On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, James Almer wrote:

On 3/11/2021 1:11 PM, Marton Balint wrote:


On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, James Almer wrote:

This function acts as a replacement for both av_grow_packet() and
av_shrink_packet(), the latter which is now deprecated and will be removed as
it does not correctly handle non-writable packets.

I don't think this is a good idea, av_shrink_packet cannot fail, av_grow_packet can. By using the same function you are losing the information if the end result should be checked or not.

I'm not sure i follow. av_shrink_packet() is not being changed at all, just deprecated, scheduled for removal, and its use discouraged.

But why are you complicating code with mandatory return value checking? Because as soon as a function returns an error, you have to check it, and forward it upwards.

Maybe i should have split this in two, one to add av_packet_resize() and one to deprecate av_shrink_packet(), to avoid confusion.

In any case, the fact av_shrink_packet() cannot fail is the reason I'm getting rid of it. It's zeroing the padding without bothering to check if the packet is writable at all.

Add an assert to it then. Shrinking a non-writable packet seems bad API usage anyways.

If you want to shrink a writable packet, then maybe you don't even need zero padding, because the buffer possibly already contains some defined value, and the main reason of zero padding is avoiding reading uninitialized data...

Regards,
Marton
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