[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 4/4] avio: detect implicit truncation by assert in avio_w*

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:59:21AM +0300, Andrey Utkin wrote:
> 2012/10/15 Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>:
> >  void avio_w8(AVIOContext *s, int b)
> 
> What is the reason for 'b' argument not to be of type uint8_t?

if it was uint8 we couldnt check that the argument is valid and no
truncation happened

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