[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Fix MSVC warnings about possible value truncation.

[James Almer]

On 29/08/14 8:26 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On 30.08.2014, at 00:44, Peter Kasting <pkasting at google.com> wrote:
>> Hi FFMPEG devs, please forgive any errors here as I'm normally a Chromium
>> developer and this is my first submission to FFMPEG.
>>
>> The attached patch fixes instances of MSVC warning C4244 about possible
>> value truncation (e.g. when assigning double to float or int64_t to int).
>> This warning is currently disabled in Chromium's MSVC build and I'm trying
>> to enable it.
>>
>> The patch touches a couple dozen files, however each file's changes are
>> basically standalone, so I could split this up into arbitrarily smaller
>> pieces, all the way down to one patch per file.  I'm happy to break this up
>> in any way desired if reviewers would prefer.  (One possibility would be
>> separate patches for each of the four directories touched.)
>>
>> This is not a rubber-stamp review.  While I intended there to be no
>> discernable behavior change, it wasn't always clear what the best way to
>> fix each warning was.  I've marked cases in particular need of review with
>> "// !!! ..." comments asking what to do, but even in other places, in
>> particular floating-point casting changes where there may be precision
>> loss, reviewers should use care.
> 
> First, this needs very, very careful review. I am not at all convinced that these will not change behaviour.
> Second, I believe powf and sinf are less commonly available than pow and sin, so I think this will break compilation on some platforms (but haven't double-checked).

libavutil/libm.h provides powf() and sinf() for platforms that lack it.

> Third, _if_ we want this, I would expect we want to enable the corresponding gcc warning as well. Only a minority of developers has access to MSVC and I consider this kind of thing not maintainable if most people will not get the warnings.
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