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+Name
+
+     MESA_trace
+
+Name Strings
+
+     GL_MESA_trace
+
+Contact
+    
+    Bernd Kreimeier, Loki Entertainment, bk 'at' lokigames.com
+    Brian Paul, VA Linux Systems, Inc., brianp 'at' valinux.com
+
+Status
+
+    Obsolete.
+
+Version
+
+    $Id: MESA_trace.spec,v 1.4 2004/03/25 01:42:42 brianp Exp $
+
+Number
+
+    none yet
+
+Dependencies
+
+    OpenGL 1.2 is required.
+    The extension is written against the OpenGL 1.2 Specification
+
+Overview
+
+    Provides the application with means to enable and disable logging
+    of GL calls including parameters as readable text. The verbosity
+    of the generated log can be controlled. The resulting logs are
+    valid (but possibly incomplete) C code and can be compiled and 
+    linked for standalone test programs. The set of calls and the 
+    amount of static data that is logged can be controlled at runtime. 
+    The application can add comments and enable or disable tracing of GL 
+    operations at any time. The data flow from the application to GL
+    and back is unaffected except for timing.
+
+    Application-side implementation of these features raises namespace
+    and linkage issues. In the driver dispatch table a simple
+    "chain of responsibility" pattern (aka "composable piepline")
+    can be added.
+
+IP Status
+
+    The extension spec is in the public domain.  The current implementation
+    in Mesa is covered by Mesa's XFree86-style copyright by the authors above.
+    This extension is partially inspired by the Quake2 QGL wrapper.
+
+Issues
+
+ 
+    (1) Is this Extension obsolete because it can
+    be implemented as a wrapper DLL?
+
+      RESOLVED: No. While certain operating systems (Win32) provide linkers 
+      that facilitate this kind of solution, other operating systems
+      (Linux) do not support hierarchical linking, so a wrapper solution
+      would result in symbol collisions.
+      Further, IHV's might have builtin support for tracing GL execution 
+      that enjoys privileged access, or that they do not wish to separate
+      the tracing code from their driver code base.
+
+    (2) Should the Trace API explicitely support the notion of "frames? 
+    This would require hooking into glXSwapBuffers calls as well.
+
+      RESOLVED: No. The application can use NewTraceMESA/EndTraceMESA
+      and TraceComment along with external parsing tools to split the 
+      trace into frames, in whatever way considered adequate.
+
+    (2a) Should GLX calls be traced?
+
+      PBuffers and other render-to-texture solutions demonstrate that
+      context level commands beyond SwapBuffers might have to be
+      traced. The GL DLL exports the entry points, so this would not
+      be out of the question. 
+
+    (3) Should the specification mandate the actual output format?
+
+      RESOLVED: No. It is sufficient to guarantee that all data and commands 
+      will be traced as requested by Enable/DisableTraceMESA, in the order
+      encountered. Whether the resulting trace is available as a readable 
+      text file, binary metafile, compilable source code, much less which 
+      indentation and formatting has been used, is up to the implementation. 
+      For the same reason this specification does not enforce or prohibit
+      additional information added to the trace (statistics, profiling/timing, 
+      warnings on possible error conditions).
+
+    (4) Should the comment strings associated with names and pointer (ranges) 
+    be considered persistent state?
+
+      RESOLVED: No. The implementation is not forced to use this information 
+      on subsequent occurences of name/pointer, and is free to consider it 
+      transient state.
+ 
+    (5) Should comment commands be prohibited between Begin/End?
+
+      RESOLVED: Yes, with the exception of TraceCommentMESA. TraceCommentMESA 
+      is transient, the other commands might cause storage of persistent
+      data in the context. There is no need to have the ability mark names 
+      or pointers between Begin and End.
