Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] MR744: vkd3d-shader/hlsl: Improve SM1 support for non-float operations, part 5.

[Zebediah Figura (＠zfigura)]

On Mon Apr  1 22:26:31 2024 +0000, Zebediah Figura wrote:
> Personally I think all these sm1-specific lowering passes are not ideal.
> I would assert that we should just be translating one instruction into
> multiple instructions when generating the IR. This is simpler than
> writing HLSL lowering passes, it avoids the need for some basically
> backend-specific ops like OP3_CMP, and it reduces the amount of
> backend-specific logic in the core HLSL compiler, or at least moves it
> closer to the end.

And for things like enum hlsl_base_type, i.e. float vs int/bool, that means we explicitly handle those, probably on a per-instr/per-expr basis, in write_sm1_instructions().