[Xcb] a question about request and reply

Jamey Sharp jamey at minilop.net
Tue Dec 13 14:38:44 PST 2005


On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:26:19PM +0100, Vincent Torri wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> > There isn't a GenericCookie, and I don't want to add one. Functions like
> > XCBWaitForReply just take the 'unsigned int' from inside the cookie
> > structure. I don't want to encourage casting structures any more than I
> > have to.
> 
> so, instead of using a generic cookie, it's better to pass the sequence
> (the unsigned int) directly ?

I think so, yes -- but even better to design type-safe interfaces.

--Jamey
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