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HLSL IR Reference
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Introduction
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The goal of this document is to provide a reference for all the special purpose
IR metadata and attributes used by the HLSL code generation path.
Function Attributes
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``hlsl.shader``
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The ``hlsl.shader`` function attribute is a string attribute applied to entry
functions. The value is the string representation of the shader stage (i.e.
``compute``, ``pixel``, etc).