Re: [PATCH v5 0/11] MR436: Draft: vkd3d-shader/dxil: Implement the DXIL CAST instruction.

[Giovanni Mascellani (＠giomasce)]

On Fri Nov  3 13:46:22 2023 +0000, Conor McCarthy wrote:
> `ssa_data_type` is the type of the value declared with this ssa id,
> while `data_type` in source registers is the required type of the
> register, which may be different from the declaration, i.e. we can force
> a bitcast by changing `data_type`. For other register types we use
> `spirv_compiler_get_register_info()` to get the declaration type.

I'd rather introduce some kind of `bitcast` VSIR operator, rather than introducing an ad-hoc solution that only works for SSA registers and add some complexity to `vkd3d_shader_register` (not a lot of complexity, yes, but that structure is used all over the place).