On 2 November 2015 at 14:05, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
> This is reported by Coverity.  The algorithm description at
> ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/ggi/doc/hw/sparc/Sparc.pdf suggests
> that the 32-bit parts of rs2, after the left shift, is treated
> as a 64-bit integer.  Bits 32 and above are used to do the
> saturating truncation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  target-sparc/vis_helper.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/target-sparc/vis_helper.c b/target-sparc/vis_helper.c
> index 383cc8b..45fc7db 100644
> --- a/target-sparc/vis_helper.c
> +++ b/target-sparc/vis_helper.c
> @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ uint32_t helper_fpackfix(uint64_t gsr, uint64_t rs2)
>      for (word = 0; word < 2; word++) {
>          uint32_t val;
>          int32_t src = rs2 >> (word * 32);
> -        int64_t scaled = src << scale;
> +        int64_t scaled = (int64_t)src << scale;
>          int64_t from_fixed = scaled >> 16;

This will now shift left into the sign bit of a signed integer,
which is undefined behaviour.

thanks
-- PMM

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