On Jul 9 2007 19:51, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>strcmp(), memcpy(), memset(), as well as routines to copy to and from
>other segments (as pointed to by fs and gs).
I wonder, strcmp() is the only one not done in assembler.
Is there a particular reason? (Or the other way around, why
is memcpy/memset not C.) The opcode is rep[n]z cmps[bl];
Would perhaps using __builtin_memset
and whatever GCC provides also work in 16-bit mode (would save
implementing it again).
>+/*
>+ * arch/i386/boot/string.c
>+ *
>+ * Very basic string functions
>+ */
>+
>+#include "boot.h"
>+#include <linux/edd.h>
What's edd good for here?
>+int strcmp(const char *str1, const char *str2)
>+{
>+ const unsigned char *s1 = (const unsigned char *)str1;
>+ const unsigned char *s2 = (const unsigned char *)str2;
>+ int delta = 0;
>+
>+ while (*s1 || *s2) {
>+ delta = *s2 - *s1;
>+ if (delta)
>+ return delta;
>+ s1++;
>+ s2++;
>+ }
>+ return 0;
>+}
Jan
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