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A comment on Ten Ways to Check if an Integer Is a Power Of Two in C. Parent comment

Re:Ten Ways to Check if an Integer Is a Power Of Two in C by TorKlingberg on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:57AM (#2807918)
Also, is there any pure C code that an optimizing compiler could make into a POPCNT instruction? I would be quite impressed if a compiler could recognize some of the snippets in the article, and compile them into a POPCNT and a compare with 1.
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