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Joe keane  
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 More options Apr 25 2012, 4:08 pm
Newsgroups: comp.arch, comp.lang.c
From: j...@panix.com (Joe keane)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:08:32 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Wed, Apr 25 2012 4:08 pm
Subject: Re: ffs16
In article <9kmj69-hhi2....@ntp6.tmsw.no>,
Terje Mathisen  <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> wrote:

>This is sort of the same as the scan for first/last set bit: You might
>very well have hw opcodes to do this efficiently, and the compiler might
>be capable of generating it if you use the proper idiom?

That's the problem.  I don't see how to write it so the compiler will
say 'oh he's trying to do a FFS' and spit out appropriate code.

 
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