[FFmpeg-user] Is av_malloc() and av_free() thread safe?

[Kirill Gavrilov]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Unga <unga888 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi all
>
> Is av_malloc() and av_free() thread safe?
>
av_malloc() and av_free() just redirects to standard malloc() /
posix_memalign() / free() functions.
The main difference is that them ensure alignment for some instructions like
SSE / MMX and so on available on your CPU and used in FFmpeg
decoders/encoders.

No global storage and no any advanced memory management are implemented in
FFmpeg.
Thus yes - these FFmpeg functions should be thread-safe if memory allocator
of your CRT library is thread-safe ;) (generally it is).
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Kirill Gavrilov,
Software designer.
<kirill at sview.ru>