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1Revision history for SPIRV-Tools
2
3v2019.2-dev 2019-01-07
4 - Start v2019.2-dev
5
6v2019.1 2019-01-07
7 - General:
8   - Created a new tool called spirv-reduce.
9   - Add cmake option to turn off SPIRV_TIMER_ENABLED (#2103)
10   - New optimization pass to update the memory model from GLSL450 to VulkanKHR.
11   - Recognize OpTypeAccelerationStructureNV as a type instruction and ray tracing storage classes.
12   - Fix GCC8 build.
13   - Add --target-env flag to spirv-opt.
14   - Add --webgpu-mode flag to run optimizations for webgpu.
15   - The output disassembled line number stead of byte offset in validation errors. (#2091)
16 - Optimizer
17   - Added the instrumentation passes for bindless validation.
18   - Added passes to help preserve OpLine information (#2027)
19   - Add basic support for EXT_fragment_invocation_density (#2100)
20   - Fix invalid OpPhi generated by merge-return. (#2172)
21   - Constant and type manager have been turned into analysies. (#2251)
22   Fixes:
23   - #2018: Don't inline functions with a return in a structured CFG contstruct.
24   - #2047: Fix bug in folding when volatile stores are present.
25   - #2053: Fix check for when folding floating pointer values is allowed.
26   - #2130: Don't inline recursive functions.
27   - #2202: Handle multiple edges between two basic blocks in SSA-rewriter.
28   - #2205: Don't unswitch a latch condition during loop unswitch.
29   - #2245: Don't fold branch in loop unswitch.  Run dead branch elimination to fold them.
30   - #2204: Fix eliminate common uniform to place OpPhi instructions correctly.
31   - #2247: Fix type mismatches caused by scalar replacement.
32   - #2248: Fix missing OpPhi after merge return.
33   - #2211: After merge return, fix invalid continue target.
34   - #2210: Fix loop invariant code motion to not place code between merge instruction and branch.
35   - #2258: Handle CompositeInsert with no indices in VDCE.
36   - #2261: Have replace load size handle extact with no index.
37 - Validator
38   - Changed the naming convention of outputing ids with names in diagnostic messages.
39   - Added validation rules for UniformConstant variables in Vulkan.
40   - #1949: Validate uniform variable type in Vulkan
41   - Ensure for OpVariable that result type and storage class operand agree (#2052)
42   - Validator: Support VK_EXT_scalar_block_layout
43   - Added Vulkan memory model semantics validation
44   - Added validation checkes spefic to WebGPU environment.
45   - Add support for VK_EXT_Transform_feedback capabilities (#2088)
46   - Add validation for OpArrayLength. (#2117)
47   - Ensure that function parameter's type is not void (#2118)
48   - Validate pointer variables (#2111)
49   - Add check for QueueFamilyKHMR memory scope (#2144)
50   - Validate PushConstants annotation and type (#2140)
51   - Allow Float16/Int8 for Vulkan 1.0 (#2153)
52   - Check binding annotations in resource variables (#2151, #2167)
53   - Validate OpForwardPointer (#2156)
54   - Validate operation for OpSpecConstantOp (#2260)
55   Fixes:
56   - #2049: Allow InstanceId for NV ray tracing
57 - Reduce
58   - Initial commit wit a few passes to reduce test cases.
59   - Validation is run after each reduction step.
60   Fixes:
61
62
63v2018.6 2018-11-07
64 - General:
65   - Added support for the Nvidia Turing and ray tracing extensions.
66   - Make C++11 the CXX standard in CMakeLists.txt.
67   - Enabled a parallel build for MSVC.
68   - Enable pre-compiled headers for MSVC.
69   - Added a code of conduct.
70   - EFFCEE and RE2 are now required when build the tests.
71 - Optimizer
72   - Unrolling loops marked for unrolling in the legalization passes.
73   - Improved the compile time of loop unrolling.
74   - Changee merge-return to create a dummy loop around the function.
75   - Small improvement to merge-blocks to allow it to merge more often.
76   - Enforce an upper bound for the ids, and add option to set it.
77   - #1966: Report error if there are unreachable block before running merge return
78   Fixes:
79   - #1917: Allow 0 (meaning unlimited) as a parameter to --scalar-replacement
80   - #1915: Improve handling of group decorations.
81   - #1942: Fix incorrect uses of the constant manager.  Avoids type mismatches in generated code.
82   - #1997: Fix dead branch elimination when there is a loop in folded selection.
83   - #1991: Fixes legality check in if-conversion.
84   - #1987: Add nullptr check to array copy propagation.
85   - #1984: Better handling of OpUnreachable in ADCE.
86   - #1983: Run merge return on reachable functions only.
87   - #1956: Handled atomic operations in ADCE.
88   - #1963: Fold integer divisions by 0 to 0.
89   - #2019: Handle MemberDecorateStringGOOGLE in ADCE and strip reflect.
