Name

    ARB_shader_image_load_store

Name Strings

    GL_ARB_shader_image_load_store

Contact

    Jeff Bolz, NVIDIA Corporation (jbolz 'at' nvidia.com)
    Pat Brown, NVIDIA Corporation (pbrown 'at' nvidia.com)

Contributors

    Barthold Lichtenbelt, NVIDIA
    Bill Licea-Kane, AMD
    Eric Werness, NVIDIA
    Graham Sellers, AMD
    Greg Roth, NVIDIA
    Nick Haemel, AMD
    Pierre Boudier, AMD
    Piers Daniell, NVIDIA

Notice

    Copyright (c) 2011-2014 The Khronos Group Inc. Copyright terms at
        http://www.khronos.org/registry/speccopyright.html

Status

    Complete. Approved by the ARB on 2011/06/20.
    Approved by the Khronos Promoters on 2011/07/29.

Version

    Last Modified Date:         September 11, 2014
    Revision:                   35

Number

    ARB Extension #115

Dependencies

    This extension is written against the OpenGL 3.2 specification
    (Compatibility Profile).

    This extension is written against version 1.50 (revision 09) of the OpenGL
    Shading Language Specification.

    OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30 are required.

    This extension interacts trivially with OpenGL 3.2 (Core Profile).

    This extension interacts trivially with OpenGL 3.1,
    ARB_uniform_buffer_object, and EXT_bindable_uniform.

    This extension interacts trivially with ARB_draw_indirect.

    This extension interacts trivially with NV_vertex_buffer_unified_memory.

    This extension interacts with NV_parameter_buffer_object.

    This extension interacts trivially with OpenGL 3.2 and
    ARB_texture_multisample.

    This extension interacts trivially with OpenGL 4.0 and ARB_sample_shading.

    This extension interacts trivially with OpenGL 4.0 and
    ARB_texture_cube_map_array.

    This extension interacts trivially with OpenGL 3.3 and
    ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui.

    This extension interacts trivially with NV_shader_buffer_load.

    This extension interacts trivially with OpenGL 4.0, ARB_gpu_shader5, and
    NV_gpu_shader5.

    This extension interacts trivially with OpenGL 4.0 and
    ARB_tessellation_shader.

    This extension interacts trivially with EXT_depth_bounds_test.

    This extension interacts with ARB_separate_shader_objects.

    This extension interacts with EXT_shader_image_load_store.

Overview

    This extension provides GLSL built-in functions allowing shaders to load
    from, store to, and perform atomic read-modify-write operations to a
    single level of a texture object from any shader stage.  These built-in
    functions are named imageLoad(), imageStore(), and imageAtomic*(),
    respectively, and accept integer texel coordinates to identify the texel
    accessed.  The extension adds the notion of "image units" to the OpenGL
    API, to which texture levels are bound for access by the GLSL built-in
    functions.  To allow shaders to specify the image unit to access, GLSL
    provides a new set of data types ("image*") similar to samplers.  Each
    image variable is assigned an integer value to identify an image unit to
    access, which is specified using Uniform*() APIs in a manner similar to
    samplers.

    This extension also provides the capability to explicitly enable "early"
    per-fragment tests, where operations like depth and stencil testing are
    performed prior to fragment shader execution.  In unextended OpenGL,
    fragment shaders never have any side effects and implementations can
    sometimes perform per-fragment tests and discard some fragments prior to
    executing the fragment shader.  Since this extension allows fragment
    shaders to write to texture and buffer object memory using the built-in
    image functions, such optimizations could lead to non-deterministic
    results.  To avoid this, implementations supporting this extension may not
    perform such optimizations on shaders having such side effects.  However,
    enabling early per-fragment tests guarantees that such tests will be
    performed prior to fragment shader execution, and ensures that image
    stores and atomics will not be performed by fragment shader invocations
    where these per-fragment tests fail.

    Finally, this extension provides both a GLSL built-in function and an
    OpenGL API function allowing applications some control over the ordering
    of image loads, stores, and atomics relative to other OpenGL pipeline
    operations accessing the same memory.  Because the extension provides the
    ability to perform random accesses to texture or buffer object memory,
    such accesses are not easily tracked by the OpenGL driver.  To avoid the
    need for heavy-handed synchronization at the driver level, this extension
    requires manual synchronization.  The MemoryBarrier() OpenGL API
    function allows applications to specify a bitfield indicating the set of
    OpenGL API operations to synchronize relative to shader memory access.
    The memoryBarrier() GLSL built-in function provides a synchronization
    point within a given shader invocation to ensure that all memory accesses
    performed prior to the synchronization point complete prior to any started
    after the synchronization point.

New Procedures and Functions

    void BindImageTexture(uint unit, uint texture, int level,
                          boolean layered, int layer, enum access,
                          enum format);

    void MemoryBarrier(bitfield barriers);

New Tokens

    Accepted by the <pname> parameter of GetBooleanv, GetIntegerv,
    GetFloatv, GetDoublev, and GetInteger64v:

        MAX_IMAGE_UNITS                                 0x8F38
        MAX_COMBINED_IMAGE_UNITS_AND_FRAGMENT_OUTPUTS   0x8F39
        MAX_IMAGE_SAMPLES                               0x906D
        MAX_VERTEX_IMAGE_UNIFORMS                       0x90CA
        MAX_TESS_CONTROL_IMAGE_UNIFORMS                 0x90CB
        MAX_TESS_EVALUATION_IMAGE_UNIFORMS              0x90CC
        MAX_GEOMETRY_IMAGE_UNIFORMS                     0x90CD
        MAX_FRAGMENT_IMAGE_UNIFORMS                     0x90CE
        MAX_COMBINED_IMAGE_UNIFORMS                     0x90CF

    Accepted by the <target> parameter of GetIntegeri_v and GetBooleani_v:

        IMAGE_BINDING_NAME                              0x8F3A
        IMAGE_BINDING_LEVEL                             0x8F3B
        IMAGE_BINDING_LAYERED                           0x8F3C
        IMAGE_BINDING_LAYER                             0x8F3D
        IMAGE_BINDING_ACCESS                            0x8F3E
        IMAGE_BINDING_FORMAT                            0x906E

    Accepted by the <barriers> parameter of MemoryBarrier:

        VERTEX_ATTRIB_ARRAY_BARRIER_BIT                 0x00000001
        ELEMENT_ARRAY_BARRIER_BIT                       0x00000002
        UNIFORM_BARRIER_BIT                             0x00000004
        TEXTURE_FETCH_BARRIER_BIT                       0x00000008
        SHADER_IMAGE_ACCESS_BARRIER_BIT                 0x00000020
        COMMAND_BARRIER_BIT                             0x00000040
        PIXEL_BUFFER_BARRIER_BIT                        0x00000080
        TEXTURE_UPDATE_BARRIER_BIT                      0x00000100
        BUFFER_UPDATE_BARRIER_BIT                       0x00000200
        FRAMEBUFFER_BARRIER_BIT                         0x00000400
        TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_BARRIER_BIT                  0x00000800
        ATOMIC_COUNTER_BARRIER_BIT                      0x00001000
        ALL_BARRIER_BITS                                0xFFFFFFFF

    Returned by the <type> parameter of GetActiveUniform:

        IMAGE_1D                                        0x904C
        IMAGE_2D                                        0x904D
        IMAGE_3D                                        0x904E
        IMAGE_2D_RECT                                   0x904F
        IMAGE_CUBE                                      0x9050
        IMAGE_BUFFER                                    0x9051
        IMAGE_1D_ARRAY                                  0x9052
        IMAGE_2D_ARRAY                                  0x9053
        IMAGE_CUBE_MAP_ARRAY                            0x9054
        IMAGE_2D_MULTISAMPLE                            0x9055
        IMAGE_2D_MULTISAMPLE_ARRAY                      0x9056
        INT_IMAGE_1D                                    0x9057
        INT_IMAGE_2D                                    0x9058
        INT_IMAGE_3D                                    0x9059
        INT_IMAGE_2D_RECT                               0x905A
        INT_IMAGE_CUBE                                  0x905B
        INT_IMAGE_BUFFER                                0x905C
        INT_IMAGE_1D_ARRAY                              0x905D
        INT_IMAGE_2D_ARRAY                              0x905E
        INT_IMAGE_CUBE_MAP_ARRAY                        0x905F
        INT_IMAGE_2D_MULTISAMPLE                        0x9060
        INT_IMAGE_2D_MULTISAMPLE_ARRAY                  0x9061
        UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_1D                           0x9062
        UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_2D                           0x9063
        UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_3D                           0x9064
        UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_2D_RECT                      0x9065
        UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_CUBE                         0x9066
        UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_BUFFER                       0x9067
        UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_1D_ARRAY                     0x9068
        UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_2D_ARRAY                     0x9069
        UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_CUBE_MAP_ARRAY               0x906A
        UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_2D_MULTISAMPLE               0x906B
        UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_2D_MULTISAMPLE_ARRAY         0x906C

    Accepted by the <value> parameter of GetTexParameteriv, GetTexParameterfv,
    GetTexParameterIiv, and GetTexParameterIuiv:

        IMAGE_FORMAT_COMPATIBILITY_TYPE                 0x90C7

    Returned in the <data> parameter of GetTexParameteriv, GetTexParameterfv,
    GetTexParameterIiv, and GetTexParameterIuiv when <value> is
    IMAGE_FORMAT_COMPATIBILITY_TYPE:

        IMAGE_FORMAT_COMPATIBILITY_BY_SIZE              0x90C8
        IMAGE_FORMAT_COMPATIBILITY_BY_CLASS             0x90C9


Additions to Chapter 2 of the OpenGL 3.2 (Compatibility Profile) Specification
(Rasterization)

    Modify Section 2.14.4, Uniform Variables, p. 89

    (modify second paragraph, p. 90)  Sets of uniforms, except for samplers
    and images, can be grouped into uniform blocks. ...

    (Add new types to table 2.13, pp. 96-98)

      Type Name                                    Keyword
      ------------------------------               -------------------------
      IMAGE_1D                                     image1D
      IMAGE_2D                                     image2D
      IMAGE_3D                                     image3D
      IMAGE_2D_RECT                                image2DRect
      IMAGE_CUBE                                   imageCube
      IMAGE_BUFFER                                 imageBuffer
      IMAGE_1D_ARRAY                               image1DArray
      IMAGE_2D_ARRAY                               image2DArray
      IMAGE_CUBE_MAP_ARRAY                         imageCubeArray
      IMAGE_2D_MULTISAMPLE                         image2DMS
      IMAGE_2D_MULTISAMPLE_ARRAY                   image2DMSArray
      INT_IMAGE_1D                                 iimage1D
      INT_IMAGE_2D                                 iimage2D
      INT_IMAGE_3D                                 iimage3D
      INT_IMAGE_2D_RECT                            iimage2DRect
      INT_IMAGE_CUBE                               iimageCube
      INT_IMAGE_BUFFER                             iimageBuffer
      INT_IMAGE_1D_ARRAY                           iimage1DArray
      INT_IMAGE_2D_ARRAY                           iimage2DArray
      INT_IMAGE_CUBE_MAP_ARRAY                     iimageCubeArray
      INT_IMAGE_2D_MULTISAMPLE                     iimage2DMS
      INT_IMAGE_2D_MULTISAMPLE_ARRAY               iimage2DMSArray
      UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_1D                        uimage1D
      UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_2D                        uimage2D
      UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_3D                        uimage3D
      UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_2D_RECT                   uimage2DRect
      UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_CUBE                      uimageCube
      UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_BUFFER                    uimageBuffer
      UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_1D_ARRAY                  uimage1DArray
      UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_2D_ARRAY                  uimage2DArray
      UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_CUBE_MAP_ARRAY            uimageCubeArray
      UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_2D_MULTISAMPLE            uimage2DMS
      UNSIGNED_INT_IMAGE_2D_MULTISAMPLE_ARRAY      uimage2DMSArray


    (Add a new subsection after Section 2.14.5, Samplers, p. 106)

    Section 2.14.X, Images

    Images are special uniforms used in the OpenGL Shading Language to
    identify a level of a texture to be read or written using image load,
    store, and atomic built-in functions in the manner described in Section
    3.9.X.  The value of an image uniform is an integer specifying the image
    unit accessed.  Image units are numbered beginning at zero, and there is
    an implementation-dependent number of available image units
    (MAX_IMAGE_UNITS).  The error INVALID_VALUE is generated if a
    Uniform1i{v} call is used to set an image uniform to a value less than
    zero or greater than or equal to MAX_IMAGE_UNITS.  Note that image
    units used for image variables are independent of the texture image
    units used for sampler variables; the number of units provided by the
    implementation may differ.  Textures are bound independently and
    separately to image and texture image units.

    The type of an image variable must match the texture target of the image
    currently bound to the image unit, otherwise the result of a load, store,
    or atomic operation is undefined (see Section 4.1.X of the OpenGL 
    Shading Language specification for more detail).

