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Luke A. Guest wrote:

> Take the glMultMatrixf procedure I posted before, *you want to have your
> own types* but *you also want to be able to pass them to the GL functions*
> but it's tricky because the strong typing is getting in the way. I need a
> way to convert my aliased matrix type to another. That function expects a
> GL.GLfloatPtr, I want to use something else, do you understand?

Then you need to (unchecked) convert the access type, not the data.  Of 
course, make sure that both access types are either declared access all, 
or designate objects in the same storage pool.

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