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Re: [PATCH] Fix v9/64-bit strcmp when string ends in multiple zero bytes.
- From: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- To: carlos at redhat dot com
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 12:05:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix v9/64-bit strcmp when string ends in multiple zero bytes.
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From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 01:34:01 -0400
> On 04/30/2014 04:00 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> + {
>> + int exp_result;
>> +
>> + for (CHAR val = 0x01; val < 0x10; val++)
>
> Permute over all char values e.g. [0x1,0xff] or val < 0x100;
I tried that already, just making this change alone causes the test to
take minutes rather then just a few seconds.
I'll see if I can mitigate the cost and still add the extra coverage.
Thanks.