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    <info>
        <copyright>
            <year>1991-2006</year>
            <holder>Silicon Graphics, Inc.</holder>
        </copyright>
    </info>
    <refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>glStencilMaskSeparate</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
    </refmeta>
    <refnamediv>
        <refname>glStencilMaskSeparate</refname>
        <refpurpose>control the front and/or back writing of individual bits in the stencil planes</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv><title>C Specification</title>
        <funcsynopsis>
            <funcprototype>
                <funcdef>void <function>glStencilMaskSeparate</function></funcdef>
                <paramdef>GLenum <parameter>face</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>GLuint <parameter>mask</parameter></paramdef>
            </funcprototype>
        </funcsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsect1 xml:id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
        <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>face</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specifies whether the front and/or back stencil writemask is updated.
                    Three symbolic constants are valid:
                    <constant>GL_FRONT</constant>,
                    <constant>GL_BACK</constant>, and
                    <constant>GL_FRONT_AND_BACK</constant>.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>mask</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specifies a bit mask to enable and disable writing of individual bits
                    in the stencil planes.
                    Initially, the mask is all 1's.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="description"><title>Description</title>
        <para>
            <function>glStencilMaskSeparate</function> controls the writing of individual bits in the stencil planes.
            The least significant
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            bits of <parameter>mask</parameter>,
            where
            <inlineequation><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"><mml:mi mathvariant="italic">n</mml:mi></mml:math></inlineequation>
            is the number of bits in the stencil buffer,
            specify a mask.
            Where a 1 appears in the mask,
            it's possible to write to the corresponding bit in the stencil buffer.
            Where a 0 appears,
            the corresponding bit is write-protected.
            Initially, all bits are enabled for writing.
        </para>
        <para>
            There can be two separate <parameter>mask</parameter> writemasks; one affects back-facing polygons, and the other
            affects front-facing polygons as well as other non-polygon primitives.
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glStencilMask</refentrytitle></citerefentry> sets both front
            and back stencil writemasks to the same values, as if
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glStencilMaskSeparate</refentrytitle></citerefentry> were called
            with <parameter>face</parameter> set to <constant>GL_FRONT_AND_BACK</constant>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="errors"><title>Errors</title>
        <para>
            <constant>GL_INVALID_ENUM</constant> is generated if <parameter>face</parameter> is not one of the accepted tokens.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="associatedgets"><title>Associated Gets</title>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glGet</refentrytitle></citerefentry> with argument
            <constant>GL_STENCIL_WRITEMASK</constant>, <constant>GL_STENCIL_BACK_WRITEMASK</constant>,
            or <constant>GL_STENCIL_BITS</constant>
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glColorMask</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glDepthMask</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glStencilFunc</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glStencilFuncSeparate</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glStencilMask</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glStencilOp</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>glStencilOpSeparate</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
        <para>
            Copyright <trademark class="copyright"/> 2006 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.
            <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</link>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
</refentry>
