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!
Make the "open" method of plugins "file" and "archive" dummy methods
that always fail. Instead, let InputStream::Open() hard-code access
to these two plugins by using OpenLocalInputStream(). This allows
simplifyin the algorithm for falling back to probing archive plugins.