90 - Validator
91   - Added validation for OpGroupNonUniformBallotBitCount.
92   - Added validation for the Vulkan memory model.
93   - Added support for VK_KHR_shader_atddomic_int64.
94   - Added validation for execution modes.
95   - Added validation for runtime array layouts.
96   - Added validation for 8-bit storage.
97   - Added validation of OpPhi instructions with pointer result type.
98   - Added checks for the Vulkan memory model.
99   - Validate MakeTexelAvailableKHR and MakeTexelVisibleKHR
100   - Allow atomic function pointer for OpenCL.
101   - FPRounding mode checks were implemented.
102   - Added validation for the id bound with an option to set the max id bound.
103   Fixes:
104   - #1882: Improve the validation of decorations to reduce memory usage.
105   - #1891: Fix an potential infinite loop in dead-branch-elimination.
106   - #1405: Validate the storage class of boolean objects.
107   - #1880: Identify arrays of type void as invalid.
108   - #487: Validate OpImageTexelPointer.
109   - #1922: Validate OpPhi instructions are at the start of a block correctly.
110   - #1923: Validate function scope variable are at the start of the entry block.
111
112v2018.5 2018-09-07
113 - General:
114   - Support SPV_KHR_vulkan_memory_model
115   - Update Dim capabilities, to match SPIR-V 1.3 Rev 4
116   - Automated build bots no run tests for the VS2013 case
117   - Support Chromium GN build
118   - Use Kokoro bots:
119     - Disable Travis-CI bots
120     - Disable AppVeyor VisualStudio Release builds. Keep VS 2017 Debug build
121   - Don't check export symbols on OSX (Darwin): some installations don't have 'objdump'
122   - Reorganize source files and namespaces
123   - Fixes for ClangTidy, and whitespace (passes 'git cl presumit --all -uf')
124   - Fix unused param compile warnings/errors when Effcee not present
125   - Avoid including time headers when timer functionality is disabled
126   - Avoid too-stringent warnings flags for Clang on Windows
127   - Internal refactoring
128   - Add hooks for automated fuzzing
129   - Add testing of command line executables
130   - #1688: Use binary mode on stdin; fixes "spirv-dis <foo.spv" on Windows
131 - Optimizer
132   - The optimizer validates the module before it begins
133   - Add API to register passes by string name
134   - Fold a vector shuffle feeding a vector shuffle
135   - Add -combine-access-chains transform
136   - Refactor how IRContext is handled by passes
137   - Improve bookkeeping for instruction result type and result id
138   - Fix over-duplication of decorations
139   - Fix handling of exits from selections in dead-branch elimination, and dead code
140     elimination.
141   - Fix handling of certain kinds of flow control in merge-return
142   Fixes:
143   - #1721: Fix size bug when folding vector shuffles
144   - #1722: Fix size infinite loop when folding vector shuffles
145   - #1724: Fix finding a constant of a specific type
146   - #1727: Dead branch elim: Reorder blocks if needed to satisfy dominance rule
147   - #1729: Handle VariablePointers cases in various optimizations
148   - #1731: Fix vector shuffle with literal id indicating undef value
149   - #1736: Fix handling of decorations and phis in merge-return
150   - #1787: Fix handling of decorations related to access chains
151   - #1865: Avoid leaking memory for SPIR-V constant values
152 - Validator
153   - Improve error messages
154   - Avoid platform-dependent traversal ordering, to ensure consistent messages
155   - Use libspirv::Instruction where possible
156   - Add option to skip all block layout checks
157   - Validate all type IDs
158   - Validate uses of OpFunction
159   - Validate uses of OpTypeFunction
160   - Disallow a struct containing its own type https://crbug.com/874372
161   - #1685: Vulkan permits non-monotonic offsets for block members
162   - #1697: Enforce block layout rules even when using relaxed block layout option
163   - #1719: Fix line number for vector shuffle valiation error
164   - #1789: Avoid assertion failure when validating some functions
165   - #1800: Fix validation of OpCopyMemorySized
166   - #1822: Stop enforcing struct member offset montonicity
167   - #1831: Disallow void members in structs
168
169v2018.4 2018-07-08
170 - General:
171   - Support SPV_KHR_8bit_storage
172   - Add gclient and presubmit configurations
173   - Enable Kokoro build bots (#1625)
174   - Group tests into fewer executables, reduces load on CI
175   - Port test script to Python 3
176   - Symbol export tests respect SPIRV_SKIP_TESTS
177   - #1596: Operand lookup succeeds if enabled by a capability
178   - #1624: Instruction lookup succeeds if enabled by a capability
179   - Refactoring namespaces:
180     - #1678: Change libspirv to spvtools
181     - Code in source/utils moved into spvtools::utils
182     - Code in source/comp moved into spvtools::comp
183 - Optimizer:
184   - Remove insert-extract-elim pass. Use simplification pass instead.
