[PATCH libXi v2] Force class alignment to a multiple of sizeof(XID).

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Tue Oct 26 00:59:12 PDT 2010


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:02:02 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:

> Calculate length field to a multiples of sizeof(XID). XIDs are typedefs
> to ulong and thus may be 8 bytes on some platforms. This can trigger a
> SIGBUS if a class ends up not being 8-aligned (e.g. after XAxisInfo).
> 
> Reported-by: Nicolai Stange <nicolai.stange at zmaw.de>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>

Reviewed-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>

Cheers,
Julien


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