Found something named "winpos", what is it?

There is no man page, no help, no info. The only thing I can find about something called “winpos” is on the site where vim is documented (for example https://vim-jp.org/vimdoc-en/gui.html search for ‘winpos’ on the page). But that doesn’t mean the application belongs to vim, could just as well be short for “windows position”. N.b. I don’t have vim installed, only vi, which I think is installed by default, unless that changed since way back when.

What I have tried:

$ pacman -Qi winpos
error: package 'winpos' was not found

$ pacman -Ss winpos

$ pamac search winpos

$ man winpos
No manual entry for winpos

If I use winpos --help all that happens is that a GUI window pops up with a small image being repeated in a sort of “whirlpool” pattern and then the text Using GL_ARB_window_pos is written to the Terminal. The GUI popup seems to be something from X11, since there is an X in the top left corner.

Anybody got any ideas about where this winpos thing comes from?

Thanks.

$ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/winpos
/usr/bin/winpos is owned by mesa-demos 9.0.0-7
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Okay, after your hint, I found it: https://github.com/mirror/mesa-demos/blob/main/src/demos/winpos.c

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