Brian Paul wrote:
> I've made a few updates to this spec with respect to the last of the
> discussion.
>
> This spec and related ones are at http://www.mesa3d.org/misc/
>
> The major change reflects the decision that glGetProcAddressEXT returns
> a context-independent pointer. I also changed the Errors section
> (calling glGetProcAddress between glBegin/glEnd is illegal but may not
> generate an error).
>
> I believe the only outstanding issue is whether glGetProcAddressEXT
> is indeed the right function name. The alternative is to use
> glXGetProcAddressEXT to return pointers to core GL functions in
> addition to GLX functions.
>
> I'm in favor of the former (having glGetProcAddressEXT).
Because you have opted to go with context-independent pointers, I vote
for the latter (glXGetProcAddressEXT) because it can be called without
a current context, making it semantically correct to return context
independent data.
Bob Beretta
Apple Computer
