[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] add av_fast_malloc

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 02:57:17PM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 02:42:01PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 02:10:58PM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > > Or you could give av_fast_malloc a return value, but IMO that would be
> > > a more confusing API.
> > 
> > i always liked to make it explicit what is changed by using return ...
> 
> Well, since there are two things changed that does not really work that
> well. Also since the old pointer is invalid you'll basically always want
> to assign to the same variable you passed in, this results in what I
> consider "boilerplate" code, and I just hate, hate, hate that.
> 
> > > In several cases the buffer could be made void *, sometimes avoiding a
> > > few more casts in the process.
> > > There are many solutions, I just considered this the best...
> > 
> > make the arg void * and cast inside the function if you dislie the return
> 
> Sure, here's a variant with that done.

ok
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