void *av_malloc(size_t size)
{
    void *ptr = NULL;
#if CONFIG_MEMALIGN_HACK
    long diff;
#endif

    /* let's disallow possible ambiguous cases */
    if (size > (max_alloc_size - 32))
        return NULL;

#if CONFIG_MEMALIGN_HACK
    ptr = malloc(size + ALIGN);
    if (!ptr)
        return ptr;
    diff              = ((~(long)ptr)&(ALIGN - 1)) + 1;
    ptr               = (char *)ptr + diff;
    ((char *)ptr)[-1] = diff;
#elif HAVE_POSIX_MEMALIGN
    if (size) //OS X on SDK 10.6 has a broken posix_memalign implementation
    if (posix_memalign(&ptr, ALIGN, size))
        ptr = NULL;
#elif HAVE_ALIGNED_MALLOC
    ptr = _aligned_malloc(size, ALIGN);
#elif HAVE_MEMALIGN
#ifndef __DJGPP__
    ptr = memalign(ALIGN, size);
#else
    ptr = memalign(size, ALIGN);
#endif
    /* Why 64?
     * Indeed, we should align it:
     *   on  4 for 386
     *   on 16 for 486
     *   on 32 for 586, PPro - K6-III
     *   on 64 for K7 (maybe for P3 too).
     * Because L1 and L2 caches are aligned on those values.
     * But I don't want to code such logic here!
     */
    /* Why 32?
     * For AVX ASM. SSE / NEON needs only 16.
     * Why not larger? Because I did not see a difference in benchmarks ...
     */
    /* benchmarks with P3
     * memalign(64) + 1          3071, 3051, 3032
     * memalign(64) + 2          3051, 3032, 3041
     * memalign(64) + 4          2911, 2896, 2915
     * memalign(64) + 8          2545, 2554, 2550
     * memalign(64) + 16         2543, 2572, 2563
     * memalign(64) + 32         2546, 2545, 2571
     * memalign(64) + 64         2570, 2533, 2558
     *
     * BTW, malloc seems to do 8-byte alignment by default here.
     */
#else
    ptr = malloc(size);
#endif
    if(!ptr && !size) {
        size = 1;
        ptr= av_malloc(1);
    }
#if CONFIG_MEMORY_POISONING
    if (ptr)
        memset(ptr, FF_MEMORY_POISON, size);
#endif
    return ptr;
}

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