The current wording regarding size and min_size is completely wrong and ignores that min_size is indeed only a desired minimal size, not the actually allocated size.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinha...@googlemail.com> --- libavutil/mem.h | 24 ++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/libavutil/mem.h b/libavutil/mem.h index 7e0b12a8a7..55ae573ac9 100644 --- a/libavutil/mem.h +++ b/libavutil/mem.h @@ -363,10 +363,10 @@ av_alloc_size(2, 3) int av_reallocp_array(void *ptr, size_t nmemb, size_t size); * @endcode * * @param[in,out] ptr Already allocated buffer, or `NULL` - * @param[in,out] size Pointer to current size of buffer `ptr`. `*size` is - * changed to `min_size` in case of success or 0 in - * case of failure - * @param[in] min_size New size of buffer `ptr` + * @param[in,out] size Pointer to the size of buffer `ptr`. `*size` is + * updated to the new allocated size, in particular 0 + * in case of failure. + * @param[in] min_size Desired minimal size of buffer `ptr` * @return `ptr` if the buffer is large enough, a pointer to newly reallocated * buffer if the buffer was not large enough, or `NULL` in case of * error @@ -397,10 +397,10 @@ void *av_fast_realloc(void *ptr, unsigned int *size, size_t min_size); * @param[in,out] ptr Pointer to pointer to an already allocated buffer. * `*ptr` will be overwritten with pointer to new * buffer on success or `NULL` on failure - * @param[in,out] size Pointer to current size of buffer `*ptr`. `*size` is - * changed to `min_size` in case of success or 0 in - * case of failure - * @param[in] min_size New size of buffer `*ptr` + * @param[in,out] size Pointer to the size of buffer `*ptr`. `*size` is + * updated to the new allocated size, in particular 0 + * in case of failure. + * @param[in] min_size Desired minimal size of buffer `*ptr` * @see av_realloc() * @see av_fast_mallocz() */ @@ -418,10 +418,10 @@ void av_fast_malloc(void *ptr, unsigned int *size, size_t min_size); * @param[in,out] ptr Pointer to pointer to an already allocated buffer. * `*ptr` will be overwritten with pointer to new * buffer on success or `NULL` on failure - * @param[in,out] size Pointer to current size of buffer `*ptr`. `*size` is - * changed to `min_size` in case of success or 0 in - * case of failure - * @param[in] min_size New size of buffer `*ptr` + * @param[in,out] size Pointer to the size of buffer `*ptr`. `*size` is + * updated to the new allocated size, in particular 0 + * in case of failure. + * @param[in] min_size Desired minimal size of buffer `*ptr` * @see av_fast_malloc() */ void av_fast_mallocz(void *ptr, unsigned int *size, size_t min_size); -- 2.19.1 _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel