 frames of data. If the allocation fails here, your program will crash, possibly at some future point because the OS kernel returned a valid memory range and will only fail when it tries to map the pages in it the first time they are used. Even if it succeeds, you may experience a denial of service if the frame size is large enough to cause excessive paging. If you are integrating libtheora in a larger application where such things are undesirable, it is highly recommended that you check the frame size in <