[Xcb] _Problems_ in GSoC, 2011

[Peter Harris]

On 2011-07-04 06:31, vikash agrawal wrote:
> Ah, I forgot to mention, I compiled the attached utility and found*no
> difference* is the output is master and tag 1.7. so what this utility
> signifies ?

Sounds like you forgot to LD_PRELOAD the libxcb built from master.

>     /* name */
>     *xcb_block_len += _aux->name_len * sizeof(char);* *
> // What is this?*

The size of the list of char.

>     /* insert padding */
>     *
>    xcb_pad = -xcb_block_len & 3;
>  // What is this?*

Padding, as if the field following the name is going to need an
alignment of 4.

This turns out to be false in the case of ListExtensions, as the next
field is another string (which does not have any padding).

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