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authorMichael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>2007-12-20 09:43:01 +0000
committerMichael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>2007-12-20 09:43:01 +0000
commit252f17e292064da25a82c99bf1f752ed5fedd434 (patch)
tree6268c50c933231b104c5c72e996833af0102c77f /libavformat/avformat.h
parent1408352ada60d5a174b48d547114bb086812fcdb (diff)
Document structure change rules with relation to ABI/API.
Originally committed as revision 11281 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Diffstat (limited to 'libavformat/avformat.h')
-rw-r--r--libavformat/avformat.h8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libavformat/avformat.h b/libavformat/avformat.h
index c0ad4a6613..bbe818f29d 100644
--- a/libavformat/avformat.h
+++ b/libavformat/avformat.h
@@ -358,7 +358,13 @@ typedef struct AVProgram {
#define MAX_STREAMS 20
-/* format I/O context */
+/**
+ * format I/O context.
+ * New fields can be added to the end with minor version bumps.
+ * Removial, reordering and changes to existing fields require a Major
+ * version bump.
+ * sizeof(AVFormatContext) must not be used outside libav*
+ */
typedef struct AVFormatContext {
const AVClass *av_class; /**< set by av_alloc_format_context */
/* can only be iformat or oformat, not both at the same time */