C Specification

To export the Metal MTLBuffer object underlying a VkDeviceMemory object, include a VkExportMetalBufferInfoEXT structure in the pNext chain of the pMetalObjectsInfo parameter of a vkExportMetalObjectsEXT call.

The VkExportMetalBufferInfoEXT structure is defined as:

// Provided by VK_EXT_metal_objects
typedef struct VkExportMetalBufferInfoEXT {
    VkStructureType    sType;
    const void*        pNext;
    VkDeviceMemory     memory;
    MTLBuffer_id       mtlBuffer;
} VkExportMetalBufferInfoEXT;

Members

  • sType is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

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

  • memory is a VkDeviceMemory.

  • mtlBuffer is the Metal id<MTLBuffer> object underlying the VkDeviceMemory object in memory. The implementation will return the MTLBuffer in this member, or it will return NULL if no MTLBuffer could be found underlying the VkDeviceMemory object.

Description

Valid Usage (Implicit)

  • VUID-VkExportMetalBufferInfoEXT-sType-sType
    sType must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_EXPORT_METAL_BUFFER_INFO_EXT

  • VUID-VkExportMetalBufferInfoEXT-memory-parameter
    memory must be a valid VkDeviceMemory handle

See Also

VK_EXT_metal_objects, VkDeviceMemory, 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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