[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] extern "C" usage

[Ismail Dönmez]

On Sunday 13 May 2007 20:37:19 Michael Niedermayer wrote:
[...]
> > > I agree strongly with emoving them but I suspect this is
> > > controversial. C++ users do not like being reminded that using C
> > > libraries is a form of FFI and not native C++
> >
> > But we never cared about C++ users, did we?  If I'm mistaken, and we
> > do, it's about time we stopped.  I propose using a few C++ keywords
> > like new or class in the headers too.  That should teach them.
>
> besides the "BOFH because we can" attitude what would we gain by
> adding new and class with the intent to break C++ applications?

C++ applications are already broken with the usage of INT64_C macro.

/ismail

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