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