VkValidationCacheEXT(3)

# VkValidationCacheEXT(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkValidationCacheEXT - Opaque handle to a validation cache object

## C Specification

Validation cache objects allow the result of internal validation to be reused, both within a single application run and between multiple runs. Reuse within a single run is achieved by passing the same validation cache object when creating supported Vulkan objects. Reuse across runs of an application is achieved by retrieving validation cache contents in one run of an application, saving the contents, and using them to preinitialize a validation cache on a subsequent run. The contents of the validation cache objects are managed by the validation layers. Applications can manage the host memory consumed by a validation cache object and control the amount of data retrieved from a validation cache object.

Validation cache objects are represented by `VkValidationCacheEXT` handles:

    VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE(VkValidationCacheEXT)

## Description

## See Also

VkShaderModuleValidationCacheCreateInfoEXT, vkCreateValidationCacheEXT, vkDestroyValidationCacheEXT, vkGetValidationCacheDataEXT, vkMergeValidationCachesEXT

## Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

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

## Copyright

Copyright (c) 2014-2019 Khronos Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.