Hi all, This isn't quite the right place for this question, but I've searched through old standards and googled without any luck, so hopefully somebody here knows the history behind GLubyte*.
glGetString and gluErrorString, plus maybe some other functions, return GLubyte pointers instead of simply character pointers. I can't imagine an implementation does anything else internally other than use const char*'s and cast them to the type the interface requires. What's the rationale here? It appears to me to be a desire of GL to avoid depending on the std C library, but types, especially char, are part of the standard, the compiler. Anyone know the history here? Thanks, -tom _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
