On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:09:48PM -0700, Michael I Gold wrote:
> > From: Jon Leech [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Because such code is inherently nonportable by claiming part of a
> > reserved namespace, yes.
>
> The whole point of making static declarations and glext.h mutually exclusive
> to to effectively redefine the namespace so that these symbols are not
> reserved.
The namespace is 'gl*'; it's not a property of whether the ABI is in
use or not, but a property of the OpenGL API itself.
If there are apps infringing on this namespace today that will be
affected by the particular structure of glext.h, that's important to
know so we can try to cope with it - but nonetheless those applications
are intrinsically unportable and are incompatible with the API.
Jon Leech
SGI
