD extensions (#2814) 670 - Fold Min, Max, and Clamp instructions. (#2836) 671 - Better handling of OpKill in continues (#2842,#2922,#2933) 672 - Enable OpTypeCooperativeMatrix specialization (#2927) 673 - Support constant-folding UConvert and SConvert (#2960) 674 - Update Offset to ConstOffset bitmask if operand is constant. (#3024) 675 - Improve RegisterSizePasses (#3059) 676 - Folding: perform add and sub on mismatched integer types (#3084) 677 - Graphics robust access: use signed clamp (#3073) 678 Fixes: 679 - Instrument: Fix version 2 output record write for tess eval shaders. (#2782) 680 - Instrument: Add support for Buffer Device Address extension (#2792) 681 - Fix check for changed binary in API call. (#2798) 682 - For WebGPU<->Vulkan optimization, set correct execution environment (#2834) 683 - Handle OpConstantNull in copy-prop-arrays. (#2870) 684 - Use OpReturn* in wrap-opkill (#2886) 685 - Validator 686 - Add generic builtin validation of target (#2843) 687 - Extra resource interface validation (#2864) 688 - Adding valilidation checks for OpEntryPoint duplicate names and execution mode (#2862) 689 - Relaxed bitcast with pointers (#2878) 690 - Validate physical storage buffer restrictions (#2930) 691 - Add SPV_KHR_shader_clock validation (#2879, #3013) 692 - Validate that selections are structured (#2962) 693 - Disallow use of OpCompositeExtract/OpCompositeInsert with no indices (#2980) 694 - Check that derivatives operate on 32-bit values (#2983) 695 - Validate array stride does not cause overlap (#3028) 696 - Validate nested constructs (#3068) 697 Fixes: 698 - Fix validation of constant matrices (#2794) 699 - Update "remquor" validation 700 - Only allow previously declared forward refs in structs (#2920) 701 - Reduce 702 - Remove relaxed precision decorations (#2797) 703 - Reduce/fuzz: improve command line args (#2932) 704 - Improve remove unref instr pass (#2945) 705 Fixes: 706 - Fuzz 707 - Fix add-dead-break and add-dead-continue passes to respect dominance (#2838) 708 - Add fuzzer pass to copy objects (#2853) 709 - Add fuzzer pass to replace ids with synonyms (#2857) 710 - Allow validation during spirv-fuzz replay (#2873) 711 - Employ the "swarm testing" idea in spirv-fuzz (#2890) 712 - reduce/fuzz: improve command line args (#2932) 713 - option to convert shader into a form that renders red (#2934) 714 - Add fuzzer pass to change selection controls (#2944) 715 - add transformation and pass to construct composites (#2941) 716 - Add fuzzer pass to change loop controls (#2949) 717 - Add fuzzer pass to change function controls (#2951) 718 - Add fuzzer pass to add NoContraction decorations (#2950) 719 - Add missing functionality for matrix composites (#2974) 720 - Fuzzer pass to adjust memory access operands (#2968) 721 - Transformation to extract from a composite object (#2991) 722 - Vector shuffle transformation (#3015) 723 - Improve debugging facilities (#3074) 724 - Function outlining fuzzer pass (#3078) 725 726 727v2019.4 2019-08-08 728 - General: 729 - Memory model support for SPIR-V 1.4 730 - Add new spirv-fuzz tool 731 - Add option for base branch in check_code_format.sh 732 - Removed MarkV and Stats code. (#2576) 733 - Instrument: Add version 2 of record formats (#2630) 734 - Linker: Better type comparison for OpTypeArray and OpTypeForwardPointer (#2580) 735 - Optimizer 736 - Bindless Validation: Instrument descriptor-based loads and stores (#2583) 737 - Better folding for OpSpecConstantOp (#2585, #2614) 738 - Add in individual flags for Vulkan <-> WebGPU passes (#2615) 739 - Handle nested breaks from switches. (#2624) 740 - Optimizer: Handle array type with OpSpecConstantOp length (#2652) 741 - Perform merge return with single return in loop. (#2714) 742 - Add --preserve-bindings and --preserve-spec-constants (#2693) 743 - Remove Common Uniform Elimination Pass (#2731) 744 - Allow ray tracing shaders in inst bindle check pass. (#2733) 745 - Add pass to inject code for robust-buffer-access semantics (#2771) 746 - Treat access chain indexes as signed in SROA (#2776) 747 - Handle RelaxedPrecision in SROA (#2788) 748 - Add descriptor array scalar replacement (#2742) 749 Fixes: 750 - Handle decorations better in some optimizations (#2716) 751 - Change the order branches are simplified in dead branch elim (#2728) 752 - Fix bug in merge return (#2734) 753 - SSA rewriter: Don't use trivial phis (#2757) 754 - Record correct dominators in merge return (#2760) 755 - Process OpDecorateId in ADCE (#2761) 756 - Fix check for unreachable blocks in merge-return (#2762) 757 - Handle out-of-bounds scalar replacements. (#2767) 758 - Don't move debug or decorations when folding (#2772) 759 - Protect against out-of-bounds references when folding OpCompositeExtract (#2774) 760 - Validator 761 - Validate loop merge (#2579) 762 - Validate construct exits (#2459) 763 - Validate OpenCL memory and addressing model environment rules (#2589) 764 - Validate OpenCL environment rules for OpTypeImage (#2606) 765 - Allow breaks to switch merge from nested construct (#2604) 766 - Validate OpenCL environment rules for OpImageWrite (#2619) 767 - Allow arrays of out per-primitive builtins for mesh shaders (#2617) 768 - Validate OpenCL rules for ImageRead and OpImageSampleExplicitLod (#2643) 769 - Add validation for SPV_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock (#2650) 770 - Add builtin validation for SPV_NV_shader_sm_builtins (#2656) 771 - Add validation for Subgroup builtins (#2637) 772 - Validate variable initializer type (#2668) 773 - Disallow stores to UBOs (#2651)A 774 - Validate Volatile memory semantics bit (#2672) 775 - Basic validation for Component decorations (#2679) 776 - Validate that in OpenGL env block variables have Binding (#2685) 777 - Validate usage of 8- and 16-bit types with only storage capabilities (#2704) 778 - Add validation for SPV_EXT_demote_to_helper_invocation (#2707) 779 - Extra small storage validation (#2732) 780 - For Vulkan, disallow structures containing opaque types (#2546) 781 - Validate storage class OpenCL environment rules for atomics (#2750) 782 - Update OpControlBarriers rules for WebGPU (#2769) 783 - Update OpMemoryBarriers rules for WebGPU (#2775) 784 - Update WebGPU validation rules of OpAtomic*s (#2777) 785 Fixes: 786 - Disallow merge targeting block with OpLoopMerge (#2610) 787 - Update vloadn and vstoren validation to match the OpenCL Extended 788 Instruction Set Specification (#2599) 789 - Update memory scope rules for WebGPU (#2725) 790 - Allow LOD ops in compute shaders with derivative group execution modes (#2752) 791 - Reduce 792 Fixes: 793 794v2019.3 2019-05-14 795 - General: 796 - Require Python 3 since Python 2 will out of service soon. 797 - Add a continuous test that does memory checks using the address sanitizer. 