Mesa (master): glsl: Update README talking about multi-instruction operations.
Eric Anholt
anholt at kemper.freedesktop.org
Thu Sep 9 01:10:11 UTC 2010
Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: e04f90712d8e04ce9d2fee46d0cccf818432c7d9
URL: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=e04f90712d8e04ce9d2fee46d0cccf818432c7d9
Author: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
Date: Wed Sep 8 17:49:10 2010 -0700
glsl: Update README talking about multi-instruction operations.
The previous thing taking multiple instructions ended up being handled
at the IR level, as we suggested would be the common result. Pick a
new one.
---
src/glsl/README | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/glsl/README b/src/glsl/README
index 2e501d6..7e97b48 100644
--- a/src/glsl/README
+++ b/src/glsl/README
@@ -156,10 +156,10 @@ for the 965 fragment shader backend when that is developed.
Q: How should I expand instructions that take multiple backend instructions?
Sometimes you'll have to do the expansion in your code generation --
-see, for example, ir_to_mesa.cpp's handling of ir_binop_mul for
-matrices. However, in many cases you'll want to do a pass over the IR
-to convert non-native instructions to a series of native instructions.
-For example, for the Mesa backend we have ir_div_to_mul_rcp.cpp because
+see, for example, ir_to_mesa.cpp's handling of ir_unop_sqrt. However,
+in many cases you'll want to do a pass over the IR to convert
+non-native instructions to a series of native instructions. For
+example, for the Mesa backend we have ir_div_to_mul_rcp.cpp because
Mesa IR (and many hardware backends) only have a reciprocal
instruction, not a divide. Implementing non-native instructions this
way gives the chance for constant folding to occur, so (a / 2.0)
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