[Ffmpeg-devel] __attribute__ ((deprecated))

[Michel Bardiaux]

Colin Ward wrote:
> 
>   Hi all.
> 
>   I have noticed recently that a couple of structures have been tagged 
> with the __attribute__ ((deprecated)) structure.  This is causing 
> warning such as the following:
> 
> FFMPEG/libavformat/avformat.h:247: warning: 'AVFrac' is deprecated
> (declared at FFMPEG/libavformat/avformat.h:100)
> FFMPEG/libavformat/avformat.h:403: warning: 'AVImageInfo' is deprecated
> (declared at FFMPEG/libavformat/avformat.h:388)
> FFMPEG/libavformat/allformats.h:181: warning: 'AVImageFormat' is deprecated
> (declared at FFMPEG/libavformat/avformat.h:409)
> 
>   Are there any plans to either remove this attribute or to actually 
> update the code and remove the offending structures?  It's making my 
> compiles messy.  ;-)
> 

I think it is intended to put pressure so that someone will port GIF to 
image2, so that the whole -fimage stuff can be removed. BTW what's 
special about GIF that makes it hard to port it to image2?

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