[I am not subscribed to -arm; please be sure include the bug address in your reply.] On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 03:30:50AM +0100, Gaetan Leurent wrote: > Nicolas George wrote on 13 Dec 2004 01:53:59 +0100: > > > xterm is built with the default -mstructure-size-boundary value, 32. This > > leads to sizeof(XChar2b) being 4 and not 2 as it should be. The result is > > that xterm with wide-chars enabled will display a null character between > > each second character. > > > The problem disappears if xterm is build with the > > -mstructure-size-boundary=8 option. > > Rather than adding a flag when compiling every X program, we could add a > __attribute__(packed) in X11/Xlib.h. The attached patch gives > sizeof(XChar2b)==2. [patch re-attached to this mail] I'm pretty nervous about changing a public Xlib data structure like this. Can someone patiently explain to me why there's no way this could possibly be construed as an ABI change? -- G. Branden Robinson | It's not a matter of alienating Debian GNU/Linux | authors. They have every right to branden@debian.org | license their software however we http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | like. -- Craig Sanders
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