Re: [PATCH] lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp

2019-03-13 Thread Nick Desaulniers
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 11:02 AM Nick Desaulniers wrote: > > A recent optimization in Clang (r355672) lowers comparisons of the > return value of memcmp against zero to comparisons of the return value > of bcmp against zero. This helps some platforms that implement bcmp > more efficiently than me

[PATCH] lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp

2019-03-13 Thread Nick Desaulniers
A recent optimization in Clang (r355672) lowers comparisons of the return value of memcmp against zero to comparisons of the return value of bcmp against zero. This helps some platforms that implement bcmp more efficiently than memcmp. glibc simply aliases bcmp to memcmp, but an optimized implemen