[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]doc/platform: Mention musl where x86_32 is not supported

[u-9iep at aetey.se]

Ronald,

I sincerely appreciate that you are taking the effort to talk to me
and explain your position.

Unfortunately in your messages you consistently ignored a crucial point
and this is the last time I try to retell it:

> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 10:26 AM, <u-9iep at aetey.se> wrote:
> > What you are talking about is to ask Rich to modify musl to hide ffmpeg's
> > non-compliance bug (which glibc/uclibc do by sheer luck but this may change
> > any time).

Which you answer with

> - or we can just do what we do now and work with musl people to change
> their code.

Once again, musl has absolutely no reason to change its code,
their code is well done and fully compliant.

Their responsibility is rather to the contrary, _not_ to make changes
which would hide sneaky bugs in applications. UB is a quite hideous bug.

> If it turns out the first two are undoable and musl devs are
> unwilling to do this, then we'll have to reconsider Carl's patch and call
> musl on x86-32 unsupported, with a link to the relevant discussion to back

You can not just "call musl on x86-32 unsupported", the only honest option
is to document that ffmpeg is not compliant/safe.

The problem is not in musl.
Last time in this discussion let me try to make this fact understood:

Musl merely showed you the problem and now you are suggesting to "document
that the messenger with his bad news about our health is no longer welcome".

> Again, this requires some time and thought.

This sounds very reasonable.

Best regards,
Rune