[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Staticising mpeg12data header

[Uoti Urpala]

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 15:00 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> For global variables it does matter, however global variables are evil
> enough already and _prohibitively_ evil when imported from a shared
> library. Doing so results in copy-relocations, which in turn introduce

You can have global variables _within_ a shared library, the kind for
which visibility "hidden" makes sense. FFmpeg has global tables of
constants, which aren't all that evil or problematic.