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.
Max Kellermann