From 7bf204a28d40c811f50c75a81c814dad307ac4cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Diederick Niehorster <dcnieho@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:38:16 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] note about using near far variable names

---
 freeglut/freeglut/README.win32 | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/freeglut/freeglut/README.win32 b/freeglut/freeglut/README.win32
index ce7a9ee..87247b1 100644
--- a/freeglut/freeglut/README.win32
+++ b/freeglut/freeglut/README.win32
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+NB
+==================================
+For ancient 16bit compatibility, windef.h (included through windows.h in
+freeglut_std.h) defines near and far. Its best to avoid using variables
+with these names in your own program.
+
 Installing the Libraries with MSVC
 ==================================