avutil/mem: Add av_fast_mallocz()

Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libavutil/mem.h b/libavutil/mem.h
index a8eb14ee0f..d25b3229b7 100644
--- a/libavutil/mem.h
+++ b/libavutil/mem.h
@@ -385,6 +385,21 @@ void *av_fast_realloc(void *ptr, unsigned int *size, size_t min_size);
 void av_fast_malloc(void *ptr, unsigned int *size, size_t min_size);
 
 /**
+ * Allocate a buffer, reusing the given one if large enough.
+ *
+ * All newly allocated space is initially cleared
+ * Contrary to av_fast_realloc the current buffer contents might not be
+ * preserved and on error the old buffer is freed, thus no special
+ * handling to avoid memleaks is necessary.
+ *
+ * @param ptr pointer to pointer to already allocated buffer, overwritten with pointer to new buffer
+ * @param size size of the buffer *ptr points to
+ * @param min_size minimum size of *ptr buffer after returning, *ptr will be NULL and
+ *                 *size 0 if an error occurred.
+ */
+void av_fast_mallocz(void *ptr, unsigned int *size, size_t min_size);
+
+/**
  * @}
  */