[Xcb] [PATCH] Force XCB event structures with 64-bit extended fields to be packed.

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Tue Dec 31 15:29:04 PST 2013


On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 12:06:51AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Is it really that big an issue to simply break the ABI and bump the shared
> library version?

Very much so, yes, considering the stable nature of XCB.  That said, if
there's an alternate fix that only changes this one structure, it would
fall under "never worked to begin with", and thus wouldn't require
changing the shared library version to fix.

- Josh Triplett


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