2006-03-16 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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1 /* Copyright (C) 1991,93,94,95,96,97,99,2000,03 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
3 Based on strlen implementation by Torbjorn Granlund (tege@sics.se),
4 with help from Dan Sahlin (dan@sics.se) and
5 bug fix and commentary by Jim Blandy (jimb@ai.mit.edu);
6 adaptation to strchr 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 Lesser General Public
11 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
12 version 2.1 of the 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.
19 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
20 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, write to the Free
21 Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
22 02111-1307 USA. */
24 #include <string.h>
25 #include <memcopy.h>
26 #include <stdlib.h>
28 #undef strchr
30 /* Find the first occurrence of C in S. */
31 char *
32 strchr (s, c_in)
33 const char *s;
34 int c_in;
36 const unsigned char *char_ptr;
37 const unsigned long int *longword_ptr;
38 unsigned long int longword, magic_bits, charmask;
39 unsigned reg_char c;
41 c = (unsigned char) c_in;
43 /* Handle the first few characters by reading one character at a time.
44 Do this until CHAR_PTR is aligned on a longword boundary. */
45 for (char_ptr = s; ((unsigned long int) char_ptr
46 & (sizeof (longword) - 1)) != 0;
47 ++char_ptr)
48 if (*char_ptr == c)
49 return (void *) char_ptr;
50 else if (*char_ptr == '\0')
51 return NULL;
53 /* All these elucidatory comments refer to 4-byte longwords,
54 but the theory applies equally well to 8-byte longwords. */
56 longword_ptr = (unsigned long int *) char_ptr;
58 /* Bits 31, 24, 16, and 8 of this number are zero. Call these bits
59 the "holes." Note that there is a hole just to the left of
60 each byte, with an extra at the end:
62 bits: 01111110 11111110 11111110 11111111
63 bytes: AAAAAAAA BBBBBBBB CCCCCCCC DDDDDDDD
65 The 1-bits make sure that carries propagate to the next 0-bit.
66 The 0-bits provide holes for carries to fall into. */
67 switch (sizeof (longword))
69 case 4: magic_bits = 0x7efefeffL; break;
70 case 8: magic_bits = ((0x7efefefeL << 16) << 16) | 0xfefefeffL; break;
71 default:
72 abort ();
75 /* Set up a longword, each of whose bytes is C. */
76 charmask = c | (c << 8);
77 charmask |= charmask << 16;
78 if (sizeof (longword) > 4)
79 /* Do the shift in two steps to avoid a warning if long has 32 bits. */
80 charmask |= (charmask << 16) << 16;
81 if (sizeof (longword) > 8)
82 abort ();
84 /* Instead of the traditional loop which tests each character,
85 we will test a longword at a time. The tricky part is testing
86 if *any of the four* bytes in the longword in question are zero. */
87 for (;;)
89 /* We tentatively exit the loop if adding MAGIC_BITS to
90 LONGWORD fails to change any of the hole bits of LONGWORD.
92 1) Is this safe? Will it catch all the zero bytes?
93 Suppose there is a byte with all zeros. Any carry bits
94 propagating from its left will fall into the hole at its
95 least significant bit and stop. Since there will be no
96 carry from its most significant bit, the LSB of the
97 byte to the left will be unchanged, and the zero will be
98 detected.
100 2) Is this worthwhile? Will it ignore everything except
101 zero bytes? Suppose every byte of LONGWORD has a bit set
102 somewhere. There will be a carry into bit 8. If bit 8
103 is set, this will carry into bit 16. If bit 8 is clear,
104 one of bits 9-15 must be set, so there will be a carry
105 into bit 16. Similarly, there will be a carry into bit
106 24. If one of bits 24-30 is set, there will be a carry
107 into bit 31, so all of the hole bits will be changed.
109 The one misfire occurs when bits 24-30 are clear and bit
110 31 is set; in this case, the hole at bit 31 is not
111 changed. If we had access to the processor carry flag,
112 we could close this loophole by putting the fourth hole
113 at bit 32!
115 So it ignores everything except 128's, when they're aligned
116 properly.
118 3) But wait! Aren't we looking for C as well as zero?
119 Good point. So what we do is XOR LONGWORD with a longword,
120 each of whose bytes is C. This turns each byte that is C
121 into a zero. */
123 longword = *longword_ptr++;
125 /* Add MAGIC_BITS to LONGWORD. */
126 if ((((longword + magic_bits)
128 /* Set those bits that were unchanged by the addition. */
129 ^ ~longword)
131 /* Look at only the hole bits. If any of the hole bits
132 are unchanged, most likely one of the bytes was a
133 zero. */
134 & ~magic_bits) != 0 ||
136 /* That caught zeroes. Now test for C. */
137 ((((longword ^ charmask) + magic_bits) ^ ~(longword ^ charmask))
138 & ~magic_bits) != 0)
140 /* Which of the bytes was C or zero?
141 If none of them were, it was a misfire; continue the search. */
143 const unsigned char *cp = (const unsigned char *) (longword_ptr - 1);
145 if (*cp == c)
146 return (char *) cp;
147 else if (*cp == '\0')
148 return NULL;
149 if (*++cp == c)
150 return (char *) cp;
151 else if (*cp == '\0')
152 return NULL;
153 if (*++cp == c)
154 return (char *) cp;
155 else if (*cp == '\0')
156 return NULL;
157 if (*++cp == c)
158 return (char *) cp;
159 else if (*cp == '\0')
160 return NULL;
161 if (sizeof (longword) > 4)
163 if (*++cp == c)
164 return (char *) cp;
165 else if (*cp == '\0')
166 return NULL;
167 if (*++cp == c)
168 return (char *) cp;
169 else if (*cp == '\0')
170 return NULL;
171 if (*++cp == c)
172 return (char *) cp;
173 else if (*cp == '\0')
174 return NULL;
175 if (*++cp == c)
176 return (char *) cp;
177 else if (*cp == '\0')
178 return NULL;
183 return NULL;
186 #ifdef weak_alias
187 #undef index
188 weak_alias (strchr, index)
189 #endif
190 libc_hidden_builtin_def (strchr)