[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Dead code cleanup - C++

Diego Biurrun diego
Mon Jan 29 18:59:56 CET 2007


On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 08:45:43AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:23:34AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:15:07AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:24:39PM +1030, Yuri Vilmanis wrote:
> > > > Removed some dead code relating to C++. As no part of the codebase
> > > > will ever be seen by a C++ compiler, any code protected by
> > > > #ifdef__cplusplus will *never* get past the preprocessor, and so can
> > > > be safely removed. The files in which these guards appear are not
> > > > valid C++ anyway, so removing these references to C++ should reduce
> > > > future confusion on this issue. The C++ wrapper "fobs" (or other
> > > > C++ wrappers I'm not aware of) can be used by anyone requiring C++
> > > > support.
> > > 
> > > OK to apply this patch?
> > 
> > all the versions should be bumped a little at least so user apps
> > could detect if these macros are there or not
> > 
> > now about the patch itself, i have no real oppinion on this, it where
> > c++ people who wanted it, and now its one c++ developer who wants it
> > removed, i think that the people who wanted this (see svnlog i dont
> > remember at all) should at least get a chance to comment first
> 
> Opinions are (unsurprisingly) mixed.
> 
> I agree that we should have this either on all or none of our public
> header files and I vote for removing it everywhere for consistency.
> Baptiste and Reimar seem to be with me on this one.

Michael?  Mans?

Diego





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