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[PATCH] Alpha: strncpy() fix 

As it turned out after recent SCSI changes, strncpy() was broken -
it mixed up the return values from __stxncpy() in registers $24 and $27.

Thanks to Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer for tracking down the problem
and providing an excellent test case.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ivan Kokshaysky 2006-04-25 13:45:19 +04:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 454ac77845
commit 4d5c34ec7b
1 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ strncpy:
.align 4
$multiword:
subq $24, 1, $2 # clear the final bits in the prev word
or $2, $24, $2
subq $27, 1, $2 # clear the final bits in the prev word
or $2, $27, $2
zapnot $1, $2, $1
subq $18, 1, $18
@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ $multiword:
bne $18, 0b
1: ldq_u $1, 0($16) # clear the leading bits in the final word
subq $27, 1, $2
or $2, $27, $2
subq $24, 1, $2
or $2, $24, $2
zap $1, $2, $1
stq_u $1, 0($16)