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  1. // Copyright 2014 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
  2. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
  3. // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
  4. /*
  5. Package gl implements Go bindings for OpenGL ES 2.0 and ES 3.0.
  6. The GL functions are defined on a Context object that is responsible for
  7. tracking a GL context. Typically a windowing system package (such as
  8. golang.org/x/exp/shiny/screen) will call NewContext and provide
  9. a gl.Context for a user application.
  10. If the gl package is compiled on a platform capable of supporting ES 3.0,
  11. the gl.Context object also implements gl.Context3.
  12. The bindings are deliberately minimal, staying as close the C API as
  13. possible. The semantics of each function maps onto functions
  14. described in the Khronos documentation:
  15. https://www.khronos.org/opengles/sdk/docs/man/
  16. One notable departure from the C API is the introduction of types
  17. to represent common uses of GLint: Texture, Surface, Buffer, etc.
  18. # Debug Logging
  19. A tracing version of the OpenGL bindings is behind the `gldebug` build
  20. tag. It acts as a simplified version of apitrace. Build your Go binary
  21. with
  22. -tags gldebug
  23. and each call to a GL function will log its input, output, and any
  24. error messages. For example,
  25. I/GoLog (27668): gl.GenBuffers(1) [Buffer(70001)]
  26. I/GoLog (27668): gl.BindBuffer(ARRAY_BUFFER, Buffer(70001))
  27. I/GoLog (27668): gl.BufferData(ARRAY_BUFFER, 36, len(36), STATIC_DRAW)
  28. I/GoLog (27668): gl.BindBuffer(ARRAY_BUFFER, Buffer(70001))
  29. I/GoLog (27668): gl.VertexAttribPointer(Attrib(0), 6, FLOAT, false, 0, 0) error: [INVALID_VALUE]
  30. The gldebug tracing has very high overhead, so make sure to remove
  31. the build tag before deploying any binaries.
  32. */
  33. package gl
  34. /*
  35. Implementation details.
  36. All GL function calls fill out a C.struct_fnargs and drop it on the work
  37. queue. The Start function drains the work queue and hands over a batch
  38. of calls to C.process which runs them. This allows multiple GL calls to
  39. be executed in a single cgo call.
  40. A GL call is marked as blocking if it returns a value, or if it takes a
  41. Go pointer. In this case the call will not return until C.process sends a
  42. value on the retvalue channel.
  43. This implementation ensures any goroutine can make GL calls, but it does
  44. not make the GL interface safe for simultaneous use by multiple goroutines.
  45. For the purpose of analyzing this code for race conditions, picture two
  46. separate goroutines: one blocked on gl.Start, and another making calls to
  47. the gl package exported functions.
  48. */
  49. //go:generate go run gendebug.go -o gldebug.go