Design Meeting Minutes: 2025/11/11

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Administrivia

• No updates

Issues

• No marked issues

PRs

Carried Forward

• [dxil] Proposal to add new debug printf dxil op
  • @tex3d will review this in more detail.
• [202x] Propose adding vk::SampledTexture* types
  • Ready to merge.
• Add proposal for scalar layout for constant buffers
  • Action Item @llvm-beanz - Move to merge.
• Rough proposal collecting thoughts on uniformity
  • Action Item: @llvm-beanz to update
• New Proposal: Draft proposal to modify resource typing in HLSL
  • Action Item: @llvm-beanz to work with author
• [0001] Consider targeting 202x for hlsl namespace
  • Revisit after namespace fixes in DXC go in.
• [0023] Adopt C++11 Base
  • Action item: @llvm-beanz to complete design
• [0032] Constructors
  • Action item: @llvm-beanz to complete design #526

Current Business

• Needs Review
  • Unsized arrays
    • @sspall to review
  • Matrix Accessors
    • @V-FEXrt to review
  • [0002] Detail attributes that will replace HLSL annotations
    • @hekota to review
• Call to accept
  • [0037] - Cbuffer contexts
    • Need reviewers for language spec
      • @bogner & @hekota
• Review in-flight proposals
  • State updates:
    • Under Review Numeric constants
      • Move to Under Consideration, this doesn’t have a full spec and really isn’t ready to be under review.
    • Under Review 202x Deprecations
      • Move to Accepted
      • We should aim to get deprecation warnings into DXC soon
    • cbuffer Contexts
      • Move to Accepted
    • Under Review hlsl namespace
      • Move to Accepted (still need to evaluate for 202x)
    • Under Review C++ 11 base
      • Move to Under Consideration, this doesn’t have a full spec and really isn’t ready to be under review.
  • Work to do
    • groupshared arguments
      • @damyanp & @llvm-beanz to figure out finalizing this spec
• Next Meeting
  • Groupshared arguments
  • Unbound arrays
  • C++ attributes
• Process Discussion
  • We should be more speedy at merging new proposals (this has come up many times)
  • We should consider disabling the “require resolving comments” feature in GitHub to make it easier to merge

Discussion Topics

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