[PATCH 0/4] Move GC clip management to ScreenRec

[Jamey Sharp]

Could you have a look at my patches to do this, from October? I believe
Keith just wanted an ABI bump before merge, but I'd run out of time by
then, and now I assume it's too late for this cycle.

They're still sitting on my "reviewed" branch:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~jamey/xserver/log/?h=reviewed

Here's part of the discussion thread:

http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2011-October/025978.html

Jamey

On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 01:56:13PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> None of the GC wrappers do anything particularly interesting with clip
> management.  I think in theory this was meant to allow the driver to
> flatten the clip to a bitmap and/or keep track of a window ID, but the
> only example I can find of anything remotely like that in open code is
> Xprint's PostScript backend, which, well.
> 
> I've not tested this in any real sense.  It would want at least an xts5
> run against Xnest and Xvfb before committing.  The CopyClip change might
> want to be a screen func as well for symmetry.
> 
> Longer term I don't think there's any reason to have GCFuncs at all, and
> that the whole thing could be embedded in the ScreenRec.
> 
> Dead code diff:
> 
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> 1844275	  52216	  64384	1960875	 1debab	Xorg-clip-gc
> 1842034	  52120	  64384	1958538	 1de28a	Xorg-clip-screen
> 
> - ajax
> 
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