Julien Vary (12022-07-27):
> Replaced all abort() by av_abort() in the code.
> On production systems, when dealing with malformed data,
> avcodec was sometime aborting, with no core/memory dump
> available to troubleshoot after-the-fact.
> Adding av_abort_set_callback to register a custom
> function (instead of the default straight abort()
> behavior), to allow dumping before the actual abort().
> Also 'av_logging' the av_abort() location.

I think it is a very bad idea. The point of abort() is that it is
immediate, so that backtraces are clean and bugs cannot be compounded by
further processing.

A program that terminates on abort() does leave a core dump, I just
checked.

-- 
  Nicolas George