avifil32: Removed sign comparison warning (sizeof expresions)

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Andrey Turkin wrote:
> On Monday 23 August 2010 13:16:07 Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
>> IMHO gcc is *wrong* in emitting a warning there. sizeof(PCMWAVEFORMAT)
>> is a compile time constant and gcc can see that sizeof(PCMWAVEFORMAT)
>> falls well inside the number range expressible by a LONG. Logically
>> there is no difference between
>>     formatsize <= sizeof(PCMWAVEFORMAT)
>> and
>>     formatsize <= 16
>> One gives a bogus warning and the other doesn't.
> 
> C99 std (para 6.5.3.4.4) states following about sizeof operator:
> "...its type (an unsigned integer type) is size_t, defined in <stddef.h> (and 
> other headers)."
> 
> sizeof result is a compile-time constant but, unlike numeric constants, its 
> type must always be size_t so gcc does the correct thing here.
That's actually not the problem but the "value preservation rule"
especially the "unsigned preservation rule". As sizeof(LONG) <=
sizeof(size_t) the formatsize will be promoted to an unsigned. Iff
formatsize is negative it will produce a big unsigned integer.
So I'll retract my critique of gcc (in this case as the compiler cannot
know what values formatsize will hold) and blame the C standard instead.

bye
	michael