Re: [LAD] [RFC] LADSPA 1.2

From: Fons Adriaensen <fons@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Jun 18 2009 - 23:18:50 EEST

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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