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[CLOSED] Removing 16-element limitation of glGetXXX methods

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Offline ra4king

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Forcing us to make 16-element buffers if we only wanted 2 elements is kinda dumb.

I understand this is in place to avoid buffer overflow, but why can't you just add a size parameter to nglGetXXXv so it only copies in min(size,elements)?
« Last Edit: May 29, 2012, 06:37:39 by ra4king »
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Re: [RFE] Removing 16-element limitation of glGetXXX methods
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2012, 07:33:43 »
Because OpenGL does not have any way to validate the amount of data actually returned from a glGetxx method. So go and moan about something else :) Perhaps you could keep your attention on the broken mouse delta APIs in Windows ;)

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Re: [RFE] Removing 16-element limitation of glGetXXX methods
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2012, 08:14:49 »
Because OpenGL does not have any way to validate the amount of data actually returned from a glGetxx method.
Oh well that sucks :(

So go and moan about something else :) Perhaps you could keep your attention on the broken mouse delta APIs in Windows ;)
Hehehe that's still an issue?! ;D
-Roi