[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] extern "C" usage

Rich Felker dalias
Sun May 13 18:36:47 CEST 2007


On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 09:13:54AM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> > I agree strongly with emoving them but I suspect this is
> > controversial. C++ users do not like being reminded that using C
> > libraries is a form of FFI and not native C++
> 
> Grunt! Drool! What mean "FFI"?
> 
>    http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=FFI
> 
> The best guess is Foreign Function Interface.

Yes, I meant foreign function interface.

> Try to remember that 
> you're way smarter than most of us before you toss around these letters. :)

...

Rich




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