The upstream version of GMP has long removed this conditional
altogether in this commit:
changeset: 5254:88618a4694ac
user: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
date: Sun Jun 17 01:37:27 2001 +0200
So just turn the #if into an #ifdef to silence the warning.
ChangeLog:
2014-05-14 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* stdlib/gmp-impl.h: Test USE_STACK_ALLOC #ifdef
rather than #if.
Bug 16564 is spurious overflow of log1pl (LDBL_MAX) in FE_UPWARD mode,
resulting from log1pl adding 1 to its argument (for arguments not
close to 0), which overflows in that mode. This patch fixes this by
avoiding adding 1 to large arguments (precisely what counts as large
depends on the floating-point format).
Tested x86_64 and x86, and spot-checked log1pl tests on mips64 and
powerpc64.
[BZ #16564]
* sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_log1pl.S (__log1pl): Do not add 1 to positive
arguments with exponent 65 or above.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128/s_log1pl.c (__log1pl): Do not add 1 to
arguments 0x1p113L or above.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128ibm/s_log1pl.c (__log1pl): Do not add 1
to arguments 0x1p107L or above.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/s_log1pl.S (__log1pl): Do not add 1 to
positive arguments with exponent 65 or above.
* math/auto-libm-test-in: Add more tests of log1p.
* math/auto-libm-test-out: Regenerated.
According to C99/C11 Annex G, cacos applied to a value with real part
+Inf and finite imaginary part should produce a result with real part
+0. glibc wrongly produces a result with real part -0 in FE_DOWNWARD
mode. This patch fixes this by checking for zero results in the
relevant case of non-finite arguments (where there should never be a
result with -0 real part), and converts the tests of cacos to
ALL_RM_TEST.
Tested x86_64 and x86 and ulps updated accordingly.
[BZ #16928]
* math/s_cacos.c (__cacos): Ensure zero real part of result from
non-finite arguments is +0.
* math/s_cacosf.c (__cacosf): Likewise.
* math/s_cacosl.c (__cacosl): Likewise.
* math/libm-test.inc (cacos_test): Use ALL_RM_TEST.
* sysdeps/i386/fpu/libm-test-ulps: Update.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/libm-test-ulps: Likewise.
According to C99 and C11 Annex F, acosh (1) should be +0 in all
rounding modes. However, some implementations in glibc wrongly return
-0 in round-downward mode (which is what you get if you end up
computing log1p (-0), via 1 - 1 being -0 in round-downward mode).
This patch fixes the problem implementations, by correcting the test
for an exact 1 value in the ldbl-96 implementation to allow for the
explicit high bit of the mantissa, and by inserting fabs instructions
in the i386 implementations; tests of acosh are duly converted to
ALL_RM_TEST. I believe all the other sysdeps/ieee754 implementations
are already OK (I haven't checked the ia64 versions, but if buggy then
that will be obvious from the results of test runs after this patch is
in).
Tested x86_64 and x86 and ulps updated accordingly.
[BZ #16927]
* sysdeps/i386/fpu/e_acosh.S (__ieee754_acosh): Use fabs on x-1
value.
* sysdeps/i386/fpu/e_acoshf.S (__ieee754_acoshf): Likewise.
* sysdeps/i386/fpu/e_acoshl.S (__ieee754_acoshl): Likewise.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96/e_acoshl.c (__ieee754_acoshl): Correct
for explicit high bit of mantissa when testing for argument equal
to 1.
* math/libm-test.inc (acosh_test): Use ALL_RM_TEST.
* sysdeps/i386/fpu/libm-test-ulps: Update.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/libm-test-ulps: Likewise.
