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						Specifies the index used when the stencil buffer is cleared. The initial value is 0.
					</dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="glClearStencil.3G-description"/><h2>Description</h2><p>
			<tt>glClearStencil</tt> specifies the index used by <a href="glClear.3G.xml"><tt>glClear</tt></a> to
			clear the stencil buffer. <i><tt>s</tt></i> is masked with <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll">
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					<mml:mi>m</mml:mi>
				</mml:math> is the number of bits in the stencil buffer.
		</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="glClearStencil.3G-errors"/><h2>Errors</h2><p>
			<tt>GL_INVALID_OPERATION</tt> is generated if <tt>glClearStencil</tt> is executed between the
			execution of <a href="glBegin.3G.xml"><tt>glBegin</tt></a> and the corresponding execution of <a href="glBegin.3G.xml"><tt>glEnd</tt></a>.
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			<tt>glGet</tt> with argument <tt>GL_STENCIL_CLEAR_VALUE</tt>
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			<tt>glGet</tt> with argument <tt>GL_STENCIL_BITS</tt>
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			<span class="simplelist"><a href="glClear.3G.xml">glClear</a>, <a href="glStencilFunc.3G.xml">glStencilFunc</a>, <a href="glStencilOp.3G.xml">glStencilOp</a>, <a href="glStencilMask.3G.xml">glStencilMask</a></span>
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