798 - Fix the build files so the SPIRV_USE_SANITIZER=address build works. 799 - Packaging top of tree build artifacts again. 800 - Added support for SPIR-V 1.4. (#2550) 801 - Optimizer 802 - Remove duplicates from list of interface IDs in OpEntryPoint instruction (#2449) 803 - Bindless Validation: Descriptor Initialization Check (#2419) 804 - Add option to validate after each pass (#2462) 805 - Add legalization pass to fix mismatched pointer (#2430, #2535) 806 - Add error messages when the input contains unknown instructions. (#2487) 807 - Add pass to convert from WebGPU Spir-V to Vulkan Spir-V and back. (#2495) 808 Fixes: 809 - #2412: Dead memeber elimination should not change input and output variables. 810 - #2405: Fix OpDot folding of half float vectors. 811 - #2391: Dead branch elim should not fold away back edges. 812 - #2441: Removing decorations when doing constant propagation. 813 - #2455: Maintain inst to block mapping in merge return. 814 - #2453: Fix merge return in the face of breaks. 815 - #2456: Handle dead infinite loops in DCE. 816 - #2458: Handle variable pointer in some optimizations. 817 - #2452: Fix dead branch elimination to handle unreachable blocks better. 818 - #2528: Fix undefined bit shift in sroa. 819 - #2539: Change implementation of post order CFG traversal. 820 - Validator 821 - Add validation of storage classes for WebGPU (#2446) 822 - Add validation for ExecutionMode in WebGPU (#2443) 823 - Implement WebGPU specific CFG validation (#2386) 824 - Allow NonWritable to target struct members. (#2420) 825 - Allow storage type mismatch for parameter in relaxed addressing mode. 826 - Allow non memory objects as parameter in relaxed addressing mode. 827 - Disallow nested Blocks and buffer blocks (#2410). 828 - Add validation for SPV_NV_cooperative_matrix (#2404) 829 - Add --strip-atomic-counter-memory (#2413) 830 - Check OpSampledImage is only passed into valid instructions (#2467) 831 - Handle function decls in Structured CFG analysis (#2474) 832 - Validate that OpUnreacahble is not statically reachable (#2473) 833 - Add pass to generate needed initializers for WebGPU (#2481) 834 - Allow images without format for OpenCL. (#2470) 835 - Remove unreachable block validation (#2525) 836 - Reduce runtime of array layout checks (#2534) 837 - Add validation specific to OpExecutionModeId (#2536) 838 - Validate sign of int types. (#2549) 839 - VK_KHR_uniform_buffer_standard_layout validation (#2562) 840 Fixes: 841 - #2439: Add missing DepthGreater case to Fragment only check. 842 - #2168: Disallow BufferBlock on StorageBuffer variables for Vulkan. 843 - #2408: Restrict and Aliased decorations cannot be applied to the same id. 844 - #2447: Improve function call parameter check. 845 - Reduce 846 - Add Pass to remove unreferenced blocks. (#2398) 847 - Allows passing options to the validator. (#2401) 848 - Improve reducer algorithm and other changes (#2472) 849 - Add Pass to remove selections (#2485) 850 - Add passes to simplify branches (#2507) 851 Fixes: 852 - #2478: fix loop to selection pass for loops with combined header/continue block 853 854v2019.2 2019-02-20 855 - General: 856 - Support SPV_EXT_physical_storage_buffer 857 - A number of memory leak have been fixed. 858 - Removed use of deprecated Google test macro: 859 - Changed the BUILD.gn to only build tests in Chromium. 860 - Optimizer 861 - Upgrade memory model improvments for modf and frexp. 862 - Add a new pass to move loads closer to their uses: code sinking. 863 - Invalidating the type manager now invalidates the constnat manager. 864 - Expand instrumentation pass for bindless bounds checking to runtime-sized descriptor arrays. 865 - Add a new pass that removes members from structs that are not used: dead member elimination. 866 Fixes: 867 - #2292: Remove undefined behaviour when folding bit shifts. 868 - #2294: Fixes for instrumentation code. 869 - #2293: Fix overflow when folding -INT_MIN. 870 - #2374: Don't merge unreachable blocks when merging blocks. 871 - Validator 872 - Support SPV_KHR_no_integer_wrap and related decorations. 873 - Validate Vulkan rules for OpTypeRuntimeArray. 874 - Validate NonWritable decoration. 875 - Many WebGPU specific validation rules were added. 876 - Validate variable pointer related function call rules. 877 - Better error messages. 878 Fixes: 879 - #2307: Check forwards references in OpTypeArray. 880 - #2315, #2303: Fixed the layout check for relaxed layout. 881 - #1628: Emit an error when an OpSwitch target is not an OpLabel. 882 - Reduce 883 - Added more documentation for spirv-reduce. 884 - Add ability to remove OpPhi instructions. 885 - Add ability to merge two basic blocks. 886 - Add ability to remove unused functions and unused basic blocks. 887 Fixes: 888 889v2019.1 2019-01-07 890 - General: 891 - Created a new tool called spirv-reduce. 892 - Add cmake option to turn off SPIRV_TIMER_ENABLED (#2103) 893 - New optimization pass to update the memory model from GLSL450 to VulkanKHR. 894 - Recognize OpTypeAccelerationStructureNV as a type instruction and ray tracing storage classes. 895 - Fix GCC8 build. 896 - Add --target-env flag to spirv-opt. 897 - Add --webgpu-mode flag to run optimizations for webgpu. 898 - The output disassembled line number stead of byte offset in validation errors. (#2091) 899 - Optimizer 900 - Added the instrumentation passes for bindless validation. 901 - Added passes to help preserve OpLine information (#2027) 902 - Add basic support for EXT_fragment_invocation_density (#2100) 903 - Fix invalid OpPhi generated by merge-return. (#2172) 904 - Constant and type manager have been turned into analysies. (#2251) 905 Fixes: 906 - #2018: Don't inline functions with a return in a structured CFG contstruct. 