Bug 16516 reports spurious underflows from erf (for all floating-point
types), when the result is close to underflowing but does not actually
underflow.
erf (x) is about (2/sqrt(pi))*x for x close to 0, so there are
subnormal arguments for which it does not underflow. The various
implementations do (x + efx*x) (for efx = 2/sqrt(pi) - 1), for greater
accuracy than if just using a single multiplication by an
approximation to 2/sqrt(pi) (effectively, this way there are a few
more bits in the approximation to 2/sqrt(pi)). This can introduce
underflows when efx*x underflows even though the final result does
not, so a scaled calculation with 8*efx is done in these cases - but 8
is not a big enough scale factor to avoid all such underflows. 16 is
(any underflows with a scale factor of 16 would only occur when the
final result underflows), so this patch changes the code to use that
factor. Rather than recomputing all the values of the efx8 variable,
it is removed, leaving it to the compiler's constant folding to
compute 16*efx. As such scaling can also lose underflows when the
final scaling down happens to be exact, appropriate checks are added
to ensure underflow exceptions occur when required in such cases.
Tested x86_64 and x86; no ulps updates needed. Also spot-checked for
powerpc32 and mips64 to verify the changes to the ldbl-128ibm and
ldbl-128 implementations.
[BZ #16516]
* sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/s_erf.c (efx8): Remove variable.
(__erf): Scale by 16 instead of 8 in potentially underflowing
case. Ensure exception if result actually underflows.
* sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32/s_erff.c (efx8): Remove variable.
(__erff): Scale by 16 instead of 8 in potentially underflowing
case. Ensure exception if result actually underflows.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128/s_erfl.c: Include <float.h>.
(efx8): Remove variable.
(__erfl): Scale by 16 instead of 8 in potentially underflowing
case. Ensure exception if result actually underflows.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128ibm/s_erfl.c: Include <float.h>.
(efx8): Remove variable.
(__erfl): Scale by 16 instead of 8 in potentially underflowing
case. Ensure exception if result actually underflows.
* sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96/s_erfl.c: Include <float.h>.
(efx8): Remove variable.
(__erfl): Scale by 16 instead of 8 in potentially underflowing
case. Ensure exception if result actually underflows.
* math/auto-libm-test-in: Add more tests of erf.
* math/auto-libm-test-out: Regenerated.
This patch reduces duplication between different architectures'
kernel-features.h files by making the architecture-independent file
define various macros unconditionally (instead of only for a
particular list of architectures), with the architecture-specific
files then undefining the macros if necessary.
Specifically, __ASSUME_O_CLOEXEC (O_CLOEXEC flag to open) and
__ASSUME_SOCK_CLOEXEC (SOCK_NONBLOCK and SOCK_CLOEXEC flags to socket)
are supported on all architectures as of 2.6.32 or the minimum kernel
version for the architecture if later. For __ASSUME_IN_NONBLOCK,
__ASSUME_PIPE2, __ASSUME_EVENTFD2, __ASSUME_SIGNALFD4 and
__ASSUME_DUP3, the relevant syscalls were added for alpha in 2.6.33
but otherwise the features are available as of 2.6.32. For
__ASSUME_UTIMES, support is everywhere in 2.6.32 except for
asm-generic architectures and hppa.
Although those were the main cases of duplication among
kernel-features.h files, some other cases of unnecessary definitions
were also cleaned up: the hppa file defined various macros that were
either no longer used at all, or defined by the main file by default
anyway, the ia64 file had duplicative definitions of __ASSUME_PSELECT
and __ASSUME_PPOLL, while mips had such a definition of
__ASSUME_IPC64.
Really, rather than being defined in the main file then undefined for
asm-generic architectures, __ASSUME_UTIMES should become an
hppa-specific macro. Given that __ASSUME_ATFCTS and
__ASSUME_UTIMENSAT are now always true, the only live __ASSUME_UTIMES
conditional is in sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/utimes.c, which is not used
for asm-generic architectures. I think the desired state would be an
hppa-specific file (that includes sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/utimes.c if
__ASSUME_UTIMES, and otherwise has fallback code), with the fallback
code being removed from the main utimes.c. But I think that's most
reasonably a separate cleanup once __ASSUME_ATFCTS and
__ASSUME_UTIMESAT have both had conditional code cleaned up.
Given this patch, I think it's straightforward to move non-ex-ports
architectures to having their own kernel-features.h files, like
ex-ports architectures, rather than conditionals in the main file
(i.e., such a move won't require the architecture-specific file to
contain anything that isn't genuinely architecture-specific), and
would encourage architecture maintainers to do so.
