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FFmpeg has instances of DECLARE_ALIGNED(32, ...) in a lot of structs, which then end up heap-allocated. By declaring any variable in a struct, or tree of structs, to be 32 byte aligned, it allows the compiler to safely assume the entire struct itself is also 32 byte aligned. This might make the compiler emit code which straight up crashes or misbehaves in other ways, and at least in one instances is now documented to actually do (see ticket 10549 on trac). The issue there is that an unrelated variable in SingleChannelElement is declared to have an alignment of 32 bytes. So if the compiler does a copy in decode_cpe() with avx instructions, but ffmpeg is built with --disable-avx, this results in a crash, since the memory is only 16 byte aligned. Mind you, even if the compiler does not emit avx instructions, the code is still invalid and could misbehave. It just happens not to. Declaring any variable in a struct with a 32 byte alignment promises 32 byte alignment of the whole struct to the compiler. This patch limits the maximum alignment to the maximum possible simd alignment according to configure. While not perfect, it at the very least gets rid of a lot of UB, by matching up the maximum DECLARE_ALIGNED value with the alignment of heap allocations done by lavu.
FFmpeg README
FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.
Libraries
libavcodecprovides implementation of a wider range of codecs.libavformatimplements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.libavutilincludes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.libavfilterprovides means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected filters.libavdeviceprovides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.libswresampleimplements audio mixing and resampling routines.libswscaleimplements color conversion and scaling routines.
Tools
- ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
- ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
- ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
- Additional small tools such as
aviocat,ismindexandqt-faststart.
Documentation
The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.
The online documentation is available in the main website and in the wiki.
Examples
Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory.
License
FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.
Contributing
Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using
git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be
avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.