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authorMans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>2011-10-09 12:57:08 +0100
committerMans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>2011-10-13 15:40:16 +0100
commitf59bb3d8f3eb50aa182b0d7ae209848b94a507cc (patch)
treed87c68c7d16ab3cc02ff1585f30e32788c885607 /libavcodec/mathops.h
parent42feaf40700246d9afb9c27ef09a0022ddfdb998 (diff)
downloadffmpeg-f59bb3d8f3eb50aa182b0d7ae209848b94a507cc.tar.gz
mathops: remove undefined behaviour from sign_extend()
This function intentionally overflows the signed range on the left shift. Using this type-punning avoids errors from the overflow checker without disabling this test globally. Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'libavcodec/mathops.h')
-rw-r--r--libavcodec/mathops.h4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libavcodec/mathops.h b/libavcodec/mathops.h
index ec76eaae29..45b1ecf1ae 100644
--- a/libavcodec/mathops.h
+++ b/libavcodec/mathops.h
@@ -116,7 +116,9 @@ static inline av_const int mid_pred(int a, int b, int c)
#ifndef sign_extend
static inline av_const int sign_extend(int val, unsigned bits)
{
- return (val << ((8 * sizeof(int)) - bits)) >> ((8 * sizeof(int)) - bits);
+ unsigned shift = 8 * sizeof(int) - bits;
+ union { unsigned u; int s; } v = { (unsigned) val << shift };
+ return v.s >> shift;
}
#endif