Tested x86_64 that the installed shared libraries are unchanged by
this patch. Note that on some architectures this *will* cause
__ASSUME_* macros to be defined in cases where they weren't previously
but should have been (but this is just optimization, not a fix to a
user-visible bug, so doesn't need a bug report in Bugzilla).
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h (__ASSUME_UTIMES):
Define unconditionally.
(__ASSUME_O_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SOCK_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_IN_NONBLOCK): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_PIPE2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_EVENTFD2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SIGNALFD4): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_DUP3): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_DUP3): Do not define.
(__ASSUME_EVENTFD2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_IN_NONBLOCK): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_O_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_PIPE2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SIGNALFD4): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SOCK_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_UTIMES): Undefine.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_UTIMES): Do not define.
(__ASSUME_O_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SOCK_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_IN_NONBLOCK): Undefine if [__LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION <
0x020621] instead of defining if [__LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION >=
0x020621].
(__ASSUME_PIPE2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_EVENTFD2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SIGNALFD4): Likewise.
[__LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION < 0x020621] (__ASSUME_DUP3): Undefine.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/kernel-features.h (__ASSUME_UTIMES):
Do not define.
(__ASSUME_EVENTFD2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SIGNALFD4): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_32BITUIDS): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_TRUNCATE64_SYSCALL): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_IPC64): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_ST_INO_64_BIT): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_GETDENTS64_SYSCALL): Likewise.
[__LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION < 0x030e00] (__ASSUME_UTIMES): Undefine.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_UTIMES): Do not define.
(__ASSUME_PSELECT): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_PPOLL): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_O_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SOCK_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_IN_NONBLOCK): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_PIPE2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_EVENTFD2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SIGNALFD4): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_DUP3): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_UTIMES): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_O_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SOCK_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_IN_NONBLOCK): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_PIPE2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_EVENTFD2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SIGNALFD4): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_DUP3): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/microblaze/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_UTIMES): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_O_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SOCK_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_IN_NONBLOCK): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_PIPE2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_EVENTFD2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SIGNALFD4): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_DUP3): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/kernel-features.h (__ASSUME_IPC64):
Likewise.
(__ASSUME_UTIMES): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_EVENTFD2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SIGNALFD4): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_O_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SOCK_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_IN_NONBLOCK): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_PIPE2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_EVENTFD2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SIGNALFD4): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_DUP3): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_UTIMES): Undefine.
This patch cleans up some symbol versioning code in the ARM port that
exists only as relics of the old-ABI port, which was removed some time
ago.
The minimum symbol version in the ARM port is GLIBC_2.4 (the version
where the EABI port was introduced). Thus, any SHLIB_COMPAT
conditionals where the later version is 2.4 or later are obsolete and
can be removed. In addition, there is no need to set symbol versions
before 2.4 explicitly if the symbols would have a version of 2.4 by
default anyway. This includes most of the entries in
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/Versions: those for GLIBC_2.0 are for
libgcc unwind functions that aren't actually in ARM EABI glibc at all,
while those for GLIBC_2.2 and GLIBC_2.3.3 are for functions which for
the old-ABI port may have had versions different from the
architecture-independent default, but where for EABI the default
suffices (both the default and the version in that file map to 2.4, so
the entries in that file do nothing). The GLIBC_2.1 entries are
needed (architecture-specific functions), but it seems less confusing
for those to say GLIBC_2.4, as the actual version those symbols in
fact have.
Various cases in the <fenv.h> functions where a function is defined as
__fe* with an fe* versioned alias are cleaned up just to define fe*
directly, as done e.g. on AArch64. If in future we actually need an
__fe* name for use from C90 functions in libm as discussed recently,
of course we can add one on all architectures and make the fe* name
into a weak alias for that particular function, but for now the __fe*
names aren't needed.
