PowerPC: optimized memmove for POWER7/PPC32

This patch adds a optimized memmove for power7 by using the optimized
power7 memcpy for forward copying.

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power4/multiarch/memmove.c b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power4/multiarch/memmove.c
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+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/power4/multiarch/memmove.c
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+/* Multiple versions of memmove. PowerPC32 version.
+   Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+   The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+   Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+   <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#if defined SHARED && !defined NOT_IN_libc
+/* Redefine memmove so that the compiler won't complain about the type
+   mismatch with the IFUNC selector in strong_alias, below.  */
+# include <string.h>
+# include "init-arch.h"
+
+extern __typeof (memmove) __memmove_ppc attribute_hidden;
+extern __typeof (memmove) __memmove_power7 attribute_hidden;
+
+libc_ifunc (memmove,
+            (hwcap & PPC_FEATURE_HAS_VSX)
+            ? __memmove_power7
+            : __memmove_ppc);
+#else
+# include <string/memmove.c>
+#endif