[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: Compilation Issue

[Martin Boehme]

Rich Felker wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:48:02PM +0200, Martin Boehme wrote:
>>Usman Bashir wrote:
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>	I was seeing the file ("ffmpeg.c") in the ffmpeg source. I found
>>>almost all the functions "static", can I replace them with
>>>instance/normal functions. As I think so it will increase the size of
>>>run time image.
>>
>>Huh?
>>
>>Don't understand what you're proposing here, but these functions are 
>>static because they are only needed in ffmpeg.c. This file is an 
>>executable, not part of the library.
> 
> I get the feeling the original poster doesn't understand the C
> language much at all, and has little/no idea what static means.

Well, that explanation would certainly be consistent with the data... ;-)

Martin

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