[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Implement sws_printVec2()

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Thursday 2009-02-12 23:31:12 +0100, Gwenole Beauchesne encoded:
> Le 12 f?vr. 09 ? 23:22, M?ns Rullg?rd a ?crit :
> 
> > Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> writes:
> >
> >> On date Wednesday 2009-02-11 23:48:27 +0100, Diego Biurrun encoded:
> >>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:19:48PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> this function has been suggested by Michael in a recent thread.
> >>>
> >>> I must admit I don't know a better name, but functions with a '2'
> >>> suffix always strike me as horribly named.
> >>
> >> It's standard practice in FFmpeg to rename a function with a 2  
> >> suffix,
> >> when the original function has problems API-wise, and I don't think  
> >> it
> >> is especially ugly in this case.
> >
> > It's fairly standard practise also outside FFmpeg in similar
> > situations.
> 
> Unless versioned symbols are supported. Though, by essence, this is  
> non-portable. AFAIK, some ELF targets support that (Linux, Solaris).

I know (almost) nothing about versioned symbols.

Please could you explain how such a symbol creation (sws_printVec +
sws_printVec2) could affect portability?

Regards.
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