Ecma TC57 - HLSL

TC57 Meeting Agenda: 2026/05/26


Agenda for the:	6th meeting of Ecma TC57
held in:	Zoom (virtual)
on:	26 May 2026


Chair:	Chris Bieneman (Microsoft)
Vice-chair:	Farzon Lotfi (Microsoft)
Secretary:	Aki Braun (Ecma International), Samina Husain (Ecma International)

1 Welcome, opening and meeting logistics

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2 Approval of the minutes of the [virtual] meeting of 12 May 2026

3 Review of the agenda

4 Editorial Board Report

Merged PR to add grammar reference (https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/46)
Merged Docker configuration for website and spec builds (https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/40)

5 Review New Proposals

6 Discussions

Roadmap View - https://github.com/orgs/hlsl-tc57/projects/1/
Review and merge:
- Basic Concepts Clause - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/23
- Conversions Clause - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/24
- Expressions Clause - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/35
- Declarations Clause - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/37
Stage Advancements - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/50
- 202x removals to Refinement - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/blob/main/proposals/0004-202x-removals.md
- cbuffer contexts to Refinement - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/blob/main/proposals/0005-cbuffer-contexts.md
- restricted unbound arrays to Refinement - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/blob/main/proposals/0006-restricted-unbound-arrays.md
Literals Specification Language - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/52
- C23 Suffixes - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/issues/31
- asfloat16 overloads - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/issues/32
Proposal for blog/newsletter site - @llvm-beanz
For 2026-06-09:
- New Proposal - Memory and Execution Model - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/47
- New Proposal - Numeric Constants - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/48
- New Proposal - hlsl namespace - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/49
- New Proposal - Modern C++ - https://github.com/hlsl-tc57/tc57/pull/51

7 Conclusions & Next Meeting