[Xcb] [PATCH] Don't set full sequence for ge events

Peter Harris git at peter.is-a-geek.org
Fri Feb 22 04:54:25 PST 2013


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Daniel Martin wrote:
> In theory, this is an ABI change, in practice no one (no xml
> implementation in xcb/proto) used those XGE events before.

There are users of the struct anyway. In particular, this change breaks Xlib:

http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=xcb_ge_event_t

That's not a show-stopper. Given that the first thing every user does
is memmove the full_sequence out, or the equivalent, I'd say it's a
good thing. But we have to be careful to bump an ABI version in the
autofoo.

Peter Harris


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