[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Rename log2/exp2 replacements ff_log2/ff_exp2

[Alex Converse]

2010/1/12 M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>:
> Alex Converse <alex.converse at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2010/1/12 M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>:
>>> Alex Converse <alex.converse at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> 2010/1/12 M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Ronald S. Bultje" <rsbultje at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> > Hi,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Mans Rullgard <mans at mansr.com> wrote:
>>>>> >> This avoids conflicts with system headers on broken platforms.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I don't think this is right, you're essentially duplicating system
>>>>> > functions for the sake of broken systems, but you do so even on
>>>>> > non-broken ones.
>>>>>
>>>>> No, I'm not.
>>>>>
>>>>> > I like Vitor's approach better...
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the feeling that *any* attempt to provide replacements with the
>>>>> real names will break in some way or other.
>>>>
>>>> At a certain point I think you let people who run broken platforms
>>>> work together to contribute a fix that doesn't negatively impact
>>>> platforms that made a reasonable effort to implement a standard
>>>> library that is from the 1990s.
>>>
>>> You and I both know that's not going to happen. ?We have two options:
>>> 1) drop support for those broken platforms, or 2) work around the
>>> problems ourselves.
>>
>> I argue that what I propose is the same as 1.
>
> So who's in favour of dropping support for *BSD, uClibc, Windows, DOS,
> MacOSX, BeOS, OS/2, etc.?
>

Then people who use these platforms need to step up and contribute a
solution that doesn't hurt compliant platforms.