[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Revert "bitstream: make vlc init of static tables thread safe."

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 05:54:44PM +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 7/13/13, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > This reverts commit 4b6869d6e0120c92253d525921f0e04361888e10.
> >
> > Conflicts:
> >
> > 	libavcodec/bitstream.c
> >
> > This code can cause assertion failures on artificial OOM situations
> 
> And why revert it? It can not be fixed or?

There are basically 4 options
1. leave this code and replace the mallocs by a second on stack buffer
2. drop this code and use some kind of synchronization
3. rewrite the code to be fundamentally thread safe
4. deal with malloc failures in all callers

I did 2.
carl did 4.

3. is probably not that easy and may have performace implications


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