msg: set an explicit overflow message

So client API users don't have to worry about this specifically.

Also document the overflow case. (Not sure if we really need to do
this; maybe it'd be better not to, since this just adds more noise
to the docs.)

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libmpv/client.h b/libmpv/client.h
index fe7efa66f8..c4df6a3fbf 100644
--- a/libmpv/client.h
+++ b/libmpv/client.h
@@ -1032,7 +1032,10 @@ typedef struct mpv_event_property {
 
 typedef struct mpv_event_log_message {
     /**
-     * The module prefix, identifies the sender of the message.
+     * The module prefix, identifies the sender of the message. As a special
+     * case, if the message buffer overflows, this will be set to the string
+     * "overflow" (which doesn't appear as prefix otherwise), and the text
+     * field will contain an informative message.
      */
     const char *prefix;
     /**