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Disallow point rendering with undefined point size #3356

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If <em>first</em> is negative, an <code>INVALID_VALUE</code> error will be generated.
If the CURRENT_PROGRAM is null, an <code>INVALID_OPERATION</code> error will be generated.
If the <em>mode</em> is <code>POINTS</code> and the current program does not set
<code>gl_PointSize</code> variable, an <code>INVALID_OPERATION</code> error will be generated.
<dt class="idl-code">void drawElements(GLenum mode, GLsizei count, GLenum type, GLintptr offset)
<span class="gl-spec">(<a href="http://www.khronos.org/registry/gles/specs/2.0/es_full_spec_2.0.25.pdf#nameddest=section-2.8">OpenGL ES 2.0 &sect;2.8</a>, <a class="nonnormative" href="http://www.khronos.org/opengles/sdk/2.0/docs/man/xhtml/glDrawElements.xml">man page</a>)</span>
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then a non-null <code>WebGLBuffer</code> must be bound to the <code>ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER</code>
binding point or an <code>INVALID_OPERATION</code> error will be generated.<br><br>
If the CURRENT_PROGRAM is null, an <code>INVALID_OPERATION</code> error will be generated.
If the <em>mode</em> is <code>POINTS</code> and the current program does not set
<code>gl_PointSize</code> variable, an <code>INVALID_OPERATION</code> error will be generated.

WebGL performs additional error checking beyond that specified in OpenGL ES 2.0 during
calls to <code>drawArrays</code>
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<h3>Undefined Point Size</h3>
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Draw calls with <code>POINTS</code> primitives are rejected when the bound program does not set
<code>gl_PointSize</code>.
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Point rendering with undefined point size is undefined in GLES and may be unsupported in other APIs.
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From concall: please mention something more precise about why this doesn't work.

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After looking into this again, it seems there are two underlying issues there:

  • D3D11 does not support point rendering with point size greater than 1.0, so ANGLE generates a geometry shader to handle that.
  • The presence of gl_PointSize in the original ESSL source non-trivially affects ANGLE's shader translator (e.g., how varyings are packed), so simply prepending all shaders with gl_PointSize = 1.0; may cause unexpected issues. Those may be caused by unknown bugs in the translator.

So this issue looks like an ANGLE limitation, which may remain indefinitely.

What would be the appropriate language for the spec here?

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