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Ran Benita 37d0f55392 xkb: Work around alignment problems in GetNames and GetMap replies
The basic situation is this: a list of CARD8/CARD16s followed by a list
of CARD16/CARD32s. In the current code, the second list is aligned to
1/2 bytes according the size of the first list. However, in some cases
the second list needs to be aligned to 4 bytes per the xkbproto spec:
http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/kbproto/xkbproto.html#appD::Requests

XkbGetMap reply (xkb-opcode 8):
[...]
a     LISTofCARD8          actsRtrn.count
p               unused,p=pad(a)
8A     LISTofKB_ACTION          actsRtrn.acts
4B     LISTofKB_SETBEHAVIOR          behaviorsRtrn
v     LISTofSETofKEYMASK          vmodsRtrn
p               unused, p=pad(v)
2E     LISTofKB_SETEXPLICIT          explicitRtrn
p               unused,p=pad(2E)
2M     LISTofKB_KEYMODMAP          modmapRtrn
p               unused, p=pad(2M)
[...]

XkbGetNames reply (xkb-opcode 17):
[...]
l     LISTofCARD8          nLevelsPerType, sum of all elements=L
p               unused, p=pad(l)
[...]

The server and Xlib handle this with calls to XkbPaddedSize(), which is
a good way to see where the extra padding is needed.

Signed-off-by: Ran Benita <ran234@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Martin <consume.noise@gmail.com>
2013-08-15 00:23:14 +02:00
doc Add support for X Generic Extension events 2013-07-12 15:54:14 -04:00
src xkb: Work around alignment problems in GetNames and GetMap replies 2013-08-15 00:23:14 +02:00
xcbgen Add support for X Generic Extension events 2013-07-12 15:54:14 -04:00
.gitignore Add py-compile to .gitignore 2009-09-22 16:08:11 -04:00
autogen.sh autogen.sh: Implement GNOME Build API 2013-01-16 13:20:49 -05:00
configure.ac Release xcb-proto 1.8 2012-10-05 14:43:12 +02:00
COPYING Fix the year in the other COPYING. 2006-04-27 17:58:37 -07:00
INSTALL Remove xcl and CVSROOT. 2006-02-18 16:49:41 -08:00
Makefile.am Add autogen.sh to EXTRA_DIST. 2012-02-10 17:44:33 +09:00
NEWS Release xcb-proto 1.8 2012-10-05 14:43:12 +02:00
README Add Python parser language-independent parts. 2008-04-19 04:30:21 -04:00
TODO Add test program for XFree86-DRI extension to xcb-demo. Mark XFree86-DRI extension as tested and working. 2006-04-27 14:14:54 -07:00
xcb-proto.pc.in add libdir/exec_prefix to xcb-xproto.pc 2011-11-10 15:36:54 +01:00

About xcb-proto
===============

xcb-proto provides the XML-XCB protocol descriptions that libxcb uses to
generate the majority of its code and API. We provide them separately
from libxcb to allow reuse by other projects, such as additional
language bindings, protocol dissectors, or documentation generators.

This separation between the XCB transport layer and the
automatically-generated protocol layer also makes it far easier to write
new extensions. With the Xlib infrastructure, client-side support for
new extensions requires significant duplication of effort. With XCB and
the XML-XCB protocol descriptions, client-side support for a new
extension requires only an XML description of the extension, and not a
single line of code.

Python libraries: xcb-proto also contains language-independent Python
libraries that are used to parse an XML description and create objects
used by Python code generators in individual language bindings.  These
libraries are installed into $(prefix)/lib/pythonX.X/site-packages.  If
this location is not on your system's Python path, scripts that import
them will fail with import errors.  In this case you must add the
install location to your Python path by creating a file with a `.pth'
extension in a directory that _is_ on the Python path, and put the
path to the install location in that file.  For example, on my system
there is a file named 'local.pth' in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages,
which contains '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages'.  Note that 
this is only necessary on machines where XCB is being built. 

Please report any issues you find to the freedesktop.org bug tracker,
at:

	<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=XCB>

Discussion about XCB occurs on the XCB mailing list:

        <mailto:xcb at lists.freedesktop.org>
        <http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xcb>

You can obtain the latest development versions of XCB using GIT.
For anonymous checkouts, use:

        git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xcb/proto

For developers, use:

        git clone git+ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/xcb/proto