[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Enable proper IPv6 functions on windows

Martin Storsjö martin
Fri Jan 22 23:49:25 CET 2010


On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:50:03AM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Martin Storsj? <martin at martin.st> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > >> > + ? ?int (WSAAPI *win_getnameinfo)(const struct sockaddr *sa, socklen_t salen,
> > >> > + ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?char *host, DWORD hostlen,
> > >> > + ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?char *serv, DWORD servlen, int flags);
> > >> > + ? ?HMODULE ws2mod = GetModuleHandle("ws2_32.dll");
> > >> > + ? ?win_getnameinfo = GetProcAddress(ws2mod, "getnameinfo");
> > >> > + ? ?if (win_getnameinfo)
> > >> > + ? ? ? ?return win_getnameinfo(sa, salen, host, hostlen, serv, servlen, flags);
> > >>
> > >> Sorry, I didn't follow the discussion very much...
> > >>
> > >> Shouldn't the function pointer variable (in all functions) not be
> > >> static? Now you load it every time which sounds like a huge
> > >> time-waster to me. Otherwise looks ok to me.
> > >
> > > I guess that would be ok, too. Theoretically, it wouldn't be totally
> > > thread safe, but for all practical matters I think it would be ok.
> > 
> > How would it not be threadsafe? In the worst case, we store the (same)
> > function pointer address in that variable twice (or, oh no!!!, even 3
> > times). However, the value should never be invalid unless the compiler
> > is on drugs and clears the variable before storing the actual address
> > in it.

Yeah, true, I guess I can't really come up with a really proper 
explanation on when it would go wrong unless the compiler is totally 
insane.

> You never know what it might do :-).
> But seriously, I don't see much of a point (unless with further changes),
> because
> a) I doubt the performance if getnameinfo matters in any way, at least on that scale.
> b) The non-complex way to do it would only avoid the overhead if getnameinfo etc. are available.

I don't really have that much an opinion here - this way the 
winsock-specific kludge is as small as possible, but if you Ronald prefer 
a version with static pointers, I can cook up such a patch instead...

// Martin



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