Re: [oglbase-discuss] New GLX_ARB_get_proc_address specification

[John M. Zulauf]

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>
> On the other hand, a generic no-op function can't support a
> callee-cleanup sequence, because it doesn't know how many operands to
> pop off the stack.  So if for some reason we needed to dispatch
> functions using callee-cleanup, we wouldn't be able to support a
> generic no-op.  In that case an app that invokes a function that's
> unsupported by the current rendering context would have to be
> terminated.
>
> As far as I know, only the first case applies to us, but since David
> raised the issue I included it in my list.

Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware **anybody** did callee-cleanup (at least
not in modern times if ever)... it seems too error prone in general to be a
useful or sensible thing to do.  Certainly it wouldn't allow any generic
scheme proposed to date.