907 - #2047: Fix bug in folding when volatile stores are present. 908 - #2053: Fix check for when folding floating pointer values is allowed. 909 - #2130: Don't inline recursive functions. 910 - #2202: Handle multiple edges between two basic blocks in SSA-rewriter. 911 - #2205: Don't unswitch a latch condition during loop unswitch. 912 - #2245: Don't fold branch in loop unswitch. Run dead branch elimination to fold them. 913 - #2204: Fix eliminate common uniform to place OpPhi instructions correctly. 914 - #2247: Fix type mismatches caused by scalar replacement. 915 - #2248: Fix missing OpPhi after merge return. 916 - #2211: After merge return, fix invalid continue target. 917 - #2210: Fix loop invariant code motion to not place code between merge instruction and branch. 918 - #2258: Handle CompositeInsert with no indices in VDCE. 919 - #2261: Have replace load size handle extact with no index. 920 - Validator 921 - Changed the naming convention of outputing ids with names in diagnostic messages. 922 - Added validation rules for UniformConstant variables in Vulkan. 923 - #1949: Validate uniform variable type in Vulkan 924 - Ensure for OpVariable that result type and storage class operand agree (#2052) 925 - Validator: Support VK_EXT_scalar_block_layout 926 - Added Vulkan memory model semantics validation 927 - Added validation checkes spefic to WebGPU environment. 928 - Add support for VK_EXT_Transform_feedback capabilities (#2088) 929 - Add validation for OpArrayLength. (#2117) 930 - Ensure that function parameter's type is not void (#2118) 931 - Validate pointer variables (#2111) 932 - Add check for QueueFamilyKHMR memory scope (#2144) 933 - Validate PushConstants annotation and type (#2140) 934 - Allow Float16/Int8 for Vulkan 1.0 (#2153) 935 - Check binding annotations in resource variables (#2151, #2167) 936 - Validate OpForwardPointer (#2156) 937 - Validate operation for OpSpecConstantOp (#2260) 938 Fixes: 939 - #2049: Allow InstanceId for NV ray tracing 940 - Reduce 941 - Initial commit wit a few passes to reduce test cases. 942 - Validation is run after each reduction step. 943 Fixes: 944 945 946v2018.6 2018-11-07 947 - General: 948 - Added support for the Nvidia Turing and ray tracing extensions. 949 - Make C++11 the CXX standard in CMakeLists.txt. 950 - Enabled a parallel build for MSVC. 951 - Enable pre-compiled headers for MSVC. 952 - Added a code of conduct. 953 - EFFCEE and RE2 are now required when build the tests. 954 - Optimizer 955 - Unrolling loops marked for unrolling in the legalization passes. 956 - Improved the compile time of loop unrolling. 957 - Changee merge-return to create a placeholder loop around the function. 958 - Small improvement to merge-blocks to allow it to merge more often. 959 - Enforce an upper bound for the ids, and add option to set it. 960 - #1966: Report error if there are unreachable block before running merge return 961 Fixes: 962 - #1917: Allow 0 (meaning unlimited) as a parameter to --scalar-replacement 963 - #1915: Improve handling of group decorations. 964 - #1942: Fix incorrect uses of the constant manager. Avoids type mismatches in generated code. 965 - #1997: Fix dead branch elimination when there is a loop in folded selection. 966 - #1991: Fixes legality check in if-conversion. 967 - #1987: Add nullptr check to array copy propagation. 968 - #1984: Better handling of OpUnreachable in ADCE. 969 - #1983: Run merge return on reachable functions only. 970 - #1956: Handled atomic operations in ADCE. 971 - #1963: Fold integer divisions by 0 to 0. 972 - #2019: Handle MemberDecorateStringGOOGLE in ADCE and strip reflect. 973 - Validator 974 - Added validation for OpGroupNonUniformBallotBitCount. 975 - Added validation for the Vulkan memory model. 976 - Added support for VK_KHR_shader_atddomic_int64. 977 - Added validation for execution modes. 978 - Added validation for runtime array layouts. 979 - Added validation for 8-bit storage. 980 - Added validation of OpPhi instructions with pointer result type. 981 - Added checks for the Vulkan memory model. 982 - Validate MakeTexelAvailableKHR and MakeTexelVisibleKHR 983 - Allow atomic function pointer for OpenCL. 984 - FPRounding mode checks were implemented. 985 - Added validation for the id bound with an option to set the max id bound. 986 Fixes: 987 - #1882: Improve the validation of decorations to reduce memory usage. 988 - #1891: Fix an potential infinite loop in dead-branch-elimination. 989 - #1405: Validate the storage class of boolean objects. 990 - #1880: Identify arrays of type void as invalid. 991 - #487: Validate OpImageTexelPointer. 992 - #1922: Validate OpPhi instructions are at the start of a block correctly. 993 - #1923: Validate function scope variable are at the start of the entry block. 994 995v2018.5 2018-09-07 996 - General: 997 - Support SPV_KHR_vulkan_memory_model 998 - Update Dim capabilities, to match SPIR-V 1.3 Rev 4 999 - Automated build bots no run tests for the VS2013 case 1000 - Support Chromium GN build 1001 - Use Kokoro bots: 1002 - Disable Travis-CI bots 1003 - Disable AppVeyor VisualStudio Release builds. Keep VS 2017 Debug build 1004 - Don't check export symbols on OSX (Darwin): some installations don't have 'objdump' 1005 - Reorganize source files and namespaces 1006 - Fixes for ClangTidy, and whitespace (passes 'git cl presumit --all -uf') 1007 - Fix unused param compile warnings/errors when Effcee not present 1008 - Avoid including time headers when timer functionality is disabled 1009 - Avoid too-stringent warnings flags for Clang on Windows 1010 - Internal refactoring 1011 - Add hooks for automated fuzzing 1012 - Add testing of command line executables 1013 - #1688: Use binary mode on stdin; fixes "spirv-dis <foo.spv" on Windows 1014 - Optimizer 1015 - The optimizer validates the module before it begins 1016 - Add API to register passes by string name 1017 - Fold a vector shuffle feeding a vector shuffle 1018 - Add -combine-access-chains transform 1019 - Refactor how IRContext is handled by passes 1020 - Improve bookkeeping for instruction result type and result id 1021 - Fix over-duplication of decorations 1022 - Fix handling of exits from selections in dead-branch elimination, and dead code 1023 elimination. 