+
+
+New Procedures and Functions
+ 
+    void NewTraceMESA( bitfield mask, const ubyte * traceName )
+
+    void EndTraceMESA( void )
+
+    void EnableTraceMESA( bitfield mask )
+
+    void DisableTraceMESA( bitfield mask )
+
+    void TraceAssertAttribMESA( bitfield attribMask )
+
+    void TraceCommentMESA( const ubyte* comment )
+
+    void TraceTextureMESA( uint name, const ubyte* comment )
+
+    void TraceListMESA( uint name, const ubyte* comment )
+
+    void TracePointerMESA( void* pointer, const ubyte* comment )
+
+    void TracePointerRangeMESA( const void* first, 
+                                const void* last, 
+                                const ubyte* comment ) 
+
+New Tokens
+ 
+    Accepted by the <mask> parameter of EnableTrace and DisableTrace:
+
+       TRACE_ALL_BITS_MESA           0xFFFF
+       TRACE_OPERATIONS_BIT_MESA     0x0001
+       TRACE_PRIMITIVES_BIT_MESA     0x0002
+       TRACE_ARRAYS_BIT_MESA         0x0004
+       TRACE_TEXTURES_BIT_MESA       0x0008
+       TRACE_PIXELS_BIT_MESA         0x0010
+       TRACE_ERRORS_BIT_MESA         0x0020
+
+    Accepted by the <pname> parameter of GetIntegerv, GetBooleanv,
+    GetFloatv, and GetDoublev:
+
+       TRACE_MASK_MESA               0x8755
+
+    Accepted by the <pname> parameter to GetString:
+
+       TRACE_NAME_MESA               0x8756
+
+
+Additions to Chapter 2 of the OpenGL 1.2.1 Specification (OpenGL Operation)
+
+    None.
+
+Additions to Chapter 3 of the OpenGL 1.2.1 Specification (OpenGL Operation)
+
+    None.
+
+Additions to Chapter 4 of the OpenGL 1.2.1 Specification (OpenGL Operation)
+
+    None.
+
+Additions to Chapter 5 of the OpenGL 1.2.1 Specification (Special Functions)
+
+    Add a new section:
+
+    5.7 Tracing
+
+    The tracing facility is used to record the execution of a GL program
+    to a human-readable log.  The log appears as a sequence of GL commands
+    using C syntax.  The primary intention of tracing is to aid in program
+    debugging.
+
+    A trace is started with the command
+
+      void NewTraceMESA( bitfield mask, const GLubyte * traceName )
+
+    <mask> may be any value accepted by PushAttrib and specifies a set of
+    attribute groups.  The state values included in those attribute groups
+    is written to the trace as a sequence of GL commands.
+
+    <traceName> specifies a name or label for the trace.  It is expected
+    that <traceName> will be interpreted as a filename in most implementations.
+
+    A trace is ended by calling the command
+
+      void EndTraceMESA( void )
+
+    It is illegal to call NewTraceMESA or EndTraceMESA between Begin and End. 
+
+    The commands
+
+      void EnableTraceMESA( bitfield mask )
+      void DisableTraceMESA( bitfield mask )
+
+    enable or disable tracing of different classes of GL commands.
+    <mask> may be the union of any of TRACE_OPERATIONS_BIT_MESA,
+    TRACE_PRIMITIVES_BIT_MESA, TRACE_ARRAYS_BIT_MESA, TRACE_TEXTURES_BIT_MESA,
+    and TRACE_PIXELS_BIT_MESA.  The special token TRACE_ALL_BITS_MESA
+    indicates all classes of commands are to be logged.
+
+    TRACE_OPERATIONS_BIT_MESA controls logging of all commands outside of
+    Begin/End, including Begin/End.
+  
+    TRACE_PRIMITIVES_BIT_MESA controls logging of all commands inside of
+    Begin/End, including Begin/End.
+ 
+    TRACE_ARRAYS_BIT_MESA controls logging of VertexPointer, NormalPointer,
+    ColorPointer, IndexPointer, TexCoordPointer and EdgeFlagPointer commands.
+
+    TRACE_TEXTURES_BIT_MESA controls logging of texture data dereferenced by
+    TexImage1D, TexImage2D, TexImage3D, TexSubImage1D, TexSubImage2D, and
+    TexSubImage3D commands.
+
+    TRACE_PIXELS_BIT_MESA controls logging of image data dereferenced by
+    Bitmap and DrawPixels commands.
+
+    TRACE_ERRORS_BIT_MESA controls logging of all errors. If this bit is 
+    set, GetError will be executed whereever applicable, and the result will 
+    be added to the trace as a comment. The error returns are cached and 
+    returned to the application on its GetError calls. If the user does not 
+    wish the additional GetError calls to be performed, this bit should not
+    be set.
+    
+    The command
+
+      void TraceCommentMESA( const ubyte* comment )
+
+    immediately adds the <comment> string to the trace output, surrounded
+    by C-style comment delimiters.
+
+    The commands
+
+      void TraceTextureMESA( uint name, const ubyte* comment )
+      void TraceListMESA( uint name, const ubyte* comment )
+
+    associates <comment> with the texture object or display list specified
+    by <name>.  Logged commands which reference the named texture object or
+    display list will be annotated with <comment>.  If IsTexture(name) or
+    IsList(name) fail (respectively) the command is quietly ignored.
