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1 /* bzero -- set a block of memory to zero.
2 For Intel 80x86, x>=3.
3 Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 Contributed by Torbjorn Granlund (tege@sics.se).
6 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
8 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
9 License, or (at your option) any later version.
11 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
14 Library General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
17 License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
18 not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
19 Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
21 #include <ansidecl.h>
22 #include <string.h>
23 #include <memcopy.h>
25 #undef bzero
27 #ifdef __GNUC__
29 void
30 DEFUN(bzero, (dstpp, len),
31 PTR dstpp AND size_t len)
33 /* N.B.: This code is almost verbatim from memset.c. */
35 unsigned long int dstp = (unsigned long int) dstpp;
37 /* This explicit register allocation
38 improves code very much indeed. */
39 register op_t x asm("ax");
41 x = 0;
43 /* Clear the direction flag, so filling will move forward. */
44 asm volatile("cld");
46 /* This threshold value is optimal. */
47 if (len >= 12)
49 /* Adjust LEN for the bytes handled in the first loop. */
50 len -= (-dstp) % OPSIZ;
52 /* There are at least some bytes to set.
53 No need to test for LEN == 0 in this alignment loop. */
55 /* Fill bytes until DSTP is aligned on a longword boundary. */
56 asm volatile("rep\n"
57 "stosb" /* %0, %2, %3 */ :
58 "=D" (dstp) :
59 "0" (dstp), "c" ((-dstp) % OPSIZ), "a" (x) :
60 "cx");
62 /* Fill longwords. */
63 asm volatile("rep\n"
64 "stosl" /* %0, %2, %3 */ :
65 "=D" (dstp) :
66 "0" (dstp), "c" (len / OPSIZ), "a" (x) :
67 "cx");
68 len %= OPSIZ;
71 /* Write the last few bytes. */
72 asm volatile("rep\n"
73 "stosb" /* %0, %2, %3 */ :
74 "=D" (dstp) :
75 "0" (dstp), "c" (len), "a" (x) :
76 "cx");
79 #else
80 #include <sysdeps/generic/bzero.c>
81 #endif