1024 - Fix handling of certain kinds of flow control in merge-return 1025 Fixes: 1026 - #1721: Fix size bug when folding vector shuffles 1027 - #1722: Fix size infinite loop when folding vector shuffles 1028 - #1724: Fix finding a constant of a specific type 1029 - #1727: Dead branch elim: Reorder blocks if needed to satisfy dominance rule 1030 - #1729: Handle VariablePointers cases in various optimizations 1031 - #1731: Fix vector shuffle with literal id indicating undef value 1032 - #1736: Fix handling of decorations and phis in merge-return 1033 - #1787: Fix handling of decorations related to access chains 1034 - #1865: Avoid leaking memory for SPIR-V constant values 1035 - Validator 1036 - Improve error messages 1037 - Avoid platform-dependent traversal ordering, to ensure consistent messages 1038 - Use libspirv::Instruction where possible 1039 - Add option to skip all block layout checks 1040 - Validate all type IDs 1041 - Validate uses of OpFunction 1042 - Validate uses of OpTypeFunction 1043 - Disallow a struct containing its own type https://crbug.com/874372 1044 - #1685: Vulkan permits non-monotonic offsets for block members 1045 - #1697: Enforce block layout rules even when using relaxed block layout option 1046 - #1719: Fix line number for vector shuffle valiation error 1047 - #1789: Avoid assertion failure when validating some functions 1048 - #1800: Fix validation of OpCopyMemorySized 1049 - #1822: Stop enforcing struct member offset montonicity 1050 - #1831: Disallow void members in structs 1051 1052v2018.4 2018-07-08 1053 - General: 1054 - Support SPV_KHR_8bit_storage 1055 - Add gclient and presubmit configurations 1056 - Enable Kokoro build bots (#1625) 1057 - Group tests into fewer executables, reduces load on CI 1058 - Port test script to Python 3 1059 - Symbol export tests respect SPIRV_SKIP_TESTS 1060 - #1596: Operand lookup succeeds if enabled by a capability 1061 - #1624: Instruction lookup succeeds if enabled by a capability 1062 - Refactoring namespaces: 1063 - #1678: Change libspirv to spvtools 1064 - Code in source/utils moved into spvtools::utils 1065 - Code in source/comp moved into spvtools::comp 1066 - Optimizer: 1067 - Remove insert-extract-elim pass. Use simplification pass instead. 1068 - Preserve instruction-to-block mapping in most passes, to reduce runtime. 1069 - Small vector optimization for operands 1070 - Add pass to move Private variables to Function. Increase opportunity to optimize. 1071 - Fixes: 1072 #1120: Check static uses of entry point interfaces 1073 #1372: Avoid merging some structs, to preserve names for reflection 1074 #1577: Scalar replacement uses only undecorated types. 1075 #1578: Fix handling of forward-pointer types, and types embedding pointers 1076 to themselves. 1077 #1591: Inliner: Callee variable with initializer should have a store at the call site. 1078 #1634: Fix crash: Use type id in vector type lookup 1079 #1649: Fix assert in compact-ids pass 1080 Fix constant folder: ensure it uses the right type 1081 #1659: Folding rules added to IRContext. Avoids leak. 1082 - Validator 1083 - Add work-in-progress WebGPU environment. Disallows OpUndef 1084 - #670, #1581: Improve error messages; disassemble instruction 1085 - #491: Check structured switches 1086 - #937: Check layout rules for Block and BufferBlock in Uniform, StorageBuffer, PushConstant 1087 - #1281: Check invalid branches into structured constructs 1088 - #1522: Disallow array-of-arrays with DescriptorSets 1089 - #1577: Allow duplicate pointer types. 1090 - #1581: Better messages: output ID names along with numbers in more cases. 1091 - #1597: Check Vulkan 1.1 capabilities 1092 - #1618: Check invalid exit from structured case construct 1093 - #1622: Run IdPass before DataRulesPass 1094 - #1632: Reduce test time by artificially lowering limits in limit test 1095 - #1638: Block-decorated structs member order must respect offset order 1096 - #1657: Improve CFG validation diagnostics 1097 - Khronos SPIR-V #337: GLSL.std.450 Refract instruction Eta param can be any float scalar. 1098 - #1606: PushConstant Blocks follow storage-buffer layout rules 1099 - #1664: Check layout of StorageBuffer variables with Block decoration, using storage buffer 1100 rules 1101 - #1666: Layout validation should permit {vec3; float} packing 1102 - #1637, #1668: Layout validation uses RowMajor, ArrayStride, MatrixStride properly 1103 - Linker 1104 - Avoid buffer overrun when creating OpModuleProcessed 1105 1106v2018.3 2018-05-25 1107 - General: 1108 - Support SPV_EXT_descriptor_indexing 1109 - Support SPV_GOOGLE_decorate_string 1110 - Support SPV_GOOGLE_hlsl_functionality1 1111 - Support SPV_NV_shader_subgroup_partitioned 1112 - Use "unified1" grammar from SPIRV-Headers 1113 - Simplify support for new extensions. Assembler, disassembler, and simple validation 1114 support is automatic if new tokens are introduced with appropriate extension 1115 attributes in the "unified1" SPIR-V core grammar. 1116 - Disassembler: Emit more digits on floating point, to reliably reproduce all 1117 significand bits. (Use std::max_digits10 instead of std::digits10) 1118 - Fix compilation for old XCode versions: Explicit construction required for std::set. 1119 - Optimizer: 1120 - Add --strip-reflect 1121 - Add --time-report 1122 - Add --loop-fission 1123 - Add lop fusion. 1124 - Add loop peeling pass and internal utility. 1125 - Improve optimizer runtime. 1126 - Merge-return now works with structured control flow. 1127 - New (faster) SSA rewriter to convert local loads and stores to SSA IDs and phis. 1128 Can replace load/store elimination passes. 1129 - Fix instruction folding case: insertion that feeds and extract, when the extract 1130 remains. 1131 - Fold OpDot. 1132 - Fold OpFNegate. 1133 - Fold multply and divide of same value. 1134 - Fold FClamp feeding a compare. 1135 - Fold OpLoad feeding an extract, to reduce excessive copying. (#1547) 1136 - Fold Fmix feeding an extract. 1137 - Use simplification pass instead of insert-extract elimination. 1138 - Constant fold OpVectorTimesScalar. 1139 - Copy propagate arrays, in simple cases. 1140 - Aggressive dead code elimination: Can remove more instructions, e.g. derivatives. 