From 1a65d50ee75372519625fff49d1d1a95ff5f4a6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Reimar=20D=C3=B6ffinger?= Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:35:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] mem.c: fix wrong comment. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Overwriting the av_malloc etc. functions is not easily possible anymore, even for systems that support overriding symbols in shared libraries in principle. Signed-off-by: Reimar Döffinger --- libavutil/mem.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/libavutil/mem.c b/libavutil/mem.c index d711350fda..de22ad8db8 100644 --- a/libavutil/mem.c +++ b/libavutil/mem.c @@ -61,9 +61,10 @@ void free(void *ptr); #define ALIGN (HAVE_AVX ? 32 : 16) -/* You can redefine av_malloc and av_free in your project to use your - memory allocator. You do not need to suppress this file because the - linker will do it automatically. */ +/* NOTE: if you want to override these functions with your own + * implementations (not recommended) you have to link libav* as + * dynamic libraries and remove -Wl,-Bsymbolic from the linker flags. + * Note that this will cost performance. */ static size_t max_alloc_size= INT_MAX;