The #line directive behaves differently on GLSL < 330. Who would have
thought. Another "fun" implication is that I didn't notice this until
now -- seems like I didn't really write any shader since that
needed compatibility with old GL since 2012?? Heh.
The whole time I thought this class doesn't need such APIs due to being
rather short-lived. But now with async shader compilation it's no longer
so short-lived.
There's no reason for those to exist anymore -- origiinally they were
added in a hopeful attempt to make use of parallel shader compilation,
but in practice that meant compiling at most two or three shaders at
once and still stalling until that was done, so not that great at all.
The new APIs provide much better opportunities for parallelism.
Fun fact:
CORRADE_INTERNAL_ASSERT_OUTPUT(vert.compile() && frag.compile());
is actually one character shorter than
CORRADE_INTERNAL_ASSERT_OUTPUT(GL::Shader::compile({vert, frag}));
so not even typing convenience would be a reason to keep these.
The new async APIs were just checking the link status, and printing the
linker error. Because drivers commonly do all that in a single step,
without really separating compilation from linking (or at least that's
what I thought?), I assumed the linker error would contain *also* the
compilation error, if any.
But on a quick check with Mesa that's not the case, I only get "error:
linking with uncompiled/unspecialized shader", which is very useless.
Which means, to get proper error output, the checkLink() function now
explicitly takes a list of the input shaders. It will unconditionally go
through them at the beginning and call checkCompile() on each.
To further encourage the shaders to be passed, there's no default
argument -- so if the application calls checkCompile() on its own for
some reason, it has to pass an empty list to checkLink().
All the tests were updated to explicitly check that non-null-terminated
strings get handled properly (the GL label APIs have an explicit size,
so it *should*, but just in case). Also, because various subclasses
override the setter to return correct type for method chaining and the
override has to be deinlined to avoid relying on a StringView include,
the tests are now explicitly done for each leaf class, instead of the
subclass
The <string> being removed from the base class for all GL objects may
affect downstream projects which relied on it being included. In case of
Magnum, the breakages were already fixed in the previous commit.
Compile time improvement for the MagnumGL library alone is 0.2 second or
4% (6.1 seconds before, 5.9 after). Not bad, given that there's three
more files to compile and strings are still heavily used in other GL
debug output APIs and all shader stuff. For a build of just the GL
library and all tests, it goes down from 28.9 seconds to 28.1. Most
tests also still rely quite heavily on std::stringstream for debug
output testing, so the numbers still could go further.
This was done silently until now and I think such platform-specific code
should be always exposed as a disableable workaround. Moreover, I need a
similar thing for ANGLE, so this comes handy.
Deprecated for 2018.04, it's been almost a year since. Whoever is using
Magnum regularly updated already, and who not can always upgrade
gradually (2018.02, 2018.04, 2018.10, 2019.01 etc.).
What's left is *a lot* of places taking monstrous
std::vector<std::reference_wrapper> and that can't be changed to
std::vector<Containers::Reference> in a source-compatible way. Even that
would be only a temporary change, since the goal is to fully avoid
dependency on STL in those cases.
The final version of these APIs should take
Containers::ArrayView<Containers::Reference> and be implicitly
convertible froom e.g. std::vector<Containers::Reference>. That's
definitely possible, but not in time for 2019.01, so instead of forcing
users to temporary pass a `{vec.begin(), vec.size()}` everywhere instead
of just `vec`, I'm rather keeping these APIs intact.
At the moment just the GL library itself w/o the tests, and without
backwards compatibility aliases. The following types were left in the
root namespace, despite being in the GL/ directory, as they will get
moved back soon:
* Image, CompressedImage and their dimensional typedefs
* ImageView, CompressedImageView and their dimensional typedefs
* PixelStorage
Not PixelFormat etc., that one will stay in the GL namespace and a
completely new PixelFormat enum will be provided in the root namespace.
Minimal updates (just the include guards) so Git is hopefully able to
detect the rename and track the history properly.
Everything except Magnum::GL doesn't compile now.
Followup to previous commit -- links to opengl.org are now redirected to
khronos.org and the extension links have the same format for both GL and
GLES. That allows me to remove some of the Doxygen aliases and use just
a single set of the functions for both GL and GLES.
In most cases the label is set directly from code, e.g.:
texture.setLabel("diffuse-duck");
Avoiding conversion to std::string and passing char(&)[size] directly
will avoid one allocation and deallocation. Better solution would be to
use std::string_view everywhere, but we're not in C++17 yet.
It makes sense, but this ordering also helps to avoid bug in Doxygen
1.8.6+ which merges next non-xrefitem section with the previous one (so
e.g. the TODO list contained the following @see block, which is not
desired).
Vladimír Vondruš