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From: davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B.Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: count of bits set in a long
Summary: H&S I, or H&S 2, page 175
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Keywords: bits set, count of, long
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Date: 26 Sep 90 15:53:51 GMT
References: <37545@ut-emx.uucp> <3820@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <md.654260871@achilles>
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In article <md.654260871@achilles>, md@doc.ic.ac.uk (Mark Dawson) writes:
> In <3820@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> >There's a rather nice loop that does one iteration per bit, and works
> >for any size ...
> 
> Here it is:

See Harbison & Steele, C A Reference Manual,
first and second edition, Pages 174-176.

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