<div class="refentry" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="glGetPointerv"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>glGetPointerv — return the address of the specified pointer</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>C Specification</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">void <b class="fsfunc">glGetPointerv</b>(</code></td><td>GLenum <var class="pdparam">pname</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>GLvoid ** <var class="pdparam">params</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></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>pname</code></em>

</span></dt><dd><p>

Specifies the array or buffer pointer to be returned.

Accepted symbolic names are

<code class="constant">GL_COLOR_ARRAY_POINTER</code>,

<code class="constant">GL_NORMAL_ARRAY_POINTER</code>,

<code class="constant">GL_POINT_SIZE_ARRAY_POINTER_OES</code><span>,</span>

<code class="constant">GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY_POINTER</code>,<span> and</span>

<code class="constant">GL_VERTEX_ARRAY_POINTER</code><span>.</span>

</p></dd><dt><span class="term">

<em class="parameter"><code>params</code></em>

</span></dt><dd><p>

Returns the pointer value specified by <em class="parameter"><code>pname</code></em>.

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

<code class="function">glGetPointerv</code>

returns pointer information.

<em class="parameter"><code>pname</code></em> is a

symbolic constant indicating the pointer to be returned, and

<em class="parameter"><code>params</code></em> is a pointer to a

location in which to place the returned data.

</p><p>

Querying the GL_TEXTURE_COORD_ARRAY_POINTER returns the value for

the active client texture unit.

</p><p>

If a non-zero

named buffer object was bound to the GL_ARRAY_BUFFER target

(see

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

when the desired pointer was previously specified, the pointer

returned is a byte offset into the buffer object's data store.

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

<code class="function">glGetPointerv</code> is only supported

if the OpenGL ES version number is 1.1 or greater.

</p><p>

The pointers are all client-side state.

</p><p>

The initial value for each pointer is 0.

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

<code class="constant">GL_INVALID_ENUM</code> is generated if

<em class="parameter"><code>pname</code></em> is not an accepted value.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Copyright © 2003-2004

Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI

Free Software B License. For details, see

<a class="ulink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171022161616/http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/" target="_top">https://web.archive.org/web/20171022161616/http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/</a>.

</p></div></div>