Template type on struct breaks this pointer (hlsl-2021)

[Jasper-Bekkers]

template<typename T>
struct SimpleBuffer {
    uint handle;

    T Load() {
        ByteAddressBuffer buf = ResourceDescriptorHeap[this.handle];
        return (T)0;
    }
};

[numthreads(1,1,1)]
void main() {
    SimpleBuffer<uint> b;
    b.Load();
}

Regular structs with this in their methods (with access through the . operator) do work, however, once a template argument is introduced DXC yields this error message:

dxc -Tcs_6_6 -Emain -enable-templates test_bindless.hlsl

test_bindless.hlsl:6:60: error: member reference type 'SimpleBuffer<unsigned int> *' is a pointer; did you mean to use '->'?
        ByteAddressBuffer buf = ResourceDescriptorHeap[this.handle];
                                                       ~~~~^
                                                           ->
test_bindless.hlsl:14:7: note: in instantiation of member function 'SimpleBuffer<unsigned int>::Load' requested here
    b.Load();

[Jasper-Bekkers]

@tcorringham You may be interested in this

[ghostplant]

@j-dahl Is CS_6_0 supporting template function? Why does my following implementations failed to compile?

template <class T> T subfunc(T x) { return x * x; }

I am using runtime API instead of dxc.exe like this:

m_pCompiler->Compile(pSrcBlob.Get(), L"ShaderFile", entryName, profile, NULL, 0, NULL, 0, NULL, &pResult)

Is it possible to pass -enable-templates to the API above?

[Jasper-Bekkers]

@ghostplant at the moment template support is very experimental and requires you to be on a separate branch (and have -enable-templates turned on). This issue concerns that branch (and is an actual compiler bug) so it may be best not to reply to it with general support questions since that might distract from the actual issue.

[ghostplant]

Thanks, can you estimate when template-supported DXC can be ported into Visual Studio's SDK plugin? Currently I found that generating all-type functions is painful.