[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Change type of spherical stuff to uint32_t

Hendrik Leppkes h.leppkes at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 18:00:51 EET 2017


On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Vittorio Giovara
<vittorio.giovara at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 11:21 PM, Michael Niedermayer
> <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 08:54:07PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 7:32 PM, James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > On 3/12/2017 6:16 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>> > > Using the same type across platforms is more robust and avoids platform
>>> > > specific issues from differences in range.
>
> I still think you are curing the symptom rather than the illness.
>
> Besides, you can't just change types on a whim, you should wait for
> the major bump (if at all).

Changing types of a new struct shortly after it has been introduced
and not part of any release is perfectly acceptable.

- Hendrik


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