No bug. This commit adds support for __memcmpeq to be implemented
seperately from memcmp. Support is added for versions optimized with
sse2, avx2, and evex.
No bug.
This commit adds support for __memcmpeq() as a new ABI for all
targets. In this commit __memcmpeq() is implemented only as an alias
to the corresponding targets memcmp() implementation. __memcmpeq() is
added as a new symbol starting with GLIBC_2.35 and defined in string.h
with comments explaining its behavior. Basic tests that it is callable
and works where added in string/tester.c
As discussed in the proposal "Add new ABI '__memcmpeq()' to libc"
__memcmpeq() is essentially a reserved namespace for bcmp(). The means
is shares the same specifications as memcmp() except the return value
for non-equal byte sequences is any non-zero value. This is less
strict than memcmp()'s return value specification and can be better
optimized when a boolean return is all that is needed.
__memcmpeq() is meant to only be called by compilers if they can prove
that the return value of a memcmp() call is only used for its boolean
value.
All tests in string/tester.c passed. As well build succeeds on
x86_64-linux-gnu target.
This commit replaces two usages of SSE2 'movups' with AVX 'vmovdqu'.
it could potentially be dangerous to use SSE2 if this function is ever
called without using 'vzeroupper' beforehand. While compilers appear
to use 'vzeroupper' before function calls if AVX2 has been used, using
SSE2 here is more brittle. Since it is not absolutely necessary it
should be avoided.
It costs 2-extra bytes but the extra bytes should only eat into
alignment padding.
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
No bug.
Optimization are
1. change control flow for L(more_2x_vec) to fall through to loop and
jump for L(less_4x_vec) and L(less_8x_vec). This uses less code
size and saves jumps for length > 4x VEC_SIZE.
2. For EVEX/AVX512 move L(less_vec) closer to entry.
3. Avoid complex address mode for length > 2x VEC_SIZE
4. Slightly better aligning code for the loop from the perspective of
code size and uops.
5. Align targets so they make full use of their fetch block and if
possible cache line.
6. Try and reduce total number of icache lines that will need to be
pulled in for a given length.
7. Include "local" version of stosb target. For AVX2/EVEX/AVX512
jumping to the stosb target in the sse2 code section will almost
certainly be to a new page. The new version does increase code size
marginally by duplicating the target but should get better iTLB
behavior as a result.
test-memset, test-wmemset, and test-bzero are all passing.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
No bug.
The frontend optimizations are to:
1. Reorganize logically connected basic blocks so they are either in
the same cache line or adjacent cache lines.
2. Avoid cases when basic blocks unnecissarily cross cache lines.
3. Try and 32 byte align any basic blocks possible without sacrificing
code size. Smaller / Less hot basic blocks are used for this.
Overall code size shrunk by 168 bytes. This should make up for any
extra costs due to aligning to 64 bytes.
In general performance before deviated a great deal dependending on
whether entry alignment % 64 was 0, 16, 32, or 48. These changes
essentially make it so that the current implementation is at least
equal to the best alignment of the original for any arguments.
The only additional optimization is in the page cross case. Branch on
equals case was removed from the size == [4, 7] case. As well the [4,
7] and [2, 3] case where swapped as [4, 7] is likely a more hot
argument size.
test-memcmp and test-wmemcmp are both passing.
We stopped adding "Contributed by" or similar lines in sources in 2012
in favour of git logs and keeping the Contributors section of the
glibc manual up to date. Removing these lines makes the license
header a bit more consistent across files and also removes the
possibility of error in attribution when license blocks or files are
copied across since the contributed-by lines don't actually reflect
reality in those cases.
Move all "Contributed by" and similar lines (Written by, Test by,
etc.) into a new file CONTRIBUTED-BY to retain record of these
contributions. These contributors are also mentioned in
manual/contrib.texi, so we just maintain this additional record as a
courtesy to the earlier developers.
