RE: [oglbase-discuss] OK, back to Re: 2nd draft:GL_EXT_get_proc_address spec

[Michael I Gold]

At 04:22 PM 9/17/99 -0400, you wrote:
>> On the downside, it makes it more difficult to share code between
>> Windows and Linux drivers (as Michael mentioned)...
>
>Would someone please explain what the expected level of code compatibility is
>between a Windoze ICD implementation and a Linux OGL driver is? I'm
getting the
>idea folks are expecting their ICD code to drop into a Linux environment with
>only the most minor modifications, is that the case? Is that a major goal?
>Aren't there a few legal issues with providing a knock-off of the ICD
>environment under any non-MS OS (i.e. MS has specfically precluded any
transfer
>of technology)?
>
>I guess my going in assumption was that things like dispatch would be OS
>specfic.

I'm assuming that OS-independent code can remain OS-independent.  Simply
dropping a function pointer into the dispatch table is currently a simple
assignment in many implementations, and I would like to keep it that way.
I have no illusions that the OS-specific parts of the driver will be portable.