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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add strncmp to PowerPC
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:01:20 +0100
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>> Anyway, this asm code has bugs, as do both the current C version in 
>> the
>> kernel, and the code I posted.  We need to do better :-)
>
> The only bug I know of in the asm code is the behaviour when the count
> is zero.  Do you know of any other?

No, that's the bug I meant.  Sorry for using such inexact language.


Segher