glibc/sysdeps/alpha/strlen.c

/* Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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#include <string.h>

/* Return the length of the null-terminated string STR.  Scan for
   the null terminator quickly by testing eight bytes at a time.  */

size_t
strlen (const char *str)
{
  const char *char_ptr;
  const unsigned long int *longword_ptr;

  /* Handle the first few characters by reading one character at a time.
     Do this until STR is aligned on a 8-byte border.  */
  for (char_ptr = str; ((unsigned long int) char_ptr & 7) != 0; ++char_ptr)
    if (*char_ptr == '\0')
      return char_ptr - str;

  longword_ptr = (unsigned long int *) char_ptr;

  for (;;)
    {
      const unsigned long int longword = *longword_ptr++;
      int mask;

      /* Set bits in MASK if bytes in LONGWORD are zero.  */
      asm ("cmpbge $31, %1, %0" : "=r" (mask) : "r" (longword));
      if (mask)
	{
	  /* Which of the bytes was the zero?  */
	  const char *cp = (const char *) (longword_ptr - 1);
	  int i;

	  for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)
	    if (cp[i] == 0)
	      return cp - str + i;
	}
    }
}