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mesh-output-decl-exceeds-256

Status: stub. The full-length analysis is queued for a v1.0.x patch release per ADR 0018, section 5, criterion #6. The companion rule page at docs/rules/mesh-output-decl-exceeds-256.md contains the canonical detection logic + GPU reasoning.

TL;DR

Mesh-shader output buffers live in a fixed per-group slot allocated by the pipeline at workgroup launch time. On NVIDIA Turing and Ada Lovelace, the per-group output region is sized for 256 vertices and 256 primitives multiplied by the configured per-vertex output stride. On AMD RDNA 2/3, the mesh shader writes through a primitive-shader pipeline that uses an LDS-resident output region carved at the same cap. Intel Xe-HPG (Arc Alchemist, Battlemage) implements the same 256/256 ceiling as part of its mesh-pipeline conformance to the D3D12 spec.

What the rule fires on

A mesh-shader entry point whose out vertices or out indices array declarations exceed 256 elements in either dimension. The D3D12 mesh-pipeline specification caps both per-group output declarations at 256: a maximum of 256 vertices and 256 primitives. The rule constant-folds the array size literals on the out vertices / out indices parameters and fires when either exceeds 256 on a function annotated [shader("mesh")].

See the What it detects section of the rule page for the full pattern definition.

Why it matters

The full GPU-mechanism analysis lives in the Why it matters on a GPU section of the companion rule page.

Examples

The bad / good code snippets are kept canonical on the rule page; see mesh-output-decl-exceeds-256.md -> Examples.

See also


This is a v1.0-ship stub. Full analysis pending; track issue link TBD.

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