[PATCH] PPC Bugz#1877 strncmp() accesses beyond instructed n bytes

[Steven Munroe]

Suriyan Ramasami reports that on powerpc strncmp() accesses memory beyond end of string of 'n' bytes. Where this crosses a page boundry a sigsegv might result.

The attached patch updates test-strncmp the detect this and fixes strncmp.S for powerpc32 and powerpc64.


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