The nbSeq "short" format (1-byte)
is compatible with any value < 128.
However, the code would cautiously only accept values < 127.
This is not an error, because the general 2-bytes format
is compatible with small values < 128.
Hence the inefficiency never triggered any warning.
Spotted by Intel's Smita Kumar.
/* Sequences Header */
RETURN_ERROR_IF((oend-op) < 3 /*max nbSeq Size*/ + 1 /*seqHead*/,
dstSize_tooSmall);
- if (nbSeq < 0x7F)
+ if (nbSeq < 128) {
*op++ = (BYTE)nbSeq;
- else if (nbSeq < LONGNBSEQ)
- op[0] = (BYTE)((nbSeq>>8) + 0x80), op[1] = (BYTE)nbSeq, op+=2;
- else
- op[0]=0xFF, MEM_writeLE16(op+1, (U16)(nbSeq - LONGNBSEQ)), op+=3;
+ } else if (nbSeq < LONGNBSEQ) {
+ op[0] = (BYTE)((nbSeq>>8) + 0x80);
+ op[1] = (BYTE)nbSeq;
+ op+=2;
+ } else {
+ op[0]=0xFF;
+ MEM_writeLE16(op+1, (U16)(nbSeq - LONGNBSEQ));
+ op+=3;
+ }
assert(op <= oend);
if (nbSeq==0) {
/* Copy the old tables over as if we repeated them */