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reserved to represent a null or non-existent object.
For efficiency purposes, the IDs are densely packed in the sense that
- the ID N will not be used until N-1 has been used. Any ID allocation
- algorithm that does not maintain this property is incompatible with
- the implementation in libwayland.
+ the ID N will not be used until N-1 has been used. This ordering is
+ not merely a guideline, but a strict requirement, and there are
+ implementations of the protocol that rigorously enforce this rule,
+ including the ubiquitous libwayland.
</para>
</section>
<section id="sect-Protocol-Compositor">