[Mesa-dev] [RFC PATCH 29/65] tgsi: add new Bindless flag to tgsi_instruction_texture

Mon May 22 17:06:06 UTC 2017

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Samuel Pitoiset
<samuel.pitoiset at gmail.com> wrote:
> Old-style images are identified using TGSI_FILE_SAMPLER, but
> bindless samplers can be TGSI_FILE_CONSTANT or TGSI_FILE_TEMPORARY.
>
> To avoid backend compilers to be confused, this adds a new flag
> that will only be set for bindless samplers.

Sorry, I don't understand it. Why is it necessary? It seems to me that
this is enough to tell whether the sampler is bindless: File !=
TGSI_FILE_SAMPLER && File != TGSI_FILE_IMAGE.

Marek