[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/extract_extradata: zero initialize the padding bytes of the exported extradata

James Almer jamrial at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 18:31:45 EET 2018


On 3/9/2018 12:47 PM, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
> On 3/9/2018 3:22 PM, James Almer wrote:
>> Yes, but it's slower, and the buffer is guaranteed to be written to with
>> actual data after being allocated.
>>
>> This is a filter that may run once per processed packet, so the less
>> overhead the better.
> 
> Not sure I buy the "speed" argument here, but OK.
> 
> - Derek

There's really nothing to win zeroing then immediately writing actual
data on top of it.

Pushed, thanks.


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