Another thought; the same changed are probably needed for the vertprog code. I
think there are also a lot of bugs there.


On 3/18/07, Oliver McFadden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This patch seems to break one of my longer fragment programs. I believe this
> is
> because it's running out of registers, but I haven't looked into it in
> detail
> yet.
>
> I think this patch should be committed, but directly followed by a patch to
> reduce the number of registers used.
>
>
> On 3/18/07, Nicolai Haehnle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There were a number of bugs related to the pairing of vector and
> > scalar operations where swizzles ended up using the wrong source
> > register, or an instruction was moved forward and ended up overwriting
> > an aliased register.
> >
> > The new algorithm for register allocation is slightly conservative and
> > may run out of registers before it's strictly necessary. On the plus
> > side, it Just Works.
> >
> > Pairing of instructions is done whenever possible, and in more cases
> > than before, so in practice this change should be a net win.
> >
> > The patch mostly fixes glean/texCombine. One remaining problem is that
> > the code duplicates constants and parameters all over the place and
> > therefore quickly runs out of resources and falls back to software.
> > I'm going to look into that as well.
> >
> > Please test and commit this patch. If you notice any regressions,
> > please tell me (but the tests are looking good).
> >
> > ~Nicolai
> >
>

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