Re: safe addition of arguments to existing ugens

i guess the array should always already be allocated with the known size
of the linked ugen, and when the synthdef requests fewer slots, as
nathan writes, it will have to fill the uninitalised slots with a
sensible default value (or if that's not possible at least gracefully
terminate the ugen initialisation).

best, ...h.h...


On 23/03/18 20:51, julian.rohrhuber-QYZGCWsIODmAF8UT6DzBU6xOck334EZe@public.gmane.org wrote:
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>> i thought of a very simple workaround for this -- in the Ctor code, a ugen can look at its own unit->mNumInputs and correctly handle edge cases. in the case of backward-compatible addition of arguments, this would mean that the new argument is optional and the plugin is smart enough to supply a default.
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> This would have to mean that it extends the array of values by some default like zero, so that the macros like ZXP() and IN() would never read uninitialised data?
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