From afec784c39761e05ac79f657c25a3fe07660540c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Bannert Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 18:44:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Better document the error cases returned from get_chunk_size(). git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x@95811 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- src/main/http_protocol.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/main/http_protocol.c b/src/main/http_protocol.c index b96a55e45b0..0ecc0ad03f7 100644 --- a/src/main/http_protocol.c +++ b/src/main/http_protocol.c @@ -2051,6 +2051,15 @@ API_EXPORT(int) ap_should_client_block(request_rec *r) return 1; } +/** + * Parse a chunk extension, detect overflow. + * There are two error cases: + * 1) If the conversion would require too many bits, a -1 is returned. + * 2) If the conversion used the correct number of bits, but an overflow + * caused only the sign bit to flip, then that negative number is + * returned. + * In general, any negative number can be considered an overflow error. + */ API_EXPORT(long) ap_get_chunk_size(char *b) { long chunksize = 0; -- 2.47.2