[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avutil/common: add av_rint64_clip

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanagadde at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The rationale for this function is reflected in the documentation for
> it, and is copied here:
>
> Clip a double value into the long long amin-amax range.
> This function is needed because conversion of floating point to integers
> when
> it does not fit in the integer's representation does not necessarily
> saturate
> correctly (usually converted to a cvttsd2si on x86) which saturates numbers
> > INT64_MAX to INT64_MIN. The standard marks such conversions as undefined
> behavior, allowing this sort of mathematically bogus conversions. This
> provides
> a safe alternative that is slower obviously but assures safety and better
> mathematical behavior.
> API:
> @param a value to clip
> @param amin minimum value of the clip range
> @param amax maximum value of the clip range
> @return clipped value
>
> Note that a priori if one can guarantee from the calling side that the
> double is in range, it is safe to simply do an explicit/implicit cast,
> and that will be far faster. However, otherwise this function should be
> used.
>
> avutil minor version is bumped.
>
> Reviewed-by: Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Ajjanagadde <gajjanagadde at gmail.com>
> ---
>  libavutil/common.h  | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  libavutil/version.h |  4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/libavutil/common.h b/libavutil/common.h
> index 6f0f582..4f60e72 100644
> --- a/libavutil/common.h
> +++ b/libavutil/common.h
> @@ -298,6 +298,34 @@ static av_always_inline av_const double
> av_clipd_c(double a, double amin, double
>      else               return a;
>  }
>
> +/**
> + * Clip and convert a double value into the long long amin-amax range.
> + * This function is needed because conversion of floating point to
> integers when
> + * it does not fit in the integer's representation does not necessarily
> saturate
> + * correctly (usually converted to a cvttsd2si on x86) which saturates
> numbers
> + * > INT64_MAX to INT64_MIN. The standard marks such conversions as
> undefined
> + * behavior, allowing this sort of mathematically bogus conversions. This
> provides
> + * a safe alternative that is slower obviously but assures safety and
> better
> + * mathematical behavior.
> + * @param a value to clip
> + * @param amin minimum value of the clip range
> + * @param amax maximum value of the clip range
> + * @return clipped value
> + */
> +static av_always_inline av_const int64_t av_rint64_clip_c(double a,
> int64_t amin, int64_t amax)
> +{
> +#if defined(HAVE_AV_CONFIG_H) && defined(ASSERT_LEVEL) && ASSERT_LEVEL >=
> 2
> +    if (amin > amax) abort();
> +#endif


Why not use assert or av_assert?

Ronald