[PD] binary compatibility

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

On 07/27/2015 01:28 PM, Charles Z Henry wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list
> <pd-list at lists.iem.at> wrote:
>
>> Background info: Pd-l2ork has an extra member at the _end_ of the
>> t_widgetbehavior struct.  This member is used to do accelerated displacing
>> of a selection of objects in Pd.
> This type of modification isn't meant to be binary compatible in both
> directions.  Your Pd-Vanilla externals with the Vanilla
> t_widgetbehavior struct will not work in Pd-l2ork, because the struct
> is smaller.
>
> When Pd-l2ork tries to access those elements off the end of the
> t_widgetbehavior struct, it should seg fault.

Since pd-l2ork is compiled with a different widgetbehavior and assigns 
all new objects by default a null value to additional widgetbehaviors, 
unless 3rd-party external explicitly somehow overrides widgetbehavior, 
this will not crash. The only situation where I think it may crash is if 
a 3rd party external tries to copy an object and tries to allocate 
memory for a specific widgetbehavior size, which seems questionable 
since externals should not have to worry about widgetbehavior size and 
IIRC this part is instantiated inside core pd routines.

Best,

Ico

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