strlen()分析

今天在一个帖上讨论strlen()效率的问题,我找了glibc-2.9的源代码,觉得人家确实在效率上绞尽脑汁!

函数实现的基本思想是，开始逐个处理每个字符直到unsigned long int的边界(整数倍)，接着以四字节(unsigned long int)为单位进行处理。代码如下：

/* Copyright (C) 1991, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. Written by Torbjorn Granlund (tege@sics.se), with help from Dan Sahlin (dan@sics.se); commentary by Jim Blandy (jimb@ai.mit.edu). The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the GNU C Library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. */ #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> #undef strlen /* Return the length of the null-terminated string STR. Scan for the null terminator quickly by testing four bytes at a time. */ size_t strlen (str) const char *str; { const char *char_ptr; const unsigned long int *longword_ptr; unsigned long int longword, magic_bits, himagic, lomagic; /* Handle the first few characters by reading one character at a time. Do this until CHAR_PTR is aligned on a longword boundary. */ for (char_ptr = str; ((unsigned long int) char_ptr & (sizeof (longword) - 1)) != 0; ++char_ptr) if (*char_ptr == '/0') return char_ptr - str; /* All these elucidatory comments refer to 4-byte longwords, but the theory applies equally well to 8-byte longwords. */ longword_ptr = (unsigned long int *) char_ptr; /* Bits 31, 24, 16, and 8 of this number are zero. Call these bits the "holes." Note that there is a hole just to the left of each byte, with an extra at the end: bits: 01111110 11111110 11111110 11111111 bytes: AAAAAAAA BBBBBBBB CCCCCCCC DDDDDDDD The 1-bits make sure that carries propagate to the next 0-bit. The 0-bits provide holes for carries to fall into. */ magic_bits = 0x7efefeffL; himagic = 0x80808080L; lomagic = 0x01010101L; if (sizeof (longword) > 4) { /* 64-bit version of the magic. */ /* Do the shift in two steps to avoid a warning if long has 32 bits. */ magic_bits = ((0x7efefefeL << 16) << 16) | 0xfefefeffL; himagic = ((himagic << 16) << 16) | himagic; lomagic = ((lomagic << 16) << 16) | lomagic; } if (sizeof (longword) > 8) abort (); /* Instead of the traditional loop which tests each character, we will test a longword at a time. The tricky part is testing if *any of the four* bytes in the longword in question are zero. */ for (;;) { /* We tentatively exit the loop if adding MAGIC_BITS to LONGWORD fails to change any of the hole bits of LONGWORD. 1) Is this safe? Will it catch all the zero bytes? Suppose there is a byte with all zeros. Any carry bits propagating from its left will fall into the hole at its least significant bit and stop. Since there will be no carry from its most significant bit, the LSB of the byte to the left will be unchanged, and the zero will be detected. 2) Is this worthwhile? Will it ignore everything except zero bytes? Suppose every byte of LONGWORD has a bit set somewhere. There will be a carry into bit 8. If bit 8 is set, this will carry into bit 16. If bit 8 is clear, one of bits 9-15 must be set, so there will be a carry into bit 16. Similarly, there will be a carry into bit 24. If one of bits 24-30 is set, there will be a carry into bit 31, so all of the hole bits will be changed. The one misfire occurs when bits 24-30 are clear and bit 31 is set; in this case, the hole at bit 31 is not changed. If we had access to the processor carry flag, we could close this loophole by putting the fourth hole at bit 32! So it ignores everything except 128's, when they're aligned properly. */ longword = *longword_ptr++; if ( #if 0 /* Add MAGIC_BITS to LONGWORD. */ (((longword + magic_bits) /* Set those bits that were unchanged by the addition. */ ^ ~longword) /* Look at only the hole bits. If any of the hole bits are unchanged, most likely one of the bytes was a zero. */ & ~magic_bits) #else ((longword - lomagic) & himagic) #endif != 0) { /* Which of the bytes was the zero? If none of them were, it was a misfire; continue the search. */ const char *cp = (const char *) (longword_ptr - 1); if (cp[0] == 0) return cp - str; if (cp[1] == 0) return cp - str + 1; if (cp[2] == 0) return cp - str + 2; if (cp[3] == 0) return cp - str + 3; if (sizeof (longword) > 4) { if (cp[4] == 0) return cp - str + 4; if (cp[5] == 0) return cp - str + 5; if (cp[6] == 0) return cp - str + 6; if (cp[7] == 0) return cp - str + 7; } } } } libc_hidden_builtin_def (strlen)

 

处理方式如下：

构造一个magic_bits = （01111110 11111110 11111110 11111111），在它的31, 24, 16,8位（标志位）都是0，这样当它与比较的四字符longword（转化为unsigned long int)相加后，如果longword中某个字节（注意，不是位！）不是0，就会将31, 24, 16,8中的某一位改变（通过传递进位）。当然，如果在31, 24, 16,8中某个有进位并且longword对应位也为1，那么，结果是多个标志位将会改变改变。大家可以参考注释理解。

 

注释中提到一个唯一的“盲区”，就是第31位，如果longword的31为1，而30-24都为0，那么相加之后longword的31位没有改变，即这样的一个字符可能会被检测为0！也就是说，特定位置的128使用这种方法会被判定为零！但是，在后面的检测哪一字符为0时是逐个比较的，因此误判为0也没有关系，会往后继续运行。