[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] move intrax8 tables from a header to a C file

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 02:38:22PM +0100, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:05:05 +0100
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > AFAIU it is preferred to have tables in C files rather than in header
> > files.
> 
> Prefered by whom ? Not by me.
> At least not for tables which are not shared between several compilation
> units.

A table shared between compilation units still does not belong in a
header. An extern declaration for it belongs in the header, and the
table itself belongs in a .c file. Otherwise multiple copies of the
table will exist which is very wasteful.

Rich