[vlc-devel] [RFC] Regarding the use of *_Control()

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le lundi 14 avril 2008, Pierre d'Herbemont a écrit :
> I do understand that to do subclassing, and to add new functionality
> to Control() function without breaking the ABI is quite easy.
>
> I do doubt that this is a nice habit, and having internal function
> pointers would have been much cleaner IMO. (no need to switch(), it's
> easy to see if a function is supported or not, etc.)

You cannot add _any_ new callback without breaking the ABI though. So 
the "cleaner" solution is simply impractical, I think.


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