[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 3/8] avutil/mem: Add av_fast_realloc_array()

[Tomas Härdin]

tis 2022-07-12 klockan 16:12 +0200 skrev Andreas Rheinhardt:
> 
> Anton really dislikes the av_fast_* naming and instead wants this to
> be
> called av_realloc_array_reuse(). I don't care either way. Any more
> opinions on this (or on the patch itself)?

That's going to cause some "impedance mismatch" given that the other
functions are still called fast rather than reuse, and changing that
would requite a major bump.

Ideally we'd come up with a coherent naming scheme for all of these
functions because frankly it's a mess at the moment. I tried
summarizing all functions in a spreadsheet, and there's a lot of gaps
functionality wise. Best solution would be to write the cartesian
product of all features in one go, with an accompanying coherent naming
scheme.

{pointer, pointer-to-pointer} * {don't care what the data is, copy old
data, copy and zero newly allocated memory, zero entire buffer} * {size
in bytes, nelem*elemsize}

/Tomas