On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 6:09 AM H.J. Lu <hjl.to...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 5:14 AM H.J. Lu <hjl.to...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 1:48 AM Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 7:06 PM H.J. Lu <hjl.to...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Duplicate the cmpstrn pattern for cmpmem.  The only difference is that
> > > > the length argument of cmpmem is guaranteed to be less than or equal to
> > > > lengths of 2 memory areas.  Since "repz cmpsb" can be much slower than
> > > > memcmp function implemented with vector instruction, see
> > > >
> > > > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43052
> > > >
> > > > expand cmpmem to "repz cmpsb" only with -mgeneral-regs-only.
> > >
> > > If there is no benefit compared to the library implementation, then
> > > enable these patterns only when -minline-all-stringops is used.
> >
> > Fixed.
> >
> > > Eventually these should be reimplemented with SSE4 string instructions.
> > >
> > > Honza is the author of the block handling x86 system, I'll leave the
> > > review to him.
> >
> > We used to expand memcmp to "repz cmpsb" via cmpstrnsi.  It was changed
> > by
> >
> > commit 9b0f6f5e511ca512e4faeabc81d2fd3abad9b02f
> > Author: Nick Clifton <ni...@redhat.com>
> > Date:   Fri Aug 12 16:26:11 2011 +0000
> >
> >     builtins.c (expand_builtin_memcmp): Do not use cmpstrnsi pattern.
> >
> >             * builtins.c (expand_builtin_memcmp): Do not use cmpstrnsi
> >             pattern.
> >             * doc/md.texi (cmpstrn): Note that the comparison stops if both
> >             fetched bytes are zero.
> >             (cmpstr): Likewise.
> >             (cmpmem): Note that the comparison does not stop if both of the
> >             fetched bytes are zero.
> >
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=95151
> >
> > is a regression.
> >
> > Honza, can you take a look at this?
> >
>
> PING:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2020-May/546921.html
>

PING.

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H.J.

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