Re: [tip:perf/core] bitops: Provide compile time HWEIGHT{8,16,32,64}

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:28:04 GMT tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > +#define HWEIGHT8(w)			\
> > +      (	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 0))) +	\
> > +	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 1))) +	\
> > +	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 2))) +	\
> > +	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 3))) +	\
> > +	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 4))) +	\
> > +	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 5))) +	\
> > +	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 6))) +	\
> > +	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 7)))	)
> > +
> > +#define HWEIGHT16(w) (HWEIGHT8(w)  + HWEIGHT8(w >> 8))
> > +#define HWEIGHT32(w) (HWEIGHT16(w) + HWEIGHT16(w >> 16))
> > +#define HWEIGHT64(w) (HWEIGHT32(w) + HWEIGHT32(w >> 32))
> 
> Would be nice if it had a comment explaining why it exists.  If people
> accidentally use this with non-constant arguments, the generated code
> will be pretty ghastly.
> 
> Or add some barf-if-not-__constant_p() thing, perhaps.

Yeah, agreed.

	Ingo
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