Proprosed break in libGL / DRI driver ABI

Ian Romanick idr at us.ibm.com
Tue Apr 5 23:59:51 PDT 2005


Brian Paul wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, I just threw out glXGetProcAddress as a suggestion.  It's 
>> probably better to pass this table into the driver through the create 
>> context method.

[snip]

> Right.  glXGetProcAddress() should not be used by libGL or the drivers 
> to get internal function pointers.  There should be a new function for 
> that, if we're breaking the ABI.

Not that I necessarily disagree, but what is your reasoning?



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