[PATCH libdrm] xf86drm: fix return type for drmIsMaster()

Eric Engestrom eric.engestrom at intel.com
Fri Feb 8 18:50:18 UTC 2019


On Friday, 2019-02-08 16:50:44 +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 16:51, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 15:03, Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom at intel.com> wrote:
> > > Xserver has struct members named `bool`, which means the last commit
> > > breaks its build with errors like this:
> > >
> > >   error: two or more data types in declaration specifiers
> > >   Bool bool;
> > >        ^
> > >
> > > Fix this by making it return a 0/1 integer, with the same semantic as
> > > the boolean it was before.
> >
> > Don't you need to drop the stdbool.h include for this to fix compilation?

Ahem... /me looks for his brown paper bag :]

> >
> Thanks Eric. With Dan's comment
> Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
> 
> I really wonder if we cannot fix these trivial X nuisances? As-is
> every project used has to either work around X mistakes :-(
> Wrt libdrm that is fine, yet other projects might be less happy.

Agreed :/

The issue is that you still won't be able to have bools in libdrm,
because a new libdrm might be used with an old xserver...

> 
> Thanks
> -Emil


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