185   - Preserve instruction-to-block mapping in most passes, to reduce runtime.
186   - Small vector optimization for operands
187   - Add pass to move Private variables to Function. Increase opportunity to optimize.
188   - Fixes:
189     #1120: Check static uses of entry point interfaces
190     #1372: Avoid merging some structs, to preserve names for reflection
191     #1577: Scalar replacement uses only undecorated types.
192     #1578: Fix handling of forward-pointer types, and types embedding pointers
193       to themselves.
194     #1591: Inliner: Callee variable with initializer should have a store at the call site.
195     #1634: Fix crash: Use type id in vector type lookup
196     #1649: Fix assert in compact-ids pass
197     Fix constant folder: ensure it uses the right type
198     #1659: Folding rules added to IRContext. Avoids leak.
199 - Validator
200   - Add work-in-progress WebGPU environment. Disallows OpUndef
201   - #670, #1581: Improve error messages; disassemble instruction
202   - #491: Check structured switches
203   - #937: Check layout rules for Block and BufferBlock in Uniform, StorageBuffer, PushConstant
204   - #1281: Check invalid branches into structured constructs
205   - #1522: Disallow array-of-arrays with DescriptorSets
206   - #1577: Allow duplicate pointer types.
207   - #1581: Better messages: output ID names along with numbers in more cases.
208   - #1597: Check Vulkan 1.1 capabilities
209   - #1618: Check invalid exit from structured case construct
210   - #1622: Run IdPass before DataRulesPass
211   - #1632: Reduce test time by artificially lowering limits in limit test
212   - #1638: Block-decorated structs member order must respect offset order
213   - #1657: Improve CFG validation diagnostics
214   - Khronos SPIR-V #337: GLSL.std.450 Refract instruction Eta param can be any float scalar.
215   - #1606: PushConstant Blocks follow storage-buffer layout rules
216   - #1664: Check layout of StorageBuffer variables with Block decoration, using storage buffer
217     rules
218   - #1666: Layout validation should permit {vec3; float} packing
219   - #1637, #1668: Layout validation uses RowMajor, ArrayStride, MatrixStride properly
220 - Linker
221   - Avoid buffer overrun when creating OpModuleProcessed
222
223v2018.3 2018-05-25
224 - General:
225   - Support SPV_EXT_descriptor_indexing
226   - Support SPV_GOOGLE_decorate_string
227   - Support SPV_GOOGLE_hlsl_functionality1
228   - Support SPV_NV_shader_subgroup_partitioned
229   - Use "unified1" grammar from SPIRV-Headers
230   - Simplify support for new extensions. Assembler, disassembler, and simple validation
231     support is automatic if new tokens are introduced with appropriate extension
232     attributes in the "unified1" SPIR-V core grammar.
233   - Disassembler: Emit more digits on floating point, to reliably reproduce all
234     significand bits.  (Use std::max_digits10 instead of std::digits10)
235   - Fix compilation for old XCode versions: Explicit construction required for std::set.
236 - Optimizer:
237   - Add --strip-reflect
238   - Add --time-report
239   - Add --loop-fission
240   - Add lop fusion.
241   - Add loop peeling pass and internal utility.
242   - Improve optimizer runtime.
243   - Merge-return now works with structured control flow.
244   - New (faster) SSA rewriter to convert local loads and stores to SSA IDs and phis.
245     Can replace load/store elimination passes.
246   - Fix instruction folding case: insertion that feeds and extract, when the extract
247     remains.
248   - Fold OpDot.
249   - Fold OpFNegate.
250   - Fold multply and divide of same value.
251   - Fold FClamp feeding a compare.
252   - Fold OpLoad feeding an extract, to reduce excessive copying. (#1547)
253   - Fold Fmix feeding an extract.
254   - Use simplification pass instead of insert-extract elimination.
255   - Constant fold OpVectorTimesScalar.
256   - Copy propagate arrays, in simple cases.
257   - Aggressive dead code elimination: Can remove more instructions, e.g. derivatives.
258   - Aggressive dead code elimination: Remove Workgroup variables that are written but not read.
259   - Better handling of OpImageTexelPointer
260   - Initial utilities for scalar evolution.
261   - Add Vector dead code elimination.
262   - Each pass can only run once.
263   - Allow code hosting in if-conversion.
264   - Add external interface for adding a PassToken, so external code can make their own
265     passes.
266   - Fixes:
267     #1404: Don't optimize away the compute compute workgroup size constant.
268     #1407: Remove a bad assertion
269     #1456: Fix bug in SSA rewriter related to variables updated in loops.
270     #1487: Fix long runtime in Dead insertion elimination: Don't revist select phi nodes.
271     #1492: Aggressive dead code elimination can remove OpDecorateStringGOOGLE.
272     #1527: Fix inlining of functions having OpKill and OpUnreachable.
