[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/unary: Improve get_unary() docs

[Michael Niedermayer]

Found-by: kierank
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
---
 libavcodec/unary.h | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libavcodec/unary.h b/libavcodec/unary.h
index 908dc93507..d57f9f70c5 100644
--- a/libavcodec/unary.h
+++ b/libavcodec/unary.h
@@ -28,7 +28,20 @@
  * @param gb GetBitContext
  * @param[in] stop The bitstop value (unary code of 1's or 0's)
  * @param[in] len Maximum length
- * @return Unary length/index
+ * @return unary 0 based code index. This is also the length in bits of the
+ * code excluding the stop bit.
+ * (in case len=1)
+ * 1            0
+ * 0            1
+ * (in case len=2)
+ * 1            0
+ * 01           1
+ * 00           2
+ * (in case len=3)
+ * 1            0
+ * 01           1
+ * 001          2
+ * 000          3
  */
 static inline int get_unary(GetBitContext *gb, int stop, int len)
 {
-- 
2.19.0