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Subject: Re: crafty 19.14 and G4

Author: Joshua Shriver

Date: 00:50:40 07/01/04

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Do you happen to remember what version of crafty had this? Could it be placed
into 19.14 with the appropriate #if defined's?

You mentioned this was posted a week or so ago, have a URL or remeber the topic?

Sincerely,
Joshua Shriver

>
>Andreas,
>
>Last time I looked there were specific code for the PPC processor in Crafty.
>If not, there used to be.
>
>The PPC processor has a built in instruction to help with the FirstOne, LastOne
>function calls
>called cntlzw.  The counts the number of leading zero bits, I think, form the
>low bit number end.
>It turns most of the bit manipulation routines (except popcnt) into almost a
>single instruction call.
>
>In metrowerks, it can be called with the compiler function __cntlzw(32bitvalue).
>
>In XCode you have to call it from assembly.  The source was posted a week or so
>ago for the
>assembly language functions.
>
>William



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