[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 004/114] avcodec/bitstream: Allow static VLC tables to be bigger than needed

[Andreas Rheinhardt]

Paul B Mahol:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 5:35 PM Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 01:37:26PM +0100, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>> Big disagree, please keep this log intact.
>>
>> i agree, for people writing alot of codecs like paul is doing this av_log
>> is helpful
>>
>> It can be made less verbose, e.g. into debug.
> But I see no point in removing it completely.
> 

Another alternative would be to add a flag that indicates that it is
expected that allocated_size is bigger than the needed size.

- Andreas