From f6b2899dd2f2b7985da0cf3734a7276ea54e23a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Max Kellermann Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 20:42:50 +0200 Subject: decoder/faad: remove workaround for ancient libfaad2 ABI bug 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! --- NEWS | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0706e447c..f27bd8c4f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ ver 0.18.17 (not yet released) * decoder + - faad: remove workaround for ancient libfaad2 ABI bug - ffmpeg: recognize MIME type audio/aacp ver 0.18.16 (2014/09/26) -- cgit v1.2.3