[PATCH xserver] dix: Don't leak swapped events

[Keith Packard]

Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> writes:

> as keith already pointed out, this will break for generic events. but you
> can still get the same effect by switching to
>    unsigned char buffer[eventlength];
>    xEvent *swapped = buffer;
> and get rid of the heap allocation this way.

You'll have to use 'uint64_t buffer[eventlength/8]' to  get the
alignment fixed up, but otherwise, this looks good. Although, frankly,
having a malloc'd buffer which gets resized as necessary is far from the
worse thing this code could do, and avoids stack overflow problems if
'eventlength' turns out to be mis-computed.

-- 
-keith
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