Re: [PATCH 07/10] bitops: Provide compile time HWEIGHT{8,16,32,64}

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Jan 30 2010 - 02:36:11 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 11:32 +0100, John Kacur wrote:
> >
> > I like it. Maybe provide a comment that this provides the Hamming weight,
> > it took me a second to realize what this was.
>
> its called _H_weight for crying out loud.

I always forget such abbreviations :-/

I think when a single kernel hacker requests a clarifying comment that's
reason enough to add it. After all he broke through a barrier of laziness to
write that email ;-)

Ingo
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