On 04/ 4/11 05:01 AM, Alistair Leslie-Hughes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While triaging bugs, I came across this one.
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14723
>
> The basic issue is warnings during the compile.
> The options
> 1. Add prototypes (like the patch attached to the bug) to silence the warning.
> 2. Remove the functions, since they appear to be unused.
They're public API of libXext - we can't remove them without breaking
compatibility, which we don't do in the client libraries, even for the
cruftiest, most ancient extensions.
(This is also why no new extensions should be added to libXext, so that
we don't dig this hole any deeper.)
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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