    The location of an image variable needs to be queried with
    GetUniformLocation, just like any uniform variable.  Image values need to
    be set by calling Uniform1i{v}.  Loading image variables with any of the
    other Uniform entry point is not allowed and will result in an
    INVALID_OPERATION error.

    Unlike samplers, there is no limit on the number of active image variables
    that may be used by a program or by any particular shader.  However, given
    that there is an implementation-dependent limit on the number of unique
    image units, the actual number of images that may be used by all shaders
    in a program is limited.


    Modify Section 2.14.7, Shader Execution, p. 109

    (Add a new unnumbered subsection before "Shader Inputs", p. 113)

    Image Access

    Shaders have the ability read and write to textures using image uniforms.
    The maximum number of image uniforms available to individual shader stages
    are the values of the implementation dependent constants

      * MAX_VERTEX_IMAGE_UNIFORMS (vertex shaders),
      * MAX_TESS_CONTROL_IMAGE_UNIFORMS (tessellation control shaders),
      * MAX_TESS_EVALUATION_IMAGE_UNIFORMS (tessellation evaluation shaders),
      * MAX_GEOMETRY_IMAGE_UNIFORMS (geometry shaders), and
      * MAX_FRAGMENT_IMAGE_UNIFORMS (fragment shaders).

    All active shaders combined cannot use more than the value of
    MAX_COMBINED_IMAGE_UNIFORMS atomic counters. If more than one shader stage
    accesses the same image uniform, each such access counts separately
    against the MAX_COMBINED_IMAGE_UNIFORMS limit.


    (Add a new numbered subsection after Section 2.14.7, Shader Execution,
    p. 109)

    Section 2.14.X, Shader Memory Access

    Shaders may perform random-access reads and writes to texture or buffer
    object memory using built-in image load, store, and atomic functions, as
    described in the OpenGL Shading Language Specification.  The ability to
    perform such random-access reads and writes in systems that may be highly
    pipelined results in ordering and synchronization issues discussed in the
    sections below.


    Shader Memory Access Ordering

    The order in which texture or buffer object memory is read or written by
    shaders is largely undefined.  For some shader types (vertex, tessellation
    evaluation, and in some cases, fragment), even the number of shader
    invocations that might perform loads and stores is undefined. 
    In particular, the following rules apply:

      * While a vertex or tessellation evaluation shader will be executed at
        least once for each unique vertex specified by the application (vertex
        shaders) or generated by the tessellation primitive generator
        (tessellation evaluation shaders), it may be executed more than once
        for implementation-dependent reasons.  Additionally, if the same
        vertex is specified multiple times in a collection of primitives
        (e.g., repeating an index in DrawElements), the vertex shader might be
        run only once.

      * For each fragment generated by the GL, the number of fragment shader
        invocations depends on a number of factors.  If the fragment fails the
        pixel ownership test (Section 4.1.1), the fragment shader may not be
        executed.  Otherwise, if the framebuffer has no multisample buffer
        (SAMPLE_BUFFERS is zero), the fragment shader will be invoked exactly
        once.  If the fragment shader specifies per-sample shading, the
        fragment shader will be run once per covered sample.  Otherwise, the
        number of fragment shader invocations is undefined, but must be in the
        range [1,<N>], where <N> is the number of samples covered by the
        fragment.

      * If a fragment shader is invoked to process fragments or samples not
        covered by a primitive being rasterized to facilitate the
        approximation of derivatives for texture lookups, stores and atomics
        have no effect.

      * The relative order of invocations of the same shader type are
        undefined.  A store issued by a shader when working on primitive B
        might complete prior to a store for primitive A, even if primitive A
        is specified prior to primitive B.  This applies even to fragment
        shaders; while fragment shader outputs are written to the framebuffer
        in primitive order, stores executed by fragment shader invocations are
        not.

      * The relative order of invocations of different shader types is largely
        undefined.  However, when executing a shader whose inputs are
        generated from a previous programmable stage, the shader invocations
        from the previous stage are guaranteed to have executed far enough to
        generate final values for all next-stage inputs.  That implies shader
        completion for all stages except geometry; geometry shaders are
        guaranteed only to have executed far enough to emit all needed
        vertices.

    The above limitations on shader invocation order also make some forms of
    synchronization between shader invocations within a single set of
    primitives unimplementable.  For example, having one invocation poll
    memory written by another invocation assumes that the other invocation has
    been launched and can complete its writes.  The only case where such a
    guarantee is made is when the inputs of one shader invocation are
    generated from the outputs of a shader invocation in a previous stage.

    Stores issued to different memory locations within a single shader
    invocation may not be visible to other invocations in the order they were
    performed.  The built-in function memoryBarrier() may be used to provide
    stronger ordering of reads and writes performed by a single invocation.
    Calling memoryBarrier() guarantees that any memory transactions issued by
    the shader invocation prior to the call complete prior to the memory
    transactions issued after the call.  Memory barriers may be needed for
    algorithms that require multiple invocations to access the same memory and
    require the operations need to be performed in a partially-defined
    relative order.  For example, if one shader invocation does a series of
    writes, followed by a memoryBarrier() call, followed by another write,
    then another invocation that sees the results of the final write will also
    see the previous writes.  Without the memory barrier, the final write may
    be visible before the previous writes.

    The atomic memory transaction built-in functions may be used to read and
    write a given memory address atomically.  While atomic built-in functions
    issued by multiple shader invocations are executed in undefined order
    relative to each other, these functions perform both a read and a write of
    a memory address and guarantee that no other memory transaction will write
    to the underlying memory between the read and write.  Atomics allow
    shaders to use shared global addresses for mutual exclusion or as
    counters, among other uses.


    Shader Memory Access Synchronization

    Data written to textures or buffer objects by a shader invocation may
    eventually be read by other shader invocations, sourced by other fixed
    pipeline stages, or read back by the application.  When applications write
    to buffer objects or textures using API commands such as TexSubImage* or
    BufferSubData, the GL implementation knows when and where writes occur and
    can perform implicit synchronization to ensure that operations requested
    before the update see the original data and that subsequent operations see
    the modified data.  Without logic to track the target address of each
    shader instruction performing a store, automatic synchronization of stores
    performed by a shader invocation would require the GL implementation to
    make worst-case assumptions at significant performance cost.  To permit
    cases where textures or buffers may be read or written in different
    pipeline stages without the overhead of automatic synchronization, buffer
    object and texture stores performed by shaders are not automatically
    synchronized with other GL operations using the same memory.

    Explicit synchronization is required to ensure that the effects of buffer
    and texture data stores performed by shaders will be visible to subsequent
    operations using the same objects and will not overwrite data still to be
    read by previously requested operations.  Without manual synchronization,
    shader stores for a "new" primitive may complete before processing of an
    "old" primitive completes.  Additionally, stores for an "old" primitive
    might not be completed before processing of a "new" primitive starts.  The
    command

        void MemoryBarrier(bitfield barriers)

    defines a barrier ordering the memory transactions issued prior to the
    command relative to those issued after the barrier.  For the purposes of
    this ordering, memory transactions performed by shaders are considered to
    be issued by the rendering command that triggered the execution of the
    shader.  <barriers> is a bitfield indicating the set of operations that
    are synchronized with shader stores; the bits used in <barriers> are as
    follows:
    
    - VERTEX_ATTRIB_ARRAY_BARRIER_BIT:  If set, vertex data sourced from
        buffer objects after the barrier will reflect data written by shaders
        prior to the barrier.  The set of buffer objects affected by this bit
        is derived from the buffer object bindings or GPU addresses used for
        generic vertex attributes (VERTEX_ATTRIB_ARRAY_BUFFER bindings,
        VERTEX_ATTRIB_ARRAY_ADDRESS from NV_vertex_buffer_unified_memory), as
        well as those for arrays of named vertex attributes (e.g., vertex,
        color, normal).

    - ELEMENT_ARRAY_BARRIER_BIT:  If set, vertex array indices sourced from
        buffer objects after the barrier will reflect data written by shaders
        prior to the barrier.  The buffer objects affected by this bit are
        derived from the ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER binding and the
        NV_vertex_buffer_unified_memory ELEMENT_ARRAY_ADDRESS address.

    - UNIFORM_BARRIER_BIT:  Shader uniforms and assembly program parameters
        sourced from buffer objects after the barrier will reflect data
        written by shaders prior to the barrier.

    - TEXTURE_FETCH_BARRIER_BIT:  Texture fetches from shaders, including
        fetches from buffer object memory via buffer textures, after the
        barrier will reflect data written by shaders prior to the barrier.

    - SHADER_IMAGE_ACCESS_BARRIER_BIT:  Memory accesses using shader image
        load, store, and atomic built-in functions issued after the barrier
        will reflect data written by shaders prior to the barrier.
        Additionally, image stores and atomics issued after the barrier will
        not execute until all memory accesses (e.g., loads, stores, texture
        fetches, vertex fetches) initiated prior to the barrier complete.

    - COMMAND_BARRIER_BIT:  Command data sourced from buffer objects by
        Draw*Indirect commands after the barrier will reflect data written by
        shaders prior to the barrier.  The buffer objects affected by this bit
        are derived from the DRAW_INDIRECT_BUFFER binding and the GPU
        address DRAW_INDIRECT_ADDRESS_NV.

    - PIXEL_BUFFER_BARRIER_BIT:  Reads/writes of buffer objects via the
        PACK/UNPACK_BUFFER bindings (ReadPixels, TexSubImage, etc.) after the
        barrier will reflect data written by shaders prior to the barrier.
        Additionally, buffer object writes issued after the barrier will wait
        on the completion of all shader writes initiated prior to the barrier.

    - TEXTURE_UPDATE_BARRIER_BIT:  Writes to a texture via Tex(Sub)Image*,
        CopyTex(Sub)Image*, CompressedTex(Sub)Image*, and reads via
        GetTexImage after the barrier will reflect data written by shaders
        prior to the barrier.  Additionally, texture writes from these
        commands issued after the barrier will not execute until all shader
        writes initiated prior to the barrier complete.

    - BUFFER_UPDATE_BARRIER_BIT:  Reads/writes via Buffer(Sub)Data,
        CopyBufferSubData, ProgramBufferParametersNV, and GetBufferSubData, or
        to buffer object memory mapped by MapBuffer(Range) after the barrier
        will reflect data written by shaders prior to the barrier.
        Additionally, writes via these commands issued after the barrier will
        wait on the completion of any shader writes to the same memory
        initiated prior to the barrier.

    - FRAMEBUFFER_BARRIER_BIT:  Reads and writes via framebuffer object
        attachments after the barrier will reflect data written by shaders
        prior to the barrier.  Additionally, framebuffer writes issued after
        the barrier will wait on the completion of all shader writes issued
        prior to the barrier.

    - TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_BARRIER_BIT:  Writes via transform feedback
        bindings after the barrier will reflect data written by shaders prior
        to the barrier.  Additionally, transform feedback writes issued after
        the barrier will wait on the completion of all shader writes issued
        prior to the barrier.

    - ATOMIC_COUNTER_BARRIER_BIT:  Accesses to atomic counters after the
        barrier will reflect writes prior to the barrier.

    If <barriers> is ALL_BARRIER_BITS, shader memory accesses will be
    synchronized relative to all the operations described above.

    Implementations may cache buffer object and texture image memory that
    could be written by shaders in multiple caches; for example, there may be
    separate caches for texture, vertex fetching, and one or more caches for
    shader memory accesses.  Implementations are not required to keep these
    caches coherent with shader memory writes.  Stores issued by one
    invocation may not be immediately observable by other pipeline stages or
    other shader invocations because the value stored may remain in a cache
    local to the processor executing the store, or because data overwritten by
    the store is still in a cache elsewhere in the system.  When MemoryBarrier
    is called, the GL flushes and/or invalidates any caches relevant to the
    operations specified by the <barriers> parameter to ensure consistent
    ordering of operations across the barrier.

    To allow for independent shader invocations to communicate by reads and
    writes to a common memory address, image variables in the OpenGL Shading
    Language may be declared as "coherent".  Buffer object or texture image
    memory accessed through such variables may be cached only if caches are
    automatically updated due to stores issued by any other shader invocation.
    If the same address is accessed using both coherent and non-coherent
    variables, the accesses using variables declared as coherent will observe
    the results stored using coherent variables in other invocations.  Using
    variables declared as "coherent" guarantees only that the results of
    stores will be immediately visible to shader invocations using
    similarly-declared variables; calling MemoryBarrier is required to ensure
    that the stores are visible to other operations.

    The following guidelines may be helpful in choosing when to use coherent
    memory accesses and when to use barriers.

    - Data that are read-only or constant may be accessed without using
      coherent variables or calling MemoryBarrier().  Updates to the
      read-only data via API calls such as BufferSubData will invalidate
      shader caches implicitly as required.

    - Data that are shared between shader invocations at a fine granularity
      (e.g., written by one invocation, consumed by another invocation) should
      use coherent variables to read and write the shared data.

