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Re: [PATCH roland/arm-strlen] Make armv6t2 strlen work in ARM mode too.


On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Roland McGrath wrote:

> I tested that this has no effect (assembled code wholly unchanged) on
> arm-linux-gnueabihf.  I tested that the ARM-mode support actually works by
> hacking in "#define NO_THUMB" at the top and verifying no failures from
> 'make check subdirs=string'.
> 
> Incidentally, assembly writers really ought to write more comments!  For
> example, I deduced the only plausible reason for using an explicit bne.w
> and added a comment about it, but it is exactly the sort of non-obvious
> subtle microoptimization that desperately needed clear comments in the
> first place.
> 
> 
> OK for trunk?

OK.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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