[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Doxygenate libavutil/mem.h

Måns Rullgård mans
Fri Sep 21 15:02:29 CEST 2007


Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:33:14AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> > + * Allocates or reallocates a block of memory.
>> > + * Same semantics as glibc realloc: if \p ptr is NULL and \p size > 0,
>> > + * identical to malloc(size). If \p size is zero, it is identical to
>> >   * free(ptr) and NULL is returned.
>
> It would be better to cite a well-known standard, ANSI/ISO C, rather
> than glibc.... Realloc semantics are not glibc-specific.
>
>> What is supposed to be "identical to malloc(size)"?
>
> The meaning was clear to me: the function call.

Rich, lately I've found myself agreeing with most of your opinions,
and quite frankly, that scares me.  Either you've mellowed considerably,
something I thought impossible, or I've changed in the other direction,
which certainly doesn't strike me as desirable.  Could an outsider please
shed some light on this situation?

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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