The following scripts were used to filter a list of files to edit in
place and to clean up the CONTRIBUTED-BY file respectively. These
were not added to the glibc sources because they're not expected to be
of any use in future given that this is a one time task:
https://gist.github.com/siddhesh/b5ecac94eabfd72ed2916d6d8157e7dchttps://gist.github.com/siddhesh/15ea1f5e435ace9774f485030695ee02
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
commit 3ec5d83d2a
Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jan 25 14:19:40 2020 -0800
x86-64: Avoid rep movsb with short distance [BZ #27130]
introduced some regressions on Intel processors without Fast Short REP
MOV (FSRM). Add Avoid_Short_Distance_REP_MOVSB to avoid rep movsb with
short distance only on Intel processors with FSRM. bench-memmove-large
on Skylake server shows that cycles of __memmove_evex_unaligned_erms
improves for the following data size:
before after Improvement
length=4127, align1=3, align2=0: 479.38 349.25 27%
length=4223, align1=9, align2=5: 405.62 333.25 18%
length=8223, align1=3, align2=0: 786.12 496.38 37%
length=8319, align1=9, align2=5: 727.50 501.38 31%
length=16415, align1=3, align2=0: 1436.88 840.00 41%
length=16511, align1=9, align2=5: 1375.50 836.38 39%
length=32799, align1=3, align2=0: 2890.00 1860.12 36%
length=32895, align1=9, align2=5: 2891.38 1931.88 33%
The following commit
commit 6f573a27b6
Author: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Jun 23 01:19:34 2021 -0400
x86-64: Add wcslen optimize for sse4.1
Added wcsnlen-sse4.1 to the wcslen ifunc implementation list and did
not add wcslen-sse4.1 to wcslen ifunc implementation list. This commit
fixes that by removing wcsnlen-sse4.1 from the wcslen ifunc
implementation list and adding wcslen-sse4.1 to the ifunc
implementation list.
Testing:
test-wcslen.c, test-rsi-wcslen.c, and test-rsi-strlen.c are passing as
well as all other tests in wcsmbs and string.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
No bug. The way wcsnlen will check if near the end of maxlen
is the following macro:
mov %r11, %rsi; \
subq %rax, %rsi; \
andq $-64, %rax; \
testq $-64, %rsi; \
je L(strnlen_ret)
Which words independently of s + maxlen overflowing. So the
second overflow check is unnecissary for correctness and
just extra overhead in the common no overflow case.
test-strlen.c, test-wcslen.c, test-strnlen.c and test-wcsnlen.c are
all passing
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
This commit fixes the bug mentioned in the previous commit.
The previous implementations of wmemchr in these files relied
on maxlen * sizeof(wchar_t) which was not guranteed by the standard.
The new overflow tests added in the previous commit now
pass (As well as all the other tests).
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
This commit fixes the bug mentioned in the previous commit.
The previous implementations of wmemchr in these files relied
on n * sizeof(wchar_t) which was not guranteed by the standard.
The new overflow tests added in the previous commit now
pass (As well as all the other tests).
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
No bug. This comment adds the ifunc / build infrastructure
necessary for wcslen to prefer the sse4.1 implementation
in strlen-vec.S. test-wcslen.c is passing.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Since strlen.S contains SSE2 version of strlen/strnlen and SSE4.1
version of wcslen/wcsnlen, move strlen.S to multiarch/strlen-vec.S
and include multiarch/strlen-vec.S from SSE2 and SSE4.1 variants.
This also removes the unused symbols, __GI___strlen_sse2 and
__GI___wcsnlen_sse4_1.
No bug. This commit makes a few small improvements to
memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S. The changes are 1) only aligning to 64
instead of 128. Either alignment will perform equally well in a loop
and 128 just increases the odds of having to do an extra iteration
which can be significant overhead for small values. 2) Align some
targets and the loop. 3) Remove an ALU from the alignment process. 4)
Reorder the last 4x VEC so that they are stored after the loop. 5)
Move the condition for leq 8x VEC to before the alignment
process. test-memset and test-wmemset are both passing.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
No bug. This commit optimizes memcmp-evex.S. The optimizations include
adding a new vec compare path for small sizes, reorganizing the entry
control flow, removing some unnecissary ALU instructions from the main
loop, and most importantly replacing the heavy use of vpcmp + kand
logic with vpxor + vptern. test-memcmp and test-wmemcmp are both
passing.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
No bug. This commit optimizes memcmp-avx2.S. The optimizations include
adding a new vec compare path for small sizes, reorganizing the entry
control flow, and removing some unnecissary ALU instructions from the
main loop. test-memcmp and test-wmemcmp are both passing.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
No bug.
This commit adds a new implementation for EVEX memchr that is not safe
for RTM because it uses vzeroupper. The benefit is that by using
ymm0-ymm15 it can use vpcmpeq and vpternlogd in the 4x loop which is
faster than the RTM safe version which cannot use vpcmpeq because
there is no EVEX encoding for the instruction. All parts of the
implementation aside from the 4x loop are the same for the two
versions and the optimization is only relevant for large sizes.
