[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/3] dfu: ram support

[Afzal Mohammed]

Hi Gerhard, Marek,

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 05:37:36PM +0200, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 15:51 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:

> > > +	dfu->data.ram.size = simple_strtoul(++s, &s, 16);
> > 
> > This ++s, &s is quite crazy ;-)

> Actually it's not just a neat trick, but instead it's not
> guaranteed to work.  It's an inviation for problems that you
> don't need.
> 
> The order in which arguments for the call get evaluated isn't
> specified, so behaviour is uncertain here.  Read: the
> construction happens to work by coincidence for individual
> setups, but isn't correct and need not work elsewhere, and may
> break in arbitrary ways at any occasion, and then is hard to
> track down since things may "seem to work" often enough or the
> bug won't show up when you are diagnosing the problem.
> 
> The code needs to get fixed before getting picked up.  Doing the
> increment in a separate instruction is cheap and simple, the
> terse form is wrong.

Yes wrong me, I realize that result is compiler dependent and not
guaranteed to work always, v4 posted taking care of the above.

Regards
Afzal