XDC 2024: Call for Proposals deadline extended to August 19

2024-08-13 Thread Mark Filion
Hello! The CfP deadline for talks, workshops and demos at XDC 2024 has been extended to next Monday, 19 August 2024.  You have one more week to submit, don't wait! https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/6/abstracts/ While any serious proposal will be gratefully considered, topics of interest to X

RE: Does anyone still feel strongly about -Wdeclaration-after-statement ?

2024-08-13 Thread Peter Harris
> Using __attribute__((cleanup)) plus a bit macro magic gives us a little taste > of > golang's defer. > > Is there any strong reason for not using it ? Not all compilers support __attribute__((cleanup)). I don't know if anybody still uses Sun Studio or IBM's XLC, but I still use MSVC to build.

RE: xcb: list & padding

2024-08-13 Thread Peter Harris
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxcb/-/merge_requests/14 changes it so that lists always require explicit padding (and therefore allows unpadded lists). This MR is stalled. With a little review, I think it can be merged. As long as you're looking at xkb, see also https://gitlab.freede

xcb: list & padding

2024-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Hi folks, does anyone know a way for declaring list fields that explicitly aren't padded ? I'm currently trying to fix XkbGetKbdByName call and tried adding the variable length parameters as lists of bytes (still not fully satisfying as one needs to prepend length field). Unfortunately doens't

Re: Does anyone still feel strongly about -Wdeclaration-after-statement ?

2024-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 08.08.24 05:32, Peter Hutterer wrote: I feel fairly strongly about removing that warning, i.e. allowing declarations after statements. There's a reason all modern languages allow this. It makes the code clearer and less buggy in many instances, esp. in regards to variables that don't need to

Re: merge requests to Geode

2024-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 13.08.24 08:41, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: Enrico, do you think that you could help Connor finalize this MR? last time I checked (any replied), i've been fine with this. just been a bit naggling about esthetic aspects - suggested splitting it a bit to make it easier for the reader of the pa