Re: [LAD] "enhanced event port" LV2 extension proposal

Lars Luthman <lars.luthman@email-addr-hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 14:55 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
>> Lars Luthman <lars.luthman@email-addr-hidden> 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.

And supplying things to plugins that they should not (and do not) care
about is not confusing? And we assume that plugins would be more than
hosts after all...

-- 
Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: DE1716B0>

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