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1 /* memrchr -- find the last occurrence of a byte in a memory block
2 Copyright (C) 1991, 93, 96, 97, 99, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Based on strlen implementation by Torbjorn Granlund (tege@sics.se),
4 with help from Dan Sahlin (dan@sics.se) and
5 commentary by Jim Blandy (jimb@ai.mit.edu);
6 adaptation to memchr suggested by Dick Karpinski (dick@cca.ucsf.edu),
7 and implemented by Roland McGrath (roland@ai.mit.edu).
9 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
10 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
11 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
12 License, or (at your option) any later version.
14 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
15 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
16 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
17 Library General Public License for more details.
19 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
20 License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
21 write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
22 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
24 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
25 # include <config.h>
26 #endif
28 #include <stdlib.h>
30 #undef __ptr_t
31 #if defined (__cplusplus) || (defined (__STDC__) && __STDC__)
32 # define __ptr_t void *
33 #else /* Not C++ or ANSI C. */
34 # define __ptr_t char *
35 #endif /* C++ or ANSI C. */
37 #if defined (_LIBC)
38 # include <string.h>
39 # include <memcopy.h>
40 #else
41 # define reg_char char
42 #endif
44 #if defined (HAVE_LIMITS_H) || defined (_LIBC)
45 # include <limits.h>
46 #endif
48 #define LONG_MAX_32_BITS 2147483647
50 #ifndef LONG_MAX
51 # define LONG_MAX LONG_MAX_32_BITS
52 #endif
54 #include <sys/types.h>
56 #undef __memrchr
57 #undef memrchr
59 #ifndef weak_alias
60 # define __memrchr memrchr
61 #endif
63 /* Search no more than N bytes of S for C. */
64 __ptr_t
65 __memrchr (s, c_in, n)
66 const __ptr_t s;
67 int c_in;
68 size_t n;
70 const unsigned char *char_ptr;
71 const unsigned long int *longword_ptr;
72 unsigned long int longword, magic_bits, charmask;
73 unsigned reg_char c;
75 c = (unsigned char) c_in;
77 /* Handle the last few characters by reading one character at a time.
78 Do this until CHAR_PTR is aligned on a longword boundary. */
79 for (char_ptr = (const unsigned char *) s + n;
80 n > 0 && ((unsigned long int) char_ptr
81 & (sizeof (longword) - 1)) != 0;
82 --n)
83 if (*--char_ptr == c)
84 return (__ptr_t) char_ptr;
86 /* All these elucidatory comments refer to 4-byte longwords,
87 but the theory applies equally well to 8-byte longwords. */
89 longword_ptr = (unsigned long int *) char_ptr;
91 /* Bits 31, 24, 16, and 8 of this number are zero. Call these bits
92 the "holes." Note that there is a hole just to the left of
93 each byte, with an extra at the end:
95 bits: 01111110 11111110 11111110 11111111
96 bytes: AAAAAAAA BBBBBBBB CCCCCCCC DDDDDDDD
98 The 1-bits make sure that carries propagate to the next 0-bit.
99 The 0-bits provide holes for carries to fall into. */
101 if (sizeof (longword) != 4 && sizeof (longword) != 8)
102 abort ();
104 #if LONG_MAX <= LONG_MAX_32_BITS
105 magic_bits = 0x7efefeff;
106 #else
107 magic_bits = ((unsigned long int) 0x7efefefe << 32) | 0xfefefeff;
108 #endif
110 /* Set up a longword, each of whose bytes is C. */
111 charmask = c | (c << 8);
112 charmask |= charmask << 16;
113 #if LONG_MAX > LONG_MAX_32_BITS
114 charmask |= charmask << 32;
115 #endif
117 /* Instead of the traditional loop which tests each character,
118 we will test a longword at a time. The tricky part is testing
119 if *any of the four* bytes in the longword in question are zero. */
120 while (n >= sizeof (longword))
122 /* We tentatively exit the loop if adding MAGIC_BITS to
123 LONGWORD fails to change any of the hole bits of LONGWORD.
125 1) Is this safe? Will it catch all the zero bytes?
126 Suppose there is a byte with all zeros. Any carry bits
127 propagating from its left will fall into the hole at its
128 least significant bit and stop. Since there will be no
129 carry from its most significant bit, the LSB of the
130 byte to the left will be unchanged, and the zero will be
131 detected.
133 2) Is this worthwhile? Will it ignore everything except
134 zero bytes? Suppose every byte of LONGWORD has a bit set
135 somewhere. There will be a carry into bit 8. If bit 8
136 is set, this will carry into bit 16. If bit 8 is clear,
137 one of bits 9-15 must be set, so there will be a carry
138 into bit 16. Similarly, there will be a carry into bit
139 24. If one of bits 24-30 is set, there will be a carry
140 into bit 31, so all of the hole bits will be changed.
142 The one misfire occurs when bits 24-30 are clear and bit
143 31 is set; in this case, the hole at bit 31 is not
144 changed. If we had access to the processor carry flag,
145 we could close this loophole by putting the fourth hole
146 at bit 32!
148 So it ignores everything except 128's, when they're aligned
149 properly.
151 3) But wait! Aren't we looking for C, not zero?
152 Good point. So what we do is XOR LONGWORD with a longword,
153 each of whose bytes is C. This turns each byte that is C
154 into a zero. */
156 longword = *--longword_ptr ^ charmask;
158 /* Add MAGIC_BITS to LONGWORD. */
159 if ((((longword + magic_bits)
161 /* Set those bits that were unchanged by the addition. */
162 ^ ~longword)
164 /* Look at only the hole bits. If any of the hole bits
165 are unchanged, most likely one of the bytes was a
166 zero. */
167 & ~magic_bits) != 0)
169 /* Which of the bytes was C? If none of them were, it was
170 a misfire; continue the search. */
172 const unsigned char *cp = (const unsigned char *) longword_ptr;
174 #if LONG_MAX > 2147483647
175 if (cp[7] == c)
176 return (__ptr_t) &cp[7];
177 if (cp[6] == c)
178 return (__ptr_t) &cp[6];
179 if (cp[5] == c)
180 return (__ptr_t) &cp[5];
181 if (cp[4] == c)
182 return (__ptr_t) &cp[4];
183 #endif
184 if (cp[3] == c)
185 return (__ptr_t) &cp[3];
186 if (cp[2] == c)
187 return (__ptr_t) &cp[2];
188 if (cp[1] == c)
189 return (__ptr_t) &cp[1];
190 if (cp[0] == c)
191 return (__ptr_t) cp;
194 n -= sizeof (longword);
197 char_ptr = (const unsigned char *) longword_ptr;
199 while (n-- > 0)
201 if (*--char_ptr == c)
202 return (__ptr_t) char_ptr;
205 return 0;
207 #ifdef weak_alias
208 weak_alias (__memrchr, memrchr)
209 #endif