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Elad Alon e86af2c75f Allowing buffering a LNTF (loss notification) feedback message in RTCPSender
Loss notifications may either be sent immediately, or wait until another
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Bug: webrtc:10336
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# Using Abseil in WebRTC
You may use a subset of the utilities provided by the [Abseil][abseil]
library when writing WebRTC C++ code. Below, we list the explicitly
*allowed* and the explicitly *disallowed* subsets of Abseil; if you
find yourself in need of something that isn&rsquo;t in either subset,
please add it to the *allowed* subset in this doc in the same CL that
adds the first use.
[abseil]: https://abseil.io/about/
## **Allowed**
* `absl::InlinedVector`
* `absl::make_unique` and `absl::WrapUnique`
* `absl::optional` and related stuff from `absl/types/optional.h`.
* `absl::string_view`
* The functions in `absl/strings/ascii.h`, `absl/strings/match.h`,
and `absl/strings/str_replace.h`.
* `absl::is_trivially_copy_constructible`,
`absl::is_trivially_copy_assignable`, and
`absl::is_trivially_destructible` from `absl/meta/type_traits.h`.
* `absl::variant` and related stuff from `absl/types/variant.h`.
* The functions in `absl/algorithm/algorithm.h` and
`absl/algorithm/container.h`.
* The macros in `absl/base/attributes.h`, `absl/base/config.h` and
`absl/base/macros.h`.
## **Disallowed**
### `absl::Mutex`
*Use `rtc::CriticalSection` instead.*
Chromium has a ban on new static initializers, and `absl::Mutex` uses
one. To make `absl::Mutex` available, we would need to nicely ask the
Abseil team to remove that initializer (like they already did for a
spinlock initializer). Additionally, `absl::Mutex` handles time in a
way that may not be compaible with the rest of WebRTC.
### `absl::Span`
*Use `rtc::ArrayView` instead.*
`absl::Span` differs from `rtc::ArrayView` on several points, and both
of them differ from the `std::span` that was voted into
C++20&mdash;and `std::span` is likely to undergo further changes
before C++20 is finalized. We should just keep using `rtc::ArrayView`
and avoid `absl::Span` until C++20 is finalized and the Abseil team
has decided if they will change `absl::Span` to match.
[Bug](https://bugs.webrtc.org/9214).
### `absl::StrCat`, `absl::StrAppend`, `absl::StrJoin`, `absl::StrSplit`
*Use `rtc::SimpleStringBuilder` to build strings.*
These are optimized for speed, not binary size. Even `StrCat` calls
with a modest number of arguments can easily add several hundred bytes
to the binary.