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<refentry id="glClearDepth">
    <refmeta>
        <refmetainfo>
            <copyright>
                <year>1991-2006</year>
                <holder>Silicon Graphics, Inc.</holder>
            </copyright>
        </refmetainfo>
        <refentrytitle>glClearDepth</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
    </refmeta>
    <refnamediv>
        <refname>glClearDepth</refname>
        <refpurpose>specify the clear value for the depth buffer</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>
        <funcsynopsis>
            <funcprototype>
                <funcdef>void <function>glClearDepth</function></funcdef>
                <paramdef>GLdouble <parameter>depth</parameter></paramdef>
            </funcprototype>
            <funcprototype>
                <funcdef>void <function>glClearDepthf</function></funcdef>
                <paramdef>GLfloat <parameter>depth</parameter></paramdef>
            </funcprototype>
        </funcsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsect1 id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
        <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>depth</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specifies the depth value used when the depth buffer is cleared. The
                    initial value is 1.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="description"><title>Description</title>
        <para>
            <function>glClearDepth</function> specifies the depth value used by <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glClear</refentrytitle></citerefentry> to clear the depth buffer.
            Values specified by <function>glClearDepth</function> are clamped to the range 
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                    <mml:mn>0</mml:mn>
                    <mml:mn>1</mml:mn>
                </mml:mfenced>
            </mml:math></inlineequation>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="notes"><title>Notes</title>
        <para>
            The type of the <parameter>depth</parameter> parameter was
            changed from GLclampf to GLfloat for
            <function>glClearDepthf</function> and from GLclampd to
            GLdouble for <function>glClearDepth</function>. This change
            is transparent to user code and is described in detail on
            the
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>removedTypes</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            page.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="associatedgets"><title>Associated Gets</title>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGet</refentrytitle></citerefentry> with argument <constant>GL_DEPTH_CLEAR_VALUE</constant>
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glClear</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>removedTypes</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
        <para>
            Copyright <trademark class="copyright"></trademark> 1991-2006
            Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI
            Free Software B License. For details, see
            <ulink url="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/">http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/</ulink>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
</refentry>
