kingeric1992 wrote: but unable to retrieve it later with
float2 r[8] = {float2(0,0), float2(1,1), ....float2(7,7)};
r = test(r);
Should be:
float2 a[8] = { ... };
float2 b[8] = { ... };
test(a, b);Assigning arrays to each other is tricky, because the values inside could be stored in different registers, meaning a simple copy from one to another does not work. That's why you usually need a loop or explicit assignment of each value inside the array. To properly reflect that in the high level code, array assignment is not supported by the language directly, as it would introduce a lot more boilerplate code behind the scenes that one would not guess from looking just at the high level code.
Samplers arrays are a similar story. They would only be possible if the array index is known at compile time:
sampler samplers[5];
tex2D(samplers[2], ...);
The following would not work due to the same register restrictions:
sampler samplers[5];
int i = ...;
tex2D(samplers[i], ...);
That however makes the whole sampler array thing a little useless, which is why I decided to simply not have the language support them at all back then.
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