[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC]Use ptrdiff_t for linesize and stride

[wm4]

On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 02:46:51 +0100
Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Seeing 6e80079a it appears that the unstable period is not over yet.
> Vittorio posted a patch that introduces a temporary type to avoid
> breaking API, but that may not be relevant if the api currently
> unstable.
> 
> Attached patch (inspired by Vittorio's RFC) passes fate with
> --disable-asm and does not introduce new warnings with gcc 6.3.
> Do we generally need this change?
> Do we generally want it?
> 
> If yes, I will likely need help for the asm changes.
> 
> I would like to avoid a temporary type and I would like to avoid a
> future version bump only because this change suddenly becomes
> necessary.
> 
> Please comment, Carl Eugen

Doing that now would break EVERY API user.