E_INVALIDARG when calling CreateGraphicsPipelineState - c++

Question

I've been getting a weird error when calling CreateGraphicsPipelineState().
The function returns E_INVALIDARG even though the description is all set up.
The description worked before and the I tried to add indexbuffers to my pipeline, I didn't even touch any of the code for PSO or Shaders and now the PSO creation is all messed up.
The issue is that I don't get any DX-error messages from the driver when enabling the debug-layer. I only get this
"Microsoft C++ exception: _com_error at memory location
when I step through the function.
It feels like it is some pointer error or similar, but I can't figure out what the error is. Perhaps anyone of you can see an obvious mistake that I made?
Here's my code:
CGraphicsPSO* pso = new CGraphicsPSO();
D3D12_GRAPHICS_PIPELINE_STATE_DESC psoDesc = {};
// Input Layout
std::vector<D3D12_INPUT_ELEMENT_DESC> elements;
if (aPSODesc.inputLayout != nullptr)
{
auto& ilData = aPSODesc.inputLayout->desc;
for (auto& element : ilData)
{
// All Data here is correct when breaking
D3D12_INPUT_ELEMENT_DESC elementDesc;
elementDesc.SemanticName = element.mySemanticName;
elementDesc.SemanticIndex = element.mySemanticIndex;
elementDesc.InputSlot = element.myInputSlot;
elementDesc.AlignedByteOffset = element.myAlignedByteOffset;
elementDesc.InputSlotClass = _ConvertInputClassificationDX12(element.myInputSlotClass);
elementDesc.Format = _ConvertFormatDX12(element.myFormat);
elementDesc.InstanceDataStepRate = element.myInstanceDataStepRate;
elements.push_back(elementDesc);
}
D3D12_INPUT_LAYOUT_DESC inputLayout = {};
inputLayout.NumElements = (UINT)elements.size();
inputLayout.pInputElementDescs = elements.data();
psoDesc.InputLayout = inputLayout;
}
// TOPOLOGY
switch (aPSODesc.topology)
{
default:
case EPrimitiveTopology::TriangleList:
psoDesc.PrimitiveTopologyType = D3D12_PRIMITIVE_TOPOLOGY_TYPE_TRIANGLE; // <--- Always this option
break;
case EPrimitiveTopology::PointList:
psoDesc.PrimitiveTopologyType = D3D12_PRIMITIVE_TOPOLOGY_TYPE_POINT;
break;
case EPrimitiveTopology::LineList:
psoDesc.PrimitiveTopologyType = D3D12_PRIMITIVE_TOPOLOGY_TYPE_LINE;
break;
//case EPrimitiveTopology::Patch:
// psoDesc.PrimitiveTopologyType = D3D12_PRIMITIVE_TOPOLOGY_TYPE_PATCH;
// break;
}
// Shaders
if (aPSODesc.vs != nullptr)
{
D3D12_SHADER_BYTECODE vertexShaderBytecode = {};
vertexShaderBytecode.BytecodeLength = aPSODesc.vs->myByteCodeSize;
vertexShaderBytecode.pShaderBytecode = aPSODesc.vs->myByteCode;
psoDesc.VS = vertexShaderBytecode;
}
if (aPSODesc.ps != nullptr)
{
D3D12_SHADER_BYTECODE pixelShaderBytecode = {};
pixelShaderBytecode.BytecodeLength = aPSODesc.ps->myByteCodeSize;
pixelShaderBytecode.pShaderBytecode = aPSODesc.ps->myByteCode;
psoDesc.PS = pixelShaderBytecode;
}
psoDesc.RTVFormats[0] = DXGI_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM; // format of the render target
DXGI_SAMPLE_DESC sampleDesc = {};
sampleDesc.Count = 1;
sampleDesc.Quality = 0;
psoDesc.DepthStencilState.DepthEnable = FALSE;
psoDesc.DepthStencilState.StencilEnable = FALSE;
psoDesc.SampleDesc = sampleDesc; // must be the same sample description as the swapchain and depth/stencil buffer
psoDesc.SampleMask = UINT_MAX; // sample mask has to do with multi-sampling. 0xffffffff means point sampling is done
psoDesc.RasterizerState = CD3DX12_RASTERIZER_DESC(D3D12_DEFAULT); // a default rasterizer state.
psoDesc.BlendState = CD3DX12_BLEND_DESC(D3D12_DEFAULT); // a default blent state.
psoDesc.NumRenderTargets = 1; // we are only binding one render target
psoDesc.pRootSignature = myGraphicsRootSignature;
psoDesc.Flags = D3D12_PIPELINE_STATE_FLAG_NONE;
ID3D12PipelineState* pipelineState;
HRESULT hr = myDevice->CreateGraphicsPipelineState(&psoDesc, IID_PPV_ARGS(&pipelineState));
pso->myPipelineState = pipelineState;
if (FAILED(hr))
{
delete pso;
return nullptr;
}
return pso;

Answer 1

So I just found the error.
It seems like the way I parsed my semantics for my input-layout gave me an invalid pointer.
Thus the memory at the adress was invalid and giving the DX12-device incorrect decriptions.
So what I did was to locally store the semantic-names within my CreatePSO function until the PSO was created, and now it all works.

Answer 2

Looks to me like the pointers to storage you promised are going out of scope.
..
D3D12_INPUT_LAYOUT_DESC inputLayout = {};
..
psoDesc.InputLayout = inputLayout;
}