Help the compiler recognize unreachable code on 32-bit machines.
[glibc.git] / sysdeps / i386 / memset.c
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1 /* Set a block of memory to some byte value.
2 For Intel 80x86, x>=3.
3 Copyright (C) 1991,1992,1993,1997,1998,2003, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
5 Contributed by Torbjorn Granlund (tege@sics.se).
7 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
8 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
9 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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19 Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
20 02111-1307 USA. */
22 #include <string.h>
23 #include <memcopy.h>
25 #ifdef __GNUC__
27 #undef memset
29 void *
30 memset (void *dstpp, int c, size_t len)
32 int d0;
33 unsigned long int dstp = (unsigned long int) dstpp;
35 /* This explicit register allocation
36 improves code very much indeed. */
37 register op_t x asm("ax");
39 x = (unsigned char) c;
41 /* Clear the direction flag, so filling will move forward. */
42 asm volatile("cld");
44 /* This threshold value is optimal. */
45 if (len >= 12)
47 /* Fill X with four copies of the char we want to fill with. */
48 x |= (x << 8);
49 x |= (x << 16);
51 /* Adjust LEN for the bytes handled in the first loop. */
52 len -= (-dstp) % OPSIZ;
54 /* There are at least some bytes to set.
55 No need to test for LEN == 0 in this alignment loop. */
57 /* Fill bytes until DSTP is aligned on a longword boundary. */
58 asm volatile("rep\n"
59 "stosb" /* %0, %2, %3 */ :
60 "=D" (dstp), "=c" (d0) :
61 "0" (dstp), "1" ((-dstp) % OPSIZ), "a" (x) :
62 "memory");
64 /* Fill longwords. */
65 asm volatile("rep\n"
66 "stosl" /* %0, %2, %3 */ :
67 "=D" (dstp), "=c" (d0) :
68 "0" (dstp), "1" (len / OPSIZ), "a" (x) :
69 "memory");
70 len %= OPSIZ;
73 /* Write the last few bytes. */
74 asm volatile("rep\n"
75 "stosb" /* %0, %2, %3 */ :
76 "=D" (dstp), "=c" (d0) :
77 "0" (dstp), "1" (len), "a" (x) :
78 "memory");
80 return dstpp;
82 libc_hidden_builtin_def (memset)
84 #else
85 #include <string/memset.c>
86 #endif