[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Finish new iteration APIs

[Muhammad Faiz]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 2:30 AM, Michael Niedermayer
<michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 05:58:16PM +0000, Josh de Kock wrote:
>> This should be the last of the major API changes. I'm not entirely
>> sure if I missed anything.
>
> Moving from a register based system where a user app can register
> any subset to a system which registers all via an array will
> increase the size of statically linked binaries for users only
> using a subset.
>
> An example of this effect for codecs is tools/target_dec_fuzzer.c

Just an idea.
Is it possible to generate just one executable to fuzz all decoders?
The target decoder can be added as an argument or environment variable.
e.g: ./fuzzer --target aac
or FUZZER_TARGET=aac ./fuzzer

With this approach, we can save lot of disk space.


>
> This effect results because when the linker collects all objects
> of all static libs with a user application it can remove all symbols
> which are not referenced.
> If there is a single array that references all codecs, filters, formats
> and this array is referenced by a function which must be used then
> nothing can be removed at the link stage
>
> OTOH with a register function a register all which refernces all
> a user application can simply not use the reference all code and register
> the specific subset it needs with individual register calls.
> In this case the linker can ommit the register all and all codecs, formats
> and filters teh user application does not explicitly refer too.
> In the case where this applies this results in significantly smaller files
>
> I also expect they link faster and load faster but i forgot to benchmark this
> when i realized this issue exists and tested ...
>
> I am thus in favor of a system that does not unconditionally reference every
> codec/format/filter
>
> There can also be an advantage security wise if unneeded parts are never
> "registered"
>
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> Many things microsoft did are stupid, but not doing something just because
> microsoft did it is even more stupid. If everything ms did were stupid they
> would be bankrupt already.
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