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The OpenGL docs for glUseProgram claim that calling it with an argument of zero will cause the results of shader execution to be undefined.
However, after a little searching I’ve seen a couple examples of people using glUseProgram to uninstall the current shader program.
Is this behavior reliable? If not, then what exactly does glUseProgram(0) do?
glUseProgrammeans that the given program object is the current program that will be used for things that use programs (glUniform, rendering commands, etc). 0 is a lot likeNULLfor OpenGL objects. It represents not an object (for most objects). Therefore,glUseProgram(0)means that no program is current, and therefore no program will be used for things that use programs.If you attempt to call the
glUniformfunctions when no program is current, they will fail with an error. If you attempt to render when no program is current, one of two things will happen. In OpenGL 3.1+, core profile, you will get undefined behavior, because core OpenGL must render with a program. In compatibility profiles or version 3.0 or less, you will get fixed-function rendering.