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Loader versioning

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by reviewing the two zeLoaderInit signatures cited in the issue and the Level Zero API and loader specification. Determine the intended zeLoaderGetVersion contract and compatibility behavior; done requires an agreed API design rather than only a localized edit.

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Description

In 1.5.0 release, the signature of zeLoaderInit was changed, but there does not exist a way currently to determine what version of this symbol the library is exporting.

For reference here are the two versions of this symbol somebody might encounter:

ZE_DLLEXPORT ze_result_t ZE_APICALL zeLoaderInit();

ZE_DLLEXPORT ze_result_t ZE_APICALL zeLoaderInit(ze_init_flags_t flags);

There should exist a zeLoaderGetVersion API call to programmatically determine the loader version to ensure a correct call with the right signature can be made.

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