Subject: Re: 2s complement
To: Chapman Flack <nblists@anastigmatix.net>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/07/2006 11:18:37
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:02:23PM -0500, Chapman Flack wrote:
> 
> btw, speaking of machine instructions, is there anything like
> a machine/bitstring.h (not named exactly that, I checked:))
> or some other magic to use things like BFS on machines that
> have it?

Beware that even if a cpu has such an instruction, it may not be as
fast as executing a series of other instructions!

	David

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