[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] VLevel 0.5

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 05:12:08PM -0500, Tom Felker wrote:
 
> VLevel is written in C++.  I have two questions.  First, why do most
> other plugins allocate and free copies of their strings and structures,
> instead of just passing the literal (as I do)?  The declarations in
> ladspa.h don't allow the host to modify what the pointers reference. 

Good question. There is AFAIK no good reason for doing this. I've even
seen plugins where things such as  int foo [4],  part of a larger struct,
are dynamically allocated....

> Second, I keep a buffer of length n in my code, so the first n seconds
> of data I return is useless, and after the audio is sent, I need n more
> seconds of input before all the audio is returned.  Is there any way of
> informing the host about this?

Not that I know of.

FA