bird/lib/bitops.c

/*
 *	BIRD Library -- Generic Bit Operations
 *
 *	(c) 1998 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
 *
 *	Can be freely distributed and used under the terms of the GNU GPL.
 */

#include "nest/bird.h"
#include "bitops.h"

/**
 * u32_mkmask - create a bit mask
 * @n: number of bits
 *
 * u32_mkmask() returns an unsigned 32-bit integer which binary
 * representation consists of @n ones followed by zeroes.
 */
u32
u32_mkmask(unsigned n)
{
  return n ? ~((1 << (32 - n)) - 1) : 0;
}

/**
 * u32_masklen - calculate length of a bit mask
 * @x: bit mask
 *
 * This function checks whether the given integer @x represents
 * a valid bit mask (binary representation contains first ones, then
 * zeroes) and returns the number of ones or -1 if the mask is invalid.
 */
int
u32_masklen(u32 x)
{
  int l = 0;
  u32 n = ~x;

  if (n & (n+1)) return -1;
  if (x & 0x0000ffff) { x &= 0x0000ffff; l += 16; }
  if (x & 0x00ff00ff) { x &= 0x00ff00ff; l += 8; }
  if (x & 0x0f0f0f0f) { x &= 0x0f0f0f0f; l += 4; }
  if (x & 0x33333333) { x &= 0x33333333; l += 2; }
  if (x & 0x55555555) l++;
  if (x & 0xaaaaaaaa) l++;
  return l;
}