[cairo] Fixed point bug

Krzysztof Kosiński tweenk.pl at gmail.com
Sun Dec 12 05:07:37 PST 2010


Hello

I recently submitted a bug that, once fixed, would allow Inkscape to
use Cairo for all drawing.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32215

I believe this requires switching to floats or doubles in Pixman on
architectures that have a floating point unit. At this point I don't
know whether it's better to provide 3 functions for each call in
Pixman that uses pixman_fixed_t now and convert to a build time
configurable numeric type, or make an API break.

Here's an example of how the non-API-breaking solution would look
like, I don't remember whether I've mentioned it previously:

void pixman_foo(pixman_fixed_t a, pixman_fixed_t b) {
  pixman_foo_real(pixman_fixed_to_arith(a), pixman_fixed_to_arith(b));
}
void pixman_foo_d(double a, double b) {
  pixman_foo_real(pixman_double_to_arith(a), pixman_double_to_arith(b));
}
void pixman_foo_f(float a, float b) {
  pixman_foo_real(pixman_float_to_arith(a), pixman_float_to_arith(b));
}

void pixman_foo_real(pixman_arith_t a, pixman_arith_t b) {
  // implementation of pixman_foo
  // pixman_arith_t can be pixman_fixed_t, float or double depending on
  // build time configuration
}

Regards, Krzysztof


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