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# glPassThrough

## Name

glPassThrough — place a marker in the feedback buffer

## C Specification

`void glPassThrough(` | GLfloat | token`)`;

## Parameters

`token`

  Specifies a marker value to be placed in the feedback buffer following a `GL_PASS_THROUGH_TOKEN`.

## Description

Feedback is a GL render mode. The mode is selected by calling glRenderMode with `GL_FEEDBACK`. When the GL is in feedback mode, no pixels are produced by rasterization. Instead, information about primitives that would have been rasterized is fed back to the application using the GL. See the glFeedbackBuffer reference page for a description of the feedback buffer and the values in it.

`glPassThrough` inserts a user-defined marker in the feedback buffer when it is executed in feedback mode. `token` is returned as if it were a primitive; it is indicated with its own unique identifying value: `GL_PASS_THROUGH_TOKEN`. The order of `glPassThrough` commands with respect to the specification of graphics primitives is maintained.

## Notes

`glPassThrough` is ignored if the GL is not in feedback mode.

## Errors

`GL_INVALID_OPERATION` is generated if `glPassThrough` is executed between the execution of glBegin and the corresponding execution of glEnd.

## Associated Gets

glGet with argument `GL_RENDER_MODE`

## See Also

glFeedbackBuffer, glRenderMode

## Copyright

Copyright © 1991-2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI Free Software B License. For details, see https://web.archive.org/web/20171022161616/http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/.

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