[FFmpeg-cvslog] r19901 - trunk/tests/vsynth.regression.ref
Baptiste Coudurier
baptiste.coudurier
Thu Sep 17 23:30:15 CEST 2009
On 09/17/2009 01:59 PM, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 01:06:23PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
>> Huh, they are reliable, they just don't memset 0 aeras that are
>> useless (reserved), and in the real world this cause absolutely no
>> problems.
>
> In other words they are leaking random date, which e.g. in case of encoding
> from a password-protected http server might include passwords or all kinds
> of other sensitive data in case of more complex applications than FFmpeg.
>
>> They just don't produce bitexact output if memory is not initialized.
>> That's the burden of many fixed frame size codecs.
>
> Well, IMHO this is the burden of crappy code.
I recognize you well here.
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