On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:20:54PM -0600, tom fogal wrote: | glGetString and gluErrorString, plus maybe some other functions, return | GLubyte pointers instead of simply character pointers... | What's the rationale here?
I agree, it's odd. I don't remember the rationale, but my best guess is that it papered over some compatibility issue with another language binding (probably Fortran). I suppose there's a very slight possibility that it sprang from a compatibility issue with Cray. Allen _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev