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

[wm4]

On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 09:17:22 +0100
Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Le tridi 13 frimaire, an CCXXIV, wm4 a écrit :
> > You could just append them to the end, like all new constants.  
> 
> That does not prevent ABI incompatibilities.

It removes the need for such hacks.

> > But someone preferred to make life harder and worse for everyone by
> > trying to keep the FFmpeg ABI somewhat compatible to Libav  
> 
> Please refrain from disparaging other people's work when they do not have
> the same goals as you.

So the goal is not to make it simple to write application code in a way
that will be ABI compatible with newer FFmpeg minor releases?