[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libavcodec/wmavoice.c: local variable pow might mask pow function

[Eli Friedman]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Stefan Heinzmann
<stefan_heinzmann at gmx.de> wrote:
> Quite apart from language (or library) lawyerism, I'm at a loss as to why anyone would want to sail that close to the edge in a code base that is supposed to be portable, particularly when the remedy is so easy and does not appear to have a downside. Is there a hidden point to this seemingly pointless debate, or is it just owing to lust for dogmatic dispute?

The issue is that the explanation "this breaks compiling with icl"
wasn't included at the beginning of this thread.  Without that, the
point of the patch didn't really make sense; there's no point to
fixing code that isn't broken.

-Eli