Patch: fix cut & past problem on 64 bit platforms
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Feb 17 12:22:02 EST 2007
Glynn Clements writes:
> It isn't a bug, it's a design decision (a bad one, IMHO).
I see your point, of course ... but it wasn't a bad one when it was
made, back when the 68k was a real hot processor and stdint.h was 20
years in the future.
> IOW, it isn't going to get "fixed".
Good! I'm happy to know it won't change. You buying storage is much
cheaper for me than fixing my legacy application. <0.5 wink> The rest
of the XEmacs property/selection code deals with format==32 correctly
(ie, assumes array of longs, properly swabbed). Knowing Ben, Jamie,
and Martin, that's historical, and no accident.
Agreed, writing longs to network sockets is a much more serious
problem, but you know, that's not an issue with X11. Seems like a
reasonable compromise to me.
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