Hello,

I have a vertex shader that looks like this:

struct Pixel
{
	float4 hposition : SV_Position;
	float2 texcoord : TexCoord;
};

Pixel vs_outputToScreen(uint index : SV_VertexID)
{
	float2 positions[4] =
	{
		float2(-1.0f, -1.0f),
		float2(-1.0f, 1.0f),
		float2(1.0f, -1.0f),
		float2(1.0f, 1.0f)
	};
	float2 texcoords[4] =
	{
		float2(0.0f, 1.0f),
		float2(0.0f, 0.0f),
		float2(1.0f, 1.0f),
		float2(1.0f, 0.0f)
	};
	Pixel pixel;
	pixel.hposition = float4(positions[index], 0, 1.0f);
	pixel.texcoord = texcoords[index];
	return pixel;
}

Granted its nothing spectacular...

If I add "const" to the declaration of "positions[4]" and "texcoords[4]", the shader still compiles but I get a crash when I try to build a pipeline state with it.

Here's the asm listing of both versions:

without "const" (14 instructions)

vs_5_1
dcl_globalFlags refactoringAllowed
dcl_input_sgv v0.x, vertex_id
dcl_output_siv o0.xyzw, position
dcl_output o1.xy
dcl_temps 1
dcl_indexableTemp x0[4], 4
dcl_indexableTemp x1[4], 4
mov x0[0].xy, l(-1.000000,-1.000000,0,0)
mov x0[1].xy, l(-1.000000,1.000000,0,0)
mov x0[2].xy, l(1.000000,-1.000000,0,0)
mov x0[3].xy, l(1.000000,1.000000,0,0)
mov x1[0].xy, l(0,1.000000,0,0)
mov x1[1].xy, l(0,0,0,0)
mov x1[2].xy, l(1.000000,1.000000,0,0)
mov x1[3].xy, l(1.000000,0,0,0)
mov r0.x, v0.x
mov o0.xy, x0[r0.x + 0].xyxx
mov o1.xy, x1[r0.x + 0].xyxx
mov o0.zw, l(0,0,0,1.000000)
ret 

with "const" (5 instructions)

vs_5_1
dcl_globalFlags refactoringAllowed
dcl_immediateConstantBuffer { { -1.000000, -1.000000, 0, 1.000000},
                              { -1.000000, 1.000000, 0, 0},
                              { 1.000000, -1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000},
                              { 1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000, 0} }
dcl_input_sgv v0.x, vertex_id
dcl_output_siv o0.xyzw, position
dcl_output o1.xy
dcl_temps 1
mov r0.x, v0.x
mov o0.xy, icb[r0.x + 0].xyxx
mov o0.zw, l(0,0,0,1.000000)
mov o1.xy, icb[r0.x + 0].zwzz
ret 

I should mention that the crash is only when I build on my laptop that is using a gtx970m. I get no crash on my desktop pc running a gtx680.

I have the validation layers on but the only thing I get is this:

"Exception thrown at 0x00007FFB043BF14C (D3D12.dll) in app.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x0000000000000018"

Any ideas?

Thats it!

I didn't know that was the signature of the Intel HD Graphics drivers.

I forced my nVidia driver to use the GTX 970m and the problem is fixed.

I haven't updated my Intel HD Graphics drivers for a while. (20.19.15.4331)

Ill update the Intel drivers and try again.

Edit:

The problem is fixed with Intel HD Graphics drivers (20.19.15.4424)