[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 17/17] avcodec/libavcodec.v: Tighten export whitelist

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 12:41:33AM +0200, Andreas Rheinhardt wrote:
> Currently every symbol (with external linkage) that starts with "av" is
> exported. Yet libaom-av1 has lots of functions that are not meant to be
> exported and start with "av1_" (I counted 1236); and libvpx has
> average_split_mvs. These functions are exported if one links these
> libraries statically into a shared libavcodec.so.
> 
> Solve this by tightening the whitelist to "av_", "avcodec_", "avpriv_"
> and (as a special-case) "avsubtitle_free".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt at outlook.com>
> ---
>  libavcodec/libavcodec.v | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

sounds like a good idea

thanks!

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