Subject: RE: problems regarding libc
To: Pai-Hsiang Hsiao <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
From: TAKEMURA, Shin <takemura@netbsd.org>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 12/23/1999 23:57:08
-----Original Message-----
From: Pai-Hsiang Hsiao <shawn@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: port-hpcmips@netbsd.org <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
Date: Saturday, December 18, 1999 10:17 AM
Subject: problems regarding libc

>I ran NetBSD on NEC Mobile Pro 800 for couple days now.
>
>I tried to run hbench-OS (a pathced version of lmbench) on that,
>and results are surprisingly contradicted.


Could you tell me more about the hbench-OS? Can I run the
hbench-OS by myself?

>The libc's bzero reports only 4MB/s bandwidth, while unrolled
>write reports 150MB/s. I doubt that there might have something
>wrong with libc's assembly version of bzero, even bcopy (pipe has
>low bandwidth, too)

>
>I tried to rebuild the libc, but failed, and it's too slow. (I
>have no native NetBSD machine around, I did the compilation on
>the device)
>
>Can anyone out there help me to build a libc without using the
>bcopy.S bzero.S? use libc/string/b{copy,zero}.c instead.


I've made libc.a with bcopy.c and bzero.c and put it on

  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/hpcmips/tmp/libc.a.tgz

Could that help you?

Takemura