which bits are set
Dan Bernstein
brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Mon Dec 17 05:51:15 AEST 1990
In article <1990Dec12.205114.2376 at uvm.edu> hartley at emily.uvm.edu (Stephen J. Hartley) writes:
> I have a related problem: determining the position
> numbers of all the bits that are set in a 32-bit integer. The "brute force"
> approach follows. Is there a faster (clever) way to do this in C?
The brute force (i.e., fast) approach is to use a big table.
Even better, represent sets of numbers as integers.
---Dan
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