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OpenGL ES 2 for Android
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OpenGL ES 2 for Android

by Kevin Brothaler
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
346 pages
8h 42m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Pitfalls to Watch Out For

Sometimes the problem isn’t obvious: glGetError doesn’t return anything unusual, and the traces appear fine. Other times, the app might blow up with a segmentation fault at an unexpected place, robbing us of the chance to put in a breakpoint and figure out what’s going on. When these problems occur, we have to fall back to standard debugging techniques and narrow things down until we find the problem.[94]

One of the easiest methods to get wrong is glVertexAttribPointer (see ​Associating an Array of Vertex Data with an Attribute​ for a refresher), and getting it wrong will often lead to strange display issues and segmentation faults. As an example, let’s say that we have a vertex array for an object with a position attribute, ...

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