Many years ago, FAAD had a serious ABI bug: the NeAACDecInit()
prototype in its header declared the "samplerate" parameter to be
"unsigned long *", but internally, the function assumed it was
"uint32_t *" instead. On 32 bit machines, that was no difference, but
on 64 bit, this left one portion of the return value uninitialized;
and worse, on big-endian, the wrong word was filled. This bug had to
be worked around in MPD (commit 9c4e97a6).
A few months later, the bug was fixed in the FAAD CVS in commit 1.117
on file libfaad/decoder.c; the commit message was:
"Use public headers internally to prevent duplicate declarations"
The commit message was too brief at best; the problem was not
duplicate declarations, but a prototype mismatch. No mention of the
bug fix in the ChangeLog.
The MPD project never learned about this bug fix, and so MPD would
always pass a "uin32_t *" dressed up as a "unsigned long *". Nearly 6
years later, it's about time to fix this second ABI problem. Let's
kill the workaround!
Many years ago, FAAD had a serious ABI bug: the NeAACDecInit()
prototype in its header declared the "samplerate" parameter to be
"unsigned long *", but internally, the function assumed it was
"uint32_t *" instead. On 32 bit machines, that was no difference, but
on 64 bit, this left one portion of the return value uninitialized;
and worse, on big-endian, the wrong word was filled. This bug had to
be worked around in MPD (commit 9c4e97a6).
A few months later, the bug was fixed in the FAAD CVS in commit 1.117
on file libfaad/decoder.c; the commit message was:
"Use public headers internally to prevent duplicate declarations"
The commit message was too brief at best; the problem was not
duplicate declarations, but a prototype mismatch. No mention of the
bug fix in the ChangeLog.
The MPD project never learned about this bug fix, and so MPD would
always pass a "uin32_t *" dressed up as a "unsigned long *". Nearly 6
years later, it's about time to fix this second ABI problem. Let's
kill the workaround!
MPD handles all strings in UTF-8 internally. Those decoders which
read Latin-1 tags are supposed to implement the conversion, instead of
passing Latin-1 to TagBuilder::AddItem(). FixTagString() is simply
the wrong place to do that, and hard-coding Latin-1 is kind of
arbitrary.
The Release Track Id uniquely identifies a recording on a release - that
is, even if a recording appears twice on a release (meaning that the
combination of recording and release id are not enough to figure out
which one it is), the release track id will allow differentiating the two.
The tag names are taken from
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard/Tags/Mapping
On NetBSD, PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER and PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER are
not compatible with C++11 "constexpr" (see Mantis ticket 0004110). As
a workaround, don't ues "constexpr", and use the functions
pthread_mutex_init(), pthread_mutex_destroy(), pthread_cond_init() and
pthread_cond_destroy() instead. This adds some runtime overhead, but
is portable to POSIX implementations that have awkward initializer
macros.
