Re: [PATCH] trident_video.c

David Dawes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:14:40AM -0800, Tim Roberts wrote:
>Jeff Chua wrote:
>
>>The following patch is needed in order to compile trident_video.c with 
>>gcc-2.95.3 ...
>>
>>--- 
>>xfree86/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/trident/trident_video.c.org 
>>2005-12-09 12:05:15 +0800
>>+++ 
>>xfree86/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/trident/trident_video.c    
>>2005-12-09 12:05:43 +0800
>>@@ -666,10 +666,11 @@
>>     OUTW(vgaIOBase + 4, ((width<<1) & 0xff00)      | 0x91);
>>     OUTW(vgaIOBase + 4, ((offset) & 0xff) << 8     | 0x92);
>>     OUTW(vgaIOBase + 4, ((offset) & 0xff00)        | 0x93);
>>-    if (pTrident->Chipset >= CYBER9397)
>>+    if (pTrident->Chipset >= CYBER9397) {
>>         OUTW(vgaIOBase + 4, ((offset) & 0x0f0000) >> 8 | 0x94);
>>-    else
>>+    } else {
>>         OUTW(vgaIOBase + 4, ((offset) & 0x070000) >> 8 | 0x94);
>>+    }
>
>
>Why?  If the OUTW macro is generating multiple statements, then the OUTW 
>macro should be fixed.  Otherwise, this is just a nasty bug waiting to 
>happen.

Yes, it needs to be fixed.  It is currently a { ... } block.  The
do { ... } while (0) trick would fix it.

David
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