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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Wounded by a sharp XPoint
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.184718@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 6 Dec 90 02:47:18 GMT
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In article <15510009@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>, brown@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
|> XDrawLines uses the XPoint data type which is a structure of SHORTS! I
|> was overflowing the shorts.

The X protocol requires that the points given to XDrawLines by 16 bits or
less.  You will have major problems if you go beyond that, no matter
what the Xlib data type.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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