DSA requires binding?!

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Hello!
Playing with Direct State Access functions right now. Just discovered smg unexpected creating a framebuffer: it seems like DSA functions generate GL_INVALID_OPERATION when I attempt to apply them to a newly generated FBO which was never bound. So here is the code that generates GL_INVALID_OPERATION error:


GLuint FBO = 0;
glGenFramebuffers(1,&FBO);
//glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER,FBO);
glNamedFramebufferTexture(FBO, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, TextureName, MipmapLevel);

And once I uncomment the FBO’ binding line, error disappears - everything works fine.

In other words, generating name is not sufficient to create an object - it must be bound to context at least once before it could be used. Strange, I don’t remember this to be stated anywhere… Am I wrong, am I missing smg from documentation or did I just found a bug in nVidia drivers?..

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Strange, I don’t remember this to be stated anywhere…

I do. It’s right there in the specification; the beginning of it is in the “Additions to Chapter 2 of the OpenGL 4.4 (core) Specification (OpenGL Fundamentals)” section. And it’s part of every DSA api function’s error list that it yields GL_INVALID_OPERATION if the object has not been created.

This is why you should be using the glCreate* functions instead of glGen*; these create the name and the object. That way, you don’t need to bind to edit things.

BTW, yes, this was a change from the EXT-form of DSA. It allows ARB_DSA to be a bit more efficient, since every API call doesn’t have to potentially create an object.

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OMG, I am so ashamed…
Thank you, Alfonse, I happened to forget about those functions completely…:doh: