[Public WebGL] questions about vertexAttribPointer / getVertexAttrib offsets

[Benoit Jacob]

----- Original Message -----

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Benoit Jacob < bja...@ >
> wrote:

> > Hi,
> 

> > 1. It seems that the WebGL and GLES2 specs allow for vertex attrib
> > offsets to be negative. Firefox currently generates a INVALID_VALUE
> > error on negative offset in vertexAttribPointer. Is that a Firefox
> > bug? There is a conformance test in index-validation.html that
> > tests
> > a very large negative offset, but due to a separate bug in Firefox,
> > this 64bit value is converted to 32bit and becomes positive.
> 

> > What is the use case for negative offsets? If we allow them, how
> > are
> > we going to protect from out-of-bounds accesses without relying on
> > drivers for that?
> 

> How do you get a negative offset from glVertexAttribPointer?

> The spec says,

> > When an array is sourced from
> 
> > a buffer object, the pointer value of that array is used to compute
> > an offset, in basic
> 
> > machine units, into the data store of the buffer object. This
> > offset
> > is computed by
> 
> > subtracting a null pointer from the pointer value, where both
> > pointers are treated as
> 
> > pointers to basic machine units
> 
> pointer - null is always positive no?
The WebGL spec currently declares 

void vertexAttribPointer(GLuint indx, GLint size, GLenum type, 
                             GLboolean normalized, GLsizei stride, GLintptr offset); 

Where GLintptr is signed: 

typedef long long      GLintptr; 

> Chrome doesn't allow negative offsets either.
Then either both Chrome and Firefox share a common bug wrt what the spec currently requires? 

> There's at least one negative offset test in
> https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/webgl/sdk/tests/conformance/more/functions/vertexAttribPointerBadArgs.html

> > 2. The constant VERTEX_ATTRIB_ARRAY_POINTER is mentioned in the
> > spec,
> > but not as an constant accepted by getVertexAttrib. Shouldn't
> > getVertexAttrib accept it?
> 

> you use gl.getVertexAttribOffset for the offset.
Oh. I had utterly forgotten about this function. 

Cheers, 
Benoit 

> > Cheers,
> 
> > Benoit
> 

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