Quoting Nicolas George (2021-02-04 15:48:03) > Anton Khirnov (12021-02-04): > > I don't think we have an official project policy on this, but I would > > be in favor of something like: > > > > All installed headers are only guaranteed to provide those > > identifiers that are explicitly declared in them. Users must not > > rely on an installed header #include'ing any other specific headers, > > as those can change at any time. > > That would probably be ok, but I would suggest to add: > > ... explicitly declared or used in them. > > If a function argument is size_t or int64_t, then we can expect size_t > or int64_t to be defined.
That leads to undesirable situations, such as: - header avfoo.h declares 'int64_t av_foo(void);' - people start using av_foo() in their code, but do not include <stdint.h> because avfoo.h includes it for them - at some later point av_foo() is deprecated and removed - everyone depends on avfoo.h to provide int64_t, even though avfoo.h does not use it anymore -- Anton Khirnov _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
