Re: [Mesa3d-dev] glReadPixels

[Stephen J B. <sj...@li...>]

On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Daniel Vogel wrote:

> Allen Akin wrote:
> > 
> > I guess the bottom line is that the implementation *is* free to
> > generate errors under conditions not mandated by the spec, but it
> > would be dangerous for apps to depend on it.  A nice compromise is to
> 
> I was actually thinking the other way round - the app depending on no
> errors to be generated ;-) 
 
I agree that a LEGAL program should be able to depend on no
errors being generated - but passing NULL to glReadPixels isn't 
legal - so your program has a bug in it - and hence is not able
to rely on *anything*.

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