On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 06:25:29PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > > We are not talking about what you and me "would like inside a standard > > library" but whether we can rely on the specified interfaces. The > > malloc() interface was apparently misunderstood as a promise to never > > do float. There is no such promise. > > Can malloc call sleep() then?
"Can malloc do XXX?" If the standard (as of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_standard_library) does not prohibit this, then certainly yes. You do not have any time guarantees on malloc(), if this is what you meant. Other implementation details aside, a call to a general purpose malloc() on a Unix-like system regularly results in a system call and then your process can pretty well be put to sleep for unspecified time, by the kernel. Regards, Rune _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
