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update description for patch 057_nx-X11-bigendian-ppc64-no-session-window.full.patch as proposed by the patch author
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debian/patches/057_nx-X11-bigendian-ppc64-no-session-window.full.patch
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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.
Multiple endiannes issues were setting incorrect event masks when creating and
drawing X11 windows.
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This time, a smaller integer has been casted to a bigger one and passed to some
function actually setting its value.
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putting unknown memory into the lower bytes of the bigger integer.
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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.)
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