+
+    The commands
+
+      void TracePointerMESA( void* pointer, const ubyte* comment )
+
+      void TracePointerRangeMESA( const void* first, 
+                                  const void* last,
+                                  const ubyte* comment ) 
+
+    associate <comment> with the address specified by <pointer> or with
+    a range of addresses specified by <first> through <last>.
+    Any logged commands which reference <pointer> or an address between
+    <first> and <last> will be annotated with <comment>.
+
+    The command
+
+      void TraceAssertAttribMESA( bitfield attribMask )
+
+    will add GL state queries and assertion statements to the log to
+    confirm that the current state at the time TraceAssertAttrib is
+    executed matches the current state when the trace log is executed
+    in the future.
+
+    <attribMask> is any value accepted by PushAttrib and specifies
+    the groups of state variables which are to be asserted.
+
+    The commands NewTraceMESA, EndTraceMESA, EnableTraceMESA, DisableTraceMESA,
+    TraceAssertAttribMESA, TraceCommentMESA, TraceTextureMESA, TraceListMESA, 
+    TracePointerMESA and TracePointerRangeMESA are not compiled into display lists.
+
+
+    Examples:
+
+    The command NewTraceMESA(DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT, "log") will query the state
+    variables DEPTH_TEST, DEPTH_FUNC, DEPTH_WRITEMASK, and DEPTH_CLEAR_VALUE
+    to get the values <test>, <func>, <mask>, and <clear> respectively.
+    Statements equivalent to the following will then be logged:
+
+       glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);   (if <test> is true)
+       glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);  (if <test> is false)
+       glDepthFunc(<func>); 
+       glDepthMask(<mask>);
+       glClearDepth(<clear>);
+   
+
+    The command TraceAssertAttribMESA(DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT) will query the state
+    variables DEPTH_TEST, DEPTH_FUNC, DEPTH_WRITEMASK, and DEPTH_CLEAR_VALUE
+    to get the values <test>, <func>, <mask>, and <clear> respectively.
+    The resulting trace might then look will like this:
+
+    {
+      GLboolean b;
+      GLint i;
+      GLfloat f;
+      b = glIsEnabled(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
+      assert(b == <test>);
+      glGetIntegerv(GL_DEPTH_FUNC, &i);
+      assert(i == <func>);
+      glGetIntegerv(GL_DEPTH_MASK, &i);
+      assert(i == <mask>);
+      glGetFloatv(GL_DEPTH_CLEAR_VALUE, &f);
+      assert(f == <clear>);
+    }
+
+
+Additions to Chapter 6 of the OpenGL 1.2.1 Specification 
+    (State and State Requests)
+
+    Querying TRACE_MASK_MESA with GetIntegerv, GetFloatv, GetBooleanv or
+    GetDoublev returns the current command class trace mask.
+
+    Querying TRACE_NAME_MESA with GetString returns the current trace name.
+
+
+Additions to Appendix A of the OpenGL 1.2.1 Specification (Invariance)
+
+    The MESA_trace extension can be used in a way that does not affect data 
+    flow from application to OpenGL, as well as data flow from OpenGL to 
+    application, except for timing, possible print I/O. TRACE_ERRORS_BIT_MESA
+    will add additional GetError queries. Setting a trace mask with NewTraceMESA
+    as well as use of TraceAssertAttribMESA might cause additional state queries.
+    With the possible exception of performance, OpenGL rendering should not be
+    affected at all by a properly chosen logging operation.
+
+Additions to the AGL/GLX/WGL Specifications
+
+    None.
+
+GLX Protocol
+
+    None. The logging operation is carried out client-side, by exporting
+    entry points to the wrapper functions that execute the logging operation.
+
+Errors
+
+    INVALID_OPERATION is generated if any trace command except TraceCommentMESA
+    is called between Begin and End.
+
+New State
+
+    The current trace name and current command class mask are stored
+    per-context.
+
+New Implementation Dependent State
+
+    None.
+
+Revision History
+
+  * Revision 0.1 - Initial draft from template (bk000415)
+  * Revision 0.2 - Draft (bk000906)
+  * Revision 0.3 - Draft (bk000913)
+  * Revision 0.4 - Reworked text, fixed typos (bp000914)
+  * Revision 0.5 - Assigned final GLenum values (bp001103)
+  * Revision 0.6 - TRACE_ERRORS_BIT_MESA (bk000916)
+  * Revision 0.7 - Added MESA postfix (bk010126)
+