[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/5] include/GL: add mesa_glinterop.h for OpenGL-OpenCL interop (v3)

[Marek Olšák]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 March 2016 at 10:40, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "offset_after" isn't nasty. :) Yeah, I was inspired by other APIs I
>> had seen. The sizes make even more sense when they are function
>> parameters, because the caller can just do:
>> (sizeof(in), &in, sizeof(out), &out)
>>
> A nice list of arguments:
>  - If the majority of people like offset_after, the question "Why
> barely any projects use it (from a quick search) ?" comes to mind.
>  - I wasn't the only one advocating for versioned interfaces ;-)
>  - They will just work in an identical way and the code will be less.
>  - Regardless of how ugly/nasty/etc, mesa uses versioned interfaces
> throughout. "Consistency is the key" a wise man have said once.
>  - The interfaces using explicit size argument, that I'm aware of, are
> not designed with extensibility in mind.

Updated branch with your suggestions applied:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~mareko/mesa/log/?h=interop

Marek