/* memcmp -- compare two memory blocks for differences in the first COUNT bytes. Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 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: block1 (sp + 4) block2 (sp + 8) len (sp + 12) */ .text ENTRY (memcmp) pushl %esi /* Save callee-safe registers. */ movl %edi, %edx /* Note that %edx is not used and can so be used to save %edi. It's faster. */ movl 8(%esp), %esi /* Load address of block #1. */ movl 12(%esp), %edi /* Load address of block #2. */ movl 16(%esp), %ecx /* Load maximal length of compare area. */ cld /* Set direction of comparison. */ xorl %eax, %eax /* Default result. */ repe /* Compare at most %ecx bytes. */ cmpsb jz L1 /* If even last byte was equal we return 0. */ /* The memory blocks are not equal. So result of the last subtraction is present in the carry flag. It is set when the byte in block #2 is bigger. In this case we have to return -1 (=0xffffffff), else 1. */ sbbl %eax, %eax /* This is tricky. %eax == 0 and carry is set or not depending on last subtraction. */ /* At this point %eax == 0, if the byte of block #1 was bigger, and 0xffffffff if the last byte of block #2 was bigger. The later case is already correct but the former needs a little adjustment. Note that the following operation does not change 0xffffffff. */ orb $1, %al /* Change 0 to 1. */ L1: popl %esi /* Restore registers. */ movl %edx, %edi ret #undef bcmp weak_alias (memcmp, bcmp)