From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: "André Coelho" <andrealbergaria@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: strings
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 19:21:36 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bf4ef6ce-8fa9-57b8-7d18-2a4cbb41455b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZEIuh80SfDms30dc@1wt.eu>
On 4/21/23 13:34, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>> Looks like above link is about hex arithmetic implemented using strings,
>> right?
>
> It looks more like a reinvention of the classical multi-byte string
> processing (memcmp, memcpy, memmove etc).
>
>> Also, on what use cases can your idea fit the kernel context? Or doesn't the
>> kernel already have the implementation yet?
>
> Sure it does, look at __crypto_memneq() for example, or more generally
> at any memcmp() or memcpy() implementation from the last 30 years, for
> example in glibc.
>
Thanks for explanation! I don't have any serious C[++] programming
background, so I was confused when I wrote the original reply.
--
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2023-04-20 2:58 strings André Coelho
2023-04-21 4:20 ` strings Bagas Sanjaya
2023-04-21 6:34 ` strings Willy Tarreau
2023-04-21 12:21 ` Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
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2005-01-12 21:28 ` strings Don Hughes
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