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6 glHint - specify implementation-specific hints
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9 void glHint(GLenum target, GLenum mode);
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14 controlled. GL_LINE_SMOOTH_HINT, GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH_HINT,
15 GL_TEXTURE_COMPRESSION_HINT, and GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER_DERIVATIVE_HINT
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19 Specifies a symbolic constant indicating the desired behavior.
20 GL_FASTEST, GL_NICEST, and GL_DONT_CARE are accepted.
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23 Certain aspects of GL behavior, when there is room for interpretation,
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25 target is a symbolic constant indicating the behavior to be controlled,
26 and mode is another symbolic constant indicating the desired behavior.
27 The initial value for each target is GL_DONT_CARE. mode can be one of
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42 Though the implementation aspects that can be hinted are well defined,
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47 GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER_DERIVATIVE_HINT
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49 Indicates the accuracy of the derivative calculation for the GL
50 shading language fragment processing built-in functions: dFdx,
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53 GL_LINE_SMOOTH_HINT
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55 Indicates the sampling quality of antialiased lines. If a larger
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59 GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH_HINT
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61 Indicates the sampling quality of antialiased polygons. Hinting
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69 compressed as quickly as possible, while GL_NICEST indicates that
70 texture images should be compressed with as little image quality
71 loss as possible. GL_NICEST should be selected if the texture is
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75 The interpretation of hints depends on the implementation. Some
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