Name

    GREMEDY_frame_terminator

Name Strings

    GL_GREMEDY_frame_terminator

Contributors

    Yaki Tebeka

Contact

    Yaki Tebeka, Graphic Remedy (yaki 'at' gremedy.com)

Status

    Implemented by gDEBugger (Version 3.2 or later)

Version

    Last Modified Date: September 20, 2007
    Author Revision: 1.0

Number

    345

Dependencies

    OpenGL 1.0 is required.
    
    The extension is written against the OpenGL 1.5 Specification.

Overview

    This extension defines a mechanism that enables marking the end 
    of render frames within the OpenGL stream.
    
    When debugging or profiling an OpenGL application, the debuggers
    and profilers needs to know when a render frame is ended. This
    is important for frame per second measurements, statistical analysis, 
    marking and clearing stream loggers logs, performance counters 
    sampling and more.
    
    When an application uses off screen buffers, the debugger / profiler
    cannot be guaranteed that the application will call a certain function at
    the end of each off-screen frame (e.g: SwapBuffers / glClear / etc). 
    This extension enables the application to notify the debugger / profiler 
    whenever a render frame is ended.
    
    This extension is mainly useful for debuggers and profilers. It is not 
    expected that standard drivers would implement this extension. The main
    point of having this extension is to allow applications to have a clean 
    way of accessing this functionality only when they are run under the 
    control of a debugger / profiler, without having to recompile or change 
    the application source code.
    
IP Status

    No known IP claims

Issues

   (1) Should it be legal to call this inside Begin/End?
    
    RESOLVED: no.
    
    A render frame cannot end within a Begin/End block.
        
New Procedures and Functions

    void FrameTerminatorGREMEDY(void);

New Types

    None

New Tokens

    None

Additions to Chapter 2 of the OpenGL 1.5 Specification
(OpenGL Operation)

    None

Additions to Chapter 3 of the OpenGL 1.5 Specification (Rasterization)

    None

Additions to Chapter 4 of the OpenGL 1.5 Specification (Per-Fragment
Operations and the Frame Buffer)

    None

Additions to Chapter 5 of the OpenGL 1.5 Specification
(Special Functions)

    Add section 5.8 on page 212
    
    5.8 Frame Terminator
    
    The command
    
        void FrameTerminatorGREMEDY(void);
    
    can be used to insert a frame terminator marker into the command stream.
    This frame terminator marker can be used by appropriate debugging tools / 
    profiling tools / profiling drivers for frame per second measurements, 
    statistical analysis, marking and clearing stream loggers logs, performance 
    counters sampling and more. This command has no influence on the rendered 
    image or the OpenGL state.


Additions to Chapter 6 of the OpenGL 1.5 Specification (State and State
Requests)

    None

Additions to Appendix A of the OpenGL 1.5 Specification (Invariance)

    None

Additions to the AGL/EGL/GLX/WGL Specifications

    None

GLX Protocol

    None

Dependencies on EXT_extension_name

    None

Errors

    The error INVALID_OPERATION is generated if any of the commands
    defined in this extension is executed between the execution of Begin
    and the corresponding execution of End.

New State

    None

New Implementation Dependent State

    None

Sample Code

    None

Revision History

    1.0, 09/20/07 yt:   - Initial revision