[Ffmpeg-devel] Stack overflow patch

[Måns Rullgård]

Kristian Amlie <kristian at gridmedia.com> writes:

> Quoting M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>:
>
>> Kristian Amlie <kristian at gridmedia.com> writes:
>>
>>> This patch fixes ffmpeg so that av_find_stream_info() can be called
>>> from MSVC++ without causing a stack overflow. It does so by replacing
>>> the auto array "duration_error" with a malloced array.
>>
>> What difference does it make which compiler is used for the calling code?
>
> The stack size is smaller on Windows by default.

Doesn't it automatically grow as needed until memory runs out, as it
does on Unix-type OSes?

> It is possible to change it, but there is no reason why ffmpeg
> shouldn't work out of the box (plus the code already had a FIXME in
> that location).

I'm not opposing the change.  I was only curious why it's needed.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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