audk/MdePkg/Library/BasePeCoffLib
Hao Wu 95ba3d92dc MdePkg: 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: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
2017-03-06 14:18:45 +08:00
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Arm MdePkg/PeCoffLoader: fix handling of ARM MOVW/MOVT instruction relocs 2015-10-09 18:55:41 +00:00
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BasePeCoff.c MdePkg: Refine casting expression result to bigger size 2017-03-06 14:18:45 +08:00
BasePeCoffLib.inf MdePkg: remove redundant handling of EFI_IMAGE_REL_BASED_DIR64 relocations 2015-09-25 21:49:09 +00:00
BasePeCoffLib.uni MdePkg: Convert all .uni files to utf-8 2015-12-15 04:53:50 +00:00
BasePeCoffLibInternals.h Checks the TE image before use it. 2012-12-26 04:33:15 +00:00
PeCoffLoaderEx.c MdePkg: remove redundant handling of EFI_IMAGE_REL_BASED_DIR64 relocations 2015-09-25 21:49:09 +00:00