[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] glsl: Clarify error message about whole-array assignment in GLSL 1.10.

[Eric Anholt]

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:57:31 -0700, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
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> On 09/07/2011 12:51 PM, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > Previously, it would produce:
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> > Failed to compile FS: 0:6(7): error: non-lvalue in assignment
> > 
> > and now it produces:
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> > Failed to compile FS: 0:5(7): error: whole array assignment is not 
> > allowed in GLSL 1.10 or GLSL ES 1.00.
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> > Also, add spec quotation to the two places we have code for array 
> > lvalues in GLSL 1.10.
> 
> There are two places in the code that use is_lvalue.  One is in
> do_assignment, and the other is in match_function_by_name (for out and
> inout parameters).  Since we've already special case handle whole
> arrays in do_assignment, I think we should do the same in
> match_function_by_name and remove array_lvalue.
> 
> In particular, I think we should check that out and inout parameters
> can be arrays when processing the function prototype.  That should be
> valid (and "just work") in everything except desktop GLSL 1.10.  Right?
> 
> That may be a reasonable thing to do as a follow-on patch...

Paul said he needed to do some work on array_lvalue, so I'm leaving that
up to him in a followup patch.  I do agree that just doing it in
function parameter handling sounds better than the way we've got it
wired up today.
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