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authorNoah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>2021-10-21 15:54:57 -0500
committerNoah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>2021-10-26 16:51:29 -0500
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String: Add support for __memcmpeq() ABI on all targets
No bug.

This commit adds support for __memcmpeq() as a new ABI for all
targets. In this commit __memcmpeq() is implemented only as an alias
to the corresponding targets memcmp() implementation. __memcmpeq() is
added as a new symbol starting with GLIBC_2.35 and defined in string.h
with comments explaining its behavior. Basic tests that it is callable
and works where added in string/tester.c

As discussed in the proposal "Add new ABI '__memcmpeq()' to libc"
__memcmpeq() is essentially a reserved namespace for bcmp(). The means
is shares the same specifications as memcmp() except the return value
for non-equal byte sequences is any non-zero value. This is less
strict than memcmp()'s return value specification and can be better
optimized when a boolean return is all that is needed.

__memcmpeq() is meant to only be called by compilers if they can prove
that the return value of a memcmp() call is only used for its boolean
value.

All tests in string/tester.c passed. As well build succeeds on
x86_64-linux-gnu target.
Diffstat (limited to 'string/memcmp.c')
-rw-r--r--string/memcmp.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/string/memcmp.c b/string/memcmp.c
index 9b46d7a905..eac4112530 100644
--- a/string/memcmp.c
+++ b/string/memcmp.c
@@ -359,3 +359,6 @@ libc_hidden_builtin_def(memcmp)
 # undef bcmp
 weak_alias (memcmp, bcmp)
 #endif
+
+#undef __memcmpeq
+strong_alias (memcmp, __memcmpeq)