From 6c9c4c71bb80f8f351f294a484f5a5921344c3ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Gutekanst <stephen@hexops.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:51:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] gpu: add ComputePassDescriptor.init slice helper

Signed-off-by: Stephen Gutekanst <stephen@hexops.com>
---
 gpu/README.md     |  1 +
 gpu/src/types.zig | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gpu/README.md b/gpu/README.md
index 20ccdf9f..20d4f4df 100644
--- a/gpu/README.md
+++ b/gpu/README.md
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ And, to initialize data structures with slices in them, the following helpers ar
 * `QuerySet.Descriptor.init`
 * `RenderBundleEncoder.Descriptor.init`
 * `Texture.Descriptor.init`
+* `ComputePassDescriptor.init`
 
 ### Typed callbacks
 
diff --git a/gpu/src/types.zig b/gpu/src/types.zig
index e7c48651..fa0a8a34 100644
--- a/gpu/src/types.zig
+++ b/gpu/src/types.zig
@@ -57,9 +57,22 @@ pub const RequestAdapterOptions = extern struct {
 pub const ComputePassDescriptor = extern struct {
     next_in_chain: ?*const ChainedStruct = null,
     label: ?[*:0]const u8 = null,
-    // TODO: slice helper
     timestamp_write_count: u32 = 0,
     timestamp_writes: ?[*]const ComputePassTimestampWrite = null,
+
+    /// Provides a slightly friendlier Zig API to initialize this structure.
+    pub inline fn init(v: struct {
+        next_in_chain: ?*const ChainedStruct = null,
+        label: ?[*:0]const u8 = null,
+        timestamp_writes: ?[]const ComputePassTimestampWrite = null,
+    }) ComputePassDescriptor {
+        return .{
+            .next_in_chain = v.next_in_chain,
+            .label = v.label,
+            .timestamp_write_count = if (v.timestamp_writes) |e| @intCast(u32, e.len) else 0,
+            .timestamp_writes = if (v.timestamp_writes) |e| e.ptr else null,
+        };
+    }
 };
 
 pub const RenderPassDescriptor = extern struct {