[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] mesa: handle zero-size buffers in MapBuffer and ranges in MapBufferRange

[Brian Paul]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
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> On 08/30/2011 10:15 AM, Marek Olšák wrote:
>> Moved from st/mesa.
>> This also fixes an assertion failure in piglit/fdo31934 on gallium drivers.
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> So... I guess I don't understand why the mapping can't just fail and set
> GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY.  Returning a pointer to some random bit of storage
> seems like a recipe for bugs that are excruciating for app developers to
> debug.

Looks like NVIDIA generates GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY and returns NULL.
I'd prefer that to the dummy buffer.

-Brian