    - Data written by one shader invocation and consumed by other shader
      invocations launched as a result of its execution ("dependent
      invocations") should use coherent variables in the producing shader
      invocation and call memoryBarrier() after the last write.  The consuming
      shader invocation should also use coherent variables.

    - Data written to image variables in one rendering pass and read by the
      shader in a later pass need not use coherent variables or
      memoryBarrier().  Calling MemoryBarrier() with the
      SHADER_IMAGE_ACCESS_BARRIER_BIT set in <barriers> between passes is
      necessary.

    - Data written by the shader in one rendering pass and read by another
      mechanism (e.g., vertex or index buffer pulling) in a later pass need
      not use coherent variables or memoryBarrier().  Calling
      MemoryBarrier() with the appropriate bits set in <barriers> between
      passes is necessary.


Additions to Chapter 3 of the OpenGL 3.2 (Compatibility Profile) Specification
(Rasterization)

    (insert new section immediately before Section 3.8, Texturing, p. 210)

    Section 3.X, Early Per-Fragment Tests

    Once fragments are produced by rasterization (sections 3.4 through 3.8), a
    number of per-fragment operations may be performed prior to fragment
    shader execution.  If a fragment is discarded during any of these
    operations, it will not be processed by any subsequent stage, including
    fragment shader execution.

    Up to six operations are performed on each fragment, in the following
    order:

      * the pixel ownership test, described in section 4.1.1;

      * the scissor test, described in section 4.1.2;

      * the depth bounds test, described in section 4.1.X (of the
        EXT_depth_bounds_test specification);

      * the stencil test, described in section 4.1.5;

      * the depth buffer test, described in section 4.1.6; and

      * occlusion query sample counting, described in section 4.1.7.

    The pixel ownership and scissor tests are always performed.

    The other operations are performed if and only if early fragment tests are
    enabled in the active fragment shader (section 3.12.2).  When early
    per-fragment operations are enabled, the depth bounds test, stencil test,
    depth buffer test, and occlusion query sample counting operations are
    performed prior to fragment shader execution, and the stencil buffer,
    depth buffer, and occlusion query sample counts will be updated
    accordingly.  When early per-fragment operations are enabled, these
    operations will not be performed again after fragment shader execution.
    When there is no active program, the active program has no fragment
    shader, or the active program was linked with early fragment tests
    disabled, these operations are performed only after fragment program
    execution, in the order described in chapter 4.

    If early fragment tests are enabled, any depth value computed by the
    fragment shader has no effect.  Additionally, the depth buffer, stencil
    buffer, and occlusion query sample counts may be updated even for
    fragments or samples that would be discarded after fragment shader
    execution due to per-fragment operations such as alpha-to-coverage or
    alpha tests.


    (Add new section after Section 3.9.19, Texture Application, p. 268)

    Section 3.9.X, Texture Image Loads and Stores

    The contents of a texture may be made available for shaders to read and
    write by binding the texture to one of a collection of image units.  The
    GL implementation provides an array of image units numbered beginning with
    zero, with the total number of image units provided given by the
    implementation-dependent constant MAX_IMAGE_UNITS.  Unlike texture image
    units, image units do not have a separate attachment for each texture
    target texture; each image unit may have only one texture bound at a time.

    A texture may be bound to an image unit for use by image loads and stores
    by calling:

        void BindImageTexture(uint unit, uint texture, int level,
                              boolean layered, int layer, enum access,
                              enum format);

    where <unit> identifies the image unit, <texture> is the name of the
    texture, and <level> selects a single level of the texture.  If <texture>
    is zero, any texture currently bound to image unit <unit> is unbound.  If
    <unit> is greater than or equal to the value of MAX_IMAGE_UNITS, if
    <level> or <layer> is less than zero, or if <texture> is not the name of
    an existing texture object, the error INVALID_VALUE is generated.

    If the texture identified by <texture> is a one-dimensional array,
    two-dimensional array, three-dimensional, cube map, cube map array, or
    two-dimensional multisample array texture, it is possible to bind either
    the entire texture level or a single layer or face of the texture level.
    If <layered> is TRUE, the entire level is bound.  If <layered> is FALSE,
    only the single layer identified by <layer> will be bound.  When <layered>
    is FALSE, the single bound layer is treated as a different texture target
    for image accesses:

      * one-dimensional array texture layers are treated as one-dimensional
        textures;

      * two-dimensional array, three-dimensional, cube map, cube map array
        texture layers are treated as two-dimensional textures; and

      * two-dimensional multisample array textures are treated as
        two-dimensional multisample textures.

    For cube map textures where <layered> is FALSE, the face is taken by
    mapping the layer number to a face according to table 4.13.  For cube map
    array textures where <layered> is FALSE, the selected layer number is
    mapped to a texture layer and cube face using the following equations and
    mapping <face> to a face according to table 4.13.

      layer  = floor(layer_orig / 6)
      face   = layer_orig - (layer * 6)

    If the texture identified by <texture> does not have multiple layers or
    faces, the entire texture level is bound, regardless of the values
    specified by <layered> and <layer>.

    <format> specifies the format that the elements of the image will be
    treated as when doing formatted stores, as described later in this
    section. This is referred to as the "image unit format". This must be one
    of the formats listed in Table X.2; otherwise, the error INVALID_VALUE is
    generated.

    <access> specifies whether the texture bound to the image will be treated
    as READ_ONLY, WRITE_ONLY, or READ_WRITE.  If a shader reads from an image
    unit with a texture bound as WRITE_ONLY, or writes to an image unit with a
    texture bound as READ_ONLY, the results of that shader operation are
    undefined and may lead to application termination.

    If a texture object bound to one or more image units is deleted by
    DeleteTextures, it is detached from each such image unit, as though
    BindImageTexture were called with <unit> identifying the image unit and
    <texture> set to zero.

    When a shader accesses the texture bound to an image unit using a built-in
    image load, store, or atomic function, it identifies a single texel by
    providing a one-, two-, or three-dimensional coordinate.  Multisample
    texture accesses also specify a sample number.  A coordinate vector is
    mapped to an individual texel tau_i, tau_i_j, or tau_i_j_k according to
    the target of the texture bound to the image unit using Table X.1.  As
    noted above, single-layer bindings of array or cube map textures are
    considered to use a texture target corresponding to the bound layer,
    rather than that of the full texture.

                                                   Face/
                                          i  j  k  layer
                                          -- -- -- -----
        TEXTURE_1D                        x  -  -    -
        TEXTURE_2D                        x  y  -    -
        TEXTURE_3D                        x  y  z    -
        TEXTURE_RECTANGLE                 x  y  -    -
        TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP                  x  y  -    z
        TEXTURE_BUFFER                    x  -  -    -
        TEXTURE_1D_ARRAY                  x  -  -    y
        TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY                  x  y  -    z
        TEXTURE_CUBE_MAP_ARRAY            x  y  -    z
        TEXTURE_2D_MULTISAMPLE            x  y  -    -
        TEXTURE_2D_MULTISAMPLE_ARRAY      x  y  -    z

        Table X.1, Mapping of image load, store, and atomic texel coordinate
        components to texel numbers.

    If the texture target has layers or cube map faces, the layer or face
    number is taken from the <layer> argument of BindImageTexture if the
    texture is bound with <layered> set to FALSE, or from the coordinate
    identified by Table X.1 otherwise.  For cube map and cube map array
    textures with <layered> set to TRUE, the coordinate is mapped to a layer
    and face in the same manner as described for the <layer> argument of
    BindImageTexture.

    If the individual texel identified for an image load, store, or atomic
    operation doesn't exist, the access is treated as invalid.  Invalid image
    loads will return zero.  Invalid image stores will have no effect.
    Invalid image atomics will not update any texture bound to the image unit
    and will return zero.  An access is considered invalid if:

      * no texture is bound to the selected image unit;

      * the texture bound to the selected image unit is incomplete;

      * the texture level bound to the image unit is less than the base
        level or greater than the maximum level of the texture;
      
      * [[compatiblity profile only]] the texture bound to the image unit is
        bordered;

      * the internal format of the texture bound to the image unit is not
        found in Table X.2;

      * the internal format of the texture bound to the image unit is
        incompatible with the specified <format> according to Table X.3;

      * the texture bound to the image unit has layers, and the selected layer
        or cube map face doesn't exist;

      * the selected texel tau_i, tau_i_j, or tau_i_j_k doesn't exist;

      * the image has more samples than the implementation-dependent value of
        MAX_IMAGE_SAMPLES.

    Additionally, there are a number of cases where image load, store, or
    atomic operations are considered to involve a format mismatch.  In such
    cases, undefined values will be returned by image loads and atomic
    operations and undefined values will be written by stores and atomic
    operations.  A format mismatch will occur if:

      * the type of image variable used to access the image unit does not
        match the target of a texture bound to the image unit with <layered>
        set to TRUE;

      * the type of image variable used to access the image unit does not
        match the target corresponding to a single layer of a multi-layer
        texture target bound to the image unit with <layered> set to FALSE;

      * the type of image variable used to access the image unit has a
        component data type (floating-point, signed integer, unsigned integer)
        incompatible with the format of the image unit;

      * the format layout qualifier for an image variable used for an image
        load or atomic operation does not match the format of the image unit,
        according to Table X.2; or

      * the image variable used for an image store has a format layout
        qualifier, and that qualifier does not match the format of the image
        unit, according to Table X.2.

    For textures with multiple samples per texel, the sample selected for an
    image load, store, or atomic is undefined if the <sample> coordinate is
    negative or greater than or equal to the number of samples in the
    texture.

    If a shader performs an image load, store, or atomic operation using an
    image variable declared as an array, and if the index used to select an
    individual element is negative or greater than or equal to the size
    of the array, the results of the operation are undefined but may not lead
    to termination.

    Accesses to textures bound to image units do format conversions based on
    the <format> argument specified when the image is bound.  Loads always
    return a value as a vec4, ivec4, or uvec4, and stores always take the
    source data as a vec4, ivec4, or uvec4.  Data are converted to/from the
    specified format according to the process described for a TexImage2D or
    GetTexImage command with <format> and <type> as RGBA and FLOAT for vec4
    data, with <format> and <type> as RGBA_INTEGER and INT for ivec4 data, or
    with <format> and <type> as RGBA_INTEGER and UNSIGNED_INT for uvec4 data.
    Unused components are filled in with (0,0,0,1) (where "1" is either a
    floating-point or integer value, depending on the format).

    Any image variable used for shader loads or atomic memory operations must
    be declared with a format layout qualifier matching the format of its
    associated image unit, as enumerated in Table X.2.  Otherwise, the access
    is considered to involve a format mismatch, as described above.  Image
    variables used exclusively for image stores need not include a format
    layout qualifier, but any declared qualifier must match the image unit
    format to avoid a format mismatch.

        Image Unit Format       Format Qualifer
        -----------------       ---------------
        RGBA32F                 rgba32f
        RGBA16F                 rgba16f
        RG32F                   rg32f
        RG16F                   rg16f
        R11F_G11F_B10F          r11f_g11f_b10f
        R32F                    r32f
        R16F                    r16f

        RGBA32UI                rgba32ui
        RGBA16UI                rgba16ui
        RGB10_A2UI              rgb10_a2ui
        RGBA8UI                 rgba8ui
        RG32UI                  rg32ui
        RG16UI                  rg16ui
        RG8UI                   rg8ui
        R32UI                   r32ui
        R16UI                   r16ui
        R8UI                    r8ui

        RGBA32I                 rgba32i
        RGBA16I                 rgba16i
        RGBA8I                  rgba8i
        RG32I                   rg32i
        RG16I                   rg16i
        RG8I                    rg8i
        R32I                    r32i
        R16I                    r16i
        R8I                     r8i

        RGBA16                  rgba16
        RGB10_A2                rgb10_a2
        RGBA8                   rgba8
        RG16                    rg16
        RG8                     rg8
        R16                     r16
        R8                      r8

        RGBA16_SNORM            rgba16_snorm
        RGBA8_SNORM             rgba8_snorm
        RG16_SNORM              rg16_snorm
        RG8_SNORM               rg8_snorm
        R16_SNORM               r16_snorm
        R8_SNORM                r8_snorm

        Table X.2, Supported image unit formats, with equivalent format 
        layout qualifiers.

    When a texture is bound to an image unit, the <format> parameter for the
    image unit need not exactly match the texture internal format as long as
    the formats are considered compatible.  A pair of formats is considered
    to match in size if the corresponding entries in the "size" column of
    able X.3 are identical.  A pair of formats is considered to match by
    class if the corresponding entries in the "class" column of Table X.3 are
    identical.  For textures allocated by the GL, an image unit format is
    compatible with a texture internal format if they match by size.  For
    textures allocated outside the GL, format compatibility is determined by
    matching by size or by class, in an implementation dependent manner.  The
    matching criterion used for a given texture may be determined by calling
    GetTexParameter with <value> set to IMAGE_FORMAT_COMPATIBILITY_TYPE, with
    return values of IMAGE_FORMAT_COMPATIBILITY_BY_SIZE and
    IMAGE_FORMAT_COMPATIBILITY_BY_CLASS, specifying matches by size and
    class, respectively.

