# HG changeset patch
# User michael
# Date 1198143781 0
# Node ID 0277500fe13dce71a776d10e9cae95f214f6cc2e
# Parent  2f9c17454842e840c75bb0d060968ad9e457117d
Document structure change rules with relation to ABI/API.

diff -r 2f9c17454842 -r 0277500fe13d avcodec.h
--- a/avcodec.h	Thu Dec 20 00:55:08 2007 +0000
+++ b/avcodec.h	Thu Dec 20 09:43:01 2007 +0000
@@ -753,7 +753,11 @@
 #define DEFAULT_FRAME_RATE_BASE 1001000
 
 /**
- * main external API structure
+ * main external API structure.
+ * New fields can be added to the end with minor version bumps.
+ * Removial, reordering and changes to existing fields require a Major
+ * version bump.
+ * sizeof(AVCodecContext) must not be used outside libav*
  */
 typedef struct AVCodecContext {
     /**