commit 4297cd1ce0af266a0a349b0163e8d741700a082b (HEAD -> master)
Author: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
Date:   Thu Sep 20 00:05:38 2018 +0200

    avcodec/unary: Improve get_unary() docs

    Found-by: kierank
    Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>

diff --git a/libavcodec/unary.h b/libavcodec/unary.h
index 908dc93507..d57f9f70c5 100644
--- a/libavcodec/unary.h
+++ b/libavcodec/unary.h
@@ -28,7 +28,20 @@
  * @param gb GetBitContext
  * @param[in] stop The bitstop value (unary code of 1's or 0's)
  * @param[in] len Maximum length
- * @return Unary length/index
+ * @return unary 0 based code index. This is also the length in bits of the
+ * code excluding the stop bit.
+ * (in case len=1)
+ * 1            0
+ * 0            1
+ * (in case len=2)
+ * 1            0
+ * 01           1
+ * 00           2
+ * (in case len=3)
+ * 1            0
+ * 01           1
+ * 001          2
+ * 000          3
  */
 static inline int get_unary(GetBitContext *gb, int stop, int len)
 {