implementation, so this improves performance even on targets which don't have an optimized
strlen and strcpy - it is 25% faster in bench-strcat. On targets which don't provide an
optimized strcat but which do have an optimized strlen and strcpy, performance gain is > 2x.
2014-10-24 Wilco Dijkstra <wdijkstr@arm.com>
+ * string/strcat.c (strcat): Improve performance by using strlen/strcpy.
+
+2014-10-24 Wilco Dijkstra <wdijkstr@arm.com>
+
* sysdeps/aarch64/fpu/fgetexcptflg.c (fegetexceptflag):
Call libc_fetestexcept_aarch64.
char *
strcat (char *dest, const char *src)
{
- char *s1 = dest;
- const char *s2 = src;
- char c;
-
- /* Find the end of the string. */
- do
- c = *s1++;
- while (c != '\0');
-
- /* Make S1 point before the next character, so we can increment
- it while memory is read (wins on pipelined cpus). */
- s1 -= 2;
-
- do
- {
- c = *s2++;
- *++s1 = c;
- }
- while (c != '\0');
-
+ strcpy (dest + strlen (dest), src);
return dest;
}
libc_hidden_builtin_def (strcat)