[PATCH] powerpc: strcasecmp/strncasecmp optmization for power8 [BZ 20327]

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Jul 5 15:34:00 GMT 2016


On 07/05/2016 04:05 PM, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote:
> Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
>> Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 07/04/2016 07:46 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>>> On 06/14/2016 11:45 AM, Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan wrote:
>>> 	[BZ #20327]
>>> 	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power8/strcasecmp.S: Mask bits that
>>> 	are not part of the string.
>>
>> This is a very important case.  Can we improve the current testcase to
>> validate this scenario too?
>
> Ooops.  I just read in the bug report that Florian is already working on this,
> so feel free to ignore this.

Yeah, the proposed patch is here:

   <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-07/msg00126.html>

Thanks,
Florian



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