On 2/13/2020 2:45 PM, Andreas Rheinhardt wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 4:08 PM James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> If i is greater than 0, it is a requirement of bitstream conformance that
>> point_y_value[ i ] is greater than point_y_value[ i - 1 ].
>> If i is greater than 0, it is a requirement of bitstream conformance that
>> point_cb_value[ i ] is greater than point_cb_value[ i - 1 ].
>> If i is greater than 0, it is a requirement of bitstream conformance that
>> point_cr_value[ i ] is greater than point_cr_value[ i - 1 ].
>>
>> Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Better version. Now it can't overflow the min value, and will also
>> constrain
>> the max value to ensure v[i] > v[i-1] is always true.
>>
> 
> How could the min value overflow at all? After all, the addition v[i - 1] +
> 1 is performed after promoting v[i - 1] to int. This is then losslessly
> converted to uint32_t. So your new version will not detect any more errors
> than the old version. It might error out earlier sometimes, but to do so it
> always computes the max.
> (With the old version it can happen that the min value is bigger than the
> max value which leads to the desired error (and an error message that might
> be confusing; avoiding this seems to be the only real advantage this new
> version has).)
> 
> - Andreas

I wasn't sure if the sum would be promoted or not, but in any case, the
core change is ensuring a given max value is constrained to always be
smaller than the next min allowed value.
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