{"id":2602,"date":"2020-09-15T11:02:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T17:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2025-01-15T18:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:03:18","slug":"error-reporting-improvements-for-validation-layers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/error-reporting-improvements-for-validation-layers\/","title":{"rendered":"Error Reporting Improvements for Vulkan Validation Layers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Vulkan validation layers provide important information about the behavior and correctness of applications, and it is important that validation transfers this information to the user as clearly, usefully, and completely as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Community feedback, received through LunarXchange, Github, and Vulkan Ecosystem Surveys have highlighted several areas for improvement and we have recently turned our focus towards updating the layer messaging systems. Read on for more information about these improvements and a link to our new white paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Recent Improvements<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LunarG has created a white paper to introduce several recent improvements and additions to Validation layer messaging:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VUID-Annotated specifications in SDKs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Returning Relevant Vulkan Objects in Debug Callback<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unique Message Identifiers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plain-text Object Types and Names<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Message Filtering<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Message Repetition Limit<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Final-ValidationLayerErrorReportingImprovements_08_20.pdf\">Click here for a copy of this <em>Validation Layer Error Reporting Improvements<\/em> white paper.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>More information about LunarG<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>LunarG&#8217;s software engineering experts create innovative products and services for open source and commercial customers using leading-edge 3D graphics and compute technologies, including Vulkan, OpenXR, SPIR-V, and OpenGL. We have strengths in performance analysis and tuning, runtime and tools development, shader optimizations, driver development, and porting engines and applications to Vulkan. Our software engineering team is based in Fort Collins, Colorado. LunarG was founded by software experts who are passionate about 3D graphics.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/\">LunarG, <strong>please check out our new website.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vulkan validation layers provide important information about the behavior and correctness of applications, and it is important that validation transfers this information to the user as clearly, usefully, and completely as possible. 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