HLSL allows implicit conversions to truncate vectors to scalar
pr-values. These conversions are scored as vector truncations and should
warn appropriately.
This change allows forming a truncation cast to a pr-value, but not an
l-value. Truncating a vector to a scalar is performed by loading the
first element of the vector and disregarding the remaining elements.
Fixes#102964
This PR reworks HLSL's implicit conversion sequences. Initially I was
seeking to match DXC's behavior more closely, but that was leading to a
pile of special case rules to tie-break ambiguous cases that should
really be left as ambiguous. We've decided that we're going to break
compatibility with DXC here, and we may port this new behavior over to
DXC instead.
This change is a bit closer to C++'s overload resolution rules, but it
does have a bit of nuance around how dimension adjustment conversions
are ranked. Conversion sequence ranks for HLSL are:
* Exact match
* Scalar Widening (i.e. splat)
* Promotion
* Scalar Widening with Promotion
* Conversion
* Scalar Widening with Conversion
* Dimension Reduction (i.e. truncation)
* Dimension Reduction with Promotion
* Dimension Reduction with Conversion
In this implementation I've folded the disambiguation into the
conversion sequence ranks which does add some complexity as compared to
C++, however this avoids needing to add special casing in
`CompareStandardConversionSequences`. I believe the added conversion
rank values provide a simpler approach, but feedback is appreciated.
The HLSL language spec updates are in the PR here:
https://github.com/microsoft/hlsl-specs/pull/261
HLSL supports vector truncation and element conversions as part of
standard conversion sequences. The vector truncation conversion is a C++
second conversion in the conversion sequence. If a vector truncation is
in a conversion sequence an element conversion may occur after it before
the standard C++ third conversion.
Vector element conversions can be boolean conversions, floating point or
integral conversions or promotions.
[HLSL Draft
Specification](https://microsoft.github.io/hlsl-specs/specs/hlsl.pdf)
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Co-authored-by: Aaron Ballman <aaron@aaronballman.com>
