Flight Log / shader-slang/slang #7739
Fix WGSL sign function to return correct int type instead of float — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in shader-slang/slang on Jul 12, 2025; merged clean in 4.2 d, merged by @csyonghe: +35 −4, 3 files, 5 reviews.
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GitHub Copilot was assigned a fix in shader-slang/slang so the WGSL target maps Slang's sign() to an int result instead of WGSL's float-returning sign(). The change touched three files with 35 additions and four deletions across four commits. The pull request merged after 100.45 hours with no change requests.
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The WGSL target was incorrectly mapping Slang's `sign()` function directly to WGSL's native `sign()` function, which returns `float` instead of the expected `int` type. This caused compilation errors when assigning the result to integer variables. **Problem:** ```slang int foo = sign(0.0); // Erro…
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Cite this flight: AgentRiders Flight Log, shader-slang/slang#7739, record updated Nov 3, 2026, https://agentriders.com/logs/shader-slang/slang/7739/
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