svn commit: trunk/uClibc/libc/string/i386

[vda at uclibc.org]

Author: vda
Date: 2008-12-09 05:23:59 -0800 (Tue, 09 Dec 2008)
New Revision: 24346

Log:
smaller memcpy

    text           data     bss     dec     hex filename
-     39              0       0      39      27 libc/string/i386/memcpy.os
+     35              0       0      35      23 libc/string/i386/memcpy.os



Modified:
   trunk/uClibc/libc/string/i386/memcpy.c


Changeset:
Modified: trunk/uClibc/libc/string/i386/memcpy.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/uClibc/libc/string/i386/memcpy.c	2008-12-09 11:38:52 UTC (rev 24345)
+++ trunk/uClibc/libc/string/i386/memcpy.c	2008-12-09 13:23:59 UTC (rev 24346)
@@ -35,19 +35,20 @@
 /* Experimentally off - libc_hidden_proto(memcpy) */
 void *memcpy(void * to, const void * from, size_t n)
 {
-    int d0, d1, d2;
-    __asm__ __volatile__(
-	    "rep ; movsl\n\t"
-	    "testb $2,%b4\n\t"
-	    "je 1f\n\t"
-	    "movsw\n"
-	    "1:\ttestb $1,%b4\n\t"
-	    "je 2f\n\t"
-	    "movsb\n"
-	    "2:"
-	    : "=&c" (d0), "=&D" (d1), "=&S" (d2)
-	    :"0" (n/4), "q" (n),"1" ((long) to),"2" ((long) from)
-	    : "memory");
-    return (to);
+	int d0, d1, d2;
+	__asm__ __volatile__(
+		"	rep; movsl\n"
+		"	movl %4,%%ecx\n"
+		"	andl $3,%%ecx\n"
+		/* jz is optional. avoids "rep; movsb" with ecx == 0,
+		 * but adds a branch, which is currently (2008) faster */
+		"	jz 1f\n"
+		"	rep; movsb\n"
+		"1:\n"
+		: "=&c" (d0), "=&D" (d1), "=&S" (d2)
+		: "0" (n / 4), "g" (n), "1" ((long)to), "2" ((long)from)
+		: "memory"
+	);
+	return to;
 }
 libc_hidden_def(memcpy)