    When the format associated with an image unit does not exactly match the
    internal format of the texture bound to the image unit, image loads,
    stores, and atomic operations re-interpret the memory holding the
    components of an accessed texel according to the format of the image unit.
    The re-interpretation for image loads and the read portion of image
    atomics is performed as though data were copied from the texel of the
    bound texture to a similar texel represented in the format of the image
    unit.  Similarly, the re-interpretation for image stores and the write
    portion of image atomics is performed as though data were copied from a
    texel represented in the format of the image unit to the texel in the
    bound texture.  In both cases, this copy operation would be performed by:

      * reading the texel from the source format to scratch memory according
        to the process described for GetTexImage (section 6.1.4), using
        default pixel storage modes and <format> and <type> parameters
        corresponding to the source format in Table X.3; and

      * writing the texel from scratch memory to the destination format
        according to the process described for TexSubImage3D (section 3.9.2),
        using default pixel storage modes and <format> and <type> parameters
        corresponding to the destination format in Table X.3.

    [[compatibility profile only:  No pixel transfer operations are performed
      during this conversion.]]

        Image Format    Size  Class  Pixel Format/Type
        --------------  ----  -----  -----------------------------------------
        RGBA32F         128   4x32   RGBA, FLOAT
        RGBA16F         64    4x16   RGBA, HALF_FLOAT
        RG32F           64    2x32   RG, FLOAT
        RG16F           32    2x16   RG, HALF_FLOAT
        R11F_G11F_B10F  32    (a)    RGB, UNSIGNED_INT_10F_11F_11F_REV
        R32F            32    1x32   RED, FLOAT
        R16F            16    1x16   RED, HALF_FLOAT

        RGBA32UI        128   4x32   RGBA_INTEGER, UNSIGNED_INT
        RGBA16UI        64    4x16   RGBA_INTEGER, UNSIGNED_SHORT
        RGB10_A2UI      32    (b)    RGBA_INTEGER, UNSIGNED_INT_2_10_10_10_REV
        RGBA8UI         32    4x8    RGBA_INTEGER, UNSIGNED_BYTE
        RG32UI          64    2x32   RG_INTEGER, UNSIGNED_INT
        RG16UI          32    2x16   RG_INTEGER, UNSIGNED_SHORT
        RG8UI           16    2x8    RG_INTEGER, UNSIGNED_BYTE
        R32UI           32    1x32   RED_INTEGER, UNSIGNED_INT
        R16UI           16    1x16   RED_INTEGER, UNSIGNED_SHORT
        R8UI            8     1x8    RED_INTEGER, UNSIGNED_BYTE

        RGBA32I         128   4x32   RGBA_INTEGER, INT
        RGBA16I         64    4x16   RGBA_INTEGER, SHORT
        RGBA8I          32    4x8    RGBA_INTEGER, BYTE
        RG32I           64    2x32   RG_INTEGER, INT
        RG16I           32    2x16   RG_INTEGER, SHORT
        RG8I            16    2x8    RG_INTEGER, BYTE
        R32I            32    1x32   RED_INTEGER, INT
        R16I            16    1x16   RED_INTEGER, SHORT
        R8I             8     1x8    RED_INTEGER, BYTE

        RGBA16          64    4x16   RGBA, UNSIGNED_SHORT
        RGB10_A2        32    (b)    RGBA, UNSIGNED_INT_2_10_10_10_REV
        RGBA8           32    4x8    RGBA, UNSIGNED_BYTE
        RG16            32    2x16   RG, UNSIGNED_SHORT
        RG8             16    2x8    RG, UNSIGNED_BYTE
        R16             16    1x16   RED, UNSIGNED_SHORT
        R8              8     1x8    RED, UNSIGNED_BYTE

        RGBA16_SNORM    64    4x16   RGBA, SHORT
        RGBA8_SNORM     32    4x8    RGBA, BYTE
        RG16_SNORM      32    2x16   RG, SHORT
        RG8_SNORM       16    2x8    RG, BYTE
        R16_SNORM       16    1x16   RED, SHORT
        R8_SNORM        8     1x8    RED, BYTE

        Table X.3, Texel sizes, compatibility classes, and pixel format/type
        combinations for each image format.  Class (a) is for 11/11/10 packed
        floating-point formats; class (b) is for 10/10/10/2 packed formats.

    Implementations may support a limited combined number of image units and
    active fragment shader outputs (section 4.2.1).  A link error will be 
    generated if the number of active image uniforms used in all shaders and 
    the number of active fragment shader outputs exceeds the implementation-
    dependent value (MAX_COMBINED_IMAGE_UNITS_AND_FRAGMENT_OUTPUTS).


   Modify Section 3.12.2, Shader Execution, p. 274

   (add new unnumbered subsection section at the end of the section, p. 279)

    Early Fragment Tests

    An explicit control is provided to allow fragment shaders to enable early
    fragment tests.  If the fragment shader specifies the
    "early_fragment_tests" layout qualifier, the per-fragment tests described
    in Section 3.X will be performed prior to fragment shader execution.
    Otherwise, they will be performed after fragment shader execution.
   

Additions to Chapter 4 of the OpenGL 3.2 (Compatibility Profile) Specification
(Per-Fragment Operations and the Framebuffer)

    None.


Additions to Chapter 5 of the OpenGL 3.2 (Compatibility Profile) Specification
(Special Functions)

    Modify Section 5.4.1, Commands Not Usable In Display Lists (p. 358)

    (add "MemoryBarrier" to the list of commands not allowed in a display
     list, in the "Buffer objects" paragraph)


Additions to Chapter 6 of the OpenGL 3.2 (Compatibility Profile) Specification
(State and State Requests)

    Modify Section 6.1.3, Enumerated Queries (p. 369)

    (modify 2nd pargraph, p. 370) ... <value> must be TEXTURE_RESIDENT,
    IMAGE_FORMAT_COMPATIBILITY_TYPE, or one of the symbolic values in table
    3.22.


New Implementation Dependent State

                                                     Minimum
    Get Value                    Type  Get Command    Value    Description                Sec.       Attrib
    ---------                    ----  -----------   --------  -----------------------    ----       ------
    MAX_IMAGE_UNITS              Z+    GetIntegerv      8      number of units for        3.9.X        -
                                                               image load/store/atom
    MAX_COMBINED_IMAGE_UNITS_    Z+    GetIntegerv      8      limit on active image      3.9.X        -
      AND_FRAGMENT_OUTPUTS                                     units + fragment outputs
    MAX_IMAGE_SAMPLES            Z     GetIntegerv      0      max allowed samples        3.9.X        -
                                                               for a texture level
                                                               bound to an image unit  
    MAX_VERTEX_IMAGE_            Z+    GetIntegerv      0      number of image variables  2.14.7
      UNIFORMS                                                 in vertex shaders
    MAX_TESS_CONTROL_IMAGE_      Z+    GetIntegerv      0      number of image variables  2.14.7
      UNIFORMS                                                 in tess. control shaders
    MAX_TESS_EVALUATION_IMAGE_   Z+    GetIntegerv      0      number of image variables  2.14.7
      UNIFORMS                                                 in tess. eval. shaders
    MAX_GEOMETRY_IMAGE_          Z+    GetIntegerv      0      number of image variables  2.14.7
      UNIFORMS                                                 in geometry shaders
    MAX_FRAGMENT_IMAGE_          Z+    GetIntegerv      8      number of image variables  2.14.7
      UNIFORMS                                                 in fragment shaders
    MAX_COMBINED_IMAGE_          Z+    GetIntegerv      8      number of image variables  2.14.7
      UNIFORMS                                                 in all shaders

New State

    Add to Table 6.22, Textures (state per texture object), p. 414

    Get Value               Type    Get Command     Initial Value  Description               Sec     Attribute
    ---------------------   -----   -----------     -------------  ------------------------  -----   ---------
    IMAGE_FORMAT_           Z_2     GetTexParam-    see 3.9.x      compatibility rules for   3.9.X   texture
      COMPATIBILITY_TYPE              eteriv                       texture use with image
                                                                   units

    Add a new Table 6.X, Image Stage (state per image unit)

    Get Value               Type    Get Command     Initial Value  Description               Sec     Attribute
    ---------------------   ----    -----------     -------------  ------------------------  -----   ---------
    IMAGE_BINDING_NAME      8*xZ+   GetIntegeri_v    0             name of bound texture     3.9.X      none
                                                                   object
    IMAGE_BINDING_LEVEL     8*xZ+   GetIntegeri_v    0             level of bound texture    3.9.X      none
                                                                   object
    IMAGE_BINDING_LAYERED   8*xB    GetBooleani_v    FALSE         texture object bound w/   3.9.X      none
                                                                   multiple layers
    IMAGE_BINDING_LAYER     8*xZ+   GetIntegeri_v    0             layer of bound texture    3.9.X      none
                                                                   object, if not layered
    IMAGE_BINDING_ACCESS    8*xZ3   GetIntegeri_v    READ_ONLY     read and/or write access  3.9.X      none
                                                                   for bound texture
    IMAGE_BINDING_FORMAT    8*xZ+   GetIntegeri_v    R8            format used for accesses  3.9.X      none
                                                                   to bound texture


Additions to Appendix A of the OpenGL 3.2 (Compatibility Profile)
Specification (Invariance)

    Modify Section A.1, Repeatability (p. 454)

    (add a new sentence to the end of the first paragraph, p. 454) ...  For
    any given GL and framebuffer state vector .. whenever the command is
    executed on that initial GL and framebuffer state.  This repeatability
    requirement doesn't apply when using shaders containing side effects
    (image stores, image atomic operations, atomic counter operations),
    because these memory operations are not guaranteed to be processed in a
    defined order.

    Modify Section A.3, Invariance (p. 455)

    (add new language to the end of the section, p. 457) 

    If a sequence of GL commands specifies primitives to be rendered with
    shaders containing side effects (image stores, image atomic operations,
    atomic counter operations), invariance rules are relaxed.  In particular,
    Rule 1, Corollary 3, and Rule 4 do not apply in the presence of shader
    side effects.

    The following weaker versions of Rule 1 and 4 apply to GL commands
    involving shader side effects:

      Rule 6:  For any given GL and framebuffer state vector, and for any
      given GL command, the contents of any framebuffer state not directly or
      indirectly affected by results of shader image stores, atomic
      operations, or atomic counter operations must be identical each time the
      command is executed on that initial GL and framebuffer state.

      Rule 7:  The same vertex or fragment shader will produce the same result
      when run multiple times with the same input as long as:

        * shader invocations do not use image atomic operations or atomic
          counters;

        * no framebuffer memory is written to more than once by image stores,
          unless all such stores write the same value; and

        * no shader invocation, or other operation performed to process the
          sequence of commands, reads memory written to by an image store.

    When any sequence of GL commands triggers shader invocations that perform
    image stores, atomic operations, or atomic counter operations, and
    subsequent GL commands read the memory written by those shader
    invocations, these operations must be explicitly synchronized.  For more
    details, see Section 2.14.X, Shader Memory Access.


    Modify Section A.3, Invariance (p. 455)


    Add Section A.5, Shader Image Load, Store, and Atomic Invariance (p. 457)

    
Additions to Appendix D of the OpenGL 3.2 (Compatibility Profile)
Specification (Invariance)

    Modify Section D.3, Propagating State Changes, p. 467

    (add to list of bullets at the end of the section, p. 467)

    * Rendering commands that trigger shader invocations, where the shader
      performs image stores or atomic operations.

    
Additions to the AGL/GLX/WGL Specifications

    None.


GLX Protocol

    !!! TBD !!!

    NOTE TO PROTOCOL CREATORS:  Don't attempt to use the same protocol for
    BindImageTexture and BindImageTextureEXT (from
    EXT_shader_image_load_store).  BindImageTexture throws an error on
    negative <level> and <layer> values; BindImageTextureEXT does not.

    
Modifications to the OpenGL Shading Language Specification, Version 1.50

    Including the following line in a shader can be used to control the
    language features described in this extension:

      #extension GL_ARB_shader_image_load_store : <behavior>

    where <behavior> is as specified in section 3.3.

    New preprocessor #defines are added to the OpenGL Shading Language:

      #define GL_ARB_shader_image_load_store    1


    Modify Section 3.6, Keywords, p. 14

    (add the following to the list of keywords, p. 14)

    coherent
    volatile
    restrict
    readonly
    writeonly

    image1D             iimage1D                uimage1D
    image2D             iimage2D                uimage2D
    image3D             iimage3D                uimage3D
    image2DRect         iimage2DRect            uimage2DRect
    imageCube           iimageCube              uimageCube
    imageBuffer         iimageBuffer            uimageBuffer
    image1DArray        iimage1DArray           uimage1DArray
    image2DArray        iimage2DArray           uimage2DArray
    imageCubeArray      iimageCubeArray         uimageCubeArray
    image2DMS           iimage2DMS              uimage2DMS
    image2DMSArray      iimage2DMSArray         uimage2DMSArray

    (remove from the list of reserved keywords, p. 15)

    volatile
    <all others above that are also reserved keywords>

    Add all these types into the basic types table, in the opaque sections,
    along with their corresponding texture types.


