Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We allow unsized arrays in most contexts that C would, but they sometimes cause crashes in the compiler and other unexpected behaviors. Unsized arrays also break the basic rules of HLSL parameter passing (which isn't great).
Describe the solution you'd like
We need to design a way to support unsized arrays (or something functionally equivalent) for resource types, but we should remove support for unsized arrays from the language (at least until we support general pointers).
Describe alternatives you've considered
In Clang we're more clearly defining the semantics for unsized arrays which will allow us to avoid some of the bugginess in DXC. We could stick with that approach, but it still leaves the language handling of unsized array parameters to be a bit awkward.
Additional context
See this documentation PR.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We allow unsized arrays in most contexts that C would, but they sometimes cause crashes in the compiler and other unexpected behaviors. Unsized arrays also break the basic rules of HLSL parameter passing (which isn't great).
Describe the solution you'd like
We need to design a way to support unsized arrays (or something functionally equivalent) for resource types, but we should remove support for unsized arrays from the language (at least until we support general pointers).
Describe alternatives you've considered
In Clang we're more clearly defining the semantics for unsized arrays which will allow us to avoid some of the bugginess in DXC. We could stick with that approach, but it still leaves the language handling of unsized array parameters to be a bit awkward.
Additional context
See this documentation PR.