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GLGETERROR(3gl)						       GLGETERROR(3gl)

NAME
       glGetError - return error information

C SPECIFICATION
       GLenum glGetError( void )

DESCRIPTION
       glGetError  returns the value of the error flag.	 Each detectable error
       is assigned a numeric code and symbolic name.  When  an	error  occurs,
       the  error  flag	 is set to the appropriate error code value.  No other
       errors are recorded until glGetError  is	 called,  the  error  code  is
       returned,  and the flag is reset to GL_NO_ERROR.	 If a call to glGetEr‐
       ror returns GL_NO_ERROR, there has been no detectable error  since  the
       last call to glGetError, or since the GL was initialized.

       To  allow  for  distributed implementations, there may be several error
       flags.  If any single error flag has recorded an error,	the  value  of
       that  flag  is  returned	 and  that  flag  is reset to GL_NO_ERROR when
       glGetError is called.  If more than one flag  has  recorded  an	error,
       glGetError  returns  and	 clears	 an arbitrary error flag value.	 Thus,
       glGetError should  always  be  called  in  a  loop,  until  it  returns
       GL_NO_ERROR, if all error flags are to be reset.

       Initially, all error flags are set to GL_NO_ERROR.

       The following errors are currently defined:

       GL_NO_ERROR		     No error has been recorded.  The value of
				     this symbolic constant is	guaranteed  to
				     be 0.

       GL_INVALID_ENUM		     An unacceptable value is specified for an
				     enumerated argument.  The offending  com‐
				     mand  is  ignored,	 and has no other side
				     effect than to set the error flag.

       GL_INVALID_VALUE		     A numeric argument is out of range.   The
				     offending	command is ignored, and has no
				     other side effect than to set  the	 error
				     flag.

       GL_INVALID_OPERATION	     The specified operation is not allowed in
				     the current state.	 The offending command
				     is	 ignored, and has no other side effect
				     than to set the error flag.

       GL_STACK_OVERFLOW	     This command would cause  a  stack	 over‐
				     flow.   The offending command is ignored,
				     and has no other side effect than to  set
				     the error flag.

       GL_STACK_UNDERFLOW	     This  command  would cause a stack under‐
				     flow.  The offending command is  ignored,
				     and  has no other side effect than to set
				     the error flag.

       GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY		     There is not enough memory left  to  exe‐
				     cute the command.	The state of the GL is
				     undefined, except for the	state  of  the
				     error   flags,   after   this   error  is
				     recorded.

       When an error flag is set, results of a GL operation are undefined only
       if GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY has occurred.  In all other cases, the command gen‐
       erating the error is ignored and has no effect on the GL state or frame
       buffer contents.	 If the generating command returns a value, it returns
       0.  If glGetError itself generates an error, it returns 0.

ERRORS
       GL_INVALID_OPERATION is generated if glGetError is executed between the
       execution of glBegin and the corresponding execution of glEnd.  In this
       case glGetError returns 0.

				   15 Mar 97		       GLGETERROR(3gl)
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