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WGSL: Unrestricted Pointer Parameters #296

Closed Kangz closed 8 months ago

Kangz commented 9 months ago

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Title of the spec

WGSL: Unrestricted Pointer Parameters

URL to the spec

https://www.w3.org/TR/WGSL/

URL to the spec's repository

https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/

Issue Tracker URL

https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues

Explainer URL

https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/3546

TAG Design Review URL

N/A

Mozilla standards-positions issue URL

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/951

WebKit Bugzilla URL

No response

Radar URL

No response

Description

Functionality added to the WebGPU/WGSL spec after its first shipment in a browser. Loosens restrictions on which pointers can be passed to WGSL functions such that pointers to storage/uniform/workgroup address spaces are allowed.

mwyrzykowski commented 8 months ago

Duplicate of https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/107 per earlier discussion