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4<refentry id="glCopyBufferSubData">\r
5 <refmeta>\r
6 <refmetainfo>\r
7 <copyright>\r
8 <year>2010</year>\r
9 <holder>Khronos Group</holder>\r
10 </copyright>\r
11 </refmetainfo>\r
12 <refentrytitle>glCopyBufferSubData</refentrytitle>\r
13 <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>\r
14 </refmeta>\r
15 <refnamediv>\r
16 <refname>glCopyBufferSubData</refname>\r
17 <refpurpose>copy part of the data store of a buffer object to the data store of another buffer object</refpurpose>\r
18 </refnamediv>\r
19 <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>\r
20 <funcsynopsis>\r
21 <funcprototype>\r
22 <funcdef>void <function>glCopyBufferSubData</function></funcdef>\r
23 <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>readtarget</parameter></paramdef>\r
24 <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>writetarget</parameter></paramdef>\r
25 <paramdef>GLintptr <parameter>readoffset</parameter></paramdef>\r
26 <paramdef>GLintptr <parameter>writeoffset</parameter></paramdef>\r
27 <paramdef>GLsizeiptr <parameter>size</parameter></paramdef>\r
28 </funcprototype>\r
29 </funcsynopsis>\r
30 </refsynopsisdiv>\r
31 <!-- eqn: ignoring delim $$ -->\r
32 <refsect1 id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>\r
33 <variablelist>\r
34 <varlistentry>\r
35 <term><parameter>readtarget</parameter></term>\r
36 <listitem>\r
37 <para>\r
38 Specifies the target from whose data store data should be read.\r
39 </para>\r
40 </listitem>\r
41 </varlistentry>\r
42 <varlistentry>\r
43 <term><parameter>writetarget</parameter></term>\r
44 <listitem>\r
45 <para>\r
46 Specifies the target to whose data store data should be written.\r
47 </para>\r
48 </listitem>\r
49 </varlistentry>\r
50 <varlistentry>\r
51 <term><parameter>readoffset</parameter></term>\r
52 <listitem>\r
53 <para>\r
54 Specifies the offset, in basic machine units, within the data store of <parameter>readtarget</parameter> from which data should be read.\r
55 </para>\r
56 </listitem>\r
57 </varlistentry>\r
58 <varlistentry>\r
59 <term><parameter>writeoffset</parameter></term>\r
60 <listitem>\r
61 <para>\r
62 Specifies the offset, in basic machine units, within the data store of <parameter>writetarget</parameter> to which data should be written.\r
63 </para>\r
64 </listitem>\r
65 </varlistentry>\r
66 <varlistentry>\r
67 <term><parameter>size</parameter></term>\r
68 <listitem>\r
69 <para>\r
70 Specifies the size, in basic machine units, of the data to be copied from <parameter>readtarget</parameter> to <parameter>writetarget</parameter>.\r
71 </para>\r
72 </listitem>\r
73 </varlistentry>\r
74 </variablelist>\r
75 </refsect1>\r
76 <refsect1 id="description"><title>Description</title>\r
77 <para>\r
78 <function>glCopyBufferSubData</function> copies part of the data store attached to <parameter>readtarget</parameter> to the\r
79 data store attached to <parameter>writetarget</parameter>. The number of basic machine units indicated by <parameter>size</parameter>\r
80 is copied from the source, at offset <parameter>readoffset</parameter> to the destination at <parameter>writeoffset</parameter>,\r
81 also in basic machine units.\r
82 </para>\r
83 <para>\r
84 <parameter>readtarget</parameter> and <parameter>writetarget</parameter> must be <constant>GL_ARRAY_BUFFER</constant>,\r
85 <constant>GL_COPY_READ_BUFFER</constant>, <constant>GL_COPY_WRITE_BUFFER</constant>, <constant>GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER</constant>,\r
86 <constant>GL_PIXEL_PACK_BUFFER</constant>, <constant>GL_PIXEL_UNPACK_BUFFER</constant>, <constant>GL_TEXTURE_BUFFER</constant>,\r
87 <constant>GL_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_BUFFER</constant> or <constant>GL_UNIFORM_BUFFER</constant>. Any of these targets may be used,\r
88 although the targets <constant>GL_COPY_READ_BUFFER</constant> and <constant>GL_COPY_WRITE_BUFFER</constant> are provided\r
89 specifically to allow copies between buffers without disturbing other GL state.\r
90 </para>\r
91 <para>\r
92 <parameter>readoffset</parameter>, <parameter>writeoffset</parameter> and <parameter>size</parameter> must all be greater than or equal to\r
93 zero. Furthermore, <parameter>readoffset</parameter> + <parameter>size</parameter> must not exceeed the size of the buffer\r
94 object bound to <parameter>readtarget</parameter>, and <parameter>readoffset</parameter> + <parameter>size</parameter> must not exceeed the\r
95 size of the buffer bound to <parameter>writetarget</parameter>. If the same buffer object is bound to both <parameter>readtarget</parameter>\r
96 and <parameter>writetarget</parameter>, then the ranges specified by <parameter>readoffset</parameter>, <parameter>writeoffset</parameter>\r
97 and <parameter>size</parameter> must not overlap.\r
98 </para>\r
99 </refsect1>\r
100 <refsect1 id="notes"><title>Notes</title>\r
101 <para>\r
102 <function>glCopyBufferSubData</function> is available only if the GL version is 3.1 or greater.\r
103 </para>\r
104 </refsect1>\r
105 <refsect1 id="errors"><title>Errors</title>\r
106 <para>\r
107 <constant>GL_INVALID_VALUE</constant> is generated if any of <parameter>readoffset</parameter>, <parameter>writeoffset</parameter>\r
108 or <parameter>size</parameter> is negative, if <parameter>readoffset</parameter> + <parameter>size</parameter> exceeds the\r
109 size of the buffer object bound to <parameter>readtarget</parameter> or if <parameter>writeoffset</parameter> + <parameter>size</parameter>\r
110 exceeds the size of the buffer object bound to <parameter>writetarget</parameter>.\r
111 </para>\r
112 <para>\r
113 <constant>GL_INVALID_VALUE</constant> is generated if the same buffer object is bound to both <parameter>readtarget</parameter>\r
114 and <parameter>writetarget</parameter> and the ranges [<parameter>readoffset</parameter>, <parameter>readoffset</parameter> +\r
115 <parameter>size</parameter>) and [<parameter>writeoffset</parameter>, <parameter>writeoffset</parameter> + <parameter>size</parameter>)\r
116 overlap.\r
117 </para>\r
118 <para>\r
119 <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if zero is bound to <parameter>readtarget</parameter> or <parameter>writetarget</parameter>.\r
120 </para>\r
121 <para>\r
122 <constant>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</constant> is generated if the buffer object bound to either <parameter>readtarget</parameter> or <parameter>writetarget</parameter>\r
123 is mapped.\r
124 </para>\r
125 </refsect1>\r
126 <refsect1 id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>\r
127 <para>\r
128 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGenBuffers</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,\r
129 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glBindBuffer</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,\r
130 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glBufferData</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,\r
131 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glBufferSubData</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,\r
132 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGetBufferSubData</refentrytitle></citerefentry>\r
133 </para>\r
134 </refsect1>\r
135 <refsect1 id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>\r
136 <para>\r
137 Copyright <trademark class="copyright"></trademark> 2010 Khronos Group. \r
138 This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in \r
139 the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.\r
140 <ulink url="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</ulink>.\r
141 </para>\r
142 </refsect1>\r
143</refentry>\r