From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49418) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5XKZ-0000Ga-HJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2015 06:46:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5XKU-0005ZI-4u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2015 06:45:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 06:45:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Frediano Ziglio Message-ID: <789608027.17460503.1434624352586.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1434622723.4968.16.camel@redhat.com> References: <1434028677-26160-1-git-send-email-fziglio@redhat.com> <1434028677-26160-2-git-send-email-fziglio@redhat.com> <5581CA0E.6080906@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <834587703.17443662.1434621536154.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> <1434622723.4968.16.camel@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH 2/2] Check value for invalid negative values List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, Michael Tokarev , qemu-devel@nongnu.org > On Do, 2015-06-18 at 05:58 -0400, Frediano Ziglio wrote: > > For the same reason there is the v >= l test. > > The v >= l test state that the value can be out of range so it not always a > > constant in the range. > > Adding the v < 0 check for every invalid value. As these are executed only > > for logging should not be a performance penalty. > > I also hope the compiler is able to optimize > > > > if (v < 0 || v >= l) > > > > with > > > > if ((unsigned) v >= l) > > Just make v explicitly unsigned? > > cheers, > Gerd > Do you mean in the prototype? Well, this could have side effect due to different conversions so is not a so trivial patch. Explicitly casting to unsigned would do but is IMHO less easy to read that an explicit check. Frediano