1 /* memset -- set a block of memory to some byte value.
3 Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 Contributed by Torbjorn Granlund (tege@sics.se).
6 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
8 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
9 License, or (at your option) any later version.
11 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
14 Library General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
17 License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
18 not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
19 Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
26 DEFUN(memset, (dstpp, c, len),
27 PTR dstpp AND int c AND size_t len)
29 unsigned long int dstp = (unsigned long int) dstpp;
31 /* This explicit register allocation
32 improves code very much indeed. */
33 register op_t x asm("ax");
35 /* Fill X with four copies of the char we want to fill with. */
36 x = (unsigned char) c;
40 /* Clear the direction flag, so filling will move forward. */
43 /* This threshold value is optimal. */
46 /* There are at least some bytes to set.
47 No need to test for LEN == 0 in this alignment loop. */
49 /* Fill bytes until DSTP is aligned on a longword boundary. */
51 "stosb" /* %0, %2, %3 */ :
53 "0" (dstp), "c" ((-dstp) % OPSIZ), "a" (x) :
55 len -= (-dstp) % OPSIZ;
59 "stosl" /* %0, %2, %3 */ :
61 "0" (dstp), "c" (len / OPSIZ), "a" (x) :
66 /* Write the last few bytes. */
68 "stosb" /* %0, %2, %3 */ :
70 "0" (dstp), "c" (len), "a" (x) :