[x264-devel] [PATCH] improve malloc checks to allow graceful exit on malloc failures

[Loren Merritt]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Steven Walters wrote:

> 2. due to the above occurring in a threaded function, add a new
> variable to x264_t to keep track of the exit value
> - IMO easier and safer than mallocing memory to pass to pthread_exit
> to be then retrieved at pthread_join to then be freed.

Who said anything about mallocing on pthread_exit? The value returned from 
a thread, whether via return or pthread_exit, is a void*. But that doesn't 
mean it has to be a pointer, you can just cast it to int.
IMO one cast is an acceptable cost for moving a variable from x264_t to 
the stack.

--Loren Merritt