<div class="refentry" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="glGenBuffers"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>glGenBuffers — generate buffer object names</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>C Specification</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table><tr><td><code class="funcdef">void <b class="fsfunc">glGenBuffers</b>(</code></td><td>GLsizei  </td><td><var class="pdparam">n</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>GLuint *  </td><td><var class="pdparam">buffers</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="parameters"></a><h2>Parameters</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>n</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>

Specifies the number of buffer object names to be generated.

</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>buffers</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>

Specifies an array in which the generated buffer object names are stored.

</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="description"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>

<code class="function">glGenBuffers</code> returns <em class="parameter"><code>n</code></em> buffer object names in <em class="parameter"><code>buffers</code></em>.

There is no guarantee that the names form a contiguous set of integers;

however, it is guaranteed that none of the returned names was in use

immediately before the call to <code class="function">glGenBuffers</code>.

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Buffer object names returned by a call to <code class="function">glGenBuffers</code> are not returned by

subsequent calls, unless they are first deleted with

<a href="glDeleteBuffers"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDeleteBuffers</span></span></a>.

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No buffer objects are associated with the returned buffer object names until they are first bound by calling

<a href="glBindBuffer"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glBindBuffer</span></span></a>.

</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="errors"></a><h2>Errors</h2><p>

<code class="constant">GL_INVALID_VALUE</code> is generated if <em class="parameter"><code>n</code></em> is negative.

</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="associatedgets"></a><h2>Associated Gets</h2><p>

<a href="glIsBuffer"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glIsBuffer</span></span></a>

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<div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="seealso"></a><h2>See Also</h2><p>

<a href="glBindBuffer"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glBindBuffer</span></span></a>,

<a href="glDeleteBuffers"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDeleteBuffers</span></span></a>,

<a href="glGet"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glGet</span></span></a>

</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div id="Copyright"><h2>Copyright</h2><p>

Copyright © 2005 Addison-Wesley.

This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in

the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.

<a href="https://opencontent.org/openpub/" target="_top">https://opencontent.org/openpub/</a>.

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