Timeline for How to pass a 2D array to a function
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| Feb 15 at 18:18 | comment | added | Nathan Reed | In shaders code, typically everything is inlined by the compiler and so all local variables and function parameters are ultimately just stored in registers. There is neither a copy nor a pointer. | |
| Feb 14 at 21:50 | comment | added | jwd | Does this result in a full copy of the array, or is the compiler smart enough to turn it into something like a pointer (even though the language doesn't expose such things directly)? | |
| Feb 28, 2021 at 8:01 | vote | accept | wduk | ||
| Feb 28, 2021 at 8:01 | comment | added | wduk | In my case its groupshared, so i guess i'll just have to use max size. Thats kinda annoying we can't pass by reference of an array but have to define the size in the method arguement, feels like the language could do with some feature improvements. | |
| Feb 27, 2021 at 23:48 | history | answered | Nathan Reed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |