Re: [PATCH 2 of 3] memcpy32 for x86_64

From: Denis Vlasenko
Date: Wed Dec 28 2005 - 02:54:09 EST


> > +
> > + .globl memcpy32
> > +memcpy32:
> > + movl %edx,%ecx
> > + shrl $1,%ecx
> > + andl $1,%edx
> > + rep
> > + movsq

Does this one really do 32-bit stores?! I doubt so...

> > + movl %edx,%ecx
> > + rep
> > + movsd
> > + ret
>
> Any reason this needs its own .S file? One wonders if the
>
> .p2align 4
>
> in memcpy.S is appropriate here too. Splitting rep movsq across two
> lines is a little weird to me too, but I see Andi did it too.
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vda
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