fix: SplitDouble producing transposed output in DXIL

[arnavnagzirkar]

Summary

Root Cause

asuint(double_matrix, out uint_mat lo, out uint_mat hi) produced transposed output in DXIL.

HLSL matrices are stored in registers in row-major order regardless of their declared orientation. Column-major matrices (the default) have their allocas laid out in column-major order so that the column-major subscript/element index formulas work correctly.

TranslateDoubleAsUint in lib/HLSL/HLOperationLower.cpp (line 1876) calls SplitDouble on each element of the input in sequential flat order — i.e. lo_alloca[i] = lo(x[i]) for i=0..N-1 — which matches the row-major in-register order of x. For column-major output allocas the alloca expects elements in column-major order, so the sequential write lands at the wrong logical positions.

The SafeToSkip optimisation in EmitHLSLOutParamConversionInit (CGHLSLMS.cpp line 6347) passes the actual lo/hi allocas directly to the asuint HL intrinsic (no temporary alloca, no copy-back with orientation conversion), so the mismatch is never corrected.

Concrete example (2×2, default column-major):

• In-register x row-major flat order: [m00, m01, m10, m11]
• Column-major lo alloca expects: alloca[0]=lo(m00), alloca[1]=lo(m10), alloca[2]=lo(m01), alloca[3]=lo(m11)
• TranslateDoubleAsUint writes: alloca[0]=lo(m00), alloca[1]=lo(m01), alloca[2]=lo(m10), alloca[3]=lo(m11) ← row-major
• When lo[0] (first row) is read it accesses alloca[0] and alloca[2], getting lo(m00) and lo(m10) — the first column instead of the first row.

Change Made

File: lib/HLSL/HLMatrixLowerPass.cpp

Added a special case for IntrinsicOp::IOP_asuint in HLMatrixLowerPass::lowerHLIntrinsic that handles the 4-argument asuint(opcode, x, lo, hi) form when x is a matrix type and the output pointers are column-major.

Before building the lowered call, the in-register row-major vector for x is transposed to column-major order using HLMatrixType::emitLoweredVectorRowToCol. This ensures that TranslateDoubleAsUint writes lo_alloca[i] = lo(x_colmaj[i]) where x_colmaj is already in column-major order, so each SplitDouble result lands at the correct position in the column-major alloca.

A helper method isColMajorMatrixPtrArg was added to detect whether a matrix pointer argument is backed by a column-major alloca. It does so by inspecting the HL operations that consume the shared underlying lowered pointer through vecToMatStub calls, looking for ColMatSubscript, ColMatElement, ColMatLoad, or ColMatStore opcodes. The fix is a no-op for row-major matrices (the fallback generic lowering path is taken).

Issue

Fixes #8477

Issue URL: #8477

Changes

.../hlsl/intrinsics/cast/asuint_matrix.hlsl        | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+)

Testing

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