ANSI-fied libX11
Magnus Kessler
Magnus.Kessler at gmx.net
Sun Feb 4 15:21:28 PST 2007
On Sunday 04 February 2007, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:48:23AM +0000, Magnus Kessler wrote:
> > a few months ago when xcb support was enabled and the locking bugs were
> > still there I started a private project to add "sparse" annotations to
> > libX11. Unfortunately I didn't get very far with this.
> >
> > The vital first step, however, was to convert libX11 from a mixture of
> > K&R and ANSI to ANSI C.
> >
> > Is there any interest in getting these changes into the master tree?
>
> Hi,
> This would be great; please send patches. I believe you still have to
> be careful when converting the old 'wide' prototypes, though. Keeping
> ABI is apparently difficult there.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
I currently have the changed code in a git repository on my local hard drive
without a means of making this public. Is there a repository on e.g.
freedesktop.org I could push this to? If not I will break out separate
patches and send them to the list.
Magnus
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