--- rxvt-unicode/src/rxvtfont.h	2010/05/23 00:12:02	1.39
+++ rxvt-unicode/src/rxvtfont.h	2016/06/21 12:03:56	1.43
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 
 #include <inttypes.h>
 
-#include "feature.h"
 #include "encoding.h"
 #include "rxvtutil.h"
 #include "rxvttoolkit.h"
@@ -74,9 +73,9 @@
 
   // must be power-of-two - 1, also has to match RS_fontMask in rxvt.h
 #if USE_256_COLORS
-  enum { fontCount =   7 }; // 4 extra colors bits, 4 fewer fontcount bits
+  enum { fontCount =   7 }; // 2 extra colors bits, 2 fewer fontcount bits
 #else
-  enum { fontCount = 127 };
+  enum { fontCount =  31 };
 #endif
 
   // index of first font in set
@@ -109,7 +108,18 @@
   simplevec<rxvt_font *> fonts;
   const rxvt_fallback_font *fallback;
 
-  typedef unsigned char pagemap[256];
+  // this once was a "typedef xxx pagemap[256]
+  // but c++ arrays are not normal types, and cannot be
+  // put into containers, new doesn't work for them etc. etc.
+  // so we wrap out array into an object that acts like one. doh.
+  // example: C++ has no separate new and new [] forms,
+  // and if pagemap is char[256], new incorrectly assumes we want to
+  // allocate an array of chars instead of a single pagemap.
+  struct pagemap
+  {
+    unsigned char cppsucks[256];
+    unsigned char &operator [](int i) { return cppsucks [i]; };
+  };
   vector<pagemap *> fmap;
 
   void clear ();