[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Rename log2/exp2 replacements ff_log2/ff_exp2

Måns Rullgård mans
Tue Jan 12 18:34:25 CET 2010


Alex Converse <alex.converse at gmail.com> writes:

> 2010/1/12 M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>:
>> Alex Converse <alex.converse at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> 2010/1/12 M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>
>>>>
>>>> "Ronald S. Bultje" <rsbultje at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> > Hi,
>>>> >
>>>> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Mans Rullgard <mans at mansr.com> wrote:
>>>> >> This avoids conflicts with system headers on broken platforms.
>>>> >
>>>> > I don't think this is right, you're essentially duplicating system
>>>> > functions for the sake of broken systems, but you do so even on
>>>> > non-broken ones.
>>>>
>>>> No, I'm not.
>>>>
>>>> > I like Vitor's approach better...
>>>>
>>>> I have the feeling that *any* attempt to provide replacements with the
>>>> real names will break in some way or other.
>>>
>>> At a certain point I think you let people who run broken platforms
>>> work together to contribute a fix that doesn't negatively impact
>>> platforms that made a reasonable effort to implement a standard
>>> library that is from the 1990s.
>>
>> You and I both know that's not going to happen. ?We have two options:
>> 1) drop support for those broken platforms, or 2) work around the
>> problems ourselves.
>
> I argue that what I propose is the same as 1.

So who's in favour of dropping support for *BSD, uClibc, Windows, DOS,
MacOSX, BeOS, OS/2, etc.?

-- 
M?ns Rullg?rd
mans at mansr.com



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