Hi all,

I just test on the Power8 system and It works !!!!!!!

Many thanks to all of you for your help; Especially to Mihai "the Endian bug 
killer" for his fantastic work. 

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> Le 21 juin 2014 à 22:30, "Mike Gabriel" <[email protected]> a 
> écrit :
> 
> Hi Mihai,
> 
> thanks for digging into this. I wish you could work more on NX!!! Good work!!!
> 
> On  Sa 21 Jun 2014 05:15:43 CEST, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
> 
> > An endiannes issue was setting incorrect event masks when creating
> > X11 windows.
> >
> > This time, a smaller integer has been casted to a bigger one and
> > passed to some
> > function actually setting its value.
> >
> > This meant, that garbage from stack was attached to the smaller
> > integer value,
> > putting unknown memory into the lower bytes of the bigger integer.
> >
> > Fix this by creating a big, initialized temporary variable, let the
> > function do
> > its magic on that one and pass the value back to the smaller variable -- and
> > cross your fingers the smaller variable can hold it without overrunning. 
> > (The
> > last bit is a design issue we can't really fix and has been around
> > even before
> > this patch.)
> 
> I have a question on this patch. While integrating it into the
> nx-libs.git repo, I realized, that it can be applied to Windows.c
> twice. Once at the position that you provide in the patch file,
> another (second) time around line 2895...
> 
> """
> mike@minobo:~/MyDocuments/4projects/x2go-upstream/nx-libs$ patch -p1 <
> nxagent_Window.c-ppc64-create-windows.patch
> patching file nx-X11/programs/Xserver/hw/nxagent/Window.c
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 2894 (offset 2559 lines).
> """
> 
> Maybe the same patch is needed at that second position?
> 
> Mike
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