273     #1559: Fix assert failure in reduce-load-size pass.
274     #1556: Aggressive dead code elimination: Fix handling of OpCopyMemory.
275 - Validator:
276   - Check Vulkan built-in variables
277   - Check Vulkan-specific atomic result type rule.
278   - Relax control barrier check for SPIR-V 1.3.  Fixes #1427
279   - Check OpPhi.
280   - Check OpMemoryModel.
281   - Stop checking sizes derived from spec-constants.
282   - Re-enable checks for OpUConvert.
283   - Vulkan: Fix check for PrimitiveId: Permit as Input in fragment shader.
284   - Validate binary version for the given target environment.
285   - Add tests for OpBranch checks.
286   - Vulkan 1.1: Check scope for non-uniform subgroup operations.
287   - Fix checks for SPV_AMD_gpu_shader_int16.
288   - Fix logical layout check for OpDecorateId.
289   - Fix checks for ViewportIndex & Layer for Vulkan and SPV_EXT_shader_viewport_index_layer.
290   - Fixes:
291     #1470: Vulkan: Don't restrict WorkgroupSize to Input storage class.
292     #1469: Vulkan: Permit Subgroup memory scope for Vulkan 1.1.
293     #1472: Per-vertex variable validation fixes.
294     #1483: Valdiate barrier execution scopes for Vulkan 1.1.
295 - Fixes:
296   #898: Linker properly removes FuncParamAttr from imported symbols.
297   #924, #1174: Fix handling of decoration groups in optimizer, linker.
298
299v2018.2 2018-03-07
300 - General:
301   - Support SPIR-V 1.3 and Vulkan 1.1.
302     - Default target environment is now SPIR-V 1.3.  For command-line tools,
303       use the --target-env option to override the default.  Examples:
304	  # Generate a SPIR-V 1.0 binary instead of SPIR-V 1.3
305	  spirv-as --target-env spv1.0 a.spvasm -o a.spv
306	  spirv-as --target-env vulkan1.0 a.spvasm -o a.spv
307	  # Validate as Vulkan 1.0
308	  spirv-val --target-env vulkan1.0 a.spv
309   - Support SPV_GOOGLE_decorate_string and SPV_GOOGLE_hlsl_functionality1
310 - Fixes:
311   - Fix Android.mk build. Compilation was failing due to missing definitions of
312     SpvCapabilityFloat16ImageAMD and other enumerated values.
313   - Optimizer: Avoid generating duplicate names when merging types.
314   - #1375: Validator: SPV_AMD_gpu_shaer_half_float implicitly allows declaration
315     of the 16-bit floating point type.
316   - #1376: Optimizer: Avoid folding half-precision float.
317
318v2018.1 2018-03-02
319 - General:
320   - Support Visual Studio 2013 again. (Continue support for VS 2015 and VS 2017.)
321   - Support building SPIRV-Tools as a shared library.
322   - Improve the HLSL legalization optimization recipe. #1311
323 - Optimizer:
324   - General speedups.
325   - Remove generic dead code elimination functionality from transforms:
326       --eliminate-local-single-block
327       --eliminate-local-single-store
328       --eliminate-local-multi-store
329     To recover the previous behaviour, a recipe using those transforms should now
330     also invoke the --eliminate-dead-code-aggressive transform.
331   - Improve folding, including coverage for floating point, OpSelect, and arithmetic
332     with non-trivial constant operands.
333   - Add loop-invariant code motion pass.
334   - Add loop-unrolling pass, for honouring unroll hits.
335   - Add loop-unswitch pass.
336   - Add instruction simplification pass.
337   - Aggressive dead code elimination: Understands capability hierarchy when finding
338     instructions it can eliminate (combinators). (PR #1268)
339   - CCP can now fold floating point arithmetic. #1311
340 - Validator:
341   - Validate barrier instructions.
342   - Check Vulkan-specific rules for atomics.
343   - Check Vulkan prohibition of Location or Component decorations on BuiltIn variables.
344 - Linker:
345   - Add --verify-ids option
346   - Add option to allow a resulting module to be partially linked.
347   - Handle OpModuleProcessed (instructions in SPIR-V layout section 7c)
348 - Fixes:
349   - #1265: Optimizer: Fix use-after free bug in if-conversion. (Fix object lifecycle bug
350     in type manager.)
351   - #1282: Fix new warnings found by GCC 8.0.1.
352   - #1285: Optimizer: Fix random failures during inlining.  (Dangling references in DefUseManager)
353   - #1295: Optimizer: Fix incorrect handling of Phi nodes in CCP.
354   - #1300: Fix CCP: avoid bad CCP transitions and unsettled values.
355   - #1304: Avoid static-duration variables of class type (with constructors).
356   - #1323: Fix folding of an insert composite feeding a composite extract.
