1/* Copy SRC to DEST returning the address of the terminating '\0' in DEST.
2 For Intel 80x86, x>=3.
3 Copyright (C) 1994-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
5
6 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
8 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
9 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
10
11 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
14 Lesser General Public License for more details.
15
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
17 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
18 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
19
20/* This function is defined neither in ANSI nor POSIX standards but is
21 also not invented here. */
22
23#include <sysdep.h>
24#include "asm-syntax.h"
25
26#define PARMS 4 /* no space for saved regs */
27#define RTN PARMS
28#define DEST RTN
29#define SRC DEST+4
30
31 .text
32ENTRY (__stpcpy)
33
34 movl DEST(%esp), %eax
35 movl SRC(%esp), %ecx
36 subl %eax, %ecx /* magic: reduce number of loop variants
37 to one using addressing mode */
38
39 /* Here we would like to write
40
41 subl $4, %eax
42 ALIGN (4)
43
44 but the assembler is too smart and optimizes for the shortest
45 form where the number only needs one byte. But if we could
46 have the long form we would not need the alignment. */
47
48 .byte 0x81, 0xe8 /* This is `subl $0x00000004, %eax' */
49 .long 0x00000004
50
51 /* Four times unfolded loop with only one loop counter. This
52 is achieved by the use of index+base addressing mode. As the
53 loop counter we use the destination address because this is
54 also the result. */
55L(1): addl $4, %eax /* increment loop counter */
56
57 movb (%eax,%ecx), %dl /* load current char */
58 movb %dl, (%eax) /* and store it */
59 testb %dl, %dl /* was it NUL? */
60 jz L(2) /* yes, then exit */
61
62 movb 1(%eax,%ecx), %dl /* load current char */
63 movb %dl, 1(%eax) /* and store it */
64 testb %dl, %dl /* was it NUL? */
65 jz L(3) /* yes, then exit */
66
67 movb 2(%eax,%ecx), %dl /* load current char */
68 movb %dl, 2(%eax) /* and store it */
69 testb %dl, %dl /* was it NUL? */
70 jz L(4) /* yes, then exit */
71
72 movb 3(%eax,%ecx), %dl /* load current char */
73 movb %dl, 3(%eax) /* and store it */
74 testb %dl, %dl /* was it NUL? */
75 jnz L(1) /* no, then continue loop */
76
77 incl %eax /* correct loop counter */
78L(4): incl %eax
79L(3): incl %eax
80L(2):
81
82 ret
83END (__stpcpy)
84
85weak_alias (__stpcpy, stpcpy)
86libc_hidden_def (__stpcpy)
87libc_hidden_builtin_def (stpcpy)
88

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