[vlc-devel] Re: vlc: svn commit r20440 (courmisch)

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le jeudi 7 juin 2007, Laurent Aimar a écrit :
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007, Subversion daemon wrote:
> > r20440 | courmisch | 2007-06-07 18:43:10 +0200 (Thu, 07 Jun 2007) |
> > 2 lines Changed paths:
> >    M /trunk/include/vlc_es.h
> >
> > Store channels counter to a single byte. We can only handle 32 of
> > them anyway
>
>  Why using uint8_t instead of a perfectly fine int/uint ? (as anyway
> that does not limit it to 32...)

Because it limits the margin for nasty integer overflow in 
multiplications.

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