[FFmpeg-devel] avutil/crc: avoid needless space wastage of hardcoded crc table

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On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 08:26:21 +0100
Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Le tridi 13 frimaire, an CCXXIV, Ganesh Ajjanagadde a écrit :
> > There was no reason AFAIK for making AV_CRC_24_IEEE 12.  
> 
> The reason was to leave room for the fork to add its own new constants
> without causing ABI incompatibilities.
> 
> Regards,
> 

You could just append them to the end, like all new constants.

But someone preferred to make life harder and worse for everyone by
trying to keep the FFmpeg ABI somewhat compatible to Libav (and now we
have useless accessors for public fields etc.).