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| author | alc <alc@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-04-10 18:12:07 +0000 |
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| committer | alc <alc@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-04-10 18:12:07 +0000 |
| commit | 420be8df92533bfbd56861dada670045720ba633 (patch) | |
| tree | 42943daf777a27a748439ed3aa93f02cca498624 /lib | |
| parent | 91d6fda379eabbbbfdb059bb61f80193ae316749 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-420be8df92533bfbd56861dada670045720ba633.zip FreeBSD-src-420be8df92533bfbd56861dada670045720ba633.tar.gz | |
Eliminate a conditional branch and as a side-effect eliminate a branch to
a return instruction. (The latter is discouraged by the Opteron
optimization manual because it disables branch prediction for the return
instruction.)
Reviewed by: bde
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/amd64/string/bcmp.S | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/amd64/string/bcmp.S b/lib/libc/amd64/string/bcmp.S index bb72035..36a0c7e 100644 --- a/lib/libc/amd64/string/bcmp.S +++ b/lib/libc/amd64/string/bcmp.S @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$"); #endif ENTRY(bcmp) - xorl %eax,%eax /* clear return value */ cld /* set compare direction forward */ movq %rdx,%rcx /* compare by words */ @@ -19,7 +18,7 @@ ENTRY(bcmp) andq $7,%rcx repe cmpsb - je L2 - -L1: incl %eax -L2: ret +L1: + setne %al + movsbl %al,%eax + ret |
