Re: [linux-opengl-base] [oglbase-discuss] Re: draft spec for GL_EXT_get_proc_address

[Stephen J Baker]

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Jon Leech wrote:

>     Also, an emerging use of wglGetProcAddress() is to return pointers
> to OpenGL 1.2 core functions. While this exact scenario is unlikely to
> arise on Linux, we should still be very clear up front about whether
> non-EXT functions can be queried.
 
Sure it'll happen under Linux!  About 1 nanosecond after the
OpenGL 1.3 spec becomes public.

Whenever there are multiple versions of OpenGL floating
around, there will be a need to query core functions.

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