Version 1.00

Contact

To report problems with this extension, please open a new issue at:

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Headers

Contributors

  • Qingyuan Zheng, NVIDIA Corporation

  • Ashwin Lele, NVIDIA Corporation

  • Jeff Bolz, NVIDIA Corporation

  • Spencer Fricke, LunarG Inc

Notice

Copyright (c) 2019-2026 The Khronos Group Inc. Copyright terms at http://www.khronos.org/registry/speccopyright.html

Status

  • Not Yet Approved by the SPIR-V Working Group

Version

Last Modified Date

2026-04-13

Revision

2

Dependencies

This extension is written against the SPIR-V Specification, Version 1.6 Revision 2.

This instruction set requires SPIR-V 1.0 and SPV_KHR_non_semantic_info.

1. Introduction

This specifies the NonSemantic.DebugBreak extended instruction set. It provides a DebugBreak instruction which is a hint for any attached shader debugger to hit a breakpoint.

Import this extended instruction set using an OpExtInstImport "NonSemantic.DebugBreak" instruction.

2. Binary Form

DebugBreak

Hint the attached shader debugger to trigger a breakpoint and pause the execution. If no debugger is available, this instruction should be ignored.

Return Type must be OpTypeVoid.

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Issues

None.

Revision History

Rev Date Author Changes

1

2022-08-18

Qingyuan Zheng

Initial revision

2

2026-04-13

Spencer Fricke

Fix binary form view