From: "xi (Xi Wang)" <redmine@...>
Date: 2012-11-16T17:24:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:49411] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7371][Open] Fix undefined overflow checking in bigdecimal


Issue #7371 has been reported by xi (Xi Wang).

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Bug #7371: Fix undefined overflow checking in bigdecimal
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7371

Author: xi (Xi Wang)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: 1.9.x


In AddExponent() at ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c:3677, the overflow checks rely on signed integer overflow, which is undefined behavior in C.

    SIGNED_VALUE m = e+n;
    SIGNED_VALUE eb, mb;
    if(e>0) {
        if(n>0) {
            mb = m*(SIGNED_VALUE)BASE_FIG;
            eb = e*(SIGNED_VALUE)BASE_FIG;
            if(mb<eb) goto overflow;
        }

Some compilers (e.g., gcc 4.8) will optimize away such overflow checks due to undefined behavior.  Ruby currently uses "-fno-strict-overflow" to disable such offending optimizations in gcc, but this workaround option is not supported by other compilers, thus not portable.

The attached patch uses unsigned multiplication for overflow checking, which is well defined in C.


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