linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add strncmp to PowerPC

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Message-Id: <5b485b22fcd97d89ee82f1fa5c1940db@kernel.crashing.org>
Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:01:20 +0100
From:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	benh@...nel.crashing.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add strncmp to PowerPC

>> Anyway, this asm code has bugs, as do both the current C version in 
>> the
>> kernel, and the code I posted.  We need to do better :-)
>
> The only bug I know of in the asm code is the behaviour when the count
> is zero.  Do you know of any other?

No, that's the bug I meant.  Sorry for using such inexact language.


Segher

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