PVS-Studio warning V532 for DeSmuME

void splitpath(const char* path, char* drv, char* dir,
               char* name, char* ext)
{
  ...
  for(s=p; s<end; )
    *s++;
  ...
}

Meaningless code. Currently it is equivalent to s = end.

This suspicious code was found in DeSmuME project by PVS-Studio static code analyzer.
Warning message is:
V532 Consider inspecting the statement of '*pointer++' pattern. Probably meant: '(*pointer)++'. DeSmuME_VS2005 xstring.cpp 479

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