[cairo] Redoing the xlib surface constructors

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Sun Mar 13 16:40:14 PST 2005


Around 17 o'clock on Mar 13, Owen Taylor wrote:

> I was just commenting on the type mismatch... CopyFromParent is an XID,
> not a Visual * value.

Fortunately, 0 is a well defined pointer value, so it 'just works' with 
ANSI-C compilers.  The scary thing is this was all defined in the 
pre-prototype era when the compiler had no idea what the formal type was...

XCB shouldn't have any of these bizarre interface issues...

-keith


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