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		rjeli on May 24, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The surprising cleverness of modern compilers I would expect `bitcount` to mean sizeof(x)*8. Population count or Hamming weight is the canonical name for this operation.

to3m on May 24, 2016 [–]

Erm - ``sizeof x*CHAR_BIT'' ;)

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