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Description: No session window with on PPC64 builds
Author: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
Abstract:
 An endiannes issue was setting incorrect event masks when creating X11 windows.
 .
 This time, a smaller integer has been casted to a bigger one and passed to some
 function actually setting its value.
 .
 This meant, that garbage from stack was attached to the smaller integer value,
 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
 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.)

--- a/nx-X11/programs/Xserver/hw/nxagent/Window.c
+++ b/nx-X11/programs/Xserver/hw/nxagent/Window.c
@@ -327,7 +327,10 @@
 
   if (mask & CWEventMask)
   {
-    nxagentGetEventMask(pWin, (Mask*)&attributes.event_mask);
+    /* Assume that the mask fits in int... broken on Big Endian 64bit systems. */
+    Mask tmp_mask = attributes.event_mask;
+    nxagentGetEventMask(pWin, &tmp_mask);
+    attributes.event_mask = (int)tmp_mask;
   }
   #ifdef WARNING
   else
@@ -2891,7 +2894,10 @@
 
   if (mask & CWEventMask)
   {
-    nxagentGetEventMask(pWin, (Mask*)&attributes.event_mask);
+    /* Assume that the mask fits in int... broken on Big Endian 64bit systems. */
+    Mask tmp_mask = attributes.event_mask;
+    nxagentGetEventMask(pWin, &tmp_mask);
+    attributes.event_mask = (int)tmp_mask;
   }
   #ifdef WARNING
   else