They are essential to be able to use the utils without av_malloc() That is for example use with malloc(), memalign(), some other private allocation function, on the stack or others.
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| 115 | 115 | 2012-10-xx - xxxxxxx - lavu 51.43.0 - aes.h, md5.h, sha.h, tree.h |
| 116 | 116 | Add functions for allocating the opaque contexts for the algorithms, |
| 117 | − deprecate the context size variables. | |
| 118 | 117 | |
| 119 | 118 | 2012-10-xx - xxxxxxx - lavf 54.18.0 - avio.h |
| 120 | 119 | Add avio_closep to complement avio_close. |