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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] mtest: Fix end address of increment/decrement test
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 00:07:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100520220728.06A3ACCF026@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1274392850.18152.253.camel@petert>

Dear Peter Tyser,

In message <1274392850.18152.253.camel@petert> you wrote:
> 
> I didn't express it well, but what I was getting at was that the
> "Testing X .. Y" would ideally state exactly what is being tested.

We have full agreement here.

> Unaligned addresses would still be allowed.  I think right now the end
> address is always automatically aligned to the same alignment as the
> start address though, so the current output is very misleading.

Agreed, too.

> You can see the starting alignment was respected, but the ending
> alignment was truncated to be 32-bit aligned to the starting address.
> In the above example, I think it would be nice to see "Testing
> 00001003 ... 00001ffe".  Or some other way such that the user knows that
> their input wasn't executed to a T; their end address was truncated.

Yep. We are in sync.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-20 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-20 17:08 [U-Boot] [PATCH] mtest: Fix end address of increment/decrement test Peter Tyser
2010-05-20 18:43 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-20 19:07   ` Peter Tyser
2010-05-20 19:44     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-20 20:11       ` Peter Tyser
2010-05-20 20:32         ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-20 22:00           ` Peter Tyser
2010-05-20 22:07             ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]

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