[LAD] Plugin buffer size restrictions

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 06:42:01PM -0400, David Robillard wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 22:22 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 06:09:06PM -0400, David Robillard wrote:
> > 
> > > LV2_Buf_Size_Status
> > > get_block_length(LV2_Buf_Size_Buf_Feature_Handle handle,
> > >                  uint32_t*                       min,
> > >                  uint32_t*                       max,
> > >                  uint32_t*                       multiple_of,
> > >                  uint32_t*                       power_of);
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > > This callback just describes reality to the plugin at instantiation
> > > time. 
> > 
> > That 'to the plugin' confuses me - isn't this supposed to be
> > the plugin telling the host what it (the plugin) needs ?
> 
> This is a host-provided callback which the plugin can use at
> instantiation time to figure out the block length characteristics,
> whatever they may be.

(Maybe it's just too late for me to grok this...)

So it's the plugin asking the host what it can expect ?
Isn't the LV2 way to do this via features (i.e. the plugin
checking which features the host provides) ?

Ciao,

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