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From: asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R4: libXt GetResources(): Possible bug.
Message-ID: <10931@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 91 06:43:39 GMT
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The bug here lies with applications that store the addresses of variables
in the resource list and pass NULL as a base.  All application resources
should be fetched into a structure; the offsets in the resource list should
be the offsets of the fields in the structure and the base should be the
address of a declared instance of the structure.  Actually storing addresses
in the resource list is, as you have discovered, horribly unportable.  There
is no guarantee even that the offset field will be large enough to hold
an address.

	-paul asente
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