Re: SVG widget in GNU Emacs

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Here's an example:
>
>   static int
>   scrolling_window (struct window *w, int tab_line_p)
>   {
>    ...
>   #ifdef HAVE_XWIDGETS
>     /* Currently this seems needed to detect xwidget movement reliably.
>        This is most probably because an xwidget glyph is represented in
>        struct glyph's 'union u' by a pointer to a struct, which takes 8
>        bytes in 64-bit builds, and thus the comparison of u.val values
>        done by GLYPH_EQUAL_P doesn't work reliably, since it assumes the
>        size of the union is 4 bytes.  FIXME.  */
>       return 0;
>   #endif

> This disables one of the more important display optimizations in an
> Emacs compiled with xwidgets support.

Thanks.  Since I can't work on this right now, I'd like to ask if
changing the field `val' from `unsigned' to `void *' would work to
resolve this particular issue.

> Apart of the above, just look at xwidget.c and xwidget.el, and you
> will see the FIXMEs, the incomplete doc strings, and other stuff left
> unfinished.  The idea was that those will get finished once the
> feature is in the sources, but unfortunately it didn't happen.

Indeed, I see your point.  Thanks.

I will probably work on this once I get the time.