[Ffmpeg-devel] [RFC] another attempt at memalign realloc

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:43:33PM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 17:34 +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > I came up with the attached idea, but it seems so simple that I can't
> > get rid of the feeling there is yet another problem with that (except
> > that the performance might be really bad), otherwise somebody should
> > have had that same idea during all this wild hacking around on it *g*.
> > Well, please help me and have a very close look at it and say what you
> > think.
> 
> +    memove(ptr, ptr2, size);
> 
> Well there's one obvious problem :)
> 
> More seriously, how do you intend to free buffers allocated this way?
> You could reserve extra space in the allocated area to keep information
> to do that, but then the freeing procedure would be incompatible with
> freeing standard-allocation memory blocks.

Huh? What's the problem? I don't understand anything of this mail.
Note, this patch is only for the MEMALIGN_HACK case.

Greetings,
Reimar D?ffinger