[cairo] API Shakeup: cairo_current_path -> cairo_copy_path_data

[Carl Worth]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:15:56 -0800, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> I'm wondering if instead the structure should be:
> 
> typedef union {
>    struct {
>      enum {
>        ...
>      } type;
>      int length;
>    } header;
>    double value;
> } cairo_path_data_t;

You can find something much like that in Keith's original proposal
near the top of this thread. In discussion, we decided that code like:

	x1 = p[1].value;
	y1 = p[2].value;
	x2 = p[3].value;
	y2 = p[4].value;
	x3 = p[5].value;
	y3 = p[6].value;

was too messy to make the space savings worth it.

-Carl
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