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<TITLE>Shading Language Support</TITLE>
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<H1>Shading Language Support</H1>
<p>
This page describes the features and status of Mesa's support for the
<a href="http://opengl.org/documentation/glsl/" target="_parent">
OpenGL Shading Language</a>.
</p>
<p>
Last updated on 20 Jan 2007.
</p>
<h2>Unsupported Features</h2>
<p>
The following features of the shading language are not yet supported
in Mesa:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Arrays
<li>Structs
<li>Linking of multiple shaders is not supported
<li>Noise functions
<li>Not all built-in OpenGL state variables are supported yet.
Common variables such as gl_ModelViewMatrix and gl_NormalMatrix
are supported.
<li>Integer operations are not fully implemented (most are implemented
as floating point).
</ul>
<p>
All other major features of the shading language should function.
</p>
<h2>Implementation Notes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Shading language programs are compiled into low-level programs
very similar to those of GL_ARB_vertex/fragment_program.
<li>All float/int/bool and vector types currently occupy full
float[4] registers.
<li>Float constants are packed so that up to four floats can occupy one
program parameter/register.
<li>All function calls are inlined.
<li>Shaders which use too many registers will not compile.
<li>The quality of generated code is pretty good, register usage is fair.
<li>Shader error detection and reporting of errors (InfoLog) is not
very good yet.
<li>There are massive memory leaks in the compiler.
</ul>
<p>
These issues will be addressed/resolved in the future.
</p>
<h2>Programming Hints</h2>
<ul>
<li>Always declare <em>in</em> function parameters as <em>const</em>.
This improves the efficiency of function inlining.
</li>
<br>
<li>To reduce register usage, declare variables within smaller scopes.
For example, the following code:
<pre>
void main()
{
vec4 a1, a2, b1, b2;
gl_Position = expression using a1, a2.
gl_Color = expression using b1, b2;
}
</pre>
Can be rewritten as follows to use half as many registers:
<pre>
void main()
{
{
vec4 a1, a2;
gl_Position = expression using a1, a2.
}
{
vec4 b1, b2;
gl_Color = expression using b1, b2;
}
}
</pre>
Alternately, rather than using several float variables, use
a vec4 instead. Use swizzling and writemasks to access the
components of the vec4 as floats.
</li>
<br>
<li>Use the built-in library functions whenever possible.
For example, instead of writing this:
<pre>
float x = 1.0 / sqrt(y);
</pre>
Write this:
<pre>
float x = inversesqrt(y);
</pre>
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