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Subject: LSB operation

Author: Landon Rabern

Date: 11:23:53 10/13/99


What is quick way to get the LSB of a 64 bit unsigned int?  If I take n & -n, I
can clear all the bits except the one that I want.  Then I could either do a
loop shifting right until I got 1 or do a log base 2.  These both seem slow, is
there a faster way?

Thanks,

Landon



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