[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Finish new iteration APIs

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 8:30 PM, Michael Niedermayer
<michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 05:58:16PM +0000, Josh de Kock wrote:
>> This should be the last of the major API changes. I'm not entirely
>> sure if I missed anything.
>
> Moving from a register based system where a user app can register
> any subset to a system which registers all via an array will
> increase the size of statically linked binaries for users only
> using a subset.
>

User apps did not have the ability to register a subset. How would
they do that? They can't access the internals (ie. the ff_ references
to those components)
That was only something some internal tools used, and you can probably
find different options for dealing with those.

- Hendrik