vidya/crates/renderer/shaders/slang/share/doc/slang/language-reference/08-attributes.md

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Attributes

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vk::spirv_instruction

** SPIR-V only **

This attribute is only available for Vulkan SPIR-V output.

The attribute allows access to SPIR-V intrinsics, by supplying a function declaration with the appropriate signature for the SPIR-V op and no body. The intrinsic takes a single parameter which is the integer value for the SPIR-V op.

In the example below the add function, uses the mechanism to directly use the SPIR-V integer add 'op' which is 128 in this case.

// 128 is OpIAdd in SPIR-V
[[vk::spirv_instruction(128)]]
uint add(uint a, uint b);

RWStructuredBuffer<uint> resultBuffer;

[numthreads(4,1,1)]
void computeMain(uint3 dispatchThreadID : SV_DispatchThreadID)
{
    uint threadId = dispatchThreadID.x;
    resultBuffer[threadId] = add(threadId, threadId);
}