Re: Found and fixed a 20 years old bug in Xserver :)

2024-08-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 8/15/24 06:40, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: Seriously, I don't have any clue what that really supposed to mean. Unfortunately, we don't have any explaination in the git history - it came from a big X11R6.6 snapshot, 20 years ago. We don't have full history for all of X, but for th

RE: xcb: list & padding

2024-08-15 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. > > oh, it's laying around there for 3 years now, nob

Found and fixed a 20 years old bug in Xserver :)

2024-08-15 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Hi folks, if one's digging deeply enough into old code, sometimes suprising things happen, eg. finding an 20 years old bug, exotic enough that nobody ever stumpled across it before: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1741 This is a really strange one: DIX is denying creation

Re: xcb: list & padding

2024-08-15 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 13.08.24 15:29, Peter Harris wrote: Hi, 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. oh, it's laying a

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

2024-08-15 Thread Matthieu Herrb
On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 01:56:14PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 08.08.24 13:37, Matthieu Herrb wrote: > > > But also try to avoid gratuitous churn. I'm opposed to commit to just > > move variable declaration around "because we can". > > You're referring to me, right ? Not