[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/8] lavu: add macros to help making future-proof structures

[Nicolas George]

Rémi Denis-Courmont (12023-05-02):
> A JSON writer that requires forced alignment is a poorly-written JSON parser. 

This JSON writer requires that the structures that contain its state are
aligned, just like any other piece of C code. There is nothing
poorly-written here.

> This is reinventing standard max_align_t but with a more confusing name and 
> less portable implementation...

I did not know it exists. Thanks for the pointer.

> Indeed this is not about "padding", but about alignment.

It is about both.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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