1141 - Aggressive dead code elimination: Remove Workgroup variables that are written but not read. 1142 - Better handling of OpImageTexelPointer 1143 - Initial utilities for scalar evolution. 1144 - Add Vector dead code elimination. 1145 - Each pass can only run once. 1146 - Allow code hosting in if-conversion. 1147 - Add external interface for adding a PassToken, so external code can make their own 1148 passes. 1149 - Fixes: 1150 #1404: Don't optimize away the compute compute workgroup size constant. 1151 #1407: Remove a bad assertion 1152 #1456: Fix bug in SSA rewriter related to variables updated in loops. 1153 #1487: Fix long runtime in Dead insertion elimination: Don't revist select phi nodes. 1154 #1492: Aggressive dead code elimination can remove OpDecorateStringGOOGLE. 1155 #1527: Fix inlining of functions having OpKill and OpUnreachable. 1156 #1559: Fix assert failure in reduce-load-size pass. 1157 #1556: Aggressive dead code elimination: Fix handling of OpCopyMemory. 1158 - Validator: 1159 - Check Vulkan built-in variables 1160 - Check Vulkan-specific atomic result type rule. 1161 - Relax control barrier check for SPIR-V 1.3. Fixes #1427 1162 - Check OpPhi. 1163 - Check OpMemoryModel. 1164 - Stop checking sizes derived from spec-constants. 1165 - Re-enable checks for OpUConvert. 1166 - Vulkan: Fix check for PrimitiveId: Permit as Input in fragment shader. 1167 - Validate binary version for the given target environment. 1168 - Add tests for OpBranch checks. 1169 - Vulkan 1.1: Check scope for non-uniform subgroup operations. 1170 - Fix checks for SPV_AMD_gpu_shader_int16. 1171 - Fix logical layout check for OpDecorateId. 1172 - Fix checks for ViewportIndex & Layer for Vulkan and SPV_EXT_shader_viewport_index_layer. 1173 - Fixes: 1174 #1470: Vulkan: Don't restrict WorkgroupSize to Input storage class. 1175 #1469: Vulkan: Permit Subgroup memory scope for Vulkan 1.1. 1176 #1472: Per-vertex variable validation fixes. 1177 #1483: Valdiate barrier execution scopes for Vulkan 1.1. 1178 - Fixes: 1179 #898: Linker properly removes FuncParamAttr from imported symbols. 1180 #924, #1174: Fix handling of decoration groups in optimizer, linker. 1181 1182v2018.2 2018-03-07 1183 - General: 1184 - Support SPIR-V 1.3 and Vulkan 1.1. 1185 - Default target environment is now SPIR-V 1.3. For command-line tools, 1186 use the --target-env option to override the default. Examples: 1187 # Generate a SPIR-V 1.0 binary instead of SPIR-V 1.3 1188 spirv-as --target-env spv1.0 a.spvasm -o a.spv 1189 spirv-as --target-env vulkan1.0 a.spvasm -o a.spv 1190 # Validate as Vulkan 1.0 1191 spirv-val --target-env vulkan1.0 a.spv 1192 - Support SPV_GOOGLE_decorate_string and SPV_GOOGLE_hlsl_functionality1 1193 - Fixes: 1194 - Fix Android.mk build. Compilation was failing due to missing definitions of 1195 SpvCapabilityFloat16ImageAMD and other enumerated values. 1196 - Optimizer: Avoid generating duplicate names when merging types. 1197 - #1375: Validator: SPV_AMD_gpu_shaer_half_float implicitly allows declaration 1198 of the 16-bit floating point type. 1199 - #1376: Optimizer: Avoid folding half-precision float. 1200 1201v2018.1 2018-03-02 1202 - General: 1203 - Support Visual Studio 2013 again. (Continue support for VS 2015 and VS 2017.) 1204 - Support building SPIRV-Tools as a shared library. 1205 - Improve the HLSL legalization optimization recipe. #1311 1206 - Optimizer: 1207 - General speedups. 1208 - Remove generic dead code elimination functionality from transforms: 1209 --eliminate-local-single-block 1210 --eliminate-local-single-store 1211 --eliminate-local-multi-store 1212 To recover the previous behaviour, a recipe using those transforms should now 1213 also invoke the --eliminate-dead-code-aggressive transform. 1214 - Improve folding, including coverage for floating point, OpSelect, and arithmetic 1215 with non-trivial constant operands. 1216 - Add loop-invariant code motion pass. 1217 - Add loop-unrolling pass, for honouring unroll hits. 1218 - Add loop-unswitch pass. 1219 - Add instruction simplification pass. 1220 - Aggressive dead code elimination: Understands capability hierarchy when finding 1221 instructions it can eliminate (combinators). (PR #1268) 1222 - CCP can now fold floating point arithmetic. #1311 1223 - Validator: 1224 - Validate barrier instructions. 1225 - Check Vulkan-specific rules for atomics. 1226 - Check Vulkan prohibition of Location or Component decorations on BuiltIn variables. 1227 - Linker: 1228 - Add --verify-ids option 1229 - Add option to allow a resulting module to be partially linked. 1230 - Handle OpModuleProcessed (instructions in SPIR-V layout section 7c) 1231 - Fixes: 1232 - #1265: Optimizer: Fix use-after free bug in if-conversion. (Fix object lifecycle bug 1233 in type manager.) 1234 - #1282: Fix new warnings found by GCC 8.0.1. 1235 - #1285: Optimizer: Fix random failures during inlining. (Dangling references in DefUseManager) 1236 - #1295: Optimizer: Fix incorrect handling of Phi nodes in CCP. 1237 - #1300: Fix CCP: avoid bad CCP transitions and unsettled values. 1238 - #1304: Avoid static-duration variables of class type (with constructors). 1239 - #1323: Fix folding of an insert composite feeding a composite extract. 1240 - #1339: Fix CCP: Handle OpConstantNull boolean values as conditions. 1241 - #1341: DCEInst: Keep atomic instructions (and some others with side effects). 1242 - #1354: Don't fold integer division. 1243 - #1357: Support OpConstantNull in folding. 1244 - #1361: CCP: Fix handling of non-constant module-scope values 1245 1246v2018.0 2018-02-02 1247 - General 1248 - VisualStudio 2013 is no longer supported. VisualStudio 2015 is supported. 1249 - Use "include/unified1" directory from SPIRV-Headers. Requires recent SPIRV-Headers source. 1250 - Disassembler: spirv-dis adds --color option to force color disassembly. 1251 - Optimizer: 1252 - Add pass to eliminate dead insertions. 1253 - Aggressive dead code elimination now removes OpSwitch constructs. 1254 - Block merging occurs in more cases. 1255 - Add driver workaround transform: replace OpUnreachable with harmless branch to merge. 1256 - Improve instruction folding framework. 1257 - Add loop analysis. 