The handling of write masks and swizzles for 64 bit data types is
currently irregular: write masks are always 64 bit, while swizzles
are usually 32 bit, except for SSA registers with are 64 bit.
With this change we always use 64 bit swizzles, in order to make
the situation less surprising and make it easier to convert
registers between SSA and TEMP.
64 bit swizzles are always required to have X in their last two
components.
For example, this occurred in a shader:
reg_idx write_mask
0 xyz
1 xyzw
2 xyzw
3 xyz
The dcl_indexrange instruction covered only xyz, so once merged, searching for
xyzw failed.
It is impossible to declare an input array where elements have different
component counts, but the optimiser can create this case. One way for
this to occur is to dynamically index input values via a local array
containing copies of the input values. The optimiser converts this to
dynamically indexed inputs.
They were originally made const because no optimization/normalization
pass existed. Now having to cast away const all the time is becoming
more and more burdening.