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Re:C Strings and my slow descent to madness by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:22PM (#35475326)
Here is the musl stdlib strlen. I do not use glibc.

https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/plain/src/string/strlen....

   #include <string.h>
   #include <stdint.h>
   #include <limits.h>
   
   #define ALIGN (sizeof(size_t))
   #define ONES ((size_t)-1/UCHAR_MAX)
   #define HIGHS (ONES * (UCHAR_MAX/2+1))
   #define HASZERO(x) ((x)-ONES & ~(x) & HIGHS)
   
   size_t strlen(const char *s)
   {
   const char *a = s;
   #ifdef __GNUC__
   typedef size_t __attribute__((__may_alias__)) word;
   const word *w;
   for (; (uintptr_t)s % ALIGN; s++) if (!*s) return s-a;
   for (w = (const void *)s; !HASZERO(*w); w++);
   s = (const void *)w;
   #endif
   for (; *s; s++);
   return s-a;
   }

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