357   - #1339: Fix CCP: Handle OpConstantNull boolean values as conditions.
358   - #1341: DCEInst: Keep atomic instructions (and some others with side effects).
359   - #1354: Don't fold integer division.
360   - #1357: Support OpConstantNull in folding.
361   - #1361: CCP: Fix handling of non-constant module-scope values
362
363v2018.0 2018-02-02
364 - General
365   - VisualStudio 2013 is no longer supported.  VisualStudio 2015 is supported.
366   - Use "include/unified1" directory from SPIRV-Headers.  Requires recent SPIRV-Headers source.
367 - Disassembler: spirv-dis adds --color option to force color disassembly.
368 - Optimizer:
369   - Add pass to eliminate dead insertions.
370   - Aggressive dead code elimination now removes OpSwitch constructs.
371   - Block merging occurs in more cases.
372   - Add driver workaround transform: replace OpUnreachable with harmless branch to merge.
373   - Improve instruction folding framework.
374   - Add loop analysis.
375   - Add scalar replacement of aggregates to size-optimization recipe.
376   - Add pass to replace instructions invalid for a shader stage, with a harmless value.
377     This changes the semantics of the program!  Not for general use!
378   - Rearragne and add passes to performance-optimization recipe, to produce better results.
379 - Validator:
380   - Validate OpenCL extended instructions.
381   - Shaders can't perform atomics on floats.
382   - Validate memory semantics values in atomics.
383   - Validate instruction-adjacency constraints, e.g. OpPhi predecessors, merge instructions
384     immediately precede branches.
385 - Fixes:
386   - PR 1198: Optimizer: Fix CCP in presence of matrix constants.
387   - #1199: Optimizer: Fix CCP: don't propagate spec constants.
388   - #1203: Optimizer: Fix common uniform elim bug introduced by refactoring.
389   - #1210: Optimizer: Aggressive dead code elimination: Fix 'break' identification.
390   - #1212: Optimizer: Aggressive dead code elimination: Was skipping too many instructions.
391   - #1214: Optimizer: Aggressive dead code elimination: Fix infinite loop.
392   - #1228: Optimizer: Fix CCP: Handling of varying Phi nodes; was resulting in infinite loop.
393   - #1245: Optimizer: Dead branch elimination: Avoid a null pointer dereference.
394   - #1250: Optimizer: Dead branch elimination: Avoid spuriously reporting a change.
395
396v2017.3 2018-01-12
397 - General:
398   - Support DebugInfo extended instruction set, targeted at OpenCL environments.
399     See the SPIR-V Registry.
400   - Generate a SPIRV-Tools.pc file for pkg-config.
401 - Optimizer:
402   - Progress for legalization of code generated from HLSL (issue #1118):
403     - Add --legalize-hlsl option to run transforms used to transform intermediate
404       code generated by HLSL to SPIR-V for Vulkan compilers.  Those compilers
405       normally run these transforms automatically.  This option is used for developing
406       those transforms.
407     - Add Private-to-Function variable conversion for modules with logical
408       addressing.
409   - Add --ccp: SSA Conditional Constant Propagation (CCP)
410   - Add --print-all to show disassembly for each optimization pass.
411   - Internal: Add loop descriptors and post-order tree iterator.
412   - Generalized dead branch elimination
413   - Aggressive dead code elimination (ADCE) now removes dead functions and
414     module-scope variables.
415   - Vector extract/insert elimination now optimizes through some cases of
416     VectorShuffle, and GLSL.std.450 Mix extended instruction.
417 - Validator:
418   - Add validation for GLSL.std.450 extended instruction set.
419   - Check out of bounds composite accesses, where that's statically computable.
420     Fixes #1112.
421   - Check upper bits of literal numbers that aren't a multiple of 32-bits wide.
422   - More validation of primitive instructions
423   - Add optional "relaxed" checking logical addressing mode to permit some
424     cases of pointer-to-pointer.  Contributes to HLSL legalization (issue #1118).
425 - Fixes:
426   #1100: Validator: Image operand Sample can be used with OpImageSparseFetch,
427     OpImageSparseRead.
428   #1108: Remove duplicates transform was incorrectly removing non-duplicate
429     decorations.
430   #1111: Optimizer's type manager could reference deleted memory.
431   #1112: Fix decoration equality check, e.g. it is now symmetric.
432   #1129: Validator now disallows Dim=SupbassData for OpImageSparseRead.
433   #1143: Fix CCP: Was generating incorrect code for loops.
434   #1153: Fix CCP crash.
435   #1154: Optimizer's internal instruction-to-block mappings were sometimes
436       inconsistent.
437   #1159: Fix CCP infinite loop.
438   #1168: Fix dead branch elimination intermittently generating incorrect code.
