Re: [Mesa3d-dev] MESA_trace Facility

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

Allen Barnett wrote:
> 
> Hi (again),
> 
> I was trying out the Mesa Trace facility. The spec file in the docs
> directory says that it should produce 'logs [which] are valid (but
> possibly incomplete) C code'. I took a stab at:
> 
> glNewTraceMESA( TRACE_OPERATIONS_BIT_MESA, "log" );
> glEnableTraceMESA( TRACE_OPERATIONS_BIT_MESA );
> // draw, draw, draw
> glEndTraceMESA();
> 
> which produced a file named "log-gl.log.0". However, the contents of the
> file are evidently binary. Are there other calls I need to make to get a
> text file? Or is there a post-processor for this output?

The trace facility was never really finished.  The code was donated
by a couple guys at Loki games but it never got polished.  Feel
free to poke around and fix it if you're so inclined.

-Brian