C Specification

The VkPipelineBinaryInfoKHR structure is defined as:

// Provided by VK_KHR_pipeline_binary
typedef struct VkPipelineBinaryInfoKHR {
    VkStructureType               sType;
    const void*                   pNext;
    uint32_t                      binaryCount;
    const VkPipelineBinaryKHR*    pPipelineBinaries;
} VkPipelineBinaryInfoKHR;

Members

  • sType is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

  • pNext is NULL or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

  • binaryCount is the number of elements in the pPipelineBinaries array.

  • pPipelineBinaries is a pointer to an array of VkPipelineBinaryKHR handles.

Description

If a VkPipelineBinaryInfoKHR structure with a binaryCount greater than 0 is included in the pNext chain of any Vk*PipelineCreateInfo structure when creating a pipeline, implementations must use the data in pPipelineBinaries instead of recalculating it. Any shader module identifiers, shader modules, or chained VkShaderModuleCreateInfo structures declared in VkPipelineShaderStageCreateInfo instances, are ignored. Any VkShaderDescriptorSetAndBindingMappingInfoEXT in the pNext chains of VkPipelineShaderStageCreateInfo instances are ignored.

If this structure is not included in the pNext chain, it is equivalent to specifying this structure with a binaryCount of 0.

Valid Usage
Valid Usage (Implicit)

See Also

VK_KHR_pipeline_binary, VkPipelineBinaryKHR, VkStructureType

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification.

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

Copyright

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