Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!BRL.MIL!mike From: mike@BRL.MIL (Mike Muuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: 4-D GT braindeath Message-ID: <8809210558.aa09357@SPARK.BRL.MIL> Date: 21 Sep 88 09:58:49 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 14 I just discovered that there is a whole bunch of new routines in the GL library (-lgl) with awful, short names like "v3f". I seem to recall SGI *promising* that now that FLEXNAMES were the default, all *new* routines for the GL library would have a distinctive prefix on their names. For example, "v3f" should have been "gl_v3f" and then the "C" extern namespace would not be all cluttered up. This is a giant pain, with SGI library symbols clashing with perfectly valid extern variables in my programs. PLEASE STOP IT! -Mike