On Wednesday 30 April 2003 13:14, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> gcc 3.4 will have a __builtin_ctz function which can be used for this.
> It will emit special instructions on CPUs that support it (i386, Alpha
> EV67), and use a lookup table on others, which is very boring, but
> also faster.
Actually, __builtin_clz:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html
Not having a gcc 2.4 handy, I couldn't test it, but I did notice that the
built-in ffs is very fast. Perhaps all such standard functions will end up
as built-ins instead of kernel library functions, some very long time in the
future. If old compilers ever do finally fade away, that is.
It's somewhat annoying that __builtin_clz leaves the all-ones case dangling
instead of returning -1.
Regards,
Daniel
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