[RFC] Port of NetBSD's optimized amd64 string code

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez rnsanchez at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 15:31:53 GMT 2005


Hello,

On 8/2/05, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at netbsd.org> wrote:
> On 2005.08.01 13:05:52 +0000, Steve Kargl wrote:
> | On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:55:39PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> | > On 2005-08-02 02:25, Xin LI <delphij at frontfree.net> wrote:
> | > > Hi, Guys,
> | > >
> | > > Here is a patchset that I have produced to make our libc aware of the
> | > > NetBSD assembly implementation of the string related operations.
> | >
> | > I can't speak for the asm code, since I know barely enough amd64 things
> | > to read it, but there are a few typos you might want to fix before this
> | > gets committed.
> | >
> |
> | Ditto.
> |
> | >
> | > That's all I could spot.
> | >
> |
> | There is an occurrence of "occurance", which should be "occurrence". :-)
> 
> Thank you Steve Kargl and Giorgos Keramidas, I fixed those typos on NetBSD.
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/08/02/0009.html
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/08/02/0010.html

There's also this one:

+L3:	movzbl	(%rdi),%eax		/* unsigned comparision */

s/comparision/comparison

-- 
Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
GNU/Linux #140696 [http://counter.li.org]
Slackware Linux + FreeBSD


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