> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:01:31 +0000 > From: Daniel Stone > > Hi, > > > If Daniel Kurtz's analysis of the problem is right, and I believe it > > is, then this diff is just as wrong as the previous diff from Peter. > > It also means that the real culprit is Peter's change to constify > > XIChangeDeviceProperty(). Â While Daniel Kurtz's suggestion to > > introduce a cpointer typedef would work, I think it's better to drop > > the pointer typedef entirely and simply use "const void *" in the > > XIChangeDeviceProperty() prototype. Â We should probably deprecate the > > pointer typedef; I bet the reason it was introduced was to support > > pre-ANSI C, and I think we all agree that's irrelevant now. > > I never saw Daniel's analysis,
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2012-January/028243.html > but even if it's true, we'll need to fix it somehow for this ABI > version anyway, and while the patch may not be excruciatingly > correct per se, it's certainly safe for the usage. The change I'm suggesting won't affect the ABI in any way.
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