On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 08:01:20AM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote: > On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:17:09 +0100, Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 11:35:05AM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote: > > > --- /dev/null > > > +++ b/libavutil/buffer.h > > > @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ > > > + > > > + * There are two core objects in this API -- AVBuffer and AVBufferRef. > > > AVBuffer > > > + * represents the data buffer itself; it is opaque and not meant to be > > > accessed > > > + * by the caller directly, but only through AVBufferRef. However, the > > > caller may > > > + * e.g. compare two AVBuffer pointers to check whether two different > > > references > > > + * are describing the same data buffer (note that the two references may > > > point > > > + * to different parts of the buffer, so comparing the data pointers will > > > not > > > + * work). > > > > I am now thoroughly confused why you suggest comparing two pointers and > > then go on to explain why comparing two pointers may fail... > > I'm suggesting to compare AVBuffer pointers. > > What can fail is comparing data pointers. > > Those are different things.
You first speak of "two AVBuffer pointers describing data buffers" and the "two data pointers" are not the same pointers you mentioned first? Please clarify what exactly the "data pointers" are in that case. Diego _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
