Neon assumption in strchrnul and strrchr

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 04:45:28PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> For user space we assume that both FP and Advanced SIMD (Neon) are
> always available.  To assume otherwise would require a new ABI since
> Neon operations are required for long-double data types (128-bit FP).
> 
> As such, I think it's perfectly reasonable for library code to use Neon
> whenever appropriate.
> 
> Kernel code, of course, has to be more careful since it needs to ensure
> that the user-space context is correctly saved.

OK, thank you for the clarification.

Siddhesh