[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] install aes.h, des.h and rc4.h

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:53:16PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:17:58PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > i dont like casting AVAES in stone, the inconvenience from a
> > single alloca() is not worth it
> > so not ok
> 
> First, "casting AVAES in stone" certainly is an exaggeration, at most it
> needs a major version bump,and even that only if the size or alignment
> requirements change.

at most anything needs a major version bump. That is really as close as
a lib can be to "be cast in stone".


> Also, you know the reasons: alloca is not portable, other methods might
> not provide sufficient alignment or have other issues.
> But maybe we can find a better solution.
> What about a
> void *av_alloca(uint8_t *);
> Usage would be
> uint8_t buffer[size + AV_ALLOCA_PADDING];
> struct AVAES *a = av_alloca(buffer);
> 
> Does that seem like it might make a good solution or does it have
> serious issues?

its not particularely pretty and something should be done to make it
less error prone, also no function call should happen just a macro
 or inline function

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