[FFmpeg-devel] [libav-devel] [PATCH 2/6] avutil: remove av_reverse deprecation

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

On 08.08.2015 14:33, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun
> <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> +const uint8_t *ff_reverse = av_reverse;
> 
> Importing data tables from another library is something we try to
> avoid. Keeping a duplicate of 256 bytes is favorable.

Why?

> Maybe the deprecation should just make it private instead of dropping
> it. Public data tables are evil. :(

In what why are they evil?

Best regards,
Andreas