[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] examples/muxing: zero AVPacket before av_read_frame()

[Andrey Utkin]

2014-01-28 Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin at gmail.com>:
> av_read_frame() uses AVPacket.buf pointer value, so we must initialize
> it with NULL.  It is not documented whether av_read_frame() relies on
> any else initial values of AVPacket fields. So to stay safe, we zero all
> AVPacket memory.

Well, this is still not exactly pedantic. I've read that it cannot be
reliably assumed that NULL pointer is expressed as all-zeros.

-- 
Andrey Utkin