audk/MdeModulePkg/Application
Hao Wu 16f6922709 MdeModulePkg: Refine casting expression result to bigger size
There are cases that the operands of an expression are all with rank less
than UINT64/INT64 and the result of the expression is explicitly cast to
UINT64/INT64 to fit the target size.

An example will be:
UINT32 a,b;
// a and b can be any unsigned int type with rank less than UINT64, like
// UINT8, UINT16, etc.
UINT64 c;
c = (UINT64) (a + b);

Some static code checkers may warn that the expression result might
overflow within the rank of "int" (integer promotions) and the result is
then cast to a bigger size.

The commit refines codes by the following rules:
1). When the expression is possible to overflow the range of unsigned int/
int:
c = (UINT64)a + b;

2). When the expression will not overflow within the rank of "int", remove
the explicit type casts:
c = a + b;

3). When the expression will be cast to pointer of possible greater size:
UINT32 a,b;
VOID *c;
c = (VOID *)(UINTN)(a + b); --> c = (VOID *)((UINTN)a + b);

4). When one side of a comparison expression contains only operands with
rank less than UINT32:
UINT8 a;
UINT16 b;
UINTN c;
if ((UINTN)(a + b) > c) {...} --> if (((UINT32)a + b) > c) {...}

For rule 4), if we remove the 'UINTN' type cast like:
if (a + b > c) {...}
The VS compiler will complain with warning C4018 (signed/unsigned
mismatch, level 3 warning) due to promoting 'a + b' to type 'int'.

Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Hao Wu <hao.a.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Feng Tian <feng.tian@intel.com>
2017-03-06 14:33:20 +08:00
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BootManagerMenuApp MdeModulePkg: BootManagerMenuApp: Fix typos in comments 2016-10-27 09:11:16 +08:00
CapsuleApp MdeModulePkg/CapsuleApp: Use StrToGuid in BaseLib 2017-02-28 11:30:33 +08:00
HelloWorld MdeModulePkg: Add sample help information for HelloWorld application. 2016-02-24 15:11:14 +08:00
MemoryProfileInfo MdeModulePkg/MemoryProfileInfo: rebase to ARRAY_SIZE() 2016-10-27 11:10:55 +02:00
SmiHandlerProfileInfo MdeModulePkg: Fix coding style issues 2017-02-28 16:45:18 +08:00
UiApp MdeModulePkg: Refine casting expression result to bigger size 2017-03-06 14:33:20 +08:00
VariableInfo MdeModulePkg VariableInfo: Fix GCC build failure 2016-06-30 17:05:40 +08:00