It's main advantage over vkd3d_shader_message_context_copy_messages() is
that it can't fail. The original issue this addresses is that
vkd3d_shader_compile() should free its output when
vkd3d_shader_message_context_copy_messages() fails, as spotted by
Giovanni; that likely would have applied to a number of the other uses
of vkd3d_shader_message_context_copy_messages() as well.
Since the sort index is just a convenience field it is more
appropriate to only set it where it is required, instead of
requiring all frontends and passes to retain sensible values for
it.
This way the same shader is always dumped to the same path and when
launching the same program over and over we avoid both creating new
copies of the same file each time and overwriting different dumped
shaders.
For tpf shader this would previously be a pointer into the original
shader code, and for d3dbc shaders we'd use static strings.
Unfortunately the dxil parser creates shader signatures where these
are pointers to metadata strings, and those go away when we call
sm6_parser_cleanup().
We could conceivably store a flag in the shader signature to indicate
whether shader_signature_cleanup()/vkd3d_shader_free_shader_signature()
should free the "semantic_name" field. It'd be a little ugly, and seems
unlikely to be worth it, but I'd be willing to be convinced.