Tool and Library Support
A number of compiler and library vendors supply compiler intrinsics or library functions to perform find first set and/or related operations, which are frequently implemented in terms of the hardware instructions above:
Tool/library | Name | Type | Input type(s) | Notes | Result for zero input |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
POSIX.1 compliant libc 4.3BSD libc OS X 10.3 libc |
ffs |
Library function | int | Includes glibc. POSIX does not supply the complementary log base 2 / clz. |
0 |
FreeBSD 5.3 libc OS X 10.4 libc |
ffsl |
Library function | int, long | fls ("find last set") computes (log base 2) + 1. | 0 |
FreeBSD 7.1 libc | ffsll, flsll |
Library function | long long | 0 | |
GCC 3.2.2 | __builtin_ffs |
Built-in functions | unsigned int, unsigned long, unsigned long long |
Possibly available before 3.2.2. | 0 |
__builtin_ctz |
undefined | ||||
__builtin_clz |
undefined | ||||
Visual Studio 2005 | _BitScanForward _BitScanReverse |
Compiler intrinsics | unsigned long, unsigned __int64 |
Returns zero on zero input, unlike x86 bsf/bsr | 0 |
Visual Studio 2008 | __lzcnt |
Compiler intrinsic | unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned __int64 |
Relies on AMD-only lzcnt instruction | Input size in bits |
Intel C++ Compiler | _bit_scan_forward |
Compiler intrinsics | int | undefined | |
NVIDIA CUDA | __clz |
Functions | 32-bit, 64-bit | Compiles to fewer instructions on the GeForce 400 Series | 32 |
__ffs |
0 | ||||
LLVM | llvm.ctlz.* llvm.cttz.* |
Intrinsic | 8, 16, 32, 64, 256 | LLVM assembly language | Input size if arg 2 is 0, else undefined |
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