Re: generic type identification

[David Holm <david@realityrift.com>]

tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>   So you don't really need to know the "type" in the Ada sense of the
> word, just in the C sense.  If it's OK to call the "double" version for
> any float, and the "int" version for shorts as well as ints, then one
> generic for int and one for double should do the job.  So how about:

I wish it was this simple but as you will probably pass OpenGL alot of 
vertices every frame (if there are lots of stuff changing in the scene) you 
don't want to pass it 64bit doubles if 32bit floats are enough. Same goes 
for int vs short.

//David