[FFmpeg-devel] av_ctz optimization

Ronald S. Bultje rsbultje at gmail.com
Sun Oct 11 19:59:45 CEST 2015


Hi,

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanag at mit.edu>
wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Timothy Gu <timothygu99 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 9:10 AM Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanag at mit.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Isn't that an API change and not an ABI change (it was in
> doc/APIchanges)?
> >>
> >
> > No, since intmath.h is not public.
>
> So basically av_ctz was a bungled operation. Someone needed it for
> flacdec, and decided to add it to intmath with the av_ prefix. We
> should get rid of this while we still have the window available. As
> obviously I do not know what is API/ABI clearly enough, I will refrain
> from sending a patch and leave it in more capable hands.


You can always try to take the approach of "send a patch and if it's bad,
we'll tell you" :-p.

Ronald


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