Re: [oglbase-discuss] Let's finish this puppy

[Jon Leech]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:39:02AM -0700, Brian Paul wrote:
> >     Unfortunately, that no longer obtains. The preprocessor symbols
> > cannot tell you whether or not the symbol can be statically linked
> > against at link time, or must be obtained via wglGetProcAddress /
> > glXGetProcAddress at run time. All they're good for now is telling you
> > whether or not the interfaces are defined at compile time.
>
> While function entrypoints shouldn't be directly used, the compile-time
> "extension is present" symbol is useful for testing for extension tokens.

    I think that's what I said too... the tokens and the prototypes
together define the compile time interface.

    Jon