Design Meeting Minutes: 2025/02/18

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Administrivia

• No topics

Issues

• No marked issues
• Action Item: @llvm-beanz to review issues for HLSL 202x

PRs

Carried Forward

• [0007] Big update to flesh out const instance methods
  • Action Item: @pow2clk to review the PR and comment
• [0002] Specify the grammar formulations for attributes
  • Action Item: @llvm-beanz to revise.
• [dxil] Proposal to add new debug printf dxil op
  • @pow2clk and @tex3d will review this in more detail.
• [202x] Propose adding vk::SampledTexture* types
  • Ready to merge.
• Specification language to describe flat conversions and aggregate splats
  • Action Item: @spall to update

Current Business

• Add proposal for scalar layout for constant buffers
  • Call for consensus on consideration.
    • No objections, will be merged under-consideration once ready.
  • @llvm-beanz: There are details in the proposal that still need to be worked out, but I’m comfortable calling for acceptance and we can merge and iterate.
• Adding proposal for C++ constructors
  • Call for consensus on consideration.
    • No objections, will be merged under-consideration once ready.
  • Carried forward - Action Item: @V-FEXrt to review.
  • @llvm-beanz: There are more details here that we should fully spec out like the required wider changes to object initialization.
• Update on 202x & 202y

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