[Xcb] XGE malloc bug - too small due to xcb struct padding

[Keith Packard]

Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl> writes:

> That isn't the right answer.  The 64-bit fields will be misaligned and
> accessing them on a strict alignment architecture will trigger a bus
> error.

Oh. I just realized that the problem here is rooted in the fact that
Present uses 64-bit native datatypes on the wire. I believe this is a
novelty; X has been limited to 32-bit datatypes in the past, which would
mean that the struct itself could be allocated on a 32-bit boundary, and
the original code would have worked for any extension *not* using 64-bit
datatypes past the 32-byte event struct size.

The most cautious approach to fixing this would be to only pad events to
64-bit boundaries which included 64-bit types. That seems harder...

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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