nuttx/libs/libc
Justin Hammond afc42d0aa2 libs/libc/string: Copy and compare by words when pointers agree on alignment.
The BSD string functions take a word path only when both pointers are
aligned, and a byte path otherwise.  A pair at the same offset from a
boundary takes the byte path even though copying or comparing a few leading
bytes aligns both at once, since aligning one aligns the other.

Add MISALIGNED(), which asks whether two pointers disagree about where a
boundary falls, and walk an agreeing pair up to the boundary before the
existing path selection.  MISALIGNED4() does the same for the 4-byte path,
so a pair that is 4-byte but not 8-byte aligned reaches the wide path
instead of the middle one.  No existing line changes: the walk is a new step
ahead of the current decisions.  A pair at differing offsets still takes the
byte path, since no single boundary serves both.

Measured on an EIC7700 EVB (EIC7700X, RV64GC, 1.4GHz) with the BSD string
functions selected and the RISC-V assembly ones disabled, using the
benchmark in apps#3706, medians of 3 runs in MB/s at its largest size:

                equal offset            aligned
  memcpy     414 -> 4148  10.0x    4214 -> 4208
  memcmp      41 ->  361   8.8x     362 ->  360
  strncmp     28 ->  202   7.4x     207 ->  207
  strcmp      42 ->  273   6.5x     278 ->  276
  strncpy    377 -> 1676   4.5x    1824 -> 1748
  stpncpy    376 -> 1654   4.4x    1843 -> 1724
  stpcpy     551 -> 1833   3.3x    1970 -> 1939
  memccpy    650 -> 2012   3.1x    2478 -> 2016
  strcpy     636 -> 1837   2.9x    1678 -> 1965

Cases the walk never runs for move in both directions by up to a third, the
largest being memccpy at differing offsets, 648 -> 414.  Their code is
unchanged, so that is code placement rather than an effect of the change.

The change is architecture independent but has only been measured on
RV64GC.  Word size, alignment cost and byte loop codegen all differ
elsewhere, so the balance wants measuring on other architectures.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Justin Hammond <justin@dynam.ac>
2026-08-24 12:02:02 +08:00
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aio include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
assert
audio include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
builtin libc/builtin: support per-application priority/stacksize under KERNEL build. 2026-07-13 15:23:39 -03:00
ctype
dirent libs/libc/dirent: preserve errno on readdir() end-of-directory 2026-06-02 23:34:25 +08:00
dlfcn libc/dlfcn: Count opens so a library can be shared. 2026-08-04 11:12:49 -03:00
elf cmake: Use NUTTX(_DIR/_BIN_DIR) instead CMAKE(_SRC_DIR/_BIN_DIR) 2026-08-09 11:13:08 -03:00
errno
eventfd
fdt cmake: Use NUTTX(_DIR/_BIN_DIR) instead CMAKE(_SRC_DIR/_BIN_DIR) 2026-08-09 11:13:08 -03:00
fixedmath !compiler: drop CONFIG_HAVE_LONG_LONG and require long long support 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
gdbstub
gnssutils cmake: Use NUTTX(_DIR/_BIN_DIR) instead CMAKE(_SRC_DIR/_BIN_DIR) 2026-08-09 11:13:08 -03:00
grp libs/libc/grp: fix getgrbuf_r() pointer-alignment padding 2026-08-14 10:20:52 +08:00
hex2bin include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
inttypes !compiler: drop CONFIG_HAVE_LONG_LONG and require long long support 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
libgen
locale
lzf !compiler: drop CONFIG_HAVE_LONG_LONG and require long long support 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
machine libs/libc/machine/risc-v: Compare a register at a time on equal offsets. 2026-08-17 12:24:06 +02:00
misc libc/crc32: add IEEE-compatible crc32_ieee for Linux/zlib interop 2026-07-03 10:18:28 +08:00
net include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
netdb libs/libc/netdb: Size an answer header by its header, not by its union. 2026-08-08 15:02:15 -03:00
obstack include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
pthread arch, sched/signal: Fix compilation with ENABLE_PARTIAL_SIGNALS=y 2026-06-16 17:07:32 +08:00
pwd sched: add supplementary group IDs (setgroups/getgroups/initgroups) 2026-08-12 16:06:03 -03:00
queue
regex
sched include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
search
semaphore sched/semaphore: Keep a negative task id out of the mutex holder. 2026-08-09 10:05:30 +08:00
signal
spawn spawn: allow zero stacksize/priority to use binary loader defaults 2026-07-15 12:24:44 -03:00
stdio !include/fcntl.h: align open flags with Linux values 2026-06-30 13:43:44 +08:00
stdlib libs/libc: support explicit bases up to 36 2026-08-01 20:08:32 +08:00
stream libc/stream: Check lowout bounds before access 2026-07-06 09:02:22 +02:00
string libs/libc/string: Copy and compare by words when pointers agree on alignment. 2026-08-24 12:02:02 +08:00
symtab libs/libc/symtab: fix bogus symbol size under SYMTAB_ORDEREDBYNAME 2026-08-05 21:51:25 +08:00
syslog
termios drivers/serial: add job-control TTY ioctls and libc wrappers 2026-06-23 16:26:53 -03:00
time libc/time: Fix POSIX timezone string parsing. 2026-07-25 19:54:18 +08:00
tls
uio
unistd libc: add wait4() 2026-08-14 10:20:52 +08:00
userfs include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
uuid
wchar
wctype
wqueue !sched/clock: remove CONFIG_SYSTEM_TIME64 and always use 64-bit time 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
zoneinfo tools: fix stale archive members surviving a Kconfig-driven CSRCS change 2026-07-28 21:26:03 -03:00
.gitignore
CMakeLists.txt
Kconfig
libc.csv !sched/arch/libc: Give fork() and vfork() their real, separate semantics. 2026-08-10 08:57:30 -03:00
libc.h libs/libc/string: Copy and compare by words when pointers agree on alignment. 2026-08-24 12:02:02 +08:00
limits_check.c libs/libc: add limits checks 2026-07-02 09:02:21 -03:00
Makefile tools: fix stale archive members surviving a Kconfig-driven CSRCS change 2026-07-28 21:26:03 -03:00