[PATCH] powerpc64le: Optimized strcat for POWER10Peter Bergner <bergner@linux.ibm.com>

[Peter Bergner]

On 11/10/24 11:23 PM, MAHESH BODAPATI wrote:
> On 09/11/24 12:42 am, Peter Bergner wrote:
>> Why the limitation here and in the other files of this being guarded
>> by #ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__ ?  The strcat-power8.c optimization is not
>> guarded by that, so why the Power10 version?  If it can be used on
>> big-endian too, then please remove the #ifdef tests and enable it
>> everywhere.
> 
> strcat uses strlen and strcpy library functions and these functions are
> optimized for little endian so guarded with #ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN__ where
> as power8 versions of strlen and strcpy are optimized for both little
> endian and big endian.

Ah, right you are.  It might be nice to get those to be endian agnostic,
but that is for another day and another patch.

Peter