// Copyright (c) 2014-2016 Khronos Group. This work is licensed under a
// Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License; see
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VkBufferView(3)
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Name
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VkBufferView - Opaque handle to a buffer view object

C Specification
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// refBegin VkBufferView - Opaque handle to a buffer view object

A _buffer view_ represents a contiguous range of a buffer and a specific
format to be used to interpret the data. Buffer views are used to enable
shaders to access buffer contents interpreted as formatted data. In order to
create a valid buffer view, the buffer must: have been created with at least
one of the following usage flags:

  * ename:VK_BUFFER_USAGE_UNIFORM_TEXEL_BUFFER_BIT
  * ename:VK_BUFFER_USAGE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFER_BIT

Buffer views are represented by sname:VkBufferView handles:

include::../handles/VkBufferView.txt[]


Description
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// refEnd VkBufferView


See Also
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slink:VkWriteDescriptorSet, flink:vkCreateBufferView, flink:vkDestroyBufferView


Document Notes
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For more information, see the Vulkan Specification at URL

https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0/xhtml/vkspec.html#VkBufferView

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification.
Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification,not directly.

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