Tigerlake:
size , algn , Pos , Cur T , New T , Win , Dif
512 , 6 , 192 , 9.2 , 9.04 , no-RTM , 0.16
512 , 7 , 224 , 9.19 , 8.98 , no-RTM , 0.21
2048 , 0 , 256 , 10.74 , 10.54 , no-RTM , 0.2
2048 , 0 , 512 , 14.81 , 14.87 , RTM , 0.06
2048 , 0 , 1024 , 22.97 , 22.57 , no-RTM , 0.4
2048 , 0 , 2048 , 37.49 , 34.51 , no-RTM , 2.98 <--
Icelake:
size , algn , Pos , Cur T , New T , Win , Dif
512 , 6 , 192 , 7.6 , 7.3 , no-RTM , 0.3
512 , 7 , 224 , 7.63 , 7.27 , no-RTM , 0.36
2048 , 0 , 256 , 8.48 , 8.38 , no-RTM , 0.1
2048 , 0 , 512 , 11.57 , 11.42 , no-RTM , 0.15
2048 , 0 , 1024 , 17.92 , 17.38 , no-RTM , 0.54
2048 , 0 , 2048 , 30.37 , 27.34 , no-RTM , 3.03 <--
test-memchr, test-wmemchr, and test-rawmemchr are all passing.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
An unknown vector operation occurred in commit 2a76821c30. Fixed it
by using "ymm{k1}{z}" but not "ymm {k1} {z}".
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
And replace the generic algorithm with the Brian Kernighan's one.
GCC optimize it with popcnt if the architecture supports, so there
is no need to add the extra POPCNT define to enable it.
This is really a micro-optimization that only adds complexity:
recent ABIs already support it (x86-64-v2 or power64le) and it
simplifies the code for internal usage, since i686 does not allow an
internal iFUNC call.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, aarch64-linux-gnu, and
powerpc64le-linux-gnu.
No bug. This commit optimizes memchr-evex.S. The optimizations include
replacing some branches with cmovcc, avoiding some branches entirely
in the less_4x_vec case, making the page cross logic less strict,
saving some ALU in the alignment process, and most importantly
increasing ILP in the 4x loop. test-memchr, test-rawmemchr, and
test-wmemchr are all passing.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
No bug. This commit optimizes memchr-avx2.S. The optimizations include
replacing some branches with cmovcc, avoiding some branches entirely
in the less_4x_vec case, making the page cross logic less strict,
asaving a few instructions the in loop return loop. test-memchr,
test-rawmemchr, and test-wmemchr are all passing.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
No bug. This commit optimizes strchr-evex.S. The optimizations are
mostly small things such as save an ALU in the alignment process,
saving a few instructions in the loop return. The one significant
change is saving 2 instructions in the 4x loop. test-strchr,
test-strchrnul, test-wcschr, and test-wcschrnul are all passing.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
No bug. This commit optimizes strchr-avx2.S. The optimizations are all
small things such as save an ALU in the alignment process, saving a
few instructions in the loop return, saving some bytes in the main
loop, and increasing the ILP in the return cases. test-strchr,
test-strchrnul, test-wcschr, and test-wcschrnul are all passing.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
No bug. This commit optimizes strlen-avx2.S. The optimizations are
mostly small things but they add up to roughly 10-30% performance
improvement for strlen. The results for strnlen are bit more
ambiguous. test-strlen, test-strnlen, test-wcslen, and test-wcsnlen
are all passing.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
No bug. This commit optimizes strlen-evex.S. The
optimizations are mostly small things but they add up to roughly
10-30% performance improvement for strlen. The results for strnlen are
bit more ambiguous. test-strlen, test-strnlen, test-wcslen, and
test-wcsnlen are all passing.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
No bug. This commit adds optimized cased for less_vec memset case that
uses the avx512vl/avx512bw mask store avoiding the excessive
branches. test-memset and test-wmemset are passing.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Since strchr-avx2.S updated by
commit 1f745ecc21
Author: noah <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Feb 3 00:38:59 2021 -0500
x86-64: Refactor and improve performance of strchr-avx2.S
uses sarx:
c4 e2 72 f7 c0 sarx %ecx,%eax,%eax
for strchr-avx2 family functions, require BMI2 in ifunc-impl-list.c and
ifunc-avx2.h.