In the case of posix_fadvise64, the __posix_fadvise64_l64 name and
posix_fadvise64 alias are kept as __posix_fadvise64_l64 is used in
posix_fadvise. (For that to be a namespace-clean use, posix_fadvise64
needs to be a *weak* alias not a strong one as at present, but that's
an independent preexisting bug.)
(There remain references to GLIBC_2_2 in
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/{msgctl.c,semctl.c,shmctl.c}. As those
files are used by alpha which has a genuine 2.2 version for those
functions, I think those references need to stay as-is.)
Tested that the disassembly of installed shared libraries is unchanged
by this patch (though function names shown in disassembly change to no
longer have @@GLIBC_2.4, now those functions get versioned only by the
version map and not redundantly at assembler time) and that the ABI
tests pass.
* sysdeps/arm/fclrexcpt.c (__feclearexcept): Rename to
feclearexcept. Remove symbol versioning code.
* sysdeps/arm/fegetenv.c (__fegetenv): Rename to fegetenv. Remove
symbol versioning code.
* sysdeps/arm/fesetenv.c (__fesetenv): Rename to fesetenv. Remove
symbol versioning code.
* sysdeps/arm/feupdateenv.c (__feupdateenv): Rename to
feupdateenv. Remove symbol versioning code.
* sysdeps/arm/fgetexcptflg.c (__fegetexceptflag): Rename to
fegetexceptflag. Remove symbol versioning code.
* sysdeps/arm/fsetexcptflg.c (__fesetexceptflag): Rename to
fesetexceptflag. Remove symbol versioning code.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/Versions (libc): Remove GLIBC_2.0,
GLIBC_2.2 and GLIBC_2.3.3 entries. Change GLIBC_2.1 to GLIBC_2.4.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/posix_fadvise64.c
(__posix_fadvise64_l32): Remove prototype.
[SHLIB_COMPAT(libc, GLIBC_2_2, GLIBC_2_3_3)]: Remove conditional
code.
This patch does some initial cleanup, following the move to 2.6.32
minimum kernel version, by removing __LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION
conditionals that are now always-true or always-false. In the case of
__ASSUME_ARG_MAX_STACK_BASED, where the conditional used a kernel
version that was itself in a macro, the associated sysconf.c code is
also cleaned up and __ASSUME_ARG_MAX_STACK_BASED removed completely.
Tested x86_64 that disassembly of installed shared libraries is
unchanged by the patch.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h [__s390__]
(__ASSUME_UTIMES): Do not condition on kernel version.
(__ASSUME_PSELECT): Define unconditionally.
(__ASSUME_PPOLL): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_ATFCTS): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SET_ROBUST_LIST): Do not condition on kernel version.
(__ASSUME_COMPLETE_READV_WRITEV): Define unconditionally.
(__ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI): Do not condition on kernel version.
(__ASSUME_UTIMENSAT): Define unconditionally.
(__ASSUME_PRIVATE_FUTEX): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_FALLOCATE): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_O_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__LINUX_ARG_MAX_STACK_BASED_MIN_KERNEL): Remove.
(__ASSUME_ARG_MAX_STACK_BASED): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ): Define unconditionally.
(__ASSUME_SOCK_CLOEXEC): Do not condition on kernel version.
(__ASSUME_IN_NONBLOCK): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_PIPE2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_EVENTFD2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SIGNALFD4): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_DUP3): Likewise.
[__x86_64__ || __sparc__] (__ASSUME_ACCEPT4_SYSCALL): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME): Define unconditionally.
(__ASSUME_AT_RANDOM): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_PREADV): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_PWRITEV): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_REQUEUE_PI): Do not condition on kernel version.
(__ASSUME_F_GETOWN_EX): Define unconditionally.
(__ASSUME_XFS_RESTRICTED_CHOWN): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sysconf.c (__sysconf)
[!__ASSUME_ARG_MAX_STACK_BASED]: Remove conditional code.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_O_CLOEXEC): Define unconditionally.
(__ASSUME_PSELECT): Do not undefine conditionally.
(__ASSUME_PPOLL): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_ATFCTS): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SET_ROBUST_LIST): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_UTIMENSAT): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_FDATASYNC): Define unconditionally.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_SIGFRAME_V2): Likewise.