    (Insert a new section immediately after Section 4.1.7, Samplers, p. 23)

    Section 4.1.X, Images

    Like samplers, images are opaque handles to one-, two-, or
    three-dimensional images corresponding to all or a portion of a single
    level of a texture image bound to an image unit.  There are distinct 
    image variable types for each texture target, and for each of float,
    integer, and unsigned integer data types.  Image accesses should use 
    an image type that matches the target of the texture whose level is 
    bound to the image unit, or for non-layered bindings of 3D or array 
    images should use the image type that matches the dimensionality of 
    the layer of the image (i.e. a layer of 3D, 2DArray, Cube, or 
    CubeArray should use image2D, a layer of 1DArray should use image1D, 
    and a layer of 2DMSArray should use image2DMS). If the image target type 
    does not match the bound image in this manner, if the data type does not
    match the bound image, or if the format layout qualifier does not match
    the image unit format as described in Section 3.9.X of the OpenGL
    Specification, the results of image accesses are undefined but cannot
    include program termination.

    Image variables are used in the image load, store, and atomic functions
    described in Section 8.X, "Image Functions" to specify an image to access.
    They can only be declared as function parameters or uniform variables (see
    Section 4.3.5 "Uniform").  Except for array indexing, structure field
    selection, and parentheses, images are not allowed to be operands in
    expressions.  Images may be aggregated into arrays within a shader (using
    square brackets [ ]) and can be indexed with general integer expressions.
    The results of accessing an image array with an out-of-bounds index are
    undefined.  Images cannot be treated as l-values; hence, they cannot be
    used as out or inout function parameters, nor can they be assigned into.
    As uniforms, they are initialized only with the OpenGL API; they cannot be
    declared with an initializer in a shader.  As function parameters, images
    may only be passed to samplers of matching type.


    Add Memory Qualifier Table to Section 4.3, Storage Qualifiers, p. 29

    Only variables declared as image types (the basic opaque types with 
    "image" in their keyword) can be qualified with a memory qualifier.

    Variables declared as image types can qualified with one or more of the 
    following memory qualifiers:

        Qualifier       Meaning
        ------------    -------------------------------------------------
        coherent        memory variable where reads and writes are coherent
                        with reads and writes from other shader invocations

        volatile        memory variable whose underlying value may be
                        changed at any point during shader execution by
                        some source other than the current shader invocation

        restrict        memory variable where use of that variable is the
                        only way to read and write the underlying memory
                        in the relevant shader stage

        readonly        memory variable that can be used to read the 
                        underlying memory, but cannot be used to write the 
                        underlying memory

        writeonly       memory variable that can be used to write the 
                        underlying memory, but cannot be used to read the 
                        underlying memory


    Modify Section 4.3.2, Constant Qualifier (p. 30)

    (add after last paragraph of section)  

    Because image variables can not be built from constant expressions, the
    "const" qualifier may not be used to create a compile-time constant image
    variable.

    Modify Section 4.3.8.1 (Input Layout Qualifiers), p. 39

    Remove "only" from the sentence:

    Fragment shaders can have an input layout only for redeclaring the 
    built-in variable gl_FragCoord...

    Add to the end of the section:

    Fragment shaders also allow the following layout qualifier on "in" only
    (not with variable declarations):

      layout-qualifier-id
        early_fragment_tests

    to request that fragment tests be performed before fragment shader
    execution, as described in Section 3.12.2 of the OpenGL Specification. 
    For example,

      layout(early_fragment_tests) in;

    Specifying this will make per-fragment tests be performed before fragment 
    shader execution. If this is not declared, per-fragment tests will be
    performed after fragment shader execution.

    (Insert immediately after Section 4.3.8.3, Uniform Block Layout
     Qualifiers, p. 40)

    Section 4.3.8.X, Image Layout Qualifiers

    Format layout qualifiers can be used on image variable declarations (those
    declared with a basic type having 'image' in its keyword). The format 
    layout qualifier identifiers for image variable declarations are

      <layout-qualifier-id>:
        <float-image-format-qualifier>
        <int-image-format-qualifier>
        <uint-image-format-qualifier>

      <float-image-format-qualifier>:
        rgba32f
        rgba16f
        rg32f
        rg16f
        r11f_g11f_b10f
        r32f
        r16f
        rgba16
        rgb10_a2
        rgba8
        rg16
        rg8
        r16
        r8
        rgba16_snorm
        rgba8_snorm
        rg16_snorm
        rg8_snorm
        r16_snorm
        r8_snorm

      <int-image-format-qualifier>:
        rgba32i
        rgba16i
        rgba8i
        rg32i
        rg16i
        rg8i
        r32i
        r16i
        r8i

      <uint-image-format-qualifier>:
        rgba32ui
        rgba16ui
        rgb10_a2ui
        rgba8ui
        rg32ui
        rg16ui
        rg8ui
        r32ui
        r16ui
        r8ui

    A format layout qualifier specifies the image format associated with a
    declared image variable.  Only one format qualifier may be specified for
    any image variable declaration.  For image variables with floating-point
    component types (image*), signed integer component types (iimage*), or
    unsigned integer component types (uimage*), the format qualifier used must
    match the <float-image-format-qualifier>, <int-image-format-qualifier>, or
    <uint-image-format-qualifier> grammar rules, respectively.  It is an error
    to declare an image variable where the format qualifier does not match the
    image variable type.

    Any image variable used for image loads or atomic operations must specify
    a format layout qualifier; it is an error to pass an image uniform
    variable or function parameter declared without a format layout qualifier 
    to an image load or atomic function.

    Uniforms not qualified with "writeonly" must have a format layout qualifier. 
    Note that an image variable passed to a function for read access cannot be
    declared as "writeonly" and hence must have been declared with a format 
    layout qualifier.

    (Insert immediately after Section 4.3.9, Interpolation, p. 42)

    Section 6.1.1 Function Calling Conventions

    Add "memory qualifier" as one of the qualifiers that can be used as a formal
    "parameter-qualifier".

    Section 4.3.X, Memory Access Qualifiers

    The "coherent", "volatile", "restrict", and "const" storage qualifiers can
    be specified in image variable declarations to control memory accesses
    using the declared variables.

    Memory accesses to image variables declared using the "coherent" storage
    qualifier are performed coherently with similar accesses from other shader
    invocations.  In particular, when reading a variable declared as
    "coherent", the values returned will reflect the results of previously
    completed writes performed by other shader invocations.  When writing a
    variable declared as "coherent", the values written will be reflected in
    subsequent coherent reads performed by other shader invocations.  As
    described in the Section 2.20.X of the OpenGL Specification, shader memory
    reads and writes complete in a largely undefined order.  The built-in
    function memoryBarrier() can be used if needed to guarantee the completion
    and relative ordering of memory accesses performed by a single shader
    invocation.

    When accessing memory using variables not declared as "coherent", the
    memory accessed by a shader may be cached by the implementation to service
    future accesses to the same address.  Memory stores may be cached in such
    a way that the values written may not be visible to other shader
    invocations accessing the same memory.  The implementation may cache the
    values fetched by memory reads and return the same values to any shader
    invocation accessing the same memory, even if the underlying memory has
    been modified since the first memory read.  While variables not declared
    as "coherent" may not be useful for communicating between shader
    invocations, using non-coherent accesses may result in higher performance.

    Memory accesses to image variables declared using the "volatile" storage
    qualifier must treat the underlying memory as though it could be read or
    written at any point during shader execution by some source other than the
    executing shader invocation.  When a volatile variable is read, its value
    must be re-fetched from the underlying memory, even if the shader
    invocation performing the read had previously fetched its value from the 
    same memory.  When a volatile variable is written, its value must be
    written to the underlying memory, even if the compiler can conclusively
    determine that its value will be overwritten by a subsequent write.  Since
    the external source reading or writing a "volatile" variable may be
    another shader invocation, variables declared as "volatile" are
    automatically treated as coherent.

    Memory accesses to image variables declared using the "restrict" storage
    qualifier may be compiled assuming that the variable used to perform the
    memory access is the only way to access the underlying memory using the
    shader stage in question.  This allows the compiler to coalesce or reorder
    loads and stores using "restrict"-qualified image variables in ways that
    wouldn't be permitted for image variables not so qualified, because the
    compiler can assume that the underlying image won't be read or written by
    other code.  Applications are responsible for ensuring that image memory
    referenced by variables qualified with "restrict" will not be referenced
    using other variables in the same scope; otherwise, accesses to
    "restrict"-qualified variables will have undefined results.

    Memory accesses to image variables declared using the "readonly" qualifier 
    may only read the underlying memory, which is treated as read-only memory 
    and cannot be written to. It is an error to pass an image variable qualified 
    with "readonly" to imageStore() or other built-in functions that modify 
    image memory.

    Memory accesses to image variables declared using the "writeonly" qualifier 
    may only write the underlying memory; the underlying memory cannot be read. 
    It is an error to pass an image variable qualified with "writeonly" to 
    imageLoad() or other built-in functions that read image memory.

    The values of image variables qualified with "coherent", "volatile", 
    "restrict", "readonly", or "writeonly" may not be passed to functions 
    whose formal parameters lack such qualifiers. (See section 6.1 'Function
    Definitions' for more detail on function calling.) It is legal to have 
    additional qualifiers on a formal parameter, but not to have fewer.

      vec4 funcA(layout(rgba32f) image2D restrict a)   { ... }
      vec4 funcB(layout(rgba32f) image2D a)            { ... }
      layout(rgba32f) uniform image2D img1;
      layout(rgba32f) coherent uniform image2D img2;

      funcA(img1);              // OK, adding "restrict" is allowed
      funcB(img2);              // illegal, stripping "coherent" is not

    Layout qualifiers cannot be used on formal function parameters, but they are 
    not included in parameter matching.  

    Note that the use of "const" in an image variable declaration is qualifying 
    the const-ness of variable being declared, not the image it refers to: The 
    qualifier "readonly" qualifies the image memory (as accessed through that 
    variable) while "const" qualifiers the variable itself.

    Modify Section 7.4, Built-In Constants, p. 74

    (Add the following new constants.)

      const int gl_MaxImageUnits = 8;
      const int gl_MaxCombinedImageUnitsAndFragmentOutputs = 8;
      const int gl_MaxImageSamples = 0;
      const int gl_MaxVertexImageUniforms = 0;
      const int gl_MaxTessControlImageUniforms = 0;
      const int gl_MaxTessEvaluationImageUniforms = 0;
      const int gl_MaxGeometryImageUniforms = 0;
      const int gl_MaxFragmentImageUniforms = 8;
      const int gl_MaxCombinedImageUniforms = 8;


    (Insert a new numbered section at the end of Chapter 8, Built-in
    Functions, p. 69)

    Section 8.X, Image Functions

    Variables using one of the image data types may be used in the built-in
    shader image memory functions defined in this section to read and write
    individual texels of a texture.  Each image variable references an image 
    unit, which has a texture image attached.

    When image memory functions access memory, an individual texel in the
    image is identified using an i, (i,j), or (i,j,k) coordinate corresponding
    to the values of <coord>.  For image2DMS and image2DMSArray variables (and 
    the corresponding int/unsigned int types) corresponding to multisample 
    textures, each texel may have multiple samples and an individual sample is 
    identified using the integer <sample> parameter.  The coordinates and 
    sample number are used to select an individual texel in the manner 
    described in Section 3.9.X of the OpenGL specification.

    Loads and stores support float, integer, and unsigned integer types. The
    data types "gimage*" serve as placeholders meaning either "image*", 
    "iimage*", or "uimage*" in the same way as "gvec" or "gsampler".

    The "IMAGE_INFO" in the prototypes below is a placeholder representing
    33 separate functions, each for a different type of image variable.  The
    "IMAGE_INFO" placeholder is replaced by one of the following parameter
    lists:

        gimage1D image, int coord
        gimage2D image, ivec2 coord
        gimage3D image, ivec3 coord
        gimage2DRect image, ivec2 coord
        gimageCube image, ivec3 coord
        gimageBuffer image, int coord
        gimage1DArray image, ivec2 coord
        gimage2DArray image, ivec3 coord
        gimageCubeArray image, ivec3 coord
        gimage2DMS image, ivec2 coord, int sample
        gimage2DMSArray image, ivec3 coord, int sample

    (Note that each of the "gimage*" lines represents one of three different
    image variable types.)

