social.noyu.me

you know, it’s a shame that C is designed by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 and not the OpenGL Architecture Review Board. i’m sure we’d all rather write:

glDisable(GL_MASKING);
glEnableClientState(GL_SOURCE_DATA_ARRAY);
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
glSourceDataPointer(1, gl::UNSIGNED_BYTE, 1, dst_ptr);
glEnableClientState(GL_DESTINATION_DATA_ARRAY);
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
glDestinationDataPointer(1, gl::UNSIGNED_BYTE, 1, src_ptr);
glCopyBytes(0, num_bytes);
if (glGetError() != 0) {
   // fuck
}

rather than

memcpy(dst_ptr, src_ptr, size);

“client state? in 2023?” i hear you cry. ok ok. surely what we want to do then is

glDisable(GL_MASKING);
glEnableSourceDataArray();
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, src_buf);
glSourceDataPointer(1, gl::UNSIGNED_BYTE, 1, (const GLvoid*)(uintptr_t)src_offset);
glEnableDestinationDataArray();
glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, dst_buf);
glDestinationDataPointer(1, gl::UNSIGNED_BYTE, 1, (const GLvoid*)(uintptr_t)dst_offset);
glCopyBytes(0, num_bytes);
if (glGetError() != 0) {
   // fuck
}

i should really not find more ways to procrastinate from writing very tedious real opengl code, but… i am extremely tempted to write a strings library for c that uses the same api conventions as opengl, as a joke