[x264-devel] Multislicing support

[Mathieu Monnier]

Hi,

> I found the bug causing the strange behaviour described in these last 
> two items, and the responsible is the function /x264_realloc/. I 
> remember someone telling me the function was buggy, but I thought it had 
> been corrected since then. I'm afraid I can't help with that, as I 
> barely understand how the function works. There is just one thing I'd 
> like to know : how come the function doesn't call /realloc/, as the file 
> malloc.h is obviously present on my computer? Isn't the variable 
> HAVE_MALLOC_H defined on any system having the malloc helper file? This 
> is more a basic C question, but if anybody has an answer it would help 
> me having an even greater week-end. :-)

You really have a problem with your mailer, I already answered that 
question two months ago, in reply to one of your post :

> x264_realloc is buggy, fixing it would fix the issue :
> 
> -        i_old_size = *( (int*) ( (uint8_t*) p ) - sizeof( void ** ) -
> -                         sizeof( int ) );
> +        i_old_size = *( (int*) ( (uint8_t*) p - sizeof( void ** ) -
> +                         sizeof( int ) ) );

Regards,

Mathieu