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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Bit counting
Message-ID: <9397@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Jan 89 16:00:21 GMT
References: <1207@ncar.ucar.edu> <7825@boring.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <7825@boring.cwi.nl> aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer) writes:
>			a &= (a-1);

Such algorithms should use unsigned integers, to avoid possible
overflow problems on certain bit patterns.