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/* $OpenBSD: strlen.S,v 1.3 2005/08/07 11:30:38 espie Exp $ */
/*
* Written by J.T. Conklin <jtc@netbsd.org>.
* Public domain.
*/
#include <machine/asm.h>
ENTRY(strlen)
pushl %edi
movl 8(%esp),%edi /* string address */
cld /* set search forward */
xorl %eax,%eax /* set search for null terminator */
movl $-1,%ecx /* set search for lots of characters */
repne /* search! */
scasb
notl %ecx /* get length by taking complement */
leal -1(%ecx),%eax /* and subtracting one */
popl %edi
ret
END(strlen)