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- /* memset -- set a block of memory to some byte value.
- For Intel 80x86, x>=3.
- Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- Contributed by Torbjorn Granlund (tege@sics.se).
-
- The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
- published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
- License, or (at your option) any later version.
-
- The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- Library General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
- License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
- not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
- Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
-
- #include <ansidecl.h>
- #include <string.h>
- #include <memcopy.h>
-
- #ifdef __GNUC__
-
- PTR
- DEFUN(memset, (dstpp, c, len),
- PTR dstpp AND int c AND size_t len)
- {
- unsigned long int dstp = (unsigned long int) dstpp;
-
- /* This explicit register allocation
- improves code very much indeed. */
- register op_t x asm("ax");
-
- x = (unsigned char) c;
-
- /* Clear the direction flag, so filling will move forward. */
- asm volatile("cld");
-
- /* This threshold value is optimal. */
- if (len >= 12)
- {
- /* Fill X with four copies of the char we want to fill with. */
- x |= (x << 8);
- x |= (x << 16);
-
- /* Adjust LEN for the bytes handled in the first loop. */
- len -= (-dstp) % OPSIZ;
-
- /* There are at least some bytes to set.
- No need to test for LEN == 0 in this alignment loop. */
-
- /* Fill bytes until DSTP is aligned on a longword boundary. */
- asm volatile("rep\n"
- "stosb" /* %0, %2, %3 */ :
- "=D" (dstp) :
- "0" (dstp), "c" ((-dstp) % OPSIZ), "a" (x) :
- "cx");
-
- /* Fill longwords. */
- asm volatile("rep\n"
- "stosl" /* %0, %2, %3 */ :
- "=D" (dstp) :
- "0" (dstp), "c" (len / OPSIZ), "a" (x) :
- "cx");
- len %= OPSIZ;
- }
-
- /* Write the last few bytes. */
- asm volatile("rep\n"
- "stosb" /* %0, %2, %3 */ :
- "=D" (dstp) :
- "0" (dstp), "c" (len), "a" (x) :
- "cx");
-
- return dstpp;
- }
-
- #else
- #include <sysdeps/generic/memset.c>
- #endif
-