[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Little endian bitreader and vlc reader

[Erik Slagter]

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 21:27 +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > Sorry to interrupt the discussion about dynamic linking, how we like to 
> > conduct sending and getting  email, ANSI C and 1 pass encoding that 
> > adaptively selects the number of encoding passes to use (smart feature 
> > though).
> > This patch adds little endian (LSB first) bitreader and vlc reader to 
> > libavcodec. Vorbis will need these, and also at least one other codec in lavc 
> > (id cin iirc). There is some code duplication (most of the patch is the 
> > duplicate of existing code), but there are no code templates in the C 
> > language AFAIK, and introducing #defines, or introducing a third level of 
> > #defines, to emulate templates seemed very ugly.
> 
> #defines are not ugly at all.  Properly used, they can be quite elegant.

Can you please give an example?