[PATCH] powerpc: Remove POWER7 strncasecmp optimization

Peter Bergner bergner@linux.ibm.com
Fri May 2 13:18:12 GMT 2025


On 5/2/25 7:07 AM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> These routines are not extensively used (gnulib documentation even
> recommend use a replacement [1]), and there is already a POWER8
> version that uses proper vectorized instructions.
> 
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/gnulib.html#C-strings
> 
> Checked with a build for some powerpc variations.

Perfect!  Thanks for verifying there is a Power8 version and that these
are not needed there.

LGTM

Reviewed-by: Peter Bergner <bergner@linux.ibm.com>

Peter





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