If I do a buffer update with MAP_NO_OVERWRITE or MAP_DISCARD, can I just write to the buffer after I called Unmap() on the buffer? It seems to work fine for me (Nvidia driver), but is it actually legal to do so? I have a graphics device wrapper and I don't want to expose Map/Unmap, but just have a function like void* AllocateFromRingBuffer(GPUBuffer* buffer, uint size, uint& offset); This function would just call Map on the buffer, then Unmap immediately and then return the address of the buffer. It usually does a MAP_NO_OVERWRITE, but sometimes it is a WRITE_DISCARD (when the buffer wraps around). Previously I have been using it so that the function expected the data upfront and would copy to the buffer between Map/Unmap, but now I want to extend functionality of it so that it would just return an address to write to.
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