[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Change type to 16 bit.

[Nicolas George]

Le tridi 3 floréal, an CCXXII, Reimar Döffinger a écrit :
> That kind of is the question.

Well, I can confirm that your reasoning seems logical to me too.

> I suspect it won't really happen, but in that case
> having the check doesn't really make sense.

It could probably happen with a specially crafted file. It does not seems it
would cause a security issue, though, only garbled decoding.

> The compiler complains because the condition can
> never be true.

This part I do not understand: if I read the code correctly, the check
against V_MAX_PARTITIONS (= 1 << 20) happens before ptns_to_read is defined,
and the begin and end fields are wide enough.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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