[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 3/4] avfilter/vf_ccrepack: Constify filter

Rémi Denis-Courmont remi at remlab.net
Sat Jul 1 15:01:23 EEST 2023



Le 29 juin 2023 22:42:17 GMT+03:00, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> a écrit :
>On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 9:35 PM Andreas Rheinhardt <
>andreas.rheinhardt at outlook.com> wrote:
>
>> Paul B Mahol:
>> > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 8:18 PM Andreas Rheinhardt <
>> > andreas.rheinhardt at outlook.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> The discrepancy between the definition and the declaration
>> >> in allfilters.c is actually UB.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I get no such message with ubsan.
>> >
>>
>> UBSan is a runtime UB-detector, not a compile-time UB detector.
>> The earlier code is UB because of 6.2.7 (2) of C11: "All declarations
>> that refer to the same object or function shall have compatible type;
>> otherwise, the behavior is undefined." A type and its const-qualified
>> type are not compatible.
>>
>
>This is so minor, that it is fully irrelevant.

UB is one of the most severe type of bug that can happen in C. How exactly is that "fully irrelevant"?

Nobody is ordering you to fix this bug if you don't want to. That's not a reason to block an objective simple well-understood and well-informed bug fix that somebody else made.

>
>
>>
>> - Andreas
>>
>>
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