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

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Tue Oct 26 14:39:22 PDT 2010


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 09:59:12AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 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>

thanks!

Nicolai, can I please have you tested-by to verify the fix works?
Thanks.

Cheers,
  Peter


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