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+/* Optimized strlen implementation for PowerPC.
+   Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
+   published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
+   License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+   The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+   Library General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
+   License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not,
+   write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+   Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
+
+#include <sysdep.h>
+
+/* The algorithm here uses the following techniques:
+
+   1) Given a word 'x', we can test to see if it contains any 0 bytes
+      by subtracting 0x01010101, and seeing if any of the high bits of each
+      byte changed from 0 to 1. This works because the least significant
+      0 byte must have had no incoming carry (otherwise it's not the least
+      significant), so it is 0x00 - 0x01 == 0xff. For all other
+      byte values, either they have the high bit set initially, or when
+      1 is subtracted you get a value in the range 0x00-0x7f, none of which
+      have their high bit set. The expression here is
+      (x + 0xfefefeff) & ~(x | 0x7f7f7f7f), which gives 0x00000000 when
+      there were no 0x00 bytes in the word.
+
+   2) Given a word 'x', we can test to see _which_ byte was zero by
+      calculating ~(((x & 0x7f7f7f7f) + 0x7f7f7f7f) | x | 0x7f7f7f7f).
+      This produces 0x80 in each byte that was zero, and 0x00 in all
+      the other bytes. The '| 0x7f7f7f7f' clears the low 7 bits in each
+      byte, and the '| x' part ensures that bytes with the high bit set
+      produce 0x00. The addition will carry into the high bit of each byte
+      iff that byte had one of its low 7 bits set. We can then just see
+      which was the most significant bit set and divide by 8 to find how
+      many to add to the index.
+      This is from the book 'The PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide',
+      by Steve Hoxey, Faraydon Karim, Bill Hay and Hank Warren.
+
+   We deal with strings not aligned to a word boundary by taking the
+   first word and ensuring that bytes not part of the string
+   are treated as nonzero. To allow for memory latency, we unroll the
+   loop a few times, being careful to ensure that we do not read ahead
+   across cache line boundaries.
+
+   Questions to answer:
+   1) How long are strings passed to strlen? If they're often really long,
+   we should probably use cache management instructions and/or unroll the
+   loop more. If they're often quite short, it might be better to use
+   fact (2) in the inner loop than have to recalculate it.
+   2) How popular are bytes with the high bit set? If they are very rare,
+   on some processors it might be useful to use the simpler expression
+   ~((x - 0x01010101) | 0x7f7f7f7f) (that is, on processors with only one
+   ALU), but this fails when any character has its high bit set.  */
+
+/* Some notes on register usage: Under the SVR4 ABI, we can use registers
+   0 and 3 through 12 (so long as we don't call any procedures) without
+   saving them. We can also use registers 14 through 31 if we save them.
+   We can't use r1 (it's the stack pointer), r2 nor r13 because the user
+   program may expect them to hold their usual value if we get sent
+   a signal. Integer parameters are passed in r3 through r10.
+   We can use condition registers cr0, cr1, cr5, cr6, and cr7 without saving
+   them, the others we must save.  */
+
+ENTRY(strlen)
+/* On entry, r3 points to the string, and it's left that way.
+   We use r6 to store 0xfefefeff, and r7 to store 0x7f7f7f7f.
+   r4 is used to keep the current index into the string; r5 holds
+   the number of padding bits we prepend to the string to make it
+   start at a word boundary. r8 holds the 'current' word.
+   r9-12 are temporaries. r0 is used as a temporary and for discarded
+   results.  */
+	clrrwi %r4,%r3,2
+	lis   %r7,0x7f7f
+	rlwinm %r5,%r3,3,27,28
+	lwz   %r8,0(%r4)
+	li    %r9,-1
+	addi  %r7,%r7,0x7f7f
+/* That's the setup done, now do the first pair of words.
+   We make an exception and use method (2) on the first two words, to reduce
+   overhead.  */
+	srw   %r9,%r9,%r5
+	and   %r0,%r7,%r8
+	or    %r10,%r7,%r8
+	add   %r0,%r0,%r7
+	nor   %r0,%r10,%r0
+	and.  %r8,%r0,%r9
+	mtcrf 0x01,%r3
+	bne   L(done0)
+	lis   %r6,0xfeff
+	addi  %r6,%r6,-0x101
+/* Are we now aligned to a doubleword boundary?  */
+	bt    29,L(loop)
+
+/* Handle second word of pair.  */
+	lwzu  %r8,4(%r4)
+	and   %r0,%r7,%r8
+	or    %r10,%r7,%r8
+	add   %r0,%r0,%r7
+	nor.  %r8,%r10,%r0
+	bne   L(done0)
+
+/* The loop.  */
+
+L(loop):
+	lwz   %r8,4(%r4)
+	lwzu  %r9,8(%r4)
+	add   %r0,%r6,%r8
+	nor   %r10,%r7,%r8
+	and.  %r0,%r0,%r10
+	add   %r11,%r6,%r9
+	nor   %r12,%r7,%r9
+	bne   L(done1)
+	and.  %r0,%r11,%r12
+	beq   L(loop)
+
+	and   %r0,%r7,%r9
+	add   %r0,%r0,%r7
+	andc  %r8,%r12,%r0
+	b     L(done0)
+
+L(done1):
+	and   %r0,%r7,%r8
+	subi  %r4,%r4,4
+	add   %r0,%r0,%r7
+	andc  %r8,%r10,%r0
+
+/* When we get to here, r4 points to the first word in the string that
+   contains a zero byte, and the most significant set bit in r8 is in that
+   byte.  */
+L(done0):
+	cntlzw %r11,%r8
+	subf  %r0,%r3,%r4
+	srwi  %r11,%r11,3
+	add   %r3,%r0,%r11
+	blr
+END(strlen)