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Hi,
On Thursday 18 June 2009 23:16:53 Tim Goetze wrote:

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> [Stefano D'Angelo]

> >Note: a weird host could copy make a copy of the descriptors (I see

> >nothing claiming this should not happen in the header file), thus ABI

> >would be broken... this could maybe happen in LADSPA hosts written in

> >non-C languages (why does Java come to my mind?).

> No, it's not a problem.  A host that does this is just treating the

> plugin as a 1.1 version and ignoring the extra fields of the struct,

> which is completely legal and causes no problems whatsoever.

But if the plugin is v1.2 and the host is v1.1 doesn't this mean the host o=

nly=20

used v1.1 at compile time? Then on copying the struct or on doing pointer-

arithmetic it will only know the old size of the struct and definitely copy=

=20

garbage or incomplete data for plugins of v1.2...

Sounds pretty BIC to me.
Arnold
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