RFA: Small PATCH to add pow2p_hwi to hwint.h

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Thu Sep 8 16:22:00 GMT 2016


On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Jason Merrill wrote:

> Various places in GCC use negate, bit-and and compare to test whether
> an integer is a power of 2, but I think it would be clearer for this
> test to be wrapped in a function.

(x & -x) == x is also true for 0.  Whatever the correct function semantics 
for 0, the comment needs to reflect them.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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