Response from MIT X Consortium concerning XGetDefault and GNU Emacs

["Bob Bruccoleri 683-6165", 609]

From:	IN%"gildea at expo.lcs.mit.edu"  "Stephen Gildea" 22-JAN-1991 18:00
To:	rms at ai.mit.edu
Subj:	RE: [BRUC at dino.squibb.com: GNU Emacs, Xdefaults, and version 3.3.1 of Irix]

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From: Stephen Gildea <gildea at expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: RE: [BRUC at dino.squibb.com: GNU Emacs, Xdefaults, and version 3.3.1 of
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In-Reply-To: Message from rms at ai.mit.edu of 15 Jan 91 1:24:02 EST
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In R4, on some systems, the last two arguments of XGetDefault are
indeed reversed.  This bug did not exist in R3 and will not exist
in R5.  (The doc, spec, and header file are all correct.)

As you can see from the code fragment Bob enclosed, the function
header appears twice in the source code, once with ANSI-C-style
prototypes, and once with K&R style.  The ANSI-C is broken in R4.

Don't break Emacs to compensate; have the affected people edit
their Xlib and re-build.

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium