VkPhysicalDeviceVariablePointersFeatures

The VkPhysicalDeviceVariablePointersFeatures structure is defined as:

typedef struct VkPhysicalDeviceVariablePointersFeatures {
    VkStructureType sType;
    void* pNext;
    VkBool32 variablePointersStorageBuffer;
    VkBool32 variablePointers;
} VkPhysicalDeviceVariablePointersFeatures;

or the equivalent

typedef VkPhysicalDeviceVariablePointersFeatures VkPhysicalDeviceVariablePointersFeaturesKHR;

typedef VkPhysicalDeviceVariablePointersFeatures VkPhysicalDeviceVariablePointerFeaturesKHR;

This structure describes the following features:

• sType is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.
• pNext is NULL or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.
• variablePointersStorageBuffer specifies whether the implementation supports the SPIR-V VariablePointersStorageBuffer capability. When this feature is not enabled, shader modules must not declare the SPV_KHR_variable_pointers extension or the VariablePointersStorageBuffer capability.
• variablePointers specifies whether the implementation supports the SPIR-V VariablePointers capability. When this feature is not enabled, shader modules must not declare the VariablePointers capability.

If the VkPhysicalDeviceVariablePointersFeatures structure is included in the pNext chain of the VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2 structure passed to vkGetPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, it is filled in to indicate whether each corresponding feature is supported. If the application wishes to use a VkDevice with any features described by VkPhysicalDeviceVariablePointersFeatures, it must add an instance of the structure, with the desired feature members set to VK_TRUE, to the pNext chain of VkDeviceCreateInfo when creating the VkDevice.