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-rw-r--r--sysdeps/tile/tilegx/string-endian.h11
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ad73cf473d..ce5ec8f115 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2014-10-02 Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
+
+ * sysdeps/tile/tilegx/string-endian.h (copy_byte): Optimize.
+
2014-10-06 Arjun Shankar <arjun.is@lostca.se>
* nptl/tst-setuid3.c: Write errors to stdout.
diff --git a/sysdeps/tile/tilegx/string-endian.h b/sysdeps/tile/tilegx/string-endian.h
index 0c4d51766d..47333891e0 100644
--- a/sysdeps/tile/tilegx/string-endian.h
+++ b/sysdeps/tile/tilegx/string-endian.h
@@ -36,12 +36,11 @@
#define REVCZ(x) __insn_ctz(x)
#endif
-/* Create eight copies of the byte in a uint64_t. */
+/* Create eight copies of the byte in a uint64_t. Byte Shuffle uses
+ the bytes of srcB as the index into the dest vector to select a
+ byte. With all indices of zero, the first byte is copied into all
+ the other bytes. */
static inline uint64_t copy_byte(uint8_t byte)
{
- uint64_t word = byte;
- word = __insn_bfins(word, word, 8, 15);
- word = __insn_bfins(word, word, 16, 31);
- word = __insn_bfins(word, word, 32, 63);
- return word;
+ return __insn_shufflebytes(byte, 0, 0);
}