Bug#285396: [ARM] wide chars don't work

2005-01-11 Thread Jim Gettys
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 22:36 +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Jim Gettys wrote: > [snip] > > > Strictly speaking, the ARM impementation of gcc is allowed to behave > > > that way by the C standard. Not exercising this degree of freedom may > > > be desireable to k

Bug#285396: [ARM] wide chars don't work

2005-01-11 Thread Jim Gettys
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 21:36 +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Jim Gettys wrote: > [snip] > > > Well, and deliberate ABI changes are frowned upon by toolchain people. > > > To me (without having looked further than the bug report) this seems to > > > be an implementat

Bug#285396: [ARM] wide chars don't work

2005-01-11 Thread Jim Gettys
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 19:56 +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Jim Gettys wrote: > [snip] > > This isn't saying we wouldn't add such a patch to X, though patches for > > a particular compiler on a particular architecture do get frowned on > > quite a lot: I just susp

Bug#285396: [ARM] wide chars don't work

2005-01-11 Thread Jim Gettys
> Here are his remarks, recast a bit from IRC-speak into something more > conventional. > > GCC on ARM is doing something different from every other C compiler I've > seen. It may not deviate from what the C specification allows, but it > appears to deviate from common practice. The ARM f

Re: using freedesktop.org libs

2003-11-11 Thread Jim Gettys
reciated, by anyone interested... Interested? - Jim Gettys On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:46, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 13:11, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:14:30AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > > > I found this ide

Re: Default X background.

2002-04-28 Thread Jim Gettys
rn, as it tells you something pretty definate about the state of the X server. But changing it to something else is certainly possible: I did not detect consensus on the xpert list of what to change it to, however. - Jim -- Jim Gettys Cambridge Research Laboratory Compaq Compu