/* strlen(str) -- determine the length of the string STR. Optimized for Intel 80x86, x>=4. Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Contributed by Ulrich Drepper . This file is part of the GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #include #include "asm-syntax.h" /* INPUT PARAMETERS: str (sp + 4) */ .text ENTRY (strlen) movl 4(%esp), %ecx /* get string pointer */ movl %ecx, %eax /* duplicate it */ andl $3, %ecx /* mask alignment bits */ jz L1 /* aligned => start loop */ cmpb %ch, (%eax) /* is byte NUL? */ je L2 /* yes => return */ incl %eax /* increment pointer */ xorl $3, %ecx /* was alignment = 3? */ jz L1 /* yes => now it is aligned and start loop */ cmpb %ch, (%eax) /* is byte NUL? */ je L2 /* yes => return */ addl $1, %eax /* increment pointer */ subl $1, %ecx /* was alignment = 2? */ jz L1 /* yes => now it is aligned and start loop */ cmpb %ch, (%eax) /* is byte NUL? */ je L2 /* yes => return */ /* Don't change the above `addl $1,%eax' and `subl $1, %ecx' into `incl %eax' and `decl %ecx' resp. The additional two byte per instruction make the label 4 to be aligned on a 16 byte boundary with nops. The following `sub $15, %eax' is part of this trick, too. Together with the next instruction (`addl $16, %eax') it is in fact a `incl %eax', just as expected from the algorithm. But doing so has the advantage that no jump to label 1 is necessary and so the pipeline is not flushed. */ subl $15, %eax /* effectively +1 */ L4: addl $16, %eax /* adjust pointer for full loop */ L1: movl (%eax), %ecx /* get word (= 4 bytes) in question */ movl $0xfefefeff, %edx /* magic value */ addl %ecx, %edx /* add the magic value to the word. We get carry bits reported for each byte which is *not* 0 */ jnc L3 /* highest byte is NUL => return pointer */ xorl %ecx, %edx /* (word+magic)^word */ orl $0xfefefeff, %edx /* set all non-carry bits */ incl %edx /* add 1: if one carry bit was *not* set the addition will not result in 0. */ jnz L3 /* found NUL => return pointer */ movl 4(%eax), %ecx /* get word (= 4 bytes) in question */ movl $0xfefefeff, %edx /* magic value */ addl %ecx, %edx /* add the magic value to the word. We get carry bits reported for each byte which is *not* 0 */ jnc L5 /* highest byte is NUL => return pointer */ xorl %ecx, %edx /* (word+magic)^word */ orl $0xfefefeff, %edx /* set all non-carry bits */ incl %edx /* add 1: if one carry bit was *not* set the addition will not result in 0. */ jnz L5 /* found NUL => return pointer */ movl 8(%eax), %ecx /* get word (= 4 bytes) in question */ movl $0xfefefeff, %edx /* magic value */ addl %ecx, %edx /* add the magic value to the word. We get carry bits reported for each byte which is *not* 0 */ jnc L6 /* highest byte is NUL => return pointer */ xorl %ecx, %edx /* (word+magic)^word */ orl $0xfefefeff, %edx /* set all non-carry bits */ incl %edx /* add 1: if one carry bit was *not* set the addition will not result in 0. */ jnz L6 /* found NUL => return pointer */ movl 12(%eax), %ecx /* get word (= 4 bytes) in question */ movl $0xfefefeff, %edx /* magic value */ addl %ecx, %edx /* add the magic value to the word. We get carry bits reported for each byte which is *not* 0 */ jnc L7 /* highest byte is NUL => return pointer */ xorl %ecx, %edx /* (word+magic)^word */ orl $0xfefefeff, %edx /* set all non-carry bits */ incl %edx /* add 1: if one carry bit was *not* set the addition will not result in 0. */ jz L4 /* no NUL found => continue loop */ L7: addl $4, %eax /* adjust pointer */ L6: addl $4, %eax L5: addl $4, %eax L3: testb %cl, %cl /* is first byte NUL? */ jz L2 /* yes => return */ incl %eax /* increment pointer */ testb %ch, %ch /* is second byte NUL? */ jz L2 /* yes => return */ incl %eax /* increment pointer */ testl $0xff0000, %ecx /* is third byte NUL? */ jz L2 /* yes => return pointer */ incl %eax /* increment pointer */ L2: subl 4(%esp), %eax /* compute difference to string start */ ret