    Syntax:

      gvec4 imageLoad(readonly IMAGE_INFO);

    Description:

    Loads the texel at the coordinate <coord> from the image unit specified 
    by <image>.  For multisample loads, the sample number is given by 
    <sample>.  When <image>, <coord>, and <sample> identify a valid texel, 
    the bits used to represent the selected texel in memory are converted to 
    a vec4, ivec4, or uvec4 in the manner described in Section 3.9.X of the 
    OpenGL Specification and returned.


    Syntax:

      void imageStore(writeonly IMAGE_INFO, gvec4 data);

    Description:

    Stores the value of <data> into the texel at the coordinate <coord> from
    the image specified by <image>.  For multisample stores, the sample number
    is given by <sample>.  When <image>, <coord>, and <sample> identify a
    valid texel, the bits used to represent <data> are converted to the format
    of the image unit in the manner described in Section 3.9.X of the OpenGL
    Specification and stored to the specified texel.
    

    Syntax:

      uint      imageAtomicAdd(IMAGE_INFO, uint data);
      int       imageAtomicAdd(IMAGE_INFO, int data);

      uint      imageAtomicMin(IMAGE_INFO, uint data);
      int       imageAtomicMin(IMAGE_INFO, int data);

      uint      imageAtomicMax(IMAGE_INFO, uint data);
      int       imageAtomicMax(IMAGE_INFO, int data);

      uint      imageAtomicAnd(IMAGE_INFO, uint data);
      int       imageAtomicAnd(IMAGE_INFO, int data);

      uint      imageAtomicOr(IMAGE_INFO, uint data);
      int       imageAtomicOr(IMAGE_INFO, int data);

      uint      imageAtomicXor(IMAGE_INFO, uint data);
      int       imageAtomicXor(IMAGE_INFO, int data);

      uint      imageAtomicExchange(IMAGE_INFO, uint data);
      int       imageAtomicExchange(IMAGE_INFO, int data);

      uint      imageAtomicCompSwap(IMAGE_INFO, uint compare, uint data);
      int       imageAtomicCompSwap(IMAGE_INFO, int compare, int data);

    Description:

    These functions perform atomic operations on individual texels or samples
    of an image variable.  Atomic memory operations read a value from the
    selected texel, compute a new value using one of the operations described
    below, write the new value to the selected texel, and return the
    original value read.  The contents of the texel being updated by the
    atomic operation are guaranteed not to be updated by any other image store
    or atomic function between the time the original value is read and the
    time the new value is written.

    As with image load and store functions, <image>, <coord>, and <sample>
    specify the individual texel to operate on.  The method for
    identifying the individual texel operated on from <image>, <coord>, and
    <sample>, and the method for reading and writing the texel are specified
    in Section 3.9.X of the OpenGL specification.  Atomic memory operations
    are supported on only a subset of all image variable types; <image> must
    be either:

      * an image variable with signed integer components (iimage*) and a
        format qualifier of "r32i", or

      * an image variable with unsigned integer components (uimage*) and a
        format qualifier of "r32ui".

    imageAtomicAdd() computes a new value by adding the value of <data> to the
    contents of the selected texel.  These functions support 32-bit unsigned
    integer operands and 32-bit signed integer operands.

    imageAtomicMin() computes a new value by taking the minimum of the value
    of <data> and the contents of the selected texel.  These functions support
    32-bit signed and unsigned integer operands.

    imageAtomicMax() computes a new value by taking the maximum of the value
    of <data> and the contents of the selected texel.  These functions support
    32-bit signed and unsigned integer operands.

    imageAtomicAnd() computes a new value by performing a bitwise and of the
    value of <data> and the contents of the selected texel.  These functions
    support 32-bit signed and unsigned integer operands.

    imageAtomicOr() computes a new value by performing a bitwise or of the
    value of <data> and the contents of the selected texel.  These functions
    support 32-bit signed and unsigned integer operands.

    imageAtomicXor() computes a new value by performing a bitwise exclusive or
    of the value of <data> and the contents of the selected texel.  These
    functions support 32-bit signed and unsigned integer operands.

    imageAtomicExchange() computes a new value by simply copying the value of
    <data>.  These functions support 32-bit signed and unsigned integer
    operands.

    imageAtomicCompSwap() compares the value of <compare> and the contents of
    the selected texel.  If the values are equal, the new value is given by
    <data>; otherwise, it is taken from the original value loaded from the
    texel.  These functions support 32-bit signed and unsigned integer
    operands.


    (Insert another new numbered section at the end of Chapter 8, Built-in
    Functions, p. 69)

    Section 8.Y, Shader Memory Control Functions

    Shaders of all types may read and write the contents of textures and
    buffer objects using image variables.  While the order of reads and writes
    visible to a single shader invocation is well-defined, the relative order
    of reads and writes to a single shared memory address from multiple
    separate shader invocations is largely undefined.  Additionally, the order
    of accesses to multiple memory addresses performed by a single shader
    invocation, as observed by other shader invocations, is also undefined.

    Syntax:

      void      memoryBarrier(void);

    Description:

    memoryBarrier() can be used to control the ordering of memory transactions
    issued by a single shader invocation.  When called, memoryBarrier() will
    wait on the completion of all memory accesses resulting from the use of
    image variables or atomic counters and then return to the caller with no
    other effect.  When this function returns, the results of any memory
    stores performed using coherent variables performed prior to the call will
    be visible to any future coherent memory access to the same addresses from
    other shader invocations.  In particular, the values written this way in
    one shader stage are guaranteed to be visible to coherent memory accesses
    performed by shader invocations in subsequent stages when those
    invocations were triggered by the execution of the original shader
    invocation (e.g., fragment shader invocations for a primitive resulting
    from a particular geometry shader invocation).


    Modify Section 9, Shading Language Grammar (p. 105)

    !!! TBD:  Add grammar constructs for memory access qualifiers.


Errors

    INVALID_VALUE is generated by Uniform1i{v} if the location refers to an
    image variable and the value specified is less than zero or greater than
    or equal to the value of MAX_IMAGE_UNITS.

    INVALID_OPERATION is generated by Uniform* functions other than
    Uniform1i{v} if the location refers to an image variable.

    INVALID_VALUE is generated by BindImageTexture if <unit> is greater
    than or equal to the value of MAX_IMAGE_UNITS.

    INVALID_VALUE is generated by BindImageTexture if <texture> is not the
    name of an existing texture object.

    INVALID_VALUE is generated by BindImageTexture if <format> is not a 
    legal format.


Dependencies on OpenGL 3.2 (Core Profile)

    If only the core profile of OpenGL 3.2 is supported, references to buffer
    objects for conventional vertex attributes and to the Begin and RasterPos
    commands should be removed.

Dependencies on OpenGL 3.1, ARB_uniform_buffer_object, and
EXT_bindable_uniform

    If OpenGL 3.1, ARB_uniform_buffer_object, and EXT_bindable_uniform are not
    supported, references to UNIFORM_BARRIER_BIT should be removed.

Dependencies on ARB_draw_indirect

    If ARB_draw_indirect is not supported, references to COMMAND_BARRIER_BIT
    should be removed.

Dependencies on NV_vertex_buffer_unified_memory

    If NV_vertex_buffer_unified_memory is not supported, references to that
    extension and GPU addresses in the discussion of
    VERTEX_ATTRIB_ARRAY_BARRIER_BIT and ELEMENT_ARRAY_BARRIER_BIT should
    be removed.

Dependencies on NV_parameter_buffer_object

    If NV_parameter_buffer_object is not supported, references to
    ProgramBufferParametersNV in the discussion of BUFFER_UPDATE_PARAMETER_BIT
    should be removed.

Dependencies on OpenGL 3.2 and ARB_texture_multisample

    If OpenGL 3.2 and ARB_texture_multisample are not supported, references to
    multisample textures should be removed.

Dependencies on OpenGL 4.0 and ARB_sample_shading

    If OpenGL 4.0 or ARB_sample_shading is supported, the discussion of the
    number of shader invocations for a given fragment in the "Shader Memory
    Access" section of the specification should be updated to discuss the
    sample shading enable and the minimum sample shading factor provided in
    that extension.

Dependencies on OpenGL 4.0 and ARB_texture_cube_map_array

    If OpenGL 4.0 or ARB_texture_cube_map_array are not supported, references
    to cube map array textures should be removed.

Dependencies on OpenGL 3.3 and ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui

    If OpenGL 3.3 or ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui are not supported, references to
    the RGB10_A2UI texture format should be removed.

Dependencies on NV_shader_buffer_load

    If NV_shader_buffer_load is supported, the new section 2.14.X (Shader
    Memory Access) should be combined with "Section 2.20.X, Shader Memory
    Access" from NV_shader_buffer_load.

Dependencies on OpenGL 4.0, ARB_gpu_shader5, and NV_gpu_shader5

    If OpenGL 4.0, ARB_gpu_shader5, and NV_gpu_shader5 are not supported, the
    modifications to the OpenGL Shading Language Specification should be
    removed.

Dependencies on OpenGL 4.0 and ARB_tessellation_shader

    If OpenGL 4.0 and ARB_tessellation_shader are not supported, references to
    tessellation control and evaluation shaders should be removed.

Dependencies on EXT_shader_atomic_counters and ARB_shader_atomic_counters

    If EXT_shader_atomic_counters is not supported, remove references to
    atomic counters and ATOMIC_COUNTER_BARRIER_BIT.

Dependencies on EXT_depth_bounds_test

    If EXT_depth_bounds_test is not supported, references to the depth bounds
    test should be removed.

Dependencies on ARB_separate_shader_objects

    If ARB_separate_shader_objects is supported, early depth tests are enabled
    if and only if (a) there is an active program for the fragment shader
    stage and (b) the fragment shader in that program enables early depth
    tests using a layout qualifier.

Dependencies on EXT_shader_image_load_store

    Both this extension and EXT_shader_image_load_store provide nearly the
    identical functionality.

    If both extensions are enabled in the shading language, the "size*" layout
    qualifiers are treated as format qualifiers, and are mapped to equivalent
    format qualifiers in the table below, according to the type of image
    variable.  Additionally, if both extensions are enabled in the shading
    language, size/format layout qualifiers need not be specified for image
    variables used exclusively for stores.

                    image*    iimage*   uimage*
                    --------  --------  --------
      size1x8       n/a       r8i       r8ui
      size1x16      r16f      r16i      r16ui
      size1x32      r32f      r32i      r32ui
      size2x32      rg32f     rg32i     rg32ui
      size4x32      rgba32f   rgba32i   rgba32ui

Issues

    (0) How does this extension differ from the similar
        EXT_shader_image_load_store?

      RESOLVED:  The functionality provided by this extension is very similar
      to that provided by EXT_shader_image_load_stores.  There are some
      functional differences.

        * "size" layout qualifiers replaced with "format" qualifiers.

        * Image loads aren't restricted to "1x8", "1x16", "1x32", "2x32", and
          "4x32" formats.  Instead, each supported image format has a layout
          qualifier, and values loaded from images are converted to an
          vec4/ivec4/uvec4 representation appropriate for the image format.

        * For textures not allocated by the GL (e.g., images shared from other
          external APIs), implementations need not support image unit formats
          that don't match the texture format, unless they are in the same
          "class", which is generally the case only if component counts and
          sizes are exactly the same.

        * Image variables used exclusively for image stores need not declare a
          format qualifier.

        * Added the built-in GLSL constants "gl_MaxImageUnits",
          "gl_MaxCombinedImageUnitsAndFragmentOutputs", and
          "gl_MaxImageSamples".

        * BindImageTexture throws INVALID_VALUE if <level> or <layer> is
          negative.

        * The <format> parameter of BindImageTexture was changed from an "int"
          to an "enum".  In the EXT, <format> copied TexImage*'s
          <internalformat> parameter, which is an "int" because that's how it
          was defined in OpenGL 1.0 (where the parameter was called
          <components> and the now-deprecated "1", "2", "3", and "4" formats
          were the only ones supported).

        * Added implemenentation-dependent limits on the number of active
          image uniforms (MAX_*_IMAGE_UNIFORMS) for each stage, and combined
          across all stages.  Also added corresponding GLSL constants
          "gl_Max*ImageUniforms".

        * The atomicIncWrap() and atomicDecWrap() built-in functions present
          in the EXT have been removed.

        * The <index> parameter of BindImageTextureEXT has been renamed to
          <unit> for BindImageTexture.

    (1) How are the format and type of the load/store determined?

      RESOLVED:  There is a natural desire to load and store using a 
      canonical 4-vector in the shader with hardware converting to/from a 
      format compatible with the bound image, to be consistent with how
      texture loads and fragment shader outputs currently behave. There is
      also good reason to allow some flexibility in the format used for image
      accesses being different from the internal format of the texture level.
      We allow format conversions to and from any format that image units 
      support. We make the format be selected when the image is bound to an 
      image unit, and define which image unit formats can be used for which
      texture level internal formats. For example, it is legal to access an
      image whose internal format is RGBA8 with an image unit format of 
      R32UI.
      
    (2) What set of texture formats should be supported for image loads and
        stores?

