[LAD] [RFC] LADSPA 1.2

Fons Adriaensen fons at kokkinizita.net
Thu Jun 18 20:18:50 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:53:27PM +0200, Tim Goetze wrote:

> [Fons Adriaensen]
> >
> >This makes is backwards compatible, as no new field is required
> >in the descriptor struct.
> 
> AFAICS, binary compatibility is not compromised by an expanded 
> descriptor struct, as long as additional members are appended to the 
> struct.

This is not strictly true. Indexing an array of such structs
will fail if the code doing it is generated by a compiler that
didn't use the exact size.

But that will indeed not to happen, as hosts are assumed to use
ladspa_descriptor() provided by the plugin.
 
Ciao,

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FA

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