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Our prototype implementation shows full features of the KHR debug extension and works well with existing Opengl ES 1.1 application programs. In this paper, we represent a dynamically-linked library (DLL) wrapping approach to support the KHR debug extension even on the old Opengl ES 1.1 versions, which are most widely used on single board mobile computing devices. Especially, single board mobile computing devices are easy to lack up-to-date extensions for their existing system libraries.
In contrast, existing Opengl family implementations are lack of these features and hard to update the existing device drivers, including Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Arduino, etc. In the case of 3D graphics libraries, the most widely used 3D graphics library of Open Graphics Library ( Opengl ) has introduced the KHR debug extension, and it becomes the core feature of Opengl version 4.3 and later.
With modern integrated development environment, support for error reporting and debugging features becomes more important. In near future, our full implementation will be released to the market. Our prototype system shows these design schemes are feasible and well-suited even for commercial uses. Based on these scheme, we represent a prototype implementation for Opengl SC 2.0 system. These implementation schemes are the fundamental and theoretical frameworks for the Opengl SC 2.0 system implementation. We also show the detailed implementation strategy, for its step-by-step implementation works. In this paper, we represent the high-level design schemes of the Opengl SC 2.0 context system and the rendering system. In the year of 2015, Opengl SC 2.0 was newly released as the newest and specialized three-dimensional graphics standard for safety-critical applications. It has been widely used for three-dimensional graphics output in military, avionics, and medical applications. Opengl Safety Critical Profile ( Opengl SC) is a variation of the famous three-dimensional graphics library Open Graphics Library ( Opengl), for safety critical environment.