[Ffmpeg-devel] QDM2

[Steve Lhomme]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:32:54AM +0200, Roberto Togni wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>About the other patch, i'd like to have Michael opinion about it, since
>>get_bit() can be performance critical (even if that code should be
>>harmless if assert is not enabled)
> 
> 
> hmm, iam not sure what the purpose of the change is but failing asserts
> due to damaged/truncated streams seems like bad behavior ...

You should know that asserts only occur in debug builds (-g option), not 
  in release builds. So asserts will only happen for developpers, which 
are the people who should notice (as quickly as possible) such ugliness.