ATOMICCOUNTER(3G)

🌸 ATOMICCOUNTER — okay bestie, let's get into it (3G, if we're being formal 💅)

Not me opening the manual for atomicCounter(3G) — this is the GLSL function that just looks at an atomic counter and tells you what number it's holding right now. No drama, no mutation, just a little peek. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

atomicCounter — return the current value of an atomic counter 💖

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✨ DECLARATION ✨

uint atomicCounter(atomic_uint c);

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✨ PARAMETERS ✨

• c — the handle to the atomic counter whose value you're tryna read, bestie. Hand it over and it'll tell you what's inside. 👑

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

atomicCounter returns the current value of the atomic counter c. That's it. That's the whole thing. It's giving "lowkey simple, highkey useful" energy. ✨

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✨ VERSION SUPPORT ✨

So here's the vibe check on which OpenGL Shading Language versions actually support this function. The columns are the GLSL versions, and our girl atomicCounter is rolling with the 4.20-and-up crowd only. No cap. 🫶

Function name: atomicCounter

• 1.10 — not it 💀
• 1.20 — not it 💀
• 1.30 — not it 💀
• 1.40 — not it 💀
• 1.50 — not it 💀
• 3.30 — not it 💀
• 4.00 — not it 💀
• 4.10 — not it 💀
• 4.20 — ✔ slay 👑
• 4.30 — ✔ slay 👑
• 4.40 — ✔ slay 👑
• 4.50 — ✔ slay 👑 (iconic, we love to see it)

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Go be nosy, bestie, the whole squad is here:

• atomicCounterIncrement()
• atomicCounterDecrement()

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✨ COPYRIGHT ✨

Copyright © 2011-2014 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. http://opencontent.org/openpub/.

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✨ COPYRIGHT (yes, again, we're doing two of these) ✨

Copyright © 2011-2014 Khronos Group

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fr fr, that's the entire page. Go increment something. Responsibly. 💜

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And that's a wrap, gorgeous — this came out of [FIXME: source], dated 01/03/2018, on the ATOMICCOUNTER(3G) page. Periodt. 🎀🌈