i586 strcpy.S used a clever trick with LEA to implement jump table:
/* ECX has the last 2 bits of the address of source - 1. */
andl $3, %ecx
call 2f
2: popl %edx
/* 0xb is the distance between 2: and 1:. */
leal 0xb(%edx,%ecx,8), %ecx
jmp *%ecx
.align 8
1: /* ECX == 0 */
orb (%esi), %al
jz L(end)
stosb
xorl %eax, %eax
incl %esi
/* ECX == 1 */
orb (%esi), %al
jz L(end)
stosb
xorl %eax, %eax
incl %esi
/* ECX == 2 */
orb (%esi), %al
jz L(end)
stosb
xorl %eax, %eax
incl %esi
/* ECX == 3 */
L(1): movl (%esi), %ecx
leal 4(%esi),%esi
This fails if there are instruction length changes before L(1):. This
patch replaces it with conditional branches:
cmpb $2, %cl
je L(Src2)
ja L(Src3)
cmpb $1, %cl
je L(Src1)
L(Src0):
which have similar performance and work with any instruction lengths.
Tested on i586 and i686 with and without --disable-multi-arch.
[BZ #22353]
* sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S (STRCPY): Use conditional branches.
(1): Renamed to ...
(L(Src0)): This.
(L(Src1)): New.
(L(Src2)): Likewise.
(L(1)): Renamed to ...
(L(Src3)): This.
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