[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avidec: get rid of some magic numbers in read_gab2_sub()

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Anton Khirnov <anton at khirnov.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:47:02PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:17:57PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>> > On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:12:25PM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote:
>> > > On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 11:47:54AM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>> > > > On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 11:07:05AM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote:
>> [...]
>> > > > Also in case the AV_RL16 part is some kind of version number I would
>> > > > consider this significantly worse, magic number or not.
>> > > TBH I don't know what that number means, this "format" seems like an
>> > > undocumented hack (and we can hope no new versions of it will ever be
>> > > created).
>> > > Anyway, I don't care much about this patch, I can drop it if you think
>> > > it does more harm than good.
>> >
>> > I don't care either, it just seems a bit pointless to me...
>>
>> Id like to second this, and IMHO pointless changes should be avoided for
>> keeping log & blame clean
> Fine, first patch dropped.
> Rebased second patch attached, please review.
[..]
> +        ByteIOContext *pb = av_alloc_put_byte(pkt->data + 7,
> +                                              pkt->size - 7,
> +                                              0, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);

What's the point of using av_alloc_put_byte() instead of
init_put_byte() inside lavf?

Ronald