1258 - Add scalar replacement of aggregates to size-optimization recipe. 1259 - Add pass to replace instructions invalid for a shader stage, with a harmless value. 1260 This changes the semantics of the program! Not for general use! 1261 - Rearragne and add passes to performance-optimization recipe, to produce better results. 1262 - Validator: 1263 - Validate OpenCL extended instructions. 1264 - Shaders can't perform atomics on floats. 1265 - Validate memory semantics values in atomics. 1266 - Validate instruction-adjacency constraints, e.g. OpPhi predecessors, merge instructions 1267 immediately precede branches. 1268 - Fixes: 1269 - PR 1198: Optimizer: Fix CCP in presence of matrix constants. 1270 - #1199: Optimizer: Fix CCP: don't propagate spec constants. 1271 - #1203: Optimizer: Fix common uniform elim bug introduced by refactoring. 1272 - #1210: Optimizer: Aggressive dead code elimination: Fix 'break' identification. 1273 - #1212: Optimizer: Aggressive dead code elimination: Was skipping too many instructions. 1274 - #1214: Optimizer: Aggressive dead code elimination: Fix infinite loop. 1275 - #1228: Optimizer: Fix CCP: Handling of varying Phi nodes; was resulting in infinite loop. 1276 - #1245: Optimizer: Dead branch elimination: Avoid a null pointer dereference. 1277 - #1250: Optimizer: Dead branch elimination: Avoid spuriously reporting a change. 1278 1279v2017.3 2018-01-12 1280 - General: 1281 - Support DebugInfo extended instruction set, targeted at OpenCL environments. 1282 See the SPIR-V Registry. 1283 - Generate a SPIRV-Tools.pc file for pkg-config. 1284 - Optimizer: 1285 - Progress for legalization of code generated from HLSL (issue #1118): 1286 - Add --legalize-hlsl option to run transforms used to transform intermediate 1287 code generated by HLSL to SPIR-V for Vulkan compilers. Those compilers 1288 normally run these transforms automatically. This option is used for developing 1289 those transforms. 1290 - Add Private-to-Function variable conversion for modules with logical 1291 addressing. 1292 - Add --ccp: SSA Conditional Constant Propagation (CCP) 1293 - Add --print-all to show disassembly for each optimization pass. 1294 - Internal: Add loop descriptors and post-order tree iterator. 1295 - Generalized dead branch elimination 1296 - Aggressive dead code elimination (ADCE) now removes dead functions and 1297 module-scope variables. 1298 - Vector extract/insert elimination now optimizes through some cases of 1299 VectorShuffle, and GLSL.std.450 Mix extended instruction. 1300 - Validator: 1301 - Add validation for GLSL.std.450 extended instruction set. 1302 - Check out of bounds composite accesses, where that's statically computable. 1303 Fixes #1112. 1304 - Check upper bits of literal numbers that aren't a multiple of 32-bits wide. 1305 - More validation of primitive instructions 1306 - Add optional "relaxed" checking logical addressing mode to permit some 1307 cases of pointer-to-pointer. Contributes to HLSL legalization (issue #1118). 1308 - Fixes: 1309 #1100: Validator: Image operand Sample can be used with OpImageSparseFetch, 1310 OpImageSparseRead. 1311 #1108: Remove duplicates transform was incorrectly removing non-duplicate 1312 decorations. 1313 #1111: Optimizer's type manager could reference deleted memory. 1314 #1112: Fix decoration equality check, e.g. it is now symmetric. 1315 #1129: Validator now disallows Dim=SupbassData for OpImageSparseRead. 1316 #1143: Fix CCP: Was generating incorrect code for loops. 1317 #1153: Fix CCP crash. 1318 #1154: Optimizer's internal instruction-to-block mappings were sometimes 1319 inconsistent. 1320 #1159: Fix CCP infinite loop. 1321 #1168: Fix dead branch elimination intermittently generating incorrect code. 1322 Fixes https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang/issues/1205 1323 #1186: Fix validation of PackDouble2x32 and UnpackDouble2x32 1324 1325v2017.2 2017-12-15 1326 - General: 1327 - Support OpenCL 1.2, 2.0 target environments, including embedded profiles 1328 - Add CONTRIBUTING.md 1329 - Fix exit status code for spirv-link 1330 - Disassember: Enable emitting ANSI colour codes to a string 1331 - Library avoids polluting global namespace. The libraries can export C and C++ 1332 symbols starting with "spv", or in a C++ namespace. Add a test for this. 1333 - Linux release builds include debug information, for easier profiling 1334 - Build bots no longer test VisualStudio 2013 1335 - Testing dependency RE2 requires VisualStudio 2015 or later 1336 - Build bots check code formatting 1337 - Optimizer: 1338 - Add --skip-validation to spirv-opt 1339 - Add dominance tree analysis 1340 - Add generic value propagation engine 1341 - Add global redundancy elimination within a function 1342 - Add scalar replacement of function-scope variables of composite type 1343 - Aggressive dead code elimination: Remove empty loops 1344 - Killing an instruction notifies the IRContext 1345 - IRContext::KillInst deletes the instruction 1346 - Move CFG analysis to IRContext 1347 - Add constant manager 1348 - Fix: Don't consider derivative instructions as combinators. 1349 - Fix: Don't delete an instruction twice in local dead-code-elimination 1350 - Fix: Don't consider derivative instructions as combinators. 1351 - Validator: 1352 - Finish checking of image instructions (Section 3.32.10) 1353 - Check sparse image instructions 1354 - Check OpTypeImage, OpTypeSampleImage 1355 - Check composite instructions (Section 3.32.12) 1356 - Check atomic instructions (Section 3.32.18) 1357 - Check OpEmitStreamVertex, OpEndStreamPrimitive instructions 1358 - Re-enable validation of OpCopyObject 1359 - OpKill, image ImplicitLod and QueryLod instructions can only be used in Fragment 1360 shaders. 