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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: BIT Counting: C programming problem
Message-ID: <9366@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Jan 89 12:21:10 GMT
References: <34389@bbn.COM) <1171@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <755@infmx.UUCP> <2787@epimass.EPI.COM> <11025@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <11025@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) writes:
-That wasn't what he wrote, he wrote
-	num &= num - 1 , count += 1;
-		       ^-- oops.

Excuse my asking, but what's supposed to be the problem with that?