On Apr 4, 2022, at 3:01 PM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:Message: 2
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 15:00:52 +0200
From: Christof Ressi <info@christofressi.com>
To: pd-dev@lists.iem.at
Subject: Re: [PD-dev] PDINSTANCE for Pd (was Re: call for discussion
double-precision file extension)
Message-ID: <0861a01f-14da-166c-df62-d8cebe2ed823@christofressi.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"I was thinking to a way for the transition: we could:Yes, this would work. Of course, it would be an ABI break for
- change the t_pdinstance pd_s_* fields to pointers (and adapt the s_*
replacement? macros accordingly),
- export "hidden" globals s_*
- initialize pd_maininstance pd_s_* fields to the global versions.
multi-instance libpd, but I think it would be justified. I guess libpd
users rarely rely on pre-build externals, and even if they do, I think
it's ok to ask them to recompile.