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Message-Id: <1373485116.27613.40@driftwood> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:38:36 -0500 From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: Thinking about release On 07/09/2013 12:37:12 AM, Rich Felker wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:06:21PM +1200, Andre Renaud wrote: > > The git tree is available here: > > > https://github.com/AndreRenaud/musl/commit/713023e7320cf45b116d1c29b6155ece28904e69 > > It's an open question whether it's better to sync something like this > with an 'upstream' or adapt it to musl coding conventions. Generally > musl uses explicit instructions rather than pseudo-instructions/macros > for prologue and epilogue, and does not use named labels. Do your own local version. You can always copy ideas from other projects if "upstream" changes later. > > Does anyone have any comments on the suitability of this code, or > what > > If nothing else, it fails to be armv4 compatible. Query: did you ever implement a non-thumb version of armv4 eabi support? I remember some discussion about it being possible, I don't remember the outcome. > Fixing that should > not be hard, but it would require a bit of an audit. The return > sequences are the obvious issue, but there may be other instructions > in use that are not available on armv4 or maybe not even on armv5...? I've beaten armv4-only, armv4t-only, and armv5-only modes out of qemu. That's the reason for the first half of my versatile patch: http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/file/1612/sources/patches/linux-arm.patch > > kind of more rigorous testing could be applied? > > See above. > > What also might be worth testing is whether GCC can compete if you > just give it a naive loop (not the fancy pseudo-vectorized stuff > currently in musl) and good CFLAGS. I know on x86 I was able to beat > the fanciest asm strlen I could come up with simply by writing the > naive loop in C and unrolling it a lot. Duff's device! Rob
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