Check if an uniform exists

OpenGL
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in my programs i have uniform variables like

uniform sampler2D u_Texture0;
uniform sampler2D u_Texture1;
uniform sampler2D u_Texture2;

i’d like to check after a shader has been compiled and linked, how many textures it expects. i thought i could use glGetUniformLocation(…) to check if an uniform exists, but the spec does not specify a return value for the case that a uniform was queried which does not exist. other ideas?

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Read the OpenGL 2.0 specs again.

The call to enumerate active uniforms in a linked program is glGetActiveUniform.
glGetUniformLocation will return -1 for all unreferenced uniforms. Non existing ones cannot be referenced, so will return -1 as well.
Calling glUniform on location -1 is a special case which is ignored without GL error.

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