SPIRV-REFLECT(1)

✨ spirv-reflect ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the spirv-reflect page from the User Commands section of the manual 💖 — this is genuinely one of my fave little tools and by the end of this you're gonna be obsessed, no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

spirv-reflect — SPIRV-Reflect 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

spirv-reflect [OPTIONS] path/to/SPIR-V/bytecode.spv

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

It prints a summary of the reflection data extracted from SPIR-V bytecode. That's the whole vibe. ✨

Options:

• --help — displays this message. Your lil "what do I do" button. 🫶
• -o, --output — print output to file. [default: stdout] 📝
• -y, --yaml — format output as YAML. [default: disabled] 🌈
• -v VERBOSITY — specify output verbosity (YAML output only):
  • 0 — shader info, block variables, interface variables, descriptor bindings. No type descriptions. [default] 👑
  • 1 — everything above, plus type descriptions. 🔥
  • 2 — everything above, plus SPIR-V bytecode and all internal type descriptions. If you're not working on SPIRV-Reflect itself, you probably don't want this. 💀
• -e, --entrypoint — prints entry points found in shader module. 🚪✨
• -s, --stage — prints Vulkan shader stages found in shader module. 🎭
• -f, --file — prints the source file found in shader module. 📂
• -fcb, --flatten_cbuffers — flatten constant buffers on non-YAML output. 🥞

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The full documentation for spirv-reflect is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and spirv-reflect programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info spirv-reflect

should give you access to the complete manual. go forth and read, bestie 📖💖

k byeeee, this was spirv-reflect version 1.4.335.0, dropped January 2026 — mwah, slay, periodt 💅🌸🎀