I was removing deprecated/obsolete state from this function. About halfway through I started questioning the need for the whole thing.
GPU_state_print is not called anywhere, but is (was) available as a development aid.
External GL debugging tools are really good these days! We should use those to examine state & not roll our own.
Errors are caught & reported by our GL debug callback. This gives us way more useful information than sporadic calls to glGetError.
I removed almost all use of glGetError, including our own GPU_ASSERT_NO_GL_ERRORS and GPU_CHECK_ERRORS_AROUND macros.
Still used in rna_Image_gl_load because it passes unvalidated input to OpenGL functions.
Still used in gpu_state_print_fl_ex as an exception handling hack -- will rewrite this soon.
The optimism embodied by this commit will not prevent OpenGL errors. We need to analyze what would cause GL to fail at certain points and proactively intercept these failures. Or guarantee they can't happen.
When running blender --debug-gpu
Display which debug facilities are available. One of these, in order of preference:
- OpenGL 4.3
- KHR_debug
- ARB_debug_output
- AMD_debug_output
All messages are logged now, not just errors. Will probably turn some of these off later.
GL_DEBUG_OUTPUT_SYNCHRONOUS lets us break on errors and backtrace to the exact trouble spot.
Callers of GPU_string_marker no longer pass in a message length, just the message itself (null terminated).
Apple provides no GL debug logging features.
option.
This makes sense, since contexts get created at runtime, there is little
reason to require recompilation for this.
Only works on linux currently, will be doing more OSs later
patch number D706 with changes:
- WITH_GPU_DEBUG just creates a debug context (and enables the debug messaging
system functions) but leaves the checks we had intact. Old patch
added the debug functionality only if we had the flag on to save some
performance.
Rationale here is that we might not want to recompile blender just to get
the extra information, and having users start blender with a -d flag to
get the extra information is also useful for bug reports. Those checks already
existed and most expensive ones are hidden behind a debug mode check
so performance should not be that bad.
- Did some cleanup of existing functionality:
When things go wrong blender side, just print the error,
don't check for GL errors first.
- Did not port changes needed for GLES to regular glew.h
- Got rid of duplicate or very similar new functionality.
Generally, code is more moving things around/cleanup and should work exactly
as before apart from the debug context, so it's safe to add even now.
It also provides a nice substitute function for glu error descriptions
