[LAD] "enhanced event port" LV2 extension proposal

[Lars Luthman]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 14:55 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
> Lars Luthman <lars.luthman at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 05:59 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
> >> Also, i doubt we need three "count" members in Event_Port_Buffer
> >> structure. used_size - number of used events is perfectly fine by
> >> itself. I dont see why plugin should know whether buffer is actually
> >> larger.
> >
> > It needs to know that for an output buffer.
> 
> Well, port is either input or output, why not use same variable/member
> (with appropriate naming)?

You could, but there isn't really much to gain from it. The host will
want to keep track of the buffer capacity in some way so those 4 bytes
have to go somewhere, and I think having the same variable mean
different things for input and output buffers makes things more
confusing.


--ll
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