Can't map keys with keycodes > 127 to modifiers?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:42:56AM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:07:57PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > The Menu key on a USB keyboard, the one that sends keycode 117, is also mapped
> > to ISO_Level3_Shift.  It autorepeats, but despite that the state bit flips to
> > 0x80 while I hold it down.  xmodmap shows both 0xe3 (227) and 0x75 (117) among
> > the keys mapped to mod5.
> > 
> > The only difference I can think of is that one keycode is < 128, while
> > the other one needs full 8 bits.  Just a blind guess, but could the XKB
> > code be using signed chars somewhere and sign-extending them to ints?
> 
> This is brilliantly awesome.  XKB lamely attempts to swap char and int
> everywhere, but it's pretty fascist about using signed char, last I
> checked.  Could you please file a bug, and assign it to me?

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12401

I've also found my earlier attempt to report this problem, misfiled to
xkeyboard-config, and marked it as duplicate.

(I wouldn't mind eyeballing the relevant source code files, if I knew
which ones to look at.)

Marius Gedminas
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