On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Michael Niedermayer
<mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 08:18:34PM -0400, Ganesh Ajjanagadde wrote:
>> av_gcd is now always defined regardless of input. This documents this
>> change in the "documented API". Two benefits (closely related):
>> 1. The function is robust, and there is no need to worry about INT64_MIN,
>> etc.
>>
>> 2. Clients of av_gcd, like av_reduce, can now be made fully correct.
>> Currently,
>> av_reduce can trigger undefined behavior if e.g num is INT64_MIN due to
>> integer overflow in the FFABS. Furthermore, this undefined behavior is
>> completely undocumented, and could be a fuzzer's paradise. The FFABS was
>> needed in the past as
>> av_gcd was undefined for negative inputs. In order to make av_reduce
>> robust, it is essential to guarantee that av_gcd works for all int64_t.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanaga...@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> libavutil/mathematics.h | 6 +++---
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/libavutil/mathematics.h b/libavutil/mathematics.h
>> index ac94488..6fc2577 100644
>> --- a/libavutil/mathematics.h
>> +++ b/libavutil/mathematics.h
>> @@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ enum AVRounding {
>> };
>>
>> /**
>> - * Return the greatest common divisor of a and b.
>> - * If both a and b are 0 or either or both are <0 then behavior is
>> - * undefined.
>> + * Compute the greatest common divisor of a and b.
>> + *
>> + * @return gcd of a and b up to sign; if a and b are both zero returns 0
>> */
>> int64_t av_const av_gcd(int64_t a, int64_t b);
>
> LGTM
>
> thanks
pushed, thanks
>
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