On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun
<andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> I'm not sure what you mean with 'officially' here. Every symbol exported by
> a shared library can be used by another program.
> Even if only other av* libraries use the avpriv_* symbols they can't just be
> removed, because that would break ABI compatibility between the old version
> of the library using such a symbol with the new version of the other library
> not exporting this symbol anymore.
>

Unrelated to any ABI or API problems, a use-case of mixing different
versions  of the libraries strongly advised against ever using or a
distribution enabling such use, because its hardly ever tested, and
results may be rather unpredictable, especially with a lot of
applications sadly still using some of the API "incorrectly".

- Hendrik
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