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GPUCompilationMessage: lineNum property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The lineNum read-only property of the GPUCompilationMessage interface is a number representing the line number in the shader code that the message corresponds to.

Value

A number.

Note that:

  • If the message corresponds to a substring, lineNum refers to the line number that the substring begins on.
  • If the message does not correspond to a specific line of code (perhaps it refers to the whole of the shader code), lineNum will be 0.
  • Values are one-based — a value of 1 refers to the first line of code.
  • Lines are delimited by line breaks. In WGSL, a specific list of characters is defined as line breaks.

Examples

const shaderModule = device.createShaderModule({
  code: shaders,
});

const shaderInfo = await shaderModule.getCompilationInfo();
const firstMessage = shaderInfo.messages[0];
console.log(firstMessage.lineNum);

See the main GPUCompilationInfo page for a more detailed example.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
lineNum
113Currently supported on ChromeOS, macOS, and Windows only.
113Currently supported on ChromeOS, macOS, and Windows only.
141Currently supported on Windows only, in all contexts except for service workers.
99Currently supported on ChromeOS, macOS, and Windows only.
26 121 No 81 26 25.0 121 26

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GPUCompilationMessage/lineNum