[PATCH 3/4] Generate swrast GLX extension list, rather than using a fixed list
Ian Romanick
idr at freedesktop.org
Wed Jul 25 09:14:44 PDT 2012
On 07/25/2012 08:36 AM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
>
> On Jul 25, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney at dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>>>> +#ifndef __APPLE__
>>>> + __glXEnableExtension(screen->glx_enable_bits, "GLX_SGIS_multisample");
>>>> +#endif
>>
>> As far as I can tell, this conditional is entirely pointless (now, I'm
>> guessing that there is some historical reason for it), as this GL provider is
>> never used by Xquartz. Perhaps you can confirm that?
>
> Correct, it's not used by XQuartz, but it is used by other servers (like Xorg) which can run on darwin.
>
> __APPLE__ just means that it's being built for OS X, not XQuartz.
>
> It originally entered xserver with e56e24af252bd3b8e58076adf0f8eabf1103f187, and I changed it from __DARWIN__ to __APPLE__ in 54654815fa5e59b25cfd1fa72610120b72c10175. But I don't know *why* it is there, and it doesn't really make sense to me. The e56e24af commit was http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-commit/2004-June/001142.html:
>
> So that doesn't give much clue.
>
> Giving it a punt is the right thing to do. If it has fallout, I'm sure the 1 person who cares about it will say something.
I can't see how it would make any difference. Like I said in a previous
post, for GLX, the SGIS and ARB extensions are identical.
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