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        <h1>             
            clRetainContext
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            Increment the context reference count.
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                        context
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                        The context to retain.
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            <a class="citerefentry" href="clCreateContext.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">clCreateContext</span></span></a> and
<a class="citerefentry" href="clCreateContextFromType.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">clCreateContextFromType</span></span></a> perform an implicit retain. This is very
helpful for 3rd party libraries, which typically get a context passed to them by the application.
However, it is possible that the application may delete the context without informing the library.
Allowing functions to attach to (i.e. retain) and release a context solves the problem of a context
being used by a library no longer being valid.
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            Returns <span class="errorname">CL_SUCCESS</span> if the function is executed successfully, or  <span class="errorname">CL_INVALID_CONTEXT</span> if <code class="varname">context</code> is not a valid OpenCL context.
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        <h2>Specification</h2>
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            <a href="http://www.khronos.org/registry/cl/specs/opencl-1.x-latest.pdf#page=43" target="OpenCL Spec">OpenCL Specification</a>
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<a class="citerefentry" href="clCreateContext.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">clCreateContext</span></span></a>, 
<a class="citerefentry" href="clCreateContextFromType.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">clCreateContextFromType</span></span></a>,  <a class="citerefentry" href="clGetContextInfo.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">clGetContextInfo</span></span></a>,  <a class="citerefentry" href="clReleaseContext.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">clReleaseContext</span></span></a>, 	
<a class="citerefentry" href="clGetContextInfo.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">clGetContextInfo</span></span></a>	        </p>
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