      RESOLVED:  We allow textures to be bound to image units using only a
      subset of supported formats, to limit the amount of hardware support
      required for image operations.  Any texture formats not explicitly
      enumerated in this extension may not be bound to an image unit, although
      future extensions may add new formats to the set of supported formats.

      In particular, this extension supports one-, two-, and four-component
      textures with 8-, 16-, and 32-bit components, including floating-point,
      signed integer, unsigned integer, as well as signed and unsigned
      normalized formats.  Additionally, a small number of other formats are
      supported, including the 11/11/10 RGB format from EXT_packed_float and
      10/10/10/2 unsigned normalized RGBA.

    (3) Should we general support image loads and stores for three-component
        "RGB" formats?

      RESOLVED:  Not in this extension.  If an application needs to perform
      image loads and stores on a three-component texture, it could use an
      equivalent RGBA format and ignore the alpha component.  The
      EXT_texture_swizzle extension could be used to make the values returned
      by texture appear identical to an RGB texture, if required.

    (4) Should textures be unbound from image units when they are deleted?

      RESOLVED:  Yes, this matches behavior of existing bind points.

    (5) Should we support image loads and stores for the deprecated LUMINANCE,
        LUMINANCE_ALPHA, and ALPHA formats?

      RESOLVED:  No, only support the RGBA-style formats. EXT_texture_swizzle
      can be used to mimic luminance and alpha if required.

    (6) Should we support 64-bit atomics on images?  Should we support atomics
        at all on formats with 8-, 16-, 64-, or 128-bit texels?

      RESOLVED:  No, we will only support 32-bit atomic operations on images.

    (7) How do shader image loads and stores interact with texture
        completeness?  What happens if you bind a texture with inconsistent
        mipmaps?

      RESOLVED:  The image unit is treated as if nothing were bound, where 
      all accesses are treated as invalid.

    (8) What happens if the value passed to Uniform1i to specify the image
        unit corresponding to a image variable refers to a non-existent image
        unit (i.e., is negative or greater than or equal to the number of
        image units supported)?

      RESOLVED:  Values referring to invalid image units will be rejected and
      produce an INVALID_VALUE error.

    (9) Should we provide counting rules for image variable use in different
        shaders like we have for samplers?  In particular, there are limits
        on the amount of state, the number of active samplers in each shader
        stage, and the sum of the active sampler counts in each stage.

      RESOLVED:  Yes, we provide a similar set of limits.  MAX_IMAGE_UNITS
      specifies the number of image bindings.  MAX_{VERTEX,...}_IMAGE_UNIFORMS
      specifies the maximum number of active image uniforms in each shader
      stage.  MAX_COMBINED_IMAGE_UNIFORMS specifies a limit on the sum of the
      number of active image uniforms in all stages of a program.

    (10) Can this extension be used to load and store values into a buffer
         object?  Into a renderbuffer?

      RESOLVED:  Yes, indirectly.  The BUFFER_TEXTURE target provided by
      OpenGL 3.0 and the EXT_texture_buffer_object extension allows an
      application to create a one-dimensional buffer texture using the data
      store of a buffer object. This buffer texture may be bound to an image
      unit and accessed with an imageBuffer variable in the Shading Language.

      This extension adds support for image accesses to multisample textures, 
      but not renderbuffers. Note that with the ARB_texture_multisample 
      extension, there is no longer a good reason to use renderbuffers. 
      Existing 2D or rectangle targets already provided a superset of single-
      sample renderbuffer functionality; the new ARB extension provides a 
      superset of multisample renderbuffer functionality.

    (11) What amount of automatic synchronization is provided for image loads
         and stores?  In particular, is the use of MemoryBarrier() required
         to ensure consistent ordering relative to other GL operations?  Or is
         some other mechanism (e.g., unbinding a texture from an image unit
         and then binding it to a texture image unit) sufficient?

      RESOLVED:  Use of MemoryBarrier is required, and there is no
      automatic synchronization when images are bound or unbound.

      Implicit synchronization is difficult, as it might require some
      combination of:

        - tracking which images might be written (randomly) in the shader
          itself;

        - assuming that if a shader that performs writes is executed, all
          texels of all bound images could be modified and thus must be
          treated as dirty;

        - idling at the end of each primitive or draw call, so that the
          results of all previous commands are complete.

      Since normal OpenGL operation is pipelined, idling would result in a
      significant performance impact since pipelining would otherwise allow
      fragment shader execution for draw call N while simultaneously
      performing vertex shader execution for draw call N+1.

    (12) Should image loads and stores be allowed for all shader types?

      RESOLVED:  Yes, it seems useful.

      Note that some shader types pose specific implementation complexities
      (e.g., reuse of vertices in vertex shaders, number of fragment shader
      invocations in multisample modes, relative order of execution within and
      between shader groups).  We have explicitly specify several cases where
      the invocation count and execution order are undefined.  While these
      cases may be a problem for some algorithms, we expect that many
      algorithms will not be adversely impacted.

    (13) Should an implementation be required to throw INVALID_OPERATION
         errors if the dimension of the texture coordinates implied by the
         image variable type doesn't match the structure of the texture
         level/layer bound to the corresponding image unit?  If not, what
         happens in such a mismatch?

      RESOLVED:  No.  The results of image accesses are undefined.

    (14) Should shader image variable types include a "format" implying the
         data type accepted/returned by shader image loads and stores?  For
         example, an image variable corresponding to a 2D texture with format
         of RGBA32F might have a type "image2Dvec4", with the "vec4"
         indicating that the image data lines up with a four-component
         floating-point vector.

      RESOLVED:  No.  Separate types are provided for float vs. int vs. 
      unsigned int, but not for each image format.  However, format qualifiers
      associated with image variables can (and in many cases must) be used to
      associate a format with an image variable.

    (15) If shader image variable types include information on the texel
         components returned or written by shader image accesses, should an
         implementation be required to enforce errors if the variable type is
         incompatible with the format of the referenced texture?  If not, or
         if the image variable type doesn't include format information, what
         happens in case of a mismatch between the texture format and the
         shader access format?

      RESOLVED:  We aren't including types in the variable that correspond
      to the image format, so an error check in the driver is not possible.

      If an individual load, store, or atomic uses a data type incompatible
      with the texture bound to the image unit, loads will return and stores
      will write undefined values.

    (16) Is it possible to bind the "default texture" (numbered zero) for a
         given texture target to an image unit?

      RESOLVED:  No.  Passing zero to BindImageTexture unbinds and texture
      currently bound to the selected image unit.  If this ability were
      provided, it would also be necessary to provide some mechanism to
      specify a texture target because there is a separate default "zero"
      texture for each target.  

      Note that existing framebuffer objects have a similar behavior; default
      textures can't be attached to an FBO.

    (17) May bordered textures be used with image loads and stores?

      RESOLVED:  No.

    (18) Should we have defined behavior if invalid coordinates are passed to
         an image load, store, or atomic operation?  If so, what happens?

      RESOLVED:  Yes. We define the behavior to return zeroes on a load and 
      atomic and to have no effect on any bound texture on stores and 
      atomics.

    (19) Should we have a limit on the total number of combined image units
         and draw buffers, and if so, what should that be?

      RESOLVED:  Yes, some hardware requires this. The program will fail to 
      link.

    (20) What happens if a shader specifies an image store or atomic operation
         for killed/discarded pixels?

      RESOLVED:  For GLSL shaders that execute a "discard" instruction, any
      image stores or atomics performed before executing the discard will
      behave normally.  When the "discard" instruction is executed, the shader
      invocation will be terminated and will perform no further image store or
      atomic operations.

    (21) When enabling early depth tests in a program, what happens if a
         fragment fails one of the tests (e.g., depth test)?

      RESOLVED:  The specification indicates that the fragment shader is not
      executed.  Implementations might still end up running fragment shader
      for implementation-dependent reasons.  For example, the fragment shader
      may be run in order to approximate derivatives for neighboring pixels
      that did pass all per-fragment tests.  In these cases, implementations
      must guarantee that image stores have no effect.

    (22) If implementations run fragment shaders for fragments that aren't
         covered by the primitive or fail early depth tests (e.g., "helper
         pixels"), how does that interact with stores and atomics?

      RESOLVED:  The current OpenGL specification has no formal notion of
      "helper" pixels.  In practice, implementations may run fragment shaders
      for pixels near the boundaries of rasterized primitives to allow
      derivatives to be approximated by differencing.  Typically, these shader
      invocations have no effect.  While they may produce outputs, the outputs
      for these pixels will be discarded without affecting the framebuffer.
      The spec basically treats these shader invocations as though they don't
      exist.

      If such a shader invocation performs store or atomic operations, we need
      to define what happens.  In our definition, stores will have no effect,
      atomics will not update memory, and the values returned by atomics will
      be undefined.  The fact that these invocations don't affect memory is
      consistent with the notion of helper pixel shader invocations not
      existing.

      However, it is possible to write a fragment shader where flow control
      depends on the (undefined) values returned by the atomic.  In this case,
      the undefined values returned for helper pixels could result in very
      long execution time (appearing to be hang) or an infinite loop.  To
      avoid hangs in such cases, it is possible to use the fragment shader
      input sample mask to identify helper pixels:

        // If the input sample mask is non-zero, at least one sample is
        // covered and the invocation should be treated as a real invocation.
        // If the sample mask is zero, nothing is covered and this should be
        // treated as a helper pixel.  If more than 32 samples are supported,
        // additional words of gl_SampleMaskIn would need to be checked.
        if (gl_SampleMaskIn[0] != 0)  {
          // "real" pixel, perform atomic operations
        } else {
          // "helper" pixel, skip atomics
        }

      It may be desirable to formalize the notion of helper pixels in a future
      addition to the shading language.

    (23) What API should we use to specify early depth tests?

      RESOLVED:  Use a layout qualifier in a fragment shader rather than
      having a separate program parameter or other piece of GL state.

    (24) For formatted loads where the format doesn't include some component,
         what values are filled in? (0,0,0,1)? (0,0,0,0)?
         
      RESOLVED: Prefer (0,0,0,1) to match other APIs.

    (25) How does the combined-image-and-fragment-output limit interact with
         separate shader objects?  For example, an application may want to
         share a single image unit between two shader stages and not have it
         count twice against the limit.

      RESOLVED:  The known implementations of this extension do not have this
      issue, so we chose not to include any spec language.  Perhaps a
      Begin-time error could be specified in the future if this limit is
      exceeded.

    (26) What sort of qualifiers should we provide relevant to memory
         referenced by image variables?

      RESOLVED:  We will support the qualifiers "coherent", "volatile",
      "restrict", and "const" to be used in image variable declarations.

      "coherent" is used to ensure that memory accesses from different shader
      invocations are cached coherently (i.e., one invocation will be able to
      observe writes from another when the other invocation's writes
      complete).  This coherence may mean the use of "coherent"-qualified
      image variables may perform more slowly than of otherwise equivalent
      unqualified variables.

      "volatile" behaves as in C, and may be needed if an algorithm requires
      reading image memory that may be written asynchronously by other shader
      invocations.

      "restrict" behaves as in the C99 standard, and can be used to indicate
      that no other image variable points to the same underlying data.  This
      permits optimizations that would otherwise be impossible if the compiler
      has to assume that a pair of images might end up pointing to the same
      data.  For example, in standard C/C++, a loop like:

        int *a, *b;
        a[0] = b[0] + b[0];
        a[1] = b[0] + b[1];
        a[2] = b[0] + b[2];

      would need to reload b[0] for each assignment because a[0] or a[1] might
      point at the same data as b[0].  With restrict, the compiler can assume
      that b[0] is not modified by any of the instructions and load it just
      once.  The same considerations apply to accesses using imageLoad(),
      imageStore(), and imageAtomic*() builtins.

      "const" behaves as in C, and indicates that the image memory should be
      treated as read-only.  Note that the use of "const" in image variable
      declarations is different from the normal "const" qualifier, as it
      treats the image data referenced by the variable as constant.

    (27) How should shaders be able to express qualifiers for image variables?

      RESOLVED:  This extension borrows from C/C++ syntax rules where a
      qualifier may be specified before or after the type.  For example,

        layout(rgba32f) const uniform image2D imageVariable;

      declare an image uniform whose image data are treated as read-only.  We
      permit qualifiers to be provided either before or after the type name
      (image2D).  The position of the qualifier is meaningful.  Qualifiers
      before the type name apply to the data referenced by the variable.
      Qualifiers after the type name apply to the variable itself.

      The closest C/C++ equivalent to the declarations above would turn
      declarations like:

        layout(rgba32f) const uniform image2D firstImage;
        layout(rgba32f) uniform image2D const secondImage;

      into:

        const struct image2D_data * firstImage;
        struct image2D_data * const secondImage;

      where "image2D" is replaced with "struct image2D_data *".  In this
      model, the former declares <firstImage> to be a pointer to constant
      image data.  The latter declares <secondImage> to be a constant pointer
      to non-constant image data.  

