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Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2022 00:55:48 +0600
From: NRK <nrk@...root.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix undefined behavior from large shifts
On Sat, Jun 04, 2022 at 02:16:36PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> Indeed, musl code assumes int is at least 32-bit since it assumes the
> class of ABIs it supports.
Sorry, wasn't aware of that.
On Sat, Jun 04, 2022 at 06:04:15PM +0000, Pascal Cuoq wrote:
> If it were a goal to support 16-bit ints in musl, then your patch
> would still have UB by shifting a 1 into the sign bit with
> {h,n}[2]<<8, which in C is a form of signed arithmetic overflow (the
> C++ standard makes a special case for this situation but the C
> standard doesn't).
That makes sense. I misunderstood what the first cast was doing and
thought it was protection against int being 16bits.
Thanks for the replies and sorry for the trouble!
- NRK
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