! memcmp() Author: Kees J. Bot ! 2 Jan 1994 .sect .text; .sect .rom; .sect .data; .sect .bss ! int memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t n) ! Compare two chunks of memory. ! .sect .text .define _memcmp .align 16 _memcmp: cld push ebp mov ebp, esp push esi push edi mov esi, 8(ebp) ! String s1 mov edi, 12(ebp) ! String s2 mov ecx, 16(ebp) ! Length cmp ecx, 16 jb cbyte ! Don't bother being smart with short arrays mov eax, esi or eax, edi testb al, 1 jnz cbyte ! Bit 0 set, use byte compare testb al, 2 jnz cword ! Bit 1 set, use word compare clword: shrd eax, ecx, 2 ! Save low two bits of ecx in eax shr ecx, 2 repe cmps ! Compare longwords sub esi, 4 sub edi, 4 inc ecx ! Recompare the last longword shld ecx, eax, 2 ! And any excess bytes jmp last cword: shrd eax, ecx, 1 ! Save low bit of ecx in eax shr ecx, 1 repe o16 cmps ! Compare words sub esi, 2 sub edi, 2 inc ecx ! Recompare the last word shld ecx, eax, 1 ! And one more byte? cbyte: test ecx, ecx ! Set 'Z' flag if ecx = 0 last: repe cmpsb ! Look for the first differing byte seta al ! al = (s1 > s2) setb ah ! ah = (s1 < s2) subb al, ah movsxb eax, al ! eax = (s1 > s2) - (s1 < s2), i.e. -1, 0, 1 mov edx, esi ! For bcmp() to play with pop edi pop esi pop ebp ret