Registered Extension Number

636

Revision

1

Ratification Status

Ratified

Extension and Version Dependencies

API Interactions

  • Interacts with VK_KHR_workgroup_memory_explicit_layout

SPIR-V Dependencies

Contact

Extension Proposal

Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

2025-06-24

Interactions and External Dependencies
Contributors
  • Jeff Bolz, NVIDIA

  • Spencer Fricke, LunarG

Description

This extension adds support for using vector types with more than four components in SPIR-V.

Long vector types are defined by the SPV_EXT_long_vector SPIR-V extension and can be used with the GL_EXT_long_vector GLSL extension.

New Structures

New Enum Constants

New SPIR-V Capabilities

Issues

Version History

  • Revision 1, 2025-06-24 (Jeff Bolz)

    • Initial revisions

See Also

No cross-references are available

Document Notes

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