[FFmpeg-devel] [HACK] Remove MAX_STREAMS usages

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:52:54PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Reimar D?ffinger
> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> > this is just a quick hack that removes all usages of
> > MAX_STREAMS.
> 
> I was looking at the MMS use of this, and one is a sanity check to
> make sure we don't add more streams then would be reasonably useless /
> probably trash repeat file / exploit code.
> 
> It seems to me such checks should be introduced elsewhere also. Is
> keeping MAX_STREAMS or a new macro at a reasonably large value (1000
> or so) ok for that? Not for size of arrays, we can forbid that in the
> doxy, but just as a sanity check.

iam ok with a MAX_STREAMS that is not in any way part of the public api/abi

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