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Re: apr_off_t is of an ambiguous size.

From: Russell Yanofsky <rey4_at_columbia.edu>
Date: 2004-01-16 23:09:23 CET

Ben Reser wrote:
> Patch is up in Issue #1705. It's also marked 1.0-cand and in the
> STATUS file.

[from the patch]
>+ /* This is probably overly paranoid about checking
>+ * but I'd rather be safe than sorry */
>+ if ((sizeof (apr_off_t) == 4 &&
>+ (*offset < -0x7FFFFFFF || *offset > 0x7FFFFFFF)) ||
>+ (sizeof (apr_off_t) == 2 &&
>+ (*offset < -0x7FFF || *offset > 0x7FFF)) ||
>+ (sizeof (apr_off_t) == 1 &&
>+ (*offset < -0x7F || *offset > 0x7FF)))
>+ {
>+ return svn_error_create (SVN_ERR_IO_OFFSET_SIZE, NULL,
>+ "Cannot seek file");
>+ }

If you really wanted to be paranoid you could write it like

      if ((sizeof (apr_off_t) != 4 ||
            *offset < -0x7FFFFFFF || *offset > 0x7FFFFFFF) &&
          (sizeof (apr_off_t) != 2 ||
            *offset < -0x7FFF || *offset > 0x7FFF) &&
          (sizeof (apr_off_t) != 1 ||
            *offset < -0x7F || *offset > 0x7FF))
        {
          return svn_error_create (SVN_ERR_IO_OFFSET_SIZE, NULL,
                                   "Cannot seek file");
        }

That way there'd be an error for 3, 5, 6, and 7 byte off_t's.

I'm also curious if another implementation might work too:

  const apr_off_t min = ((apr_off_t)-1) << (sizeof(apr_off_t)*8-1);
  const apr_off_t max = ~min;

  if (*offset < min || *offset > max) ...

It assumes a 2's complement representation. Anyone know if that's ok in ansi
c?

[further down in patch]
>+ apr_offset = (apr_off_t) *offset;
>+
> return do_io_file_wrapper_cleanup
>- (file, apr_file_seek (file, where, offset),
>+ (file, apr_file_seek (file, where, &apr_offset),
> "set position pointer in", pool);
> }

The function declaration says "svn_offset_t *offset" instead of
"svn_offset_t const *offset." Does that mean the APR function might
manipulate the offset pointer? If so you'd need to forward the new value
back to the caller with:

  *offset = apr_offset;

- Russ

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