#pragma once namespace EightBit { int countBits(uint8_t value); bool oddParity(uint8_t value); } /* Published in 1988, the C Programming Language 2nd Ed. (by Brian W.Kernighan and Dennis M.Ritchie) mentions this in exercise 2 - 9. On April 19, 2006 Don Knuth pointed out to me that this method "was first published by Peter Wegner in CACM 3 (1960), 322. (Also discovered independently by Derrick Lehmer and published in 1964 in a book edited by Beckenbach.)" */ inline int EightBit::countBits(uint8_t value) { int count; // c accumulates the total bits set in value for (count = 0; value; ++count) value &= value - 1; // clear the least significant bit set return count; } inline bool EightBit::oddParity(uint8_t value) { return countBits(value) % 2; } #ifdef _MSC_VER # include # define LIKELY(x) (x) # define UNLIKELY(x) (x) # define EIGHTBIT_PARITY(x) (__popcnt(x) % 2) # define UNREACHABLE __assume(0) #elif defined(__GNUG__) # include # define LIKELY(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 1) # define UNLIKELY(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0) # define EIGHTBIT_PARITY(x) __builtin_parity(value) # define UNREACHABLE __builtin_unreachable(); #else # define LIKELY(x) (x) # define UNLIKELY(x) (x) # define EIGHTBIT_PARITY(x) EightBit::oddParity(x) # define UNREACHABLE #endif