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Stephen Leake wrote:
> I suspect libopengl32.a is simply a binding to the Win32 OpenGL DLL; I
> don't see why it would return different results via C. Very odd.

DLL's are supposed to strive to be backward-compatable, to the extent of 
fully supporting older interfaces. Perhaps the Ada bindings call into an 
older interface than the C bindings he is using.