[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Revert "avcodec/vlc: Add macro for ff_init_vlc_sparse()"

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 8:25 AM Andreas Rheinhardt
<andreas.rheinhardt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This reverts commit 61669b7c40b8dc3a0841768fb39c7567513b7cfc.
>
> This commit broke building with MSVC due to its spec-incompliant handling
> of ',' in __VA_ARGS__: These are not treated as argument separators for
> further macros, so that in our case the init_vlc2() macro is treated as
> having only one argument whenever the init_vlc() macro is used. See [1]
> for further details.
>
> [1]: https://reviews.llvm.org/D69626
>

The new preprocessor mentioned in the llvm report is now officially
available in VS2019 (ie. no longer experimental), but its opt-in to
not break old code, and of course we want to support older versions as
well for the time being, so reverting this is probably the only
realistic option.

LGTM.

- Hendrik