      For "coherent", "volatile", and "const", the qualifier should typically
      go before the image type.  For "restrict", the qualifier must go after
      the image type, since "restrict" applies to the pointer, not the data
      being pointed to.

      Note that a qualifier could theoretically be specified before and after
      the type name, such as:

        const image2D const imageVariable;

      which would declare <imageVariable> to be constant and to reference
      constant image data.  In this extension, declaring an image variable to
      be constant isn't meaningful, as such variables can never be used as
      l-values.

    (28) What is the meaning of "restrict" on a system that might run either
         multiple invocations of the same shader simultaneously, or multiple
         invocations of different shaders (vertex and fragment)
         simultaneously?

      RESOLVED:  When an image variable is qualified with "restrict", the only
      guarantee is that no other image variable in the same shader invocation
      references the same underlying image data.  There is no guarantee that
      the same image couldn't be referenced by another invocation of the same
      shader, or by an invocation of a different shader.

      The main function of "restrict" is to allow compilers to generate more
      efficient code for a single shader invocation than it could if it had to
      conservatively assume that accesses to other images could touch the same
      image data.

    (29) What is the purpose of the memoryBarrier() built-in function?

      RESOLVED:  The memoryBarrier() function can be used to ensure that if
      another shader invocation or other portions observe image memory being
      written by a shader, that accesses appear in a predictable order.  For
      example, consider the following code:

        uniform imageBuffer buf1;
        uniform imageBuffer buf2;
        int offset1, offset2;
        vec4 data1, data2;
        imageStore(buf1, offset1, data1);
        imageStore(buf2, offset2, data2);

      This specification doesn't require that writes be committed to memory in
      the order specified in the shader.  It is possible that another shader
      invocation or some other observer would see <data2> before seeing
      <data1>.  If an algorithm involved multiple shader invocations with one
      possibly needing to wait on data written by another, observing <data2>
      in the second shader would not ensure that <data1> has been written.
      However, if memoryBarrier() were used, as in the following code, the
      second shader would have such a guarantee.

        imageStore(buf1, offset1, data1);
        memoryBarrier();
        imageStore(buf2, offset2, data2);

    (30) What happens if the texel identified by the coordinates given to an
         image load, store, or atomic built-in doesn't exist?  (i.e.,
         coordinates are out of bounds)

      RESOLVED:  The results of image loads return zero.  Stores do not update
      image memory.  Atomics do not update image memory and return zero.
      These same considerations apply if no texture is bound to an image unit,
      the texture is incomplete, and various other conditions.  We do not ever
      apply wrap modes on image operations.

    (31) Why do we have a <format> parameter on BindImageTexture?

      RESOLVED:  It allows some amount of bit-casting, to view a texture with
      one format using another format.  In addition to any benefits from
      viewing textures with a different format, it also permits atomics
      operations on some multi-component textures by allowing them to be
      viewed using R32I or R32UI formats.

      In the EXT_shader_image_load_store extension, there was an additional
      benefit to working around a more severe limitation on the set of formats
      supported for stores -- only formats like R8, R16, R32F, RG32F, RGBA32F
      are supported there.  Other formats not supported there can be viewed as
      supported formats (e.g., RGBA8 could map to R32UI), with shader code
      doing any needed packing and unpacking.

    (32) Do we support image atomics on multi-component texture formats?

      RESOLVED:  Only if the texture formats can be viewed as "R32I" or
      "R32UI" formats by using the <format> parameter of BindImageTexture.
      Atomics do not operate on a component-by-component basis in this
      extension.

    (33) What happens if early fragment testing is enabled, the early depth
         test passes, and a fragment shader that computes a new depth value is
         executed?

      RESOLVED:  The depth value produced by the fragment shader has no effect
      if early depth and stencil tests are enabled.  The depth value computed
      by a fragment shader is used only by the post-fragment shader stencil
      and depth tests, and those tests always have no effect when early
      fragment tests is enabled.

    (34) How do early fragment tests interact with occlusion queries?

      RESOLVED:  When early fragment tests are enabled, sample counting for
      occlusion queries also happens prior to fragment shader execution.
      Enabling early fragment tests can change the overall sample count,
      because samples killed by alpha test and alpha to coverage will still be
      counted if early fragment tests are enabled.

    (35) If we provide support for multiple active program objects (e.g., one
         containing a vertex shader, another containing a fragment shader, as
         in EXT_separate_shader_object), how will early fragment tests be
         handled?

      RESOLVED:  The early fragment test enable should be taken from the
      active program object corresponding to the fragment shader stage.

    (36) When specifying a coordinate vector to specify a texel for a
         TEXTURE_1D_ARRAY target, what coordinate is used to specify the
         layer?

      RESOLVED:  For GLSL functions, a two-component vector is specified and
      the second (y) component is used to select a layer.

    (37) How does the synchronization (or lack thereof) of shader accesses to
         buffer memory interact with accesses to mapped buffer memory?

      RESOLVED:  Shader memory accesses are not automatically synchronized
      with MapBuffer.  Mapping a buffer object will not guarantee that image
      stores or atomics issued by shaders triggered by rendering commands
      prior to the MapBuffer call are complete before returning a pointer to
      the application.  This lack of synchronization is similar to what
      happens if you call MapBufferRange with MAP_UNSYNCHRONIZED_BIT set.
      However, if you call MemoryBarrier with BUFFER_UPDATE_BARRIER_BIT set
      prior to mapping the buffer object, the GL will manually synchronize,
      ensuring that all prior shader writes to a buffer are complete prior to
      any subsequent commands (including MapBuffer) accessing the buffer.

Revision History

    Rev.    Date    Author    Changes
    ----  --------  --------  -----------------------------------------------
    36    10/27/14  pbrown    Fix the "Name Strings" entry to include a "GL_"
                              prefix.

    35    09/11/14  pbrown    Add missing text for issue (9).
    
    34    06/10/14  Jon Leech Minor typo fixes from bug 7263.

    33    10/16/13  pbrown    Update issue (20) to clarify that any image
                              stores and atomics issued before a "discard" do
                              have an effect.  Update issue (22) to better
                              define the behavior of stores and atomics on
                              "helper" pixels and to suggest a workaround for
                              shaders that need to use values returned by
                              atomics (undefined for helper pixels) in flow
                              control constructs.
                              have an effect.

    32    03/06/12  pbrown    Fix the minimum values for GLSL built-ins
                              gl_Max{Fragment,Combined}ImageUniforms to 8
                              to match the minimums for the API specification
                              (bug 8673).

    31    01/18/12  Jon Leech State table fix for
                              IMAGE_FORMAT_COMPATIBILITY_TYPE (Bug 8430).

    30    08/04/11  pbrown    Remove imageAtomicIncWrap() and 
                              imageAtomicDecWrap() functions from the ARB
                              extension (bug 7182).   Rename the <index>
                              argument of BindImageTexture to <unit> (bug
                              7851).  Fix typo in spec language describing
                              out-of-bounds indexing of image arrays.

    29    08/03/11  pbrown    Clarify that negative values of <level> and
                              <layer> will generate errors even in cases where
                              those parameters would ultimately have no effect
                              (bug 7850).  Add a note recommending that
                              BindImageTexture not use the same protocol as
                              its "EXT" equivalent due to differences in error
                              behavior.

    28    07/27/11  pbrown    Document new implementation limits added in
                              version 26 as differences from the EXT (bug 7805).

    27    07/22/11  Jon Leech Remove unreachable error condition for negative
                              <index> (bug 7770).

    26    07/22/11  pbrown    Add implementation limits on the number of
                              image uniforms used by each shader stage, and on
                              the combined total of all stages, as well as
                              corresponding GLSL constants (bug 7805).

    25    06/20/11  johnk     Sync. with core specification:  adds writeonly,
                              replaces "const" with "readonly", refers to all
                              these as "memory qualifiers", includes semantics
                              for calling functions.  Minor non-functional
                              edits to make them match.

    24    06/19/11  pbrown    Assign values for new enumerants.

    23    06/18/11  pbrown    Clarify that image variables can not be stored
                              in uniform blocks.

    22    06/07/11  pbrown    Clarify that <layered> and <layer> are ignored
                              when used with non-layered textures.  Clarify
                              that non-existent layer/face numbers make
                              accesses invalid for both non-layered and
                              layered bindings (bug 7721). 

    21    06/06/11  pbrown    Add IMAGE_FORMAT_COMPATIBILITY_TYPE to state 
                              tables, add descriptions for IMAGE_BINDING*
                              state table entries (bug 7689).

    20    06/06/11  pbrown    Clarify the language describing data type 
                              conversions for image loads/stores to indicate
                              that we use the same general process as for
                              TexImage and GetTexImage commands.  For
                              multisample textures used as images, TexImage
                              commands do not specify image data and
                              GetTexImage is not supported (bug 7249).

    19    02/14/11  pbrown    Remove the repeatability requirement (Appendix
                              A.1) when using shaders with side effects (bug 
                              7026).  Clean up spec language describing GLSL's
                              memoryBarrier() function, and add a dependency 
                              on atomic counter extensions to indicate that 
                              memoryBarrier() also applies to atomic counters
                              (bug 7237).

    18    02/13/11  Jon Leech Cleanup BindImageTexture language to match
                              4.2 core spec phrasing.

    17    01/20/11  pbrown    Clarify that the MAX* limits can be queried
                              by GetInteger64v (bug 7225).  Add INVALID_VALUE
                              error for BindImageTexture if <level> or <layer>
                              is negative (bug 7226).  Clarify language for
                              MemoryBarrier's BUFFER_UPDATE_BARRIER_BIT (bug
                              7228).  Update the <format> parameter of
                              BindImageTexture to be an "enum" instead of 
                              "int".  The EXT used "int" to be compatible
                              with TexImage, which itself derived to the 
                              deprecated "1", "2", "3", and "4" formats from
                              OpenGL 1.0 (bug 7183).

    16    01/20/11  pbrown    Add GLSL built-in constants for implementation-
                              dependent limits (bug 7234).

    15    01/18/11  Jon Leech Fix typos from Bug 7235.

    14    01/18/11  pbrown    Add interaction with NV_parameter_buffer_object
                              for ProgramBufferParametersNV (bug 7235).

    13    01/05/11  Jon Leech Fix typos from Bug 7202.

    12    12/17/10  johnk     Minor tweaks for grammar and consistency that 
                              also apply to 1.5, that were generated while
                              incorporating into 4.2 core.

    11    12/14/10  pbrown    Add edits to invariance and synchronization
                              rules in Appendices A and D to account for
                              side effects from shader execution (bug 7026).

    10    12/14/10  pbrown    Clean up issues section from changes in 
                              revisions 7-9.

     9    12/14/10  pbrown    Modify the layout qualifier behavior for image
                              variables to specify a full GL-style format
                              instead of component/bit counts (bug 6868),
                              with loaded data converted to a canonical
                              vector type according to the full format.  
                              Limited the amount of format mismatching allowed
                              when binding textures allocated outside the GL
                              to image units.  Removed the requirement for
                              layout qualifiers on image variables used
                              only for image stores.

     8    12/12/10  pbrown    Additional minor spec errata fixes (bug 6991).

     7    12/12/10  pbrown    Fix minor spec errata (bug 6870).  Removed
                              interactions with NV_gpu_program5; this is
                              already covered by the EXT version of the spec.

     6    10/19/10  pdaniell  ARBify in preparation for OpenGL 4.2 core.
     
     5    09/17/10  pbrown    Clean up the spec language specifying the
                              mapping of coordinates to texels according to
                              the texture target.  For 1D arrays, GLSL wants
                              the layer in the second component of a
                              two-component vector while NV_gpu_program5 wants
                              it in the third component of a four-component
                              vector.  Also clarify that single-layer bindings
                              of an array or cube map texture use a target
                              appropriate to the bound layer.
                              
     4    03/23/10  pbrown    Add interaction with EXT_separate_shader_objects.
                              Update issues section to include some issues
                              left behind in NV_gpu_shader5 when specs were
                              refactored.

     3    03/21/10  pbrown    Update spec overview, interactions, and issues 
                              sections; miscellaneous minor clarifications.

     2    03/16/10  pbrown    Add a separate #extension line for this
                              extension; needed since the became packaged
                              separately from ARB_gpu_shader5.  Added C99-like
                              "restrict" qualifier to indicate that an image
                              variable won't share underlying image contents
                              with any other variable.  Added support for
                              "const" qualifiers on images to allow indicate
                              read-only image data.  Added language describing
                              the significance of the position of image
                              variable qualifiers.  Clarified rules on use of
                              image variables as function parameters; adding
                              qualifiers is OK, stripping them off is not.
                              Updated image layout qualifier section to
                              clarify that "size" layout qualifiers are
                              required on both uniform and function parameter
                              declarations.  Added "const" qualifier on the
                              image argument in imageLoad() prototypes.
                              Updated extension names in dependency sections.
                              Add support for stores to the RGB10_A2 texture
                              format from OpenGL 3.3.  Add several issues.

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