Re:Binary Search Reconsidered (2018)
by benlivengood on Friday December 25, 2020 @04:30PM
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In x86 (intel notation) you can also:
add rax, rbx
rcr rax, 1
It explicitly uses the carry flag from the addition as the top bit of the right-rotated result.
Not super useful for anything other than averaging two uints but that's x86 for you.
What I missed in my first pass was
* Forgetting exactly which register was the low index and which was the high index
* Underflow if array size was zero from setting the last index to (size - 1)
add rax, rbx
rcr rax, 1
It explicitly uses the carry flag from the addition as the top bit of the right-rotated result.
Not super useful for anything other than averaging two uints but that's x86 for you.
What I missed in my first pass was