[linux-audio-dev] LV2 library API

[fons adriaensen]

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 06:07:15PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:43:57AM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote:

> > char* type = lv2_port_get_type(someplug, 0);
> > if (!strcmp(type, LV2_DATATYPE_FLOAT))
> >     /* ... */
> > free(type);
> 
> Makes sense to me. You could make the API (optionally?) take a char * to
> write the result into to avoid a lot of malloc() and free()s, but I doublt
> it's a worthwhile saving.

I'd consider any interface that just returns a constant and requires
a malloc() and a free() to do it plain broken. This data doesn't live
in kernel space, or does it ? You could just return a const char *.


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FA

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