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1/* stpcpy -- copy SRC to DEST returning the address of the terminating '\0'
2 in DEST.
3For Intel 80x86, x>=3.
cccda09f 4Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5Contributed by Ulrich Drepper (drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu).
6This file is part of the GNU C Library.
7
8The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
9modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
10published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
11License, or (at your option) any later version.
12
13The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
14but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
15MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
16Library General Public License for more details.
17
18You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
19License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
20not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
21Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
22
23/* This function is defined neither in ANSI nor POSIX standards but is
24 also not invented here. */
25
26#include <sysdep.h>
27#include "asm-syntax.h"
28
29/*
30 INPUT PARAMETERS:
31 dest (sp + 4)
32 src (sp + 8)
33*/
34
35 .text
36ENTRY (__stpcpy)
37 movl 4(%esp), %eax /* load destination pointer */
38 movl 8(%esp), %ecx /* load source pointer */
39
40 subl %eax, %ecx /* magic: reduce number of loop variants
41 to one using addressing mode */
42
43 /* Here we would like to write
44
45 subl $4, %eax
46 ALIGN (4)
47
48 but the assembler is too smart and optimizes for the shortest
49 form where the number only needs one byte. But if we could
50 have the long form we would not need the alignment. */
51
52 .byte 0x81, 0xe8 /* This is `subl $0x00000004, %eax' */
53 .long 0x00000004
54
55 /* Four times unfolded loop with only one loop counter. This
56 is achieved by the use of index+base adressing mode. As the
57 loop counter we use the destination address because this is
58 also the result. */
59L1: addl $4, %eax /* increment loop counter */
60
61 movb (%eax,%ecx), %dl /* load current char */
62 movb %dl, (%eax) /* and store it */
63 testb %dl, %dl /* was it NUL? */
64 jz L2 /* yes, then exit */
65
66 movb 1(%eax,%ecx), %dl /* load current char */
67 movb %dl, 1(%eax) /* and store it */
68 testb %dl, %dl /* was it NUL? */
69 jz L3 /* yes, then exit */
70
71 movb 2(%eax,%ecx), %dl /* load current char */
72 movb %dl, 2(%eax) /* and store it */
73 testb %dl, %dl /* was it NUL? */
74 jz L4 /* yes, then exit */
75
76 movb 3(%eax,%ecx), %dl /* load current char */
77 movb %dl, 3(%eax) /* and store it */
78 testb %dl, %dl /* was it NUL? */
79 jnz L1 /* no, then continue loop */
80
81 incl %eax /* correct loop counter */
82L4: incl %eax
83L3: incl %eax
84L2:
85 ret
6ed0492f 86END (__stpcpy)
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87
88weak_alias (__stpcpy, stpcpy)