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  • S Stephen Hewitt

    Surely using the word "crikey" demands higher rather than lower scores! Steve

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    Ryan Binns
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    :laugh:!

    Ryan

    "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

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    • T toxcct

      we are on a standard C++ forum, not managed/CLI...

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      Divyang Mithaiwala
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      Hello v2.0, We are on visual C++ & my suggesion is not wrong for it.


      Divyang Mithaiwala System Engineer & Software Developer

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      • D Divyang Mithaiwala

        Hello v2.0, We are on visual C++ & my suggesion is not wrong for it.


        Divyang Mithaiwala System Engineer & Software Developer

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        toxcct
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        Divyang Mithaiwala wrote:

        my suggesion is not wrong for it.

        yes it is, it will not work on a MFC/Win32 project... it is only for managed C++ (which is not for this forum, but for the C++/CLI forum instead)

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        • R Ryan Binns

          Actually, I've been using this for years doing embedded programming. Every clock cycle is precious ;)

          Ryan

          "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

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          RichardS
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          Hi Ryan, Thanks for the help. The code is great and the application is for an embedded -> PC interface. cheers Rich "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning." -- Rich Cook

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          • R Ryan Binns

            Crikey. I thought this was well known. Just do this:

            if (x & (x-1))
            {
              // x is <edit>not</edit>a power of two
            }
            else
            {
              // x is <edit>not</edit> a power of two
            }

            sorry, got the two cases round the wrong way... :-O

            Ryan

            "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

            -- modified at 6:04 Monday 6th March, 2006

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            RichardS
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            Hi Ryan, Is there is quick way for now making x a power of 2 after you have decided that it is not? regards, Rich "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning." -- Rich Cook

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            • T toxcct

              :sigh:

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              Stephen Hewitt
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              Modified version is still wrong - It will treat any integer as a power of 2. Steve

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                Modified version is still wrong - It will treat any integer as a power of 2. Steve

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                toxcct
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                i did not pretend to modified my post for a much working stuff...

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                  Hi All, Is there a fast way of checking to see if an int is a power of 2 (i.e. 2, 4, 8, 16, 1024)? I know the long way using a loop, but I was hoping for a simple way of doing this. regards, Rich "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning." -- Rich Cook

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                  David Crow
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                  #define ISPOWER2(x) (!((x)&((x)-1)))


                  "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

                  "There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb

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                  • R Russell

                    Read this function, it could be another start point! This function that I wrote last year find the bigger long, greater than the input value, that is a power of 2. And it is quite fast!:) unsigned long Next2Power(unsigned long x){ unsigned long y=1, x1=x; if(x==0) return 0; while(x1!=0){ x1>>=1; y<<=1; } y>>=1; if(y!=x) y<<=1; return y; }

                    Have a nice code day ;)

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                    David Crow
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                    _Russell_ wrote:

                    This function that I wrote last year find the bigger long, greater than the input value, that is a power of 2.

                    Why not just use log2()?


                    "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

                    "There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb

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                      Hi Ryan, Is there is quick way for now making x a power of 2 after you have decided that it is not? regards, Rich "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning." -- Rich Cook

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                      Ryan Binns
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                      RichardS wrote:

                      Is there is quick way for now making x a power of 2 after you have decided that it is not?

                      Not that I know of. I've never had to do this. Would you round up or down?

                      Ryan

                      "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

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                      • R Ryan Binns

                        RichardS wrote:

                        Is there is quick way for now making x a power of 2 after you have decided that it is not?

                        Not that I know of. I've never had to do this. Would you round up or down?

                        Ryan

                        "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

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                        Round up. So far I have a loop (for 32-bits) shifting 0x80000000 down until the & with x is successful, then shifting it back up by one. regards, Rich "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning." -- Rich Cook

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                          _Russell_ wrote:

                          This function that I wrote last year find the bigger long, greater than the input value, that is a power of 2.

                          Why not just use log2()?


                          "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

                          "There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb

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                          Russell
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                          Because my function is faster (I think) than log2(). But if I'm wrong let me know how have a faster function. And why. thanks

                          Have a nice code day ;)

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                            Because my function is faster (I think) than log2(). But if I'm wrong let me know how have a faster function. And why. thanks

                            Have a nice code day ;)

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                            David Crow
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                            _Russell_ wrote:

                            ...let me know how have a faster function.

                            This one benchmarks faster than the one you've shown:

                            unsigned long Next2Power(unsigned long x)
                            {
                            x--;
                            x |= x >> 1;
                            x |= x >> 2;
                            x |= x >> 4;
                            x |= x >> 8;
                            x |= x >> 16;
                            x++;

                            return x;
                            

                            }


                            "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

                            "There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb

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                              Hi Ryan, Is there is quick way for now making x a power of 2 after you have decided that it is not? regards, Rich "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning." -- Rich Cook

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                              cmk
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                              #define CK_ISPOW2(n) ( ((n)&((n)-1)) == 0 )

                              ullong FkGrainDn2( ullong S, ullong G )
                              {
                              // if( !CK_ISPOW2(G) ) return( FkGrainDnN(S, G) );
                              S = S & ~(G-1);
                              return(S);
                              }

                              ullong FkGrainUp2( ullong S, ullong G )
                              {
                              // if( !CK_ISPOW2(G) ) return( FkGrainUpN(S, G) );
                              G -= 1;
                              S = (S+G) & ~G;
                              return(S);
                              }

                              where: S is value to round G is a power of 2 ...cmk Save the whales - collect the whole set

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