[Mesa-dev] Mesa (primitive-restart): 682 new commits

[Brian Paul]

On 08/11/2010 09:40 PM, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> [Apparently brianp at kemper.freedesktop.org is forwarded to
> brian.paul at tungstengraphics.com, which is no longer valid.]
>
>   I'd suggest to put it in struct pipe_index_buffer.
>
>   The argument is that the index buffer needs to be prepared
>   specifically for the primitive restart enable setting:
>   1. If the index buffer has no restart indices, using primitive restart
>   will have no effect
>   2. If the index buffer has restart indices, not using primitive
>   restart will cause out-of-bounds accesses or weird rendering results
>
>   Also, the index size is there too, so there is no question of what
>   happens if the primitive restart index doesn't fit in the index size.
>
>   Currently the Mesa state tracker binds the index buffer for every draw
>   call, and thus would be unaffected (but it should stop doing that).

The thing is, primitive restart also applies to non-indexed 
primitives.  It would be a little weird to set index buffer state for 
glDrawArrays calls.

-Brian