Re: [oglbase-discuss] CALL FOR VOTE: gl.h/glext.h

[akin]

On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 07:17:59AM -0500, Stephen J Baker wrote:
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| This seems even less acceptable than the original proposal since before, even
| when "new behavior" was the default ('C'), the implementation was free to export
| function prototypes for locally valid extensions.

That would make it impossible to check for naked references to
extension functions at compile time, with the highly unpleasant
side-effect that an app could fail at startup (because not all
libGL.so implementations contain entry points for the extension
functions that the app references).

I think it's worthwhile to design oglbase so that this problem can't
occur.  That's one of the reasons why the current proposals are
structured as they are.

Allen