[FFmpeg-devel] compound literal in public header file

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Wed May 16 21:09:41 EEST 2018


On Wed, 16 May 2018 11:47:36 +0200
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <steinar+ffmpeg at gunderson.no> wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:41:23AM +0200, Tobias Rapp wrote:
> > Yes, I am referring to usage of the libavutil headers in C. If the macro is
> > only hidden for C++ and available in C, that would be OK for me. But if the
> > static inline function variant would support both C and C++, this would look
> > like a solution where C++ users are not forced to implement a more
> > "integrated" replacement but of course have the option to do so.  
> 
> While we're at it, would it be possible to have extern "C" { for the headers,
> too? :-) (Wrapped in #ifdef __cplusplus, of course.)

That would probably not harm anything. It's pretty standard for C
libraries to have this.


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