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Conor Dooley
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While expanding on the comments in the ISA string parsing code, I noticed that the conditional decrement of `isa` at the end of the loop was a bit odd. The parsing code expects that at the start of the for loop, `isa` will point to the first character of the next unparsed extension. However, depending on what the next extension is, this may not be true. Unless the next extension is a multi-letter extension preceded by an underscore, `isa` will either point to the string's null-terminator or to the first character of the next extension, once the switch statement has been evaluated. Obviously incrementing `isa` at the end of the loop could cause it to increment past the null terminator or miss a single letter extension, so `isa` is conditionally decremented, just so that the loop can increment it again. It's easier to understand the code if, instead of this decrement + increment dance, we instead use a while loop & rely on the handling of individual extension types to leave `isa` pointing to the first character of the next extension. As already mentioned, this won't be the case where the following extension is multi-letter & preceded by an underscore. To handle that, invert the check and increment rather than decrement. Hopefully this eliminates a "huh?!?" moment the next time somebody tries to understand this code. Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Sunil V L <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230607-estate-left-f20faabefb89@spud Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>
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