xf86-input-mouse signed/unsigned issue with Microsoft protocol

[Donald Kayser]

Then what is the 'correct' way to get it to work? I used the binary  
downloaded via debian.org for the PPC and it shows this problem. So is  
it a bug with the way debian builds it's binaries? I can 'make' it  
work by rebuilding differently, but I didn't think I should have to do  
that, I prefer to use a distribution binary.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

On Aug 31, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 08:27 -0500, Donald Kayser wrote:
>> This same code segment works under previous versions on this powerpc
>> (2.4 kernel, old xf86 on sarge debian distribution. This is the  
>> second
>> time on my current project that this has bitten me. I am wondering
>> when it changed from behaving as if char is signed, which BTW has  
>> been
>> the 'norm' for my programming life, to unsigned char. It seems that
>> this is a gcc change of behavior as I would never have had to specify
>> 'signed char' previously.
>
> The Linux/PPC ABI has been like this at least since I started using it
> around 1998/9, probably for as long as it exists.
>
>
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