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authorRichard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>2012-06-06 14:51:05 -0700
committerRichard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>2012-06-06 14:51:05 -0700
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alpha: Fix end-of-count checks in strncmp
This routine suffered a similar problem as stxncpy in needing to
bias a potentially very large unsigned number with wraparound.
This exposed a secondary problem where we didn't properly handle
end-of-count condition for the second string input resulting in
stratcliff failures.
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 2012-06-06  Richard Henderson  <rth@twiddle.net>
 
+	* sysdeps/alpha/strncmp.S: Bound count to LONG_MAX at startup.
+	Re-organize checks vs s2 end-of-count.
+
 	[BZ #13718]
 	* sysdeps/alpha/stxncmp.S: Bound count to LONG_MAX at startup.
 	* sysdeps/alpha/alphaev6/stxncmp.S: Likewise.