av_freep() recommandition

Originally committed as revision 4809 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
19 years ago · 1499e0bee9
parent 87f50d2733
commit 1499e0bee9
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/libavcodec/mem.c
+++ b/libavcodec/mem.c
@ -117,7 +117,11 @@ void *av_realloc(void *ptr, unsigned int size)
 #endif
 }

-/* NOTE: ptr = NULL is explicetly allowed */
+/**
+ * Free memory which has been allocated with av_malloc(z)() or av_realloc().
+ * NOTE: ptr = NULL is explicetly allowed 
+ * Note2: it is recommanded that you use av_freep() instead
+ */
 void av_free(void *ptr)
 {
    /* XXX: this test should not be needed on most libcs */