Re: [PATCH] smaller strlen()

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 23:01 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> gcc prefers "*s++" style code for some reason, doesn't unroll loop
> condition check once. Kernel strings are small but they aren't of 0
> length, so that additional branch was almost never taken.

Hey Alexey.

Is this gcc version specific?

And I'm confused why there isn't an asm __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN
version x86_64 strlen like x86_32 or if __builtin_strlen()
is or isn't used.  Maybe Andi Kleen knows/remembers (cc'd).

> 	$ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter ../vmlinux-000 ../obj/vmlinux
> 	strlen         30      26      -4
> 	strlcpy        71      64      -7
> 	strlcat       120      99     -21
> 
> strlcpy() and strlcat() are collateral damage :^)