[FFmpeg-devel] compound literal in public header file

[Tomas Härdin]

ons 2018-05-16 klockan 11:47 +0200 skrev Steinar H. Gunderson:
> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:41:23AM +0200, Tobias Rapp wrote:
> > Yes, I am referring to usage of the libavutil headers in C. If the macro is
> > only hidden for C++ and available in C, that would be OK for me. But if the
> > static inline function variant would support both C and C++, this would look
> > like a solution where C++ users are not forced to implement a more
> > "integrated" replacement but of course have the option to do so.
> 
> While we're at it, would it be possible to have extern "C" { for the headers,
> too? :-) (Wrapped in #ifdef __cplusplus, of course.)

This comes up every now and then, and I know there was great opposition
to it previously from people who have since left the project. If you're
willing to be the person officially dealing with all "C++-isms" in the
headers then I wouldn't be too opposed. Maybe someone else has stronger
feelings

/Tomas