From d8c9f89b127bc1669cd59b5d5c9aec0af63f8352 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Gabriel Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 23:40:09 +0200 Subject: update description for patch 057_nx-X11-bigendian-ppc64-no-session-window.full.patch as proposed by the patch author --- .../patches/057_nx-X11-bigendian-ppc64-no-session-window.full.patch | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/patches/057_nx-X11-bigendian-ppc64-no-session-window.full.patch b/debian/patches/057_nx-X11-bigendian-ppc64-no-session-window.full.patch index 879590460..901aba61d 100644 --- a/debian/patches/057_nx-X11-bigendian-ppc64-no-session-window.full.patch +++ b/debian/patches/057_nx-X11-bigendian-ppc64-no-session-window.full.patch @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ Description: No session window with on PPC64 builds Author: Mihai Moldovan Abstract: - An endiannes issue was setting incorrect event masks when creating X11 windows. + Multiple endiannes issues were setting incorrect event masks when creating and + drawing X11 windows. . This time, a smaller integer has been casted to a bigger one and passed to some function actually setting its value. @@ -10,7 +11,7 @@ Abstract: putting unknown memory into the lower bytes of the bigger integer. . Fix this by creating a big, initialized temporary variable, let the function do - its magic on that one and pass the value back to the smaller variable -- and + its magic on that one and pass the value back to the smaller variable--and cross your fingers the smaller variable can hold it without overrunning. (The last bit is a design issue we can't really fix and has been around even before this patch.) -- cgit v1.2.3