18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
7:43 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:23:52PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
But if the plugin is v1.2 and the host is v1.1
doesn't this mean the host only
used v1.1 at compile time? Then on copying the struct or on doing pointer-
arithmetic it will only know the old size of the struct and definitely copy
garbage or incomplete data for plugins of v1.2...
Sounds pretty BIC to me.
Not that I would advocate adding things to the descriptor,
but this can't happen unless the host is broken anyway.
- if a host is 1.1 it will only copy the 1.1 parts,
- and not expect or use anything else.
It would only go wrong if a host would assume
that it can increment a descriptor pointer to
get the next one. But that would be illegal
anyway, as the plugin is not required to keep
descriptors in an array. It has to provide a
function returning an descriptor given an
index, and hosts are supposed to use that
and assume nothing else.
Ciao,
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FA
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