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From: Shawn Landden <shawn@git.icu>
To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Shawn Landden <shawn@git.icu>
Subject: [PATCH] memcmp.3: note about optimization to bcmp in LLVM 9
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 19:02:16 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200111150216.5956-1-shawn@git.icu> (raw)

---
 man3/memcmp.3 | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man3/memcmp.3 b/man3/memcmp.3
index 247eed223..6afca5ea4 100644
--- a/man3/memcmp.3
+++ b/man3/memcmp.3
@@ -84,10 +84,17 @@ because the required CPU time depends on the number of equal bytes.
 Instead, a function that performs comparisons in constant time is required.
 Some operating systems provide such a function (e.g., NetBSD's
 .BR consttime_memequal ()),
 but no such function is specified in POSIX.
 On Linux, it may be necessary to implement such a function oneself.
+.PP
+LLVM 9, released in 2019, and later will optimize a call
+.BR memcmp ()
+to a call to
+.BR bcmp (3)
+if the return value is only checked for equilivence to zero.
+.\" http://releases.llvm.org/9.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#noteworthy-optimizations
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR bcmp (3),
 .BR bstring (3),
 .BR strcasecmp (3),
 .BR strcmp (3),
-- 
2.20.1


             reply	other threads:[~2020-01-11 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-11 15:02 Shawn Landden [this message]
2020-01-11 15:05 ` [PATCH] memcmp.3: note about optimization to bcmp in LLVM 9 Shawn Landden
2020-01-21 19:53 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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