Opened 5 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#7858 closed defect (fixed)

Incorrect function used in the avio_reading.c example

Reported by: Ferneu Owned by:
Priority: minor Component: documentation
Version: git-master Keywords:
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Reproduced by developer: no
Analyzed by developer: no

Description

The avio_reading.c example uses av_freep() to free the AVIOContext it allocated with avio_alloc_context()

I believe it should be using avio_context_free() instead.

And while we are at it, you guys should really consider completely removing the buffer avio_alloc_context() requires/allow the user to pass. Since according to the docs the AVIOContext is free to reallocate that buffer at will and, in my experience, it usually does that, the user always ends up with a dangling pointer in case he was hoping to perform some sane resource management (i.e., free the things he allocated).

The "correct" way to free the AVIOContext (first call av_freep(&avio_ctx->buffer) and then free the context itself) is not intuitive at all, and since you guys already have avio_context_free(), you should make it take care of doing that.

Change History (3)

comment:1 by Jun Zhao, 5 years ago

Refer to the commit a0877648472a25debc9bd7957684748a253c2b52, Thanks.

BTW: Update API as the suggestion is the other issue, I think.

comment:2 by mkver, 5 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

comment:3 by Carl Eugen Hoyos, 5 years ago

Component: avformatdocumentation
Keywords: AVIOContext avio_context_free buffer removed
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