Re: Fwd: [glennrp/libpng] Undefined behaviour in pngutil.c (#149)

John Bowler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.devel
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On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:55 AM, Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> libpng17 is better anyhow; the "options" member is gone and replaced with
> individual "png_ptr->someflag" bytes.
>

IRC they are all bitfields, normally 'unsigned int flag : 1U'; the
intention was to avoid second guessing the best way to code a one bit value
in C, a bit field gives the compiler enormous freedom (for one thing, it
can re-order them with respect to other bit fields).

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