[Xcb] [PATCH] XCB-XML: Proposal for alignment padding

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, Nov  8, 2010 at 12:57:18 +0300, Evgeny M. Zubok wrote:

> PADDING
> =======
> 
> After examining a full set of X Protocol extensions which are
> available in XCB I conclude that the following form is suitable to
> cover different padding schemas:
> 
> <pad align="integer">expression</pad>
> 
I don't get why you need the expression here.  What you seem to want is
'the next field is aligned on a "integer" boundary', which doesn't
require a reference to the preceding field(s), unless I'm missing
something?

Cheers,
Julien