[pkg-mad-maintainers] Bug#447196: Bug#447196: anonymous structure makes lib partially unusable in C++

[Philippe Coval]

Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:31:34PM +0200, Philippe Coval wrote:
>   
>> Package: libmad
>>     
Hi
>> I am about to report this upstream too
>>     
>
> I haven't seen you send this to an upstream list yet?
>   
here is it (noone replied so far) :
 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1816107&group_id=12349&atid=312349


>> Because the structure can not be casted to an anonymous structure
>> which is mandatory in C++ (malloc returns void* and new is impossible
>> without typename)
>>     
>
> Why do you think you need to allocate that buffer yourself?  This is
> normally done in by libmad itself, in mad_decoder_run().
>   
true, unless I hack the lib for personnal use :)

I agrea this is not a debian specific bug

Regards

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