From: Rich Felker Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 22:19:11 +0000 (-0400) Subject: fix a64l undefined behavior on ILP32 archs, wrong results on LP64 archs X-Git-Tag: v1.1.15~54 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=77baaa47e107f176fb2dc150dd6a9ad87f6cbe24;p=musl fix a64l undefined behavior on ILP32 archs, wrong results on LP64 archs the difference of pointers is a signed type ptrdiff_t; if it is only 32-bit, left-shifting it by 30 bits produces undefined behavior. cast the difference to an appropriate unsigned type, uint32_t, before shifting to avoid this. the a64l function is specified to return a signed 32-bit result in type long. as noted in the bug report by Ed Schouten, converting implicitly from uint32_t only produces the desired result when long is a 32-bit type. since the computation has to be done in unsigned arithmetic to avoid overflow, simply cast the result to int32_t. further, POSIX leaves the behavior on invalid input unspecified but not undefined, so we should not take the difference between the potentially-null result of strchr and the base pointer without first checking the result. the simplest behavior is just returning the partial conversion already performed in this case, so do that. --- diff --git a/src/misc/a64l.c b/src/misc/a64l.c index 86aeefe0..60557710 100644 --- a/src/misc/a64l.c +++ b/src/misc/a64l.c @@ -9,9 +9,12 @@ long a64l(const char *s) { int e; uint32_t x = 0; - for (e=0; e<36 && *s; e+=6, s++) - x |= (strchr(digits, *s)-digits)<