1361 - Fixes for image instruction validation: 1362 - Lod image operand only usable with ExplicitLod and OpImageFetch 1363 - ExplicitLod Lod image operand must be float scalar 1364 - OpImageFectch Lod image operand must be int scalar 1365 - OpImageGather component operand must be 32-bits (integer scalar) 1366 - OpImageQuerySizeLod Lod must be integer scalar 1367 - Fixes: 1368 #622: Remove names and decorations when inlining 1369 #989: Aggressive dead code elim: Don't optimize away live breaks from a loop 1370 #991: Fix validation of SPV_AMD_shader_ballot 1371 #1004: Use after free of an instruction, in remove-duplicates transform 1372 #1007: OpImageRead not required to return 4-component vector 1373 #1009: OpImageRead can return scalar int/float types 1374 #1011: OpImageWrite should allow scalar int/float texel types 1375 #1012: Fix validat Dref type check 1376 #1017: Load-store elimination considers variable initializations 1377 #1034: Fix Windows debug build: operator< should be a weak ordering 1378 #1083: Inlining: Set parent (function) for each inlined basic block. 1379 #1075: Aggressive dead code elimination: Was leaving dangling references to 1380 removed blocks. 1381 1382v2017.1 2017-11-23 1383 - Update README with details on the [email protected] mailing list. 1384 - General: 1385 - Automatically deploy built artifacts to GitHub Releases 1386 - Add a Linker (module combiner). Under development. 1387 - Add Android.mk for Android NDK builds. 1388 - Add the 'effcee' library as an optional dependency for use in tests. 1389 Eventually it will be a required dependency, once downstream projects have 1390 a chance to adjust. Requires 're2' library. 1391 - Avoid static-duration variables of class type (with constructors). 1392 - Hack around bugs in gcc-4.8.1 template handling 1393 - Faster opcode lookup 1394 - Validator: 1395 - Recognize extensions listed on SPIR-V registry, 1396 through #25 SPV_AMD_shader_fragment_mask 1397 - Validator issues an info message when it sees an unrecognized extension. 1398 - Type check basic arithmetic operations 1399 - Type check carry/extended arithmetic operations 1400 - Type check vector arithmetic operations 1401 - Type check Relational and Logical instructions 1402 - Type check Bit instructions 1403 - Check type uniqueness rules 1404 - Check conversion instructions 1405 - Check image instructions 1406 - Check derivative instructions 1407 - Check OpVectorShuffle 1408 - Check OpBranchConditional 1409 - OpModuleProcessed is only allowed after debug names section and before annotations 1410 section. 1411 - Checks the right kind of return is called for each function (void or non-void). 1412 - Add option to relax type check when storing structs (--relax-store-struct) 1413 - Optimizer: 1414 - Refactoring internal representation of the module, including: 1415 - IRContext: owns a module and manages analyses 1416 - Instructions are owned by intrusive lists, and have unique IDs 1417 - BasicBlock owns its instruction list. 1418 - DefUseManager: change representation of uses, for faster processing 1419 on large modules. 1420 - Add high level recipes: -O, -Os, and -Oconfig 1421 Recipes for -O and -Os are under development. 1422 - Add eliminate-dead-function transform 1423 - Add strength reduction transform: For now, convert multiply by power of 2 1424 to a bit shift. 1425 - Add CFG cleanup transform 1426 - Add removal of dead module-scope variables 1427 - Add merge-return transform for modules without structured control flow 1428 - Add redundancy elimination within a basic block (local value numbering) 1429 - Extract-insert elimination: 1430 - Recognize the case where the first instruction in the sequence is an 1431 OpCompositeConstruct or OpConstantComposite 1432 - Handle some cases of nested structs 1433 - Dead branch elimination now can eliminate entire selection constructs 1434 when all arms are dead. 1435 - Compressing codec: 1436 - Updated algorithm to 1.01, 1.02, 1.03 1437 - Not built by default. Use -DSPIRV_BUILD_COMPRESSION=ON to build. 1438 - Codec can be parameterized by a customized model. 1439 - Fixes: 1440 #728: Fix decoration of inlined functions 1441 #798: spirv-as should fail when given unrecognized long option 1442 #800: Inliner: Fix inlining function into header of multi-block loop 1443 #824: Eliminate-local-multi-store: Fix a crash 1444 #826: Elimiante-local-multi-store: Fix a crash 1445 #827: Fix crash when compact-ids transform runs before another transform. 1446 #834: Add Cmake option to build the compressing codec. Off by default. 1447 #911: Fix classification of Line and NoLine instructions 1448 1449v2017.0 2017-09-01 1450 - Update README to describe that assembler, disassembler, and binary parser support 1451 are based on grammar files from the SPIRV-Headers repository. 1452 1453v2016.7 2017-09-01 1454 - Add SPIR-V 1.2 1455 - OpenCL 2.2 support is now based on SPIR-V 1.2 1456 - Support AMD extensions in assembler, disassembler: 1457 SPV_AMD_gcn_shader 1458 SPV_AMD_shader_ballot 1459 SPV_AMD_shader_explicit_vertex_parameter 1460 SPV_AMD_shader_trinary_minmax 1461 SPV_AMD_gpu_shader_half_float 1462 SPV_AMD_texture_gather_bias_lod 1463 SPV_AMD_gpu_shader_int16 1464 - Optimizer: Add support for: 1465 - Inline all function calls in entry points. 1466 - Flatten decoration groups. Fixes #602 1467 - Id compaction (minimize Id bound). Fixes #624 1468 - Eliminate redundant composite insert followed by extract 1469 - Simplify access chains to local variables 1470 - Eliminate local variables with a single store, if possible 1471 - Eliminate local variables with a several stores, if possible 1472 - Eliminate loads and stores in same block to local variables 1473 - Eliminate redundant insert/extract to composite values 1474 - Aggressive dead instruction elimination 1475 - Eliminate dead branches 1476 - Merge blocks when the second can only be preceded by the first 1477 - Eliminate ommon uniform loads 1478 - Assembler: Add option to preserve numeric ids. Fixes #625 1479 - Add build target spirv-tools-vimsyntax to generate spvasm.vim, a SPIR-V 1480 assembly syntax file for Vim. 1481 - Version string: Allow overriding of wall clock timestamp with contents 1482 of environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. 1483 - Validator implements relaxed rules for SPV_KHR_16bit_storage. 1484 - CMake installation rules use GNUInstallDirs. For example, libraries 1485 will be installed into a lib64 directory if that's the norm for the 1486 current system. 1487 - Fixes: 1488 #500: Parameterize validator limit checks 1489 #508: Support compilation under CYGWIN 1490 #517: Fix validation when continue (or case) contstruct is also the head of a 1491 nested control construct. 