)__ASSUME_EVENTFD2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SIGNALFD4): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_PSELECT): Do not undefine conditionally.
(__ASSUME_PPOLL): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_PSELECT): Define unconditionally.
(__ASSUME_PPOLL): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_O_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SOCK_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_IN_NONBLOCK): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_PIPE2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_EVENTFD2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SIGNALFD4): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_DUP3): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_O_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SOCK_CLOEXEC): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_IN_NONBLOCK): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_PIPE2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_EVENTFD2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SIGNALFD4): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_DUP3): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/kernel-features.h
(__ASSUME_EVENTFD2): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_SIGNALFD4): Likewise.
(__ASSUME_ACCEPT4_SYSCALL): Likewise.
This patch fixes the tst-tlsmod[5/6].so build in system that uses
-Wl,--as-needed as default in linker option. Without this option
the testing shared library that does not have libc.so in DT_NEEDED
and the tst-tls9-static fails in architecture that use the
./sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/<arch>/dl-static.c trick.
This patch fixes bug 16064, i386 fenv_t not including SSE state, using
the technique suggested there of storing the state in the existing
__eip field of fenv_t to avoid needing to increase the size of fenv_t
and add new symbol versions. The included testcase, which previously
failed for i386 (but passed for x86_64), illustrates how the previous
state was buggy.
This patch causes the SSE state to be included *to the extent it is on
x86_64*. Where some state should logically be included but isn't for
x86_64 (see bug 16068), this patch does not cause it to be included
for i386 either. The idea is that any patch fixing that bug should
fix it for both x86_64 and i386 at once.
Tested i386 and x86_64. (I haven't tested the case of a CPU without
SSE2 disabling the test.)
[BZ #16064]
* sysdeps/i386/fpu/fegetenv.c: Include <unistd.h>, <ldsodefs.h>
and <dl-procinfo.h>.
(__fegetenv): Save SSE state in envp->__eip if supported.
* sysdeps/i386/fpu/feholdexcpt.c (feholdexcept): Save SSE state in
envp->__eip if supported.
* sysdeps/i386/fpu/fesetenv.c: Include <unistd.h>, <ldsodefs.h>
and <dl-procinfo.h>.
(__fesetenv): Always set __eip, __cs_selector, __opcode,
__data_offset and __data_selector in environment to 0. Set SSE
state if supported.
* sysdeps/x86/fpu/Makefile [$(subdir) = math] (tests): Add
test-fenv-sse.
[$(subdir) = math] (CFLAGS-test-fenv-sse.c): Add -msse2
-mfpmath=sse.
* sysdeps/x86/fpu/test-fenv-sse.c: New file.
Set values for libc_commonpagesize and libc_relro_required for the
ARM port to enable relro by default and suppress a warning at
configure time.
ChangeLog:
2014-05-09 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* sysdeps/arm/preconfigure.ac: Set libc_commonpagesize
and libc_relro_required for ARM.
* sysdeps/arm/preconfigure: Regenerate.
Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and
s390x. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX
capable systems. The lock elision code is only built with
--enable-lock-elision=yes and then requires a GCC version supporting
the TX builtins. With lock elision default mutexes are elided via
__builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports transactions. By default lock
elision is not enabled and the elision code is not built.
Add an optimized implementation of strcmp for ARMv7-A cores. This
implementation is significantly faster than the current generic C
implementation, particularly for strings of 16 bytes and longer.
Tested with the glibc string tests for arm-linux-gnueabihf and
armeb-linux-gnueabihf.
The code was written by ARM, who have agreed to assign the copyright
to the FSF for integration into glibc.
ChangeLog:
2014-05-09 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* sysdeps/arm/armv7/strcmp.S: New file.
* NEWS: Mention addition of ARMv7 optimized strcmp.
The optimization is achieved by following techniques:
> data alignment [gain from aligned memory access on read/write]
> POWER7 gains performance with loop unrolling/unwinding
[gain by reduction of branch penalty].
> zero padding done by calling optimized memset