Since __strlen_evex and __strnlen_evex added by
commit 1fd8c163a8
Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Mar 5 06:24:52 2021 -0800
x86-64: Add ifunc-avx2.h functions with 256-bit EVEX
use sarx:
c4 e2 6a f7 c0 sarx %edx,%eax,%eax
require BMI2 for __strlen_evex and __strnlen_evex in ifunc-impl-list.c.
ifunc-avx2.h already requires BMI2 for EVEX implementation.
No Bug. This commit updates the large memcpy case (no overlap). The
update is to perform memcpy on either 2 or 4 contiguous pages at
once. This 1) helps to alleviate the affects of false memory aliasing
when destination and source have a close 4k alignment and 2) In most
cases and for most DRAM units is a modestly more efficient access
pattern. These changes are a clear performance improvement for
VEC_SIZE =16/32, though more ambiguous for VEC_SIZE=64. test-memcpy,
test-memccpy, test-mempcpy, test-memmove, and tst-memmove-overflow all
pass.
Signed-off-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Update ifunc-memmove.h to select the function optimized with AVX512
instructions using ZMM16-ZMM31 registers to avoid RTM abort with usable
AVX512VL since VZEROUPPER isn't needed at function exit.
Update ifunc-memset.h/ifunc-wmemset.h to select the function optimized
with AVX512 instructions using ZMM16-ZMM31 registers to avoid RTM abort
with usable AVX512VL and AVX512BW since VZEROUPPER isn't needed at
function exit.
Since VZEROUPPER triggers RTM abort while VZEROALL won't, select AVX
optimized string/memory functions with
xtest
jz 1f
vzeroall
ret
1:
vzeroupper
ret
at function exit on processors with usable RTM, but without 256-bit EVEX
instructions to avoid VZEROUPPER inside a transactionally executing RTM
region.
Update ifunc-memcmp.h to select the function optimized with 256-bit EVEX
instructions using YMM16-YMM31 registers to avoid RTM abort with usable
AVX512VL, AVX512BW and MOVBE since VZEROUPPER isn't needed at function
exit.
Update ifunc-memset.h/ifunc-wmemset.h to select the function optimized
with 256-bit EVEX instructions using YMM16-YMM31 registers to avoid RTM
abort with usable AVX512VL and AVX512BW since VZEROUPPER isn't needed at
function exit.
Update ifunc-memmove.h to select the function optimized with 256-bit EVEX
instructions using YMM16-YMM31 registers to avoid RTM abort with usable
AVX512VL since VZEROUPPER isn't needed at function exit.
Update ifunc-strcpy.h to select the function optimized with 256-bit EVEX
instructions using YMM16-YMM31 registers to avoid RTM abort with usable
AVX512VL and AVX512BW since VZEROUPPER isn't needed at function exit.
Update ifunc-avx2.h, strchr.c, strcmp.c, strncmp.c and wcsnlen.c to
select the function optimized with 256-bit EVEX instructions using
YMM16-YMM31 registers to avoid RTM abort with usable AVX512VL, AVX512BW
and BMI2 since VZEROUPPER isn't needed at function exit.
For strcmp/strncmp, prefer AVX2 strcmp/strncmp if Prefer_AVX2_STRCMP
is set.
No bug. Just seemed the performance could be improved a bit. Observed
and expected behavior are unchanged. Optimized body of main
loop. Updated page cross logic and optimized accordingly. Made a few
minor instruction selection modifications. No regressions in test
suite. Both test-strchrnul and test-strchr passed.
In the process of optimizing memcpy for AMD machines, we have found the
vector move operations are outperforming enhanced REP MOVSB for data
transfers above the L2 cache size on Zen3 architectures.
To handle this use case, we are adding an upper bound parameter on
enhanced REP MOVSB:'__x86_rep_movsb_stop_threshold'.
As per large-bench results, we are configuring this parameter to the
L2 cache size for AMD machines and applicable from Zen3 architecture
supporting the ERMS feature.
For architectures other than AMD, it is the computed value of
non-temporal threshold parameter.
