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# Tint changes during Origin Trial
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## Changes for M99
### Deprecated Features
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The following features have been deprecated and will be removed in M102:
* The `[[block]]` attribute has been deprecated. [tint:1324 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1324 )
* `elseif` has been replaced with `else if` [tint:1289 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1289 )
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### New Features
* Vector and matrix element type can now be inferred from constructor argument types. [tint:1334 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1334 )
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* Added builtins `degrees()` and `radians()` for converting between degrees and radians. [tint:1329 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1329 )
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* `let` arrays and matrices can now be dynamically indexed. [tint:1352 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1352 )
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### Fixes
* Fixed an issue where for-loops that contain array or structure constructors in the loop initializer statements, condition expressions or continuing statements could fail to compile. [tint:1364 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1364 )
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## Changes for M98
### Breaking Changes
* Taking the address of a vector component is no longer allowed.
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* Module-scope declarations can no longer alias a builtin name. [tint:1318 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1318 )
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* It is now an error to call a function either directly or transitively, from a loop continuing block, that uses `discard` . [tint:1302 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1302 )
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### Deprecated Features
* The `isNan()` , `isInf()` , `isFinite()` and `isNormal()` builtins has been deprecated and will be removed in M101. [tint:1312 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1312 )
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### New Features
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* New texture gather builtins: `textureGather()` and `textureGatherCompare()` . [tint:1330 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1330 )
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* Shadowing is now fully supported. [tint:819 ](https://crbug.com/tint/819 )
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* The `dot()` builtin now supports integer vector types.
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* Identifiers can now start with a single leading underscore. [tint:1292 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1292 )
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* Control flow analysis has been improved, and functions no longer need to `return` if the statement is unreachable. [tint:1302 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1302 )
* Unreachable statements now produce a warning instead of an error, to allow WGSL code to be updated to the new analysis behavior. These warnings may become errors in the future [gpuweb#2378 ](https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/2378 )
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### Fixes
* Fixed an issue where using a module-scoped `let` in a `workgroup_size` may result in a compilation error. [tint:1320 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1320 )
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## Changes for M97
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### Breaking Changes
* Deprecated `modf()` and `frexp()` builtin overloads that take a pointer second parameter have been removed.
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* Deprecated texture builtin functions that accepted a `read` access controlled storage texture have been removed.
* Storage textures must now only use the `write` access control.
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### Deprecated Features
* The `ignore()` builtin has been replaced with phony-assignment. [gpuweb#2127 ](https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/pull/2127 )
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### New Features
* `any()` and `all()` now support a `bool` parameter. These simply return the passed argument. [tint:1253 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1253 )
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* Call statements may now include functions that return a value (`ignore()` is no longer needed).
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* The `interpolate(flat)` attribute can now be specified on integral user-defined IO. It will eventually become an error to define integral user-defined IO without this attribute.
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* Matrix construction from scalar element values is now supported.
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### Fixes
* Swizzling of `vec3` types in `storage` and `uniform` buffers has been fixed for Metal 1.x. [tint:1249 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1249 )
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* Calling a function that returns an unused value no longer produces an FXC compilation error. [tint:1259 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1259 )
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* `abs()` fixed for unsigned integers on SPIR-V backend
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## Changes for M95
### New Features
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* The size of an array can now be defined using a non-overridable module-scope constant
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* The `num_workgroups` builtin is now supported.
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### Fixes
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* Hex floats: now correctly errors when the magnitude is non-zero, and the exponent would cause overflow. [tint:1150 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1150 ), [tint:1166 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1166 )
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* Identifiers beginning with an underscore are now correctly rejected. [tint:1179 ](https://crbug.com/tint/1179 )