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OpenGL 4

# glGetSubroutineUniformLocation

## Name

glGetSubroutineUniformLocation — retrieve the location of a subroutine uniform of a given shader stage within a program

## C Specification

`GLint glGetSubroutineUniformLocation(` | GLuint program,
| GLenum shadertype,
| const GLchar *name`)`;

## Parameters

`program`

  Specifies the name of the program containing shader stage.

`shadertype`

  Specifies the shader stage from which to query for subroutine uniform index. `shadertype` must be one of `GL_VERTEX_SHADER`, `GL_TESS_CONTROL_SHADER`, `GL_TESS_EVALUATION_SHADER`, `GL_GEOMETRY_SHADER` or `GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER`.

`name`

  Specifies the name of the subroutine uniform whose index to query.

## Description

`glGetSubroutineUniformLocation` returns the location of the subroutine uniform variable `name` in the shader stage of type `shadertype` attached to `program`, with behavior otherwise identical to glGetUniformLocation.

If `name` is not the name of a subroutine uniform in the shader stage, -1 is returned, but no error is generated. If `name` is the name of a subroutine uniform in the shader stage, a value between zero and the value of `GL_ACTIVE_SUBROUTINE_LOCATIONS` minus one will be returned. Subroutine locations are assigned using consecutive integers in the range from zero to the value of `GL_ACTIVE_SUBROUTINE_LOCATIONS` minus one for the shader stage. For active subroutine uniforms declared as arrays, the declared array elements are assigned consecutive locations.

## Errors

`GL_INVALID_ENUM` is generated if `shadertype` or `pname` is not one of the accepted values.

`GL_INVALID_VALUE` is generated if `program` is not the name of an existing program object.

## Version Support

| OpenGL Version
--- | ---
Function / Feature Name | 2.0 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5
`glGetSubroutineUniformLocation` | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔

## See Also

glGetProgram, glGetActiveSubroutineUniform, glGetActiveSubroutineUniformName, glGetUniformLocation

## Copyright

Copyright © 2010-2014 Khronos Group. This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999. https://opencontent.org/openpub/.

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