[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavu/attributes: add ff_ prefix to attribute_deprecated

[Andreas Rheinhardt]

Anton Khirnov:
> Quoting Andreas Rheinhardt (2024-03-12 10:21:52)
>> Anton Khirnov:
>>> Quoting Andreas Rheinhardt (2024-03-12 09:56:46)
>>>> Anton Khirnov:
>>>>> Otherwise it might conflict with caller-defined identifiers.
>>>>>
>>>>> ff because it is not supposed to be used by external callers.
>>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> This is public, so it should be av_attribute_deprecated.
>>>
>>> As the commit message says, this is not supposed to be used by external
>>> callers. Or do you see any reason why it should be public?
>>>
>>
>> It is public given that it is declared in a public header. That is what
>> matters.
> 
> I agree that it is (implicitly) public now, but the question is whether
> it should be. IMO it should not. Do you disagree?
> 

It needs to be available in a public header given that deprecations are
supposed to convey information to the public. If you are asking whether
we should add a note like the one for the FF_API_ defines: I don't have
formed an opinion on that yet.

>> Furthermore, we have used the FF_ and AV_ prefixes for public macros and
>> the av_ prefix for public symbols, but IIRC we do not use the ff_ prefix
>> for public symbols at all, therefore I'd like us not to reserve another
>> namespace.
> 
> We do reserve the ff namespace for private identifiers that need to be
> exposed, e.g. in public headers or when linking statically.
> 

We reserve the FF_ namespace in public headers, not the ff_ namespace.
If I am not mistaken we never use the latter namespace in public for
stuff without linkage (i.e. a project could use the ff_ namespace for
macros/enums without conflicting with FFmpeg).

- Andreas