1 /* Copyright (C) 1996-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 Contributed by David Mosberger (davidm@cs.arizona.edu).
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
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19 /* Finds length of a 0-terminated string. Optimized for the Alpha
22 - memory accessed as aligned quadwords only
23 - uses cmpbge to compare 8 bytes in parallel
24 - does binary search to find 0 byte in last quadword (HAKMEM
25 needed 12 instructions to do this instead of the 8 instructions
26 that the binary search needs).
44 ldq_u t0, 0(a0) # load first quadword (a0 may be misaligned)
49 nop # dual issue the next two on ev5
50 cmpbge zero, t0, t1 # t1 <- bitmask: bit i == 1 <==> i-th byte == 0
54 addq v0, 8, v0 # addr += 8
58 $found: negq t1, t2 # clear all but least set bit
61 and t1, 0xf0, t2 # binary search for that set bit
70 nop # dual issue next two on ev4 and ev5
76 libc_hidden_builtin_def (strlen)