439       Fixes https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang/issues/1205
440   #1186: Fix validation of PackDouble2x32 and UnpackDouble2x32
441
442v2017.2 2017-12-15
443 - General:
444   - Support OpenCL 1.2, 2.0 target environments, including embedded profiles
445   - Add CONTRIBUTING.md
446   - Fix exit status code for spirv-link
447   - Disassember: Enable emitting ANSI colour codes to a string
448   - Library avoids polluting global namespace.  The libraries can export C and C++
449     symbols starting with "spv", or in a C++ namespace.  Add a test for this.
450   - Linux release builds include debug information, for easier profiling
451   - Build bots no longer test VisualStudio 2013
452     - Testing dependency RE2 requires VisualStudio 2015 or later
453   - Build bots check code formatting
454 - Optimizer:
455   - Add --skip-validation to spirv-opt
456   - Add dominance tree analysis
457   - Add generic value propagation engine
458   - Add global redundancy elimination within a function
459   - Add scalar replacement of function-scope variables of composite type
460   - Aggressive dead code elimination: Remove empty loops
461   - Killing an instruction notifies the IRContext
462   - IRContext::KillInst deletes the instruction
463   - Move CFG analysis to IRContext
464   - Add constant manager
465   - Fix: Don't consider derivative instructions as combinators.
466   - Fix: Don't delete an instruction twice in local dead-code-elimination
467   - Fix: Don't consider derivative instructions as combinators.
468 - Validator:
469   - Finish checking of image instructions (Section 3.32.10)
470     - Check sparse image instructions
471     - Check OpTypeImage, OpTypeSampleImage
472   - Check composite instructions (Section 3.32.12)
473   - Check atomic instructions (Section 3.32.18)
474   - Check OpEmitStreamVertex, OpEndStreamPrimitive instructions
475   - Re-enable validation of OpCopyObject
476   - OpKill, image ImplicitLod and QueryLod instructions can only be used in Fragment
477     shaders.
478   - Fixes for image instruction validation:
479     - Lod image operand only usable with ExplicitLod and OpImageFetch
480     - ExplicitLod Lod image operand must be float scalar
481     - OpImageFectch Lod image operand must be int scalar
482     - OpImageGather component operand must be 32-bits (integer scalar)
483     - OpImageQuerySizeLod Lod must be integer scalar
484 - Fixes:
485   #622: Remove names and decorations when inlining
486   #989: Aggressive dead code elim: Don't optimize away live breaks from a loop
487   #991: Fix validation of SPV_AMD_shader_ballot
488   #1004: Use after free of an instruction, in remove-duplicates transform
489   #1007: OpImageRead not required to return 4-component vector
490   #1009: OpImageRead can return scalar int/float types
491   #1011: OpImageWrite should allow scalar int/float texel types
492   #1012: Fix validat Dref type check
493   #1017: Load-store elimination considers variable initializations
494   #1034: Fix Windows debug build: operator< should be a weak ordering
495   #1083: Inlining: Set parent (function) for each inlined basic block.
496   #1075: Aggressive dead code elimination: Was leaving dangling references to
497     removed blocks.
498
499v2017.1 2017-11-23
500 - Update README with details on the public_spirv_tools_dev@khronos.org mailing list.
501 - General:
502   - Automatically deploy built artifacts to GitHub Releases
503   - Add a Linker (module combiner). Under development.
504   - Add Android.mk for Android NDK builds.
505   - Add the 'effcee' library as an optional dependency for use in tests.
506     Eventually it will be a required dependency, once downstream projects have
507     a chance to adjust.  Requires 're2' library.
508   - Avoid static-duration variables of class type (with constructors).
509   - Hack around bugs in gcc-4.8.1 template handling
510   - Faster opcode lookup
511 - Validator:
512   - Recognize extensions listed on SPIR-V registry,
513     through #25 SPV_AMD_shader_fragment_mask
514   - Validator issues an info message when it sees an unrecognized extension.
515   - Type check basic arithmetic operations
516   - Type check carry/extended arithmetic operations
517   - Type check vector arithmetic operations
518   - Type check Relational and Logical instructions
519   - Type check Bit instructions
520   - Check type uniqueness rules
521   - Check conversion instructions
522   - Check image instructions
523   - Check derivative instructions
524   - Check OpVectorShuffle
525   - Check OpBranchConditional
526   - OpModuleProcessed is only allowed after debug names section and before annotations
527     section.
528   - Checks the right kind of return is called for each function (void or non-void).
529   - Add option to relax type check when storing structs (--relax-store-struct)
530 - Optimizer:
531   - Refactoring internal representation of the module, including:
532     - IRContext: owns a module and manages analyses
533     - Instructions are owned by intrusive lists, and have unique IDs
534     - BasicBlock owns its instruction list.
535     - DefUseManager: change representation of uses, for faster processing
536       on large modules.
537   - Add high level recipes: -O, -Os, and -Oconfig
538     Recipes for -O and -Os are under development.
539   - Add eliminate-dead-function transform
540   - Add strength reduction transform: For now, convert multiply by power of 2
541     to a bit shift.
