[Piglit] [PATCH] Add GLSL tests for loops with function calls that have side-effects.

[Jose Fonseca]

----- Original Message -----
> On 03/23/2012 03:49 AM, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
> > On 03/23/2012 12:03 AM, Jose Fonseca wrote:
> > [snip]
> >>> Ian,
> >>>
> >>> The loop analysis code currently doesn't take calls into account
> >>> whatsoever, which is clearly wrong. Any ideas on the best way to
> >>> fix
> >>> it?
> >>
> >> I think that, before a loop is unrolled, any inner calls should be
> >> inlined. I don't any correctness/performance reason to do any
> >> differently.
> >>
> >> Jose
> >
> > Yeah, I think "don't unroll if there are function calls" is the
> > right
> > answer. Inlining first would make unrolling happen in most cases.
> > We can
> > always improve on that later.
> 
> I don't think we have to go that far.  I think:
> 
> 1. Mark any out or inout parameter as being assigned (in the loop).
> 2. Mark any globals as being assigned.
> 
> That should put a bandaid on it.

Sounds a perfectly good bandaid.

But I guess I still don't understand why we'd ever want to unroll a loop that contain function calls. If the call is not worth to inline, then what's the point of unrolling the loop?

Jose