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<refentry id="glGenProgramPipelines">
    <refmeta>
        <refmetainfo>
            <copyright>
                <year>2010</year>
                <holder>Khronos Group.</holder>
            </copyright>
        </refmetainfo>
        <refentrytitle>glGenProgramPipelines</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
    </refmeta>
    <refnamediv>
        <refname>glGenProgramPipelines</refname>
        <refpurpose>reserve program pipeline object names</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>
        <funcsynopsis>
            <funcprototype>
                <funcdef>void <function>glGenProgramPipelines</function></funcdef>
                <paramdef>GLsizei <parameter>n</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLuint *<parameter>pipelines</parameter></paramdef>
            </funcprototype>
        </funcsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
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    <refsect1 id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
        <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>n</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specifies the number of program pipeline object names to reserve.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>pipelines</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specifies an array of into which the reserved names will be written.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="description"><title>Description</title>
        <para>
            <function>glGenProgramPipelines</function> returns <parameter>n</parameter> previously unused
            program pipeline object names in <parameter>pipelines</parameter>. These names are marked as used,
            for the purposes of <function>glGenProgramPipelines</function> only, but they
            acquire program pipeline state only when they are first bound.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="associatedgets"><title>Associated Gets</title>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGet</refentrytitle></citerefentry> with argument <constant>GL_PROGRAM_PIPELINE_BINDING</constant>
        </para>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glIsProgramPipeline</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDeleteProgramPipelines</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glBindProgramPipeline</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glIsProgramPipeline</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glUseShaderPrograms</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glUseProgram</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
        <para>
            Copyright <trademark class="copyright"></trademark> 2010 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.
            <ulink url="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</ulink>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
</refentry>
