[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Make av_base64_decode() fail if the input sequence is invalid

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:18:05PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> currently av_base64_decode() doesn't fail with invalid data of the
> kind "M", "M==M==", "M===".
> 
> Though I'm not sure the patch implements a good idea, maybe the
> decoder should be tolerant and accept not perfectly legal but on the
> other end meaningful inputs (for example "MQ" although not legal is
> perfectly equivalent for the decoder to "MQ=="), anyway in this case
> we cannot use the function av_base64_decode() to validate data.
> 
> An idea could be to add a flag like this:
> int av_base64_decode2(uint8_t * out, const char *in, int out_length, int validate)
> 
> but maybe this is overkill.
> 
> Opinions are welcome.

Who wants and needs this where for what?
if you cant awnser this, why would we want to implement it? just for
implementations sake?
maybe it is very usefull for something, i dont know but you arent telling

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Its not that you shouldnt use gotos but rather that you should write
readable code and code with gotos often but not always is less readable
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