542   - Add CFG cleanup transform
543   - Add removal of dead module-scope variables
544   - Add merge-return transform for modules without structured control flow
545   - Add redundancy elimination within a basic block (local value numbering)
546   - Extract-insert elimination:
547     - Recognize the case where the first instruction in the sequence is an
548       OpCompositeConstruct or OpConstantComposite
549     - Handle some cases of nested structs
550   - Dead branch elimination now can eliminate entire selection constructs
551     when all arms are dead.
552 - Compressing codec:
553   - Updated algorithm to 1.01, 1.02, 1.03
554   - Not built by default.  Use -DSPIRV_BUILD_COMPRESSION=ON to build.
555   - Codec can be parameterized by a customized model.
556 - Fixes:
557   #728: Fix decoration of inlined functions
558   #798: spirv-as should fail when given unrecognized long option
559   #800: Inliner: Fix inlining function into header of multi-block loop
560   #824: Eliminate-local-multi-store: Fix a crash
561   #826: Elimiante-local-multi-store: Fix a crash
562   #827: Fix crash when compact-ids transform runs before another transform.
563   #834: Add Cmake option to build the compressing codec. Off by default.
564   #911: Fix classification of Line and NoLine instructions
565
566v2017.0 2017-09-01
567 - Update README to describe that assembler, disassembler, and binary parser support
568   are based on grammar files from the SPIRV-Headers repository.
569
570v2016.7 2017-09-01
571 - Add SPIR-V 1.2
572 - OpenCL 2.2 support is now based on SPIR-V 1.2
573 - Support AMD extensions in assembler, disassembler:
574    SPV_AMD_gcn_shader
575    SPV_AMD_shader_ballot
576    SPV_AMD_shader_explicit_vertex_parameter
577    SPV_AMD_shader_trinary_minmax
578    SPV_AMD_gpu_shader_half_float
579    SPV_AMD_texture_gather_bias_lod
580    SPV_AMD_gpu_shader_int16
581 - Optimizer: Add support for:
582   - Inline all function calls in entry points.
583   - Flatten decoration groups.  Fixes #602
584   - Id compaction (minimize Id bound).  Fixes #624
585   - Eliminate redundant composite insert followed by extract
586   - Simplify access chains to local variables
587   - Eliminate local variables with a single store, if possible
588   - Eliminate local variables with a several stores, if possible
589   - Eliminate loads and stores in same block to local variables
590   - Eliminate redundant insert/extract to composite values
591   - Aggressive dead instruction elimination
592   - Eliminate dead branches
593   - Merge blocks when the second can only be preceded by the first
594   - Eliminate ommon uniform loads
595 - Assembler: Add option to preserve numeric ids. Fixes #625
596 - Add build target spirv-tools-vimsyntax to generate spvasm.vim, a SPIR-V
597   assembly syntax file for Vim.
598 - Version string: Allow overriding of wall clock timestamp with contents
599   of environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
600 - Validator implements relaxed rules for SPV_KHR_16bit_storage.
601 - CMake installation rules use GNUInstallDirs.  For example, libraries
602   will be installed into a lib64 directory if that's the norm for the
603   current system.
604 - Fixes:
605   #500: Parameterize validator limit checks
606   #508: Support compilation under CYGWIN
607   #517: Fix validation when continue (or case) contstruct is also the head of a
608     nested control construct.
609   #551: If a merge block is reachable, it must be *strictly* dominated by its
610     header.
611   #548: Validator: Error when the reserved OpImageSparseSampleProj* opcodes
612     are used.
613   #611: spvtools::Optimizer was failing to save the module to the output
614     binary vector when all passes succeded without changes.
615   #629: The inline-entry-points-all optimization could generate invalidly
616     structured code when the inlined function had early returns.
617   #697: Optimizer's Instruction::ForEachInId method was skipping semantics-id
618     and scope-id.
619   #755: Inliner: Fix inlining of callee with single Return appearing before
620     the end of the function.
621   #776: Fix dead branch elimination in presence of complex but dead control
622     flow.
623   #781: SPV_KHR_variable_pointers allows duplicate pointer types
624   #782: Inliner: Fix remapping of non-label forward references in callee
625   #787: Inliner: Fix remapping of inlined entry block when called from
626     single block loop.
627   #790: Inliner: Fix remapping of inlined entry block when callee has
628     multiple returns.
629
630v2016.6 2016-12-13
631 - Published the C++ interface for assembling, disassembling, validation, and
632   optimization.
633 - Support SPV_KHR_shader_draw_parameters in assembler, disassembler, parser.
634 - Validator:
635   - Add validator API accepting raw binary words
636   - Increased coverage:
637     - Checks "Data rules" in Universal Validation Rules, section 2.16.1
638     - WIP: Universal Limits.
