[FFmpeg-devel] On need in AVFrame accessors

[Nicolas George]

Le sextidi 6 fructidor, an CCXX, Andrey Utkin a écrit :
> The reason to have them was to... ehm, likely, to make faster
> accessing these fields than through av_opt_ptr,

Faster yes, but mostly more reliable: av_opt_ptr is type-pruned and needs to
be checked for failure.

>						  and ability to make
> accessors non-trivial if needed.

That was not a goal, even though it is a possibility if the need should
arise.

>	   Thus, no difference/benefit in them comparing with direct
> get/set operation.

The direct get/set operations are forbidden because the position of the
field is not part of the public ABI of the library: for these fields, and
only these, the developers are allowed to move them around in the structure
without bumping the major version. It breaks any dynamically-linked
application that accesses them directly.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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