Reviewed-by: Premachandra Mallappa <premachandra.mallappa@amd.com>
When copying with "rep movsb", if the distance between source and
destination is N*4GB + [1..63] with N >= 0, performance may be very
slow. This patch updates memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S for AVX and
AVX512 versions with the distance in RCX:
cmpl $63, %ecx
// Don't use "rep movsb" if ECX <= 63
jbe L(Don't use rep movsb")
Use "rep movsb"
Benchtests data with bench-memcpy, bench-memcpy-large, bench-memcpy-random
and bench-memcpy-walk on Skylake, Ice Lake and Tiger Lake show that its
performance impact is within noise range as "rep movsb" is only used for
data size >= 4KB.
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 6694 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from benchtests/bench-pthread-locks.c
and iconvdata/tst-iconv-big5-hkscs-to-2ucs4.c, to work around this
diagnostic from Savannah:
remote: *** pre-commit check failed ...
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
Install <sys/platform/x86.h> so that programmers can do
#if __has_include(<sys/platform/x86.h>)
#include <sys/platform/x86.h>
#endif
...
if (CPU_FEATURE_USABLE (SSE2))
...
if (CPU_FEATURE_USABLE (AVX2))
...
<sys/platform/x86.h> exports only:
enum
{
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_1 = 0,
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_7,
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001,
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_D_ECX_1,
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000007,
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000008,
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_7_ECX_1,
/* Keep the following line at the end. */
COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX
};
struct cpuid_features
{
struct cpuid_registers cpuid;
struct cpuid_registers usable;
};
struct cpu_features
{
struct cpu_features_basic basic;
struct cpuid_features features[COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX];
};
/* Get a pointer to the CPU features structure. */
extern const struct cpu_features *__x86_get_cpu_features
(unsigned int max) __attribute__ ((const));
Since all feature checks are done through macros, programs compiled with
a newer <sys/platform/x86.h> are compatible with the older glibc binaries
as long as the layout of struct cpu_features is identical. The features
array can be expanded with backward binary compatibility for both .o and
.so files. When COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX is increased to support new
processor features, __x86_get_cpu_features in the older glibc binaries
returns NULL and HAS_CPU_FEATURE/CPU_FEATURE_USABLE return false on the
new processor feature. No new symbol version is neeeded.
Both CPU_FEATURE_USABLE and HAS_CPU_FEATURE are provided. HAS_CPU_FEATURE
can be used to identify processor features.
Note: Although GCC has __builtin_cpu_supports, it only supports a subset
of <sys/platform/x86.h> and it is equivalent to CPU_FEATURE_USABLE. It
doesn't support HAS_CPU_FEATURE.
Support usable check for all CPU features with the following changes:
1. Change struct cpu_features to
struct cpuid_features
{
struct cpuid_registers cpuid;
struct cpuid_registers usable;
};
struct cpu_features
{
struct cpu_features_basic basic;
struct cpuid_features features[COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX];
unsigned int preferred[PREFERRED_FEATURE_INDEX_MAX];
...
};
so that there is a usable bit for each cpuid bit.
2. After the cpuid bits have been initialized, copy the known bits to the
usable bits. EAX/EBX from INDEX_1 and EAX from INDEX_7 aren't used for
CPU feature detection.
3. Clear the usable bits which require OS support.
4. If the feature is supported by OS, copy its cpuid bit to its usable
bit.
5. Replace HAS_CPU_FEATURE and CPU_FEATURES_CPU_P with CPU_FEATURE_USABLE
and CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P to check if a feature is usable.
6. Add DEPR_FPU_CS_DS for INDEX_7_EBX_13.
7. Unset MPX feature since it has been deprecated.
The results are
1. If the feature is known and doesn't requre OS support, its usable bit
is copied from the cpuid bit.
2. Otherwise, its usable bit is copied from the cpuid bit only if the
feature is known to supported by OS.
3. CPU_FEATURE_USABLE/CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P are used to check if the
feature can be used.
4. HAS_CPU_FEATURE/CPU_FEATURE_CPU_P are used to check if CPU supports
the feature.
Add x86_rep_movsb_threshold and x86_rep_stosb_threshold to tunables
to update thresholds for "rep movsb" and "rep stosb" at run-time.
Note that the user specified threshold for "rep movsb" smaller than
the minimum threshold will be ignored.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
strcmp-avx2.S: In avx2 strncmp function, strings are compared in
chunks of 4 vector size(i.e. 32x4=128 byte for avx2). After first 4
vector size comparison, code must check whether it already passed
the given offset. This patch implement avx2 offset check condition
for strncmp function, if both string compare same for first 4 vector
size.
