Gateware: the first month

Two weeks have passed since my last post, making the total time working in Gateware one month!! In the past two weeks I have worked on various things, including finishing up the derive a plane from a given point + normal, and also fixed an issue where the GVulkanSurface test for checking for compute queue support was failing.

Starting with the math function implementation, I was able to finish of the function and unit testing in the first few days following my last post. The main thing I had left to write and clean up was the unit testing itself. Following that the merge request went into code review and after getting some feedback I cleaned up the function itself by removing a redundant magnitude check and changing the formatting a bit for clarity. I also added more fail tests to cover more cases to ensure a full test suite for the function.

After that, another code review left me with some changes I forgot to make to the Doxygen documentation, which was luckily really quick, and then the merge request was approved!

After that was successfully merged, I started work on a new issue, which was GVulkanSurface not allowing compute queue support. The test was already written to check, but it was crashing. There were two main problems in the code, firstly there was a cleanup call at the end of the create function that was deallocating everything, which was causing GetDevice to fail. After commenting that out, the GetDevice succeeded, I was able to identify the next problem. The queueFamilyIndex was being used without being initialized. This was causing problems because it was being used to get the index of an array. Luckily, the fix for this was simple! I just needed to add a for loop to loop through the queueFamilyCount and then set the queueFamilyIndex equal to the current iteration and then it was able to be successfully used. The test was now running with no crashes and succeeding.

And that has been the past two weeks! I am now going to be working on actually adding the compute queues and so look out for that in another two weeks!