[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Redundant memset

[Panagiotis Issaris]

Hi,

The attached patch removes a redundant memset from libavformat. The memory is
cleared with memset although it had been previously allocated with av_mallocz
and thus was already cleared. The function avformat_get_context_defaults()
is only used from av_alloc_format_context().

 utils.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

One problem with the first patch is that the semantic of avformat_get_context_defaults()
is possibly altered. Namely, if someone wants to set a beforehand allocated AVFormatContext
to the default values and memsetting the struct is considered as being default. So, the
second patch removes the redundancy in a different way, by changing the av_mallocz() to
av_malloc() and leaving the memset() untouched.

 utils.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

With friendly regards,
Takis
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