Version 2.5 fixed an API oddity, however it broke API compatibility,
at least with C++. Disable the workaround when a libavformat version
is detected that is recent enough.
The "::" to explicitly refer to the global namespace appeared like a
good idea in C++, but it breaks with C libraries that implement
standard functions using macros (e.g. musl).
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!
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.
Casting std::numeric_limits<unsigned>::max() to "long" leads to an
overflow if sizeof(unsigned)==sizeof(long), and the result will be -1.
This happens on some 32 bit architectures, for example ARM and WIN32.
Workaround: use std::numeric_limits<int>::max(), which is the largest
signed integer. Since sizeof(long)>=sizeof(int), this will never
overflow.
Fixes Mantis ticket 0004080.
The IsActive() method returned true even if the timer was not active,
after it completed once. This broke the state file timer, and the
state file was not saved periodically.
Max Kellermann