639       - The minimum mandated upper bounds are checked.
640       - TODO: Parameterize the validator to allow larger limits accepted by
641         a more than minimally capable implementation.
642   - OpSampledImage checks
643   - OpConstantComposite checks
644   - Id bound check
645 - Disasssembler:
646   - Generates friendly GLSL-based names for more builtin variables
647   - Generates friendly names for numeric OpConstant values
648   - Vendor tool info extracted from SPIR-V XML registry file.
649 - Fixes issues:
650   #429: Validator: Allow OpTypeForwardPointer and OpTypeStruct to reference
651     undefined IDs
652   #482: Validator: OpVariable initializer can be an ID of a module-scope variable
653
654v2016.5 2016-09-16
655 - Support SPV_KHR_shader_ballot in assembler, disassembler, parser.
656 - Disassembler: Generate friendly names for built-in variables.
657 - Partial fixes:
658   #359: Add Emacs helper for automatically diassembling/assembling a SPIR-V
659     binary on file load/save.
660 - Fixes:
661   #414: Validator: Allow OpUndef for composite constants
662   #415: Validator: Phi can use its own value in some cases.
663
664v2016.4 2016-09-01
665 - Relicensed under Apache 2.0
666 - Add optimization passes (in API and spirv-opt command)
667   - Fold spec constants defined with OpSpecConstantOp and
668       OpSpecConstantComposite to normal constants with fixed value(s).
669 - Fixes issues:
670   #318: Relicensed under Apache 2.0
671
672v2016.3 2016-08-24
673 - Add target environment enums for OpenCL 2.1, OpenCL 2.2,
674   OpenGL 4.0, OpenGL 4.1, OpenGL 4.2, OpenGL 4.3, OpenGL 4.5.
675 - Add spirv-cfg, an experimental tool to dump the control flow graph
676   as a GraphiViz "dot" graph
677 - Add optimization pass: Eliminate dead constants.
678 - Add spirv-lesspipe.sh filter utility
679 - Fixes issues:
680   #288: Check def-use dominance rules for OpPhi (variable,parent) operands
681   #339: Allow OpUndef in types-constants-global-vars section, as required
682     by SPIR-V 1.0 Rev7, 1.1 Rev 3.
683   #340: Avoid race on mkdir during build
684   #365: Relax PointSize, ClipDistance, CullDistance capability check in all
685     environments not just Vulkan 1.0.
686
687v2016.2 2016-08-05
688 - Validator is incomplete
689   - Checks ID use block is dominated by definition block
690 - Add optimization passes (in API and spirv-opt command)
691   - Strip debug info instructions
692   - Freeze spec constant to their default values
693 - Allow INotEqual as operation for OpSpecConstantOp
694 - Fixes bugs:
695   #270: validator: crash when continue construct is unreachable
696   #279: validator: infinite loop when analyzing some degenerate control
697     flow graphs
698   #286: validator: don't incorrectly generate def-use error for
699         (variable,parent) parameters to OpPhi
700   #290: disassembler: never generate bare % for an identifier
701   #295: validator: def-use dominance check should ignore unreachable uses
702   #276: validator: allow unreachable continue constructs
703   #297: validator: allow an unreachable block to branch to a reachable
704         merge block
705
706v2016.1 2016-07-19
707 - Fix https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Tools/issues/261
708   Turn off ClipDistance and CullDistance capability checks for Vulkan.
709 - The disassembler can emit friendly names based on debug info (OpName
710   instructions), and will infer somewhat friendly names for most types.
711   This is turned on by default for the spirv-dis command line tool.
712 - Updated to support SPIR-V 1.1 rev 2
713   - Input StorageClass, Sampled1D capability, and SampledBuffer capability
714     do not require Shader capability anymore.
715
716v2016.0 2016-07-04
717
718 - Adds v<year>.<index> versioning, with "-dev" indicating
719   work in progress.  The intent is to more easly report
720   and summarize functionality when SPIRV-Tools is incorporated
721   in downstream projects.
722
723 - Summary of functionality (See the README.md for more):
724   - Supports SPIR-V 1.1 Rev 1
725   - Supports SPIR-V 1.0 Rev 5
726   - Supports GLSL std450 extended instructions 1.0 Rev 3
727   - Supports OpenCL extended instructions 1.0 Rev 2
728   - Assembler, disassembler are complete
729     - Supports floating point widths of 16, 32, 64 bits
730     - Supports integer widths up to 64 bits
731   - Validator is incomplete
732     - Checks capability requirements in most cases
733     - Checks module layout constraints
734     - Checks ID use-definition ordering constraints,
735       ignoring control flow
736     - Checks some control flow graph rules
737   - Optimizer is introduced, with few available transforms.
738   - Supported on Linux, OSX, Android, Windows
739
740 - Fixes bugs:
741   - #143: OpenCL pow and pown arguments
742