C Specification

Bits which can be set in VkDebugUtilsMessengerCreateInfoEXT::messageType, specifying event types which cause a debug messenger to call the callback, are:

// Provided by VK_EXT_debug_utils
typedef enum VkDebugUtilsMessageTypeFlagBitsEXT {
    VK_DEBUG_UTILS_MESSAGE_TYPE_GENERAL_BIT_EXT = 0x00000001,
    VK_DEBUG_UTILS_MESSAGE_TYPE_VALIDATION_BIT_EXT = 0x00000002,
    VK_DEBUG_UTILS_MESSAGE_TYPE_PERFORMANCE_BIT_EXT = 0x00000004,
  // Provided by VK_EXT_device_address_binding_report
    VK_DEBUG_UTILS_MESSAGE_TYPE_DEVICE_ADDRESS_BINDING_BIT_EXT = 0x00000008,
} VkDebugUtilsMessageTypeFlagBitsEXT;

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For more information, see the Vulkan Specification.

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