Crashing the window mgr from GL programs

David R. Blythe drb at eecg.toronto.edu
Sat Aug 4 13:09:19 AEST 1990


In article <JIM.90Aug3152228 at baroque.Stanford.EDU> jim at baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) writes:
>
>> it might be worthwhile to review the related code for unsupported GL
>> sequences.
>
>It would be more worthwhile for SGI to make GL safer to use, even at
>some expense in performance.
I disagree.  Having a separate checking version of the library (say the
unshared version) would be better.  Then once you have some confidence your
code works you can link with the high performance version which doesn't
do checking.
>
>Jim Helman
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	-drb
	drb at clsc.utoronto.ca



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