Module: libav Branch: master Commit: 5637ff01218a44fcc1fff9b4382a15a6470abcc9
Author: Martin Storsjö <[email protected]> Committer: Martin Storsjö <[email protected]> Date: Thu Apr 2 15:17:01 2015 +0300 libavcodec: Clarify the documentation of the internal codec capability flags The previous documentation was very vague and almost misleading. Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <[email protected]> --- libavcodec/internal.h | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/libavcodec/internal.h b/libavcodec/internal.h index a681329..5aa7712 100644 --- a/libavcodec/internal.h +++ b/libavcodec/internal.h @@ -34,11 +34,16 @@ #include "config.h" /** - * Codec is thread safe. + * The codec does not modify any global variables in the init function, + * allowing to call the init function without locking any global mutexes. */ #define FF_CODEC_CAP_INIT_THREADSAFE (1 << 0) /** - * Codec cleans up memory on init failure. + * The codec allows calling the close function for deallocation even if + * the init function returned a failure. Without this capability flag, a + * codec does such cleanup internally when returning failures from the + * init function and does not expect the close function to be called at + * all. */ #define FF_CODEC_CAP_INIT_CLEANUP (1 << 1) _______________________________________________ libav-commits mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-commits
