[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] intmath: remove av_ctz.

Timothy Gu timothygu99 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 03:38:26 CEST 2015


On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 6:31 PM Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanag at mit.edu> wrote:

> Just to make this clear: suppose (hypothetically) av_ctz was public.
> If my application never used av_ctz, but I (or my distro) upgrades
> libav*, then I don't need to recompile/relink my code?
>

If we are only talking about av_ctz here, no, you don't need to rebuild
your code. But if a user uses a new libavutil but an old libavcodec that
still uses av_ctz, things will crash and burn.

Timothy


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