1492 #551: If a merge block is reachable, it must be *strictly* dominated by its 1493 header. 1494 #548: Validator: Error when the reserved OpImageSparseSampleProj* opcodes 1495 are used. 1496 #611: spvtools::Optimizer was failing to save the module to the output 1497 binary vector when all passes succeded without changes. 1498 #629: The inline-entry-points-all optimization could generate invalidly 1499 structured code when the inlined function had early returns. 1500 #697: Optimizer's Instruction::ForEachInId method was skipping semantics-id 1501 and scope-id. 1502 #755: Inliner: Fix inlining of callee with single Return appearing before 1503 the end of the function. 1504 #776: Fix dead branch elimination in presence of complex but dead control 1505 flow. 1506 #781: SPV_KHR_variable_pointers allows duplicate pointer types 1507 #782: Inliner: Fix remapping of non-label forward references in callee 1508 #787: Inliner: Fix remapping of inlined entry block when called from 1509 single block loop. 1510 #790: Inliner: Fix remapping of inlined entry block when callee has 1511 multiple returns. 1512 1513v2016.6 2016-12-13 1514 - Published the C++ interface for assembling, disassembling, validation, and 1515 optimization. 1516 - Support SPV_KHR_shader_draw_parameters in assembler, disassembler, parser. 1517 - Validator: 1518 - Add validator API accepting raw binary words 1519 - Increased coverage: 1520 - Checks "Data rules" in Universal Validation Rules, section 2.16.1 1521 - WIP: Universal Limits. 1522 - The minimum mandated upper bounds are checked. 1523 - TODO: Parameterize the validator to allow larger limits accepted by 1524 a more than minimally capable implementation. 1525 - OpSampledImage checks 1526 - OpConstantComposite checks 1527 - Id bound check 1528 - Disasssembler: 1529 - Generates friendly GLSL-based names for more builtin variables 1530 - Generates friendly names for numeric OpConstant values 1531 - Vendor tool info extracted from SPIR-V XML registry file. 1532 - Fixes issues: 1533 #429: Validator: Allow OpTypeForwardPointer and OpTypeStruct to reference 1534 undefined IDs 1535 #482: Validator: OpVariable initializer can be an ID of a module-scope variable 1536 1537v2016.5 2016-09-16 1538 - Support SPV_KHR_shader_ballot in assembler, disassembler, parser. 1539 - Disassembler: Generate friendly names for built-in variables. 1540 - Partial fixes: 1541 #359: Add Emacs helper for automatically diassembling/assembling a SPIR-V 1542 binary on file load/save. 1543 - Fixes: 1544 #414: Validator: Allow OpUndef for composite constants 1545 #415: Validator: Phi can use its own value in some cases. 1546 1547v2016.4 2016-09-01 1548 - Relicensed under Apache 2.0 1549 - Add optimization passes (in API and spirv-opt command) 1550 - Fold spec constants defined with OpSpecConstantOp and 1551 OpSpecConstantComposite to normal constants with fixed value(s). 1552 - Fixes issues: 1553 #318: Relicensed under Apache 2.0 1554 1555v2016.3 2016-08-24 1556 - Add target environment enums for OpenCL 2.1, OpenCL 2.2, 1557 OpenGL 4.0, OpenGL 4.1, OpenGL 4.2, OpenGL 4.3, OpenGL 4.5. 1558 - Add spirv-cfg, an experimental tool to dump the control flow graph 1559 as a GraphiViz "dot" graph 1560 - Add optimization pass: Eliminate dead constants. 1561 - Add spirv-lesspipe.sh filter utility 1562 - Fixes issues: 1563 #288: Check def-use dominance rules for OpPhi (variable,parent) operands 1564 #339: Allow OpUndef in types-constants-global-vars section, as required 1565 by SPIR-V 1.0 Rev7, 1.1 Rev 3. 1566 #340: Avoid race on mkdir during build 1567 #365: Relax PointSize, ClipDistance, CullDistance capability check in all 1568 environments not just Vulkan 1.0. 1569 1570v2016.2 2016-08-05 1571 - Validator is incomplete 1572 - Checks ID use block is dominated by definition block 1573 - Add optimization passes (in API and spirv-opt command) 1574 - Strip debug info instructions 1575 - Freeze spec constant to their default values 1576 - Allow INotEqual as operation for OpSpecConstantOp 1577 - Fixes bugs: 1578 #270: validator: crash when continue construct is unreachable 1579 #279: validator: infinite loop when analyzing some degenerate control 1580 flow graphs 1581 #286: validator: don't incorrectly generate def-use error for 1582 (variable,parent) parameters to OpPhi 1583 #290: disassembler: never generate bare % for an identifier 1584 #295: validator: def-use dominance check should ignore unreachable uses 1585 #276: validator: allow unreachable continue constructs 1586 #297: validator: allow an unreachable block to branch to a reachable 1587 merge block 1588 1589v2016.1 2016-07-19 1590 - Fix https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Tools/issues/261 1591 Turn off ClipDistance and CullDistance capability checks for Vulkan. 1592 - The disassembler can emit friendly names based on debug info (OpName 1593 instructions), and will infer somewhat friendly names for most types. 1594 This is turned on by default for the spirv-dis command line tool. 1595 - Updated to support SPIR-V 1.1 rev 2 1596 - Input StorageClass, Sampled1D capability, and SampledBuffer capability 1597 do not require Shader capability anymore. 1598 1599v2016.0 2016-07-04 1600 1601 - Adds v<year>.<index> versioning, with "-dev" indicating 1602 work in progress. The intent is to more easly report 1603 and summarize functionality when SPIRV-Tools is incorporated 1604 in downstream projects. 1605 1606 - Summary of functionality (See the README.md for more): 1607 - Supports SPIR-V 1.1 Rev 1 1608 - Supports SPIR-V 1.0 Rev 5 1609 - Supports GLSL std450 extended instructions 1.0 Rev 3 1610 - Supports OpenCL extended instructions 1.0 Rev 2 1611 - Assembler, disassembler are complete 1612 - Supports floating point widths of 16, 32, 64 bits 1613 - Supports integer widths up to 64 bits 1614 - Validator is incomplete 1615 - Checks capability requirements in most cases 1616 - Checks module layout constraints 1617 - Checks ID use-definition ordering constraints, 1618 ignoring control flow 1619 - Checks some control flow graph rules 1620 - Optimizer is introduced, with few available transforms. 1621 - Supported on Linux, OSX, Android, Windows 1622 1623 - Fixes bugs: 1624 - #143: OpenCL pow and pown arguments 1625