[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavc/sbc: Remove bool usage

Paul B Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Thu Apr 2 16:24:04 EEST 2020


On 4/2/20, Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/04/2020 10:41, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> I do not care, bool is evil and should never be used.
>
> Why? 'We don't like it' isn't a technical reason.
>
> Also, FFmpeg already uses plenty of C99 features and thus
> requires a C99 compiler. What is so inherently evil about a boolean
> type that it must not be allowed, but other C99 features are?
>
> I am curious what compilers support all the C99 features used that
> do not support stdbool.h, and are still actually used (even by 2 people).

No code in FFmpeg use it.
And it was disallowed before and should be now.

>
> - Derek
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