dummy (or not) question about AllocateWindow ()

[Adam Jackson]

On Wednesday 21 June 2006 13:52, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In AllocateWindow () from dix/window.c what this line does:
>
> ppriv = (DevUnion *)(pWin + 1);
>
> It's after the first *if* of the function.
>
> I can't realize this operation. This appear to cast the XID (the 4th
> byte) in DrawableRec (the first struct in _Window) to a DevUnion and
> then make the devPrivate point to the same place.

(pWin + 1) evaluates first.  pWin is a pointer; pointer arithmetic works like 
arrays, incrementing a pointer gives you a pointer to the memory just after 
the object (struct, union, or primitive type) originally pointed to.

We then change the type of that pointer from WindowPtr to DevUnion *, and 
assign it to ppriv.

- ajax
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