Struct BufferBinding

pub struct BufferBinding<'a, B: DynBuffer + ?Sized> {
    pub buffer: &'a B,
    pub offset: BufferAddress,
    pub size: Option<BufferSize>,
}

A region of a buffer made visible to shaders via a BindGroup.

Accessible region

wgpu_hal guarantees that shaders compiled with ShaderModuleDescriptor::runtime_checks set to true cannot read or write data via this binding outside the accessible region of buffer:

• The accessible region starts at offset.

• For Storage bindings, the size of the accessible region is size, which must be a multiple of 4.

• For Uniform bindings, the size of the accessible region is size rounded up to the next multiple of Alignments::uniform_bounds_check_alignment.

Note that this guarantee is stricter than WGSL’s requirements for out-of-bounds accesses, as WGSL allows them to return values from elsewhere in the buffer. But this guarantee is necessary anyway, to permit wgpu-core to avoid clearing uninitialized regions of buffers that will never be read by the application before they are overwritten. This optimization consults bind group buffer binding regions to determine which parts of which buffers shaders might observe. This optimization is only sound if shader access is bounds-checked.

Fields

buffer: &'a B

The buffer being bound.

offset: BufferAddress

The offset at which the bound region starts.

This must be less than the size of the buffer. Some back ends cannot tolerate zero-length regions; for example, see VUID-VkDescriptorBufferInfo-offset-00340 and VUID-VkDescriptorBufferInfo-range-00341, or the documentation for GLES’s glBindBufferRange.

size: Option<BufferSize>

The size of the region bound, in bytes.

If None, the region extends from offset to the end of the buffer. Given the restrictions on offset, this means that the size is always greater than zero.

Implementations

impl<'a> BufferBinding<'a, dyn DynBuffer>

pub fn expect_downcast<B: DynBuffer>(self) -> BufferBinding<'a, B>

Trait Implementations

impl<'a, T: DynBuffer + ?Sized> Clone for BufferBinding<'a, T>

fn clone(&self) -> Self

Returns a duplicate of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl<'a, B: Debug + DynBuffer + ?Sized> Debug for BufferBinding<'a, B>

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.