They are still used slightly differently in the encoder and decoder;
the decoder uses plain functions while the encoder uses one object
keeping track of the number of allocated bytes, and keeping track
of the requested alignment.
This function actually zero-initializes the allocated memory, thus
make this clear in the function name.
This makes the function name match the same behaviour in the encoder.
This makes sure we don't accidentally return the same sequence
of random numbers multiple times within one test (which would
be very non-random).
Every time srand(time()) is called, the pseudo random number
generator is initialized to the same value (as long as time()
returned the same value).
By initializing the random number generator once and for all
before starting to run the unit tests, we are sure we don't
need to reinitialize it within all the tests and all the
functions that use random numbers.
This fixes occasional errors in MotionEstimateTest.
MotionEstimateTest was designed to allow the test to occasionally
not succeed - if it didn't succeed, it tried again, up to 100 times.
However, since the YUVPixelDataGenerator function reset the random
seed to time(), every attempt actually ran with the same random
data (as long as all 100 attempts ran within 1 second) - thus if
one attempt in MotionEstimateTest failed, all 100 of them would
fail. If the utility functions don't touch the random seed,
this is not an issue.
