[Xcb] xproto test failed

Barton C Massey bart at cs.pdx.edu
Mon Feb 16 15:39:10 PST 2009


In message <eaa105840902161131m76156a01y60e10cd5ff719638 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Barton C Massey wrote:
> >
> > I'm not quite seeing where the codegen has been fixed to use
> > the new XML, though?  Am I missing something?
> 
> The enum annotations are entirely for the benefit of languages (unlike
> C) that have typesafe enums. The C codegen should silently ignore the
> new annotations.

So, yes. :-) It seems like it might be nice to modify the C
codegen to use the new annotations also, though?  Can't the
new annotations be used to do things like automatically
generate union types for altenums?  Or am I still confused?

> >  Also, did you
> > modify the extension XML to match the new usage?
> 
> My plan was to give xproto.xml another pass with the documentation,
> fix up the remaining niggles (None, CopyFromParent, ServerTime, and
> especially KeyButMask), and get comments from the community. Once
> xproto is solid, I plan to do the extensions.
> 
> Life, as usual, delays plans. Fortunately, it looks like I'll have
> time to look at this soon-ish.

Thanks huge for working on this.

    Bart


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