[FFmpeg-devel] use of UINT64_C in libavutil/common.h

[Måns Rullgård]

VALETTE Eric RD-MAPS-REN <eric2.valette at orange-ftgroup.com> writes:

> On 05/06/2010 04:41 PM, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> VALETTE Eric RD-MAPS-REN<eric2.valette at orange-ftgroup.com>  writes:
>>
>>
>>>> The file you are talking about uses the C language.  It does not work
>>>> in Fortran, Java, ADA, Scheme, COBOL, or Modula-3 to name but a few.
>>>> What makes you think it should work with C++?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Except that C++ program can include C headers file via the extern "C"
>>> trick
>>>
>> Apparently not.
>>
> If you make no effort to make it happen sure. There are indeed few
> incompatibilities. The real question you should ask yourself is: do I
> want to ffmepg libaries be used by C++ program? Answering no means you
> do not care for exemple QT/KDE program to use ffmpeg libraries simply.

Guess what, I _don't_ care.

> As already said, most decent C libaries provide C++ compatible include
> files, the libc being the first exemple that comes to mind but many
> graphical C libraries like X11 come just after it.

Glibc is a special case because it implements both the C and (in part)
C++ standards, which makes sense given the large overlap.  Glibc also
happens to be one of, if not *the*, most unmaintainable libraries on
the planet.

> Before the commit mentioned in another post it was not a problem. Now it is.

For you.  Not for me.

> The language argument sounds a bit like: I want to keep my "C" blood
> pure and do not mix with other race.

You're dangerously close to invoking Godwin's law there.

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