[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Replace av_malloc+memset with av_mallocz

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 9/7/06, Daniel Serpell <daniel_serpell at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> El Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:55:56AM -0400, Rich Felker escribio:
> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:03:43AM -0400, Daniel Serpell wrote:
> > >
> > > It can be done easily now using custom av_malloc / av_free functions.
> >
> > Not it can't because av_malloc does not take a context as an argument.
> > (I'm not saying it should, just that it can't do what I said.)
>
> Yes, you will need to set the malloc/free context (of your aplication)
> before calling any avcodec API, using some sort of global variable.
>
> I agree, not very good, but could work.

Before Rich flames you: globals are a very bad idea in the context of
a library and multi-threading.

Guillaume
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