[pulseaudio-discuss] installing header files

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 10.08.09 04:08, Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey at boosthardware.com) wrote:

> its a question of making sure that the *internal* API of JACK doesn't
> contain any places where the server and the client(s) share a data
> structure in memory that contains pointers (or various other data
> types). the expected size of these pointers/data types would be
> different in a 32 bit application than in a 64 bit application,
> leading them (or rather the compilers used to build them) to disagree
> about where elements of that data structure are in memory. this would
> in turn lead to odd behaviour, memory corruption etc. etc.
>
> so the JACK implementation was changed to remove any such
> pointers/data types, meaning that 32 bit apps (i.e. linked against a
> 32 bit libjack) and a 64 bit server (linked against a 64 bit libjack
> OF THE SAME VERSION) agree on how the shared memory data structures
> are arranged in memory.

Yes, this is exacty what PA does, too.

Lennart

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