[vlc-devel] [RFC 2/2] variables: Reduce InheritURational precision

[Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen]

When providing FPS as a floating number, this function can potentially return extremely high numbers.
For instance, with 29.97, it yields num=1005626327 and den=33554432
These numbers are then likely to be used for a date computation, which
again, during my tests, ends up overflowing the destination int64.
By reducing the precision, the results are more sensible (29.97 yields
30689/1024, which is much closer to the expected 30000/1001)

This is probably not the best fix, and the correct solution would be to
provide the FPS as a fraction to begin with, however it would seem
dubious to leave this issue persist.
---
 src/misc/variables.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/misc/variables.c b/src/misc/variables.c
index 50cdcea..ecae0c3 100644
--- a/src/misc/variables.c
+++ b/src/misc/variables.c
@@ -1305,7 +1305,7 @@ int (var_InheritURational)(vlc_object_t *object,
 
     if (*next == '.') {
         /* Interpret as a (finite positive) float number */
-        const int ubits = CHAR_BIT * sizeof (unsigned);
+        const int ubits = CHAR_BIT * sizeof (int16_t);
         int exp